A former member and I are getting strange personal emails.  One of these emails talked about a subject I was talking to another member here today about.  This is not a subject ever discussed on this forum. I am freaked out at this point.

I don't like this at all.  I don't know what is going on here. 

I really think someone "has" us, whaever that means.
What could it be, do you have any ideas?
and all the personal mail I get from Itchmo, comes with a warning. I opened them anyway, well they are opened. It just asks a question like do you want to see this. and that is the only mail I get it on.  

Thanks, I did change all my "stuff" like bank , etc.

When I checked for new viruses on the Symantec & MacAfee sites,their are some variations which send emails like that. Go to those sites & click on viruses & then new threats. Some say you need to see this, or you won't believe this,etc. I still say this is just too much to be a coincidence right after the threads about new problems with brands. And you would be surprised what hackers can get into. 1 of my daughters friends used to work for Microsoft developing security programs & he could get into anything. He sat right here in front of me & got into my bank account in 2 1/2 mins. That was actually reassuring, it took longer to get into my bank than the banks everyone else who was here used. Drew also said try not to go to the home page because thats where the ads are. He said sending a mass mailing probably didn;t affect it, whatever or whoever it was already had all the info.

What we do is have an email address that is dedicated to doing personal business online.  That email is not used for even friends or family or for setting up forum id's, etc.  I think it is good to keep your personal business email separate from all else.

It sounds like from what Filbert said that there is a non-threatening reason for the service outage last week.  So maybe nothing else is going on after all.  We can only hope that the strange emails Justme got were due to a confidence being breached the old fashioned way, rather that through a PM hack.

Let us know if it turns out that way.  (No details needed, of course.)

Cross posted from the black hole thread:

Please scan for the VBS/Small.n  - I downloaded the free AVG virusscan & it caught it on my computer several days ago.  I scanned again last night & it seems to be off my computer now.  But I don't know if it sent my passwords to someone.  Here is what the worm does:

http://www.viruslist.com/en/viruses/encyclopedia?virusid=125728

"This worm spreads via the Internet as an attachment to infected messages. Infected messages will be sent to all email addresses harvested from the victim machine. It is 1 310 bytes in size. It is written in Visual Basic Script (VBS).

Installation
When launching, the worm creates a copy of itself in the Windows root directory:

%WinDir%\Troyan.vbs
In order to ensure that the worm is launched automatically each time Windows is restarted, the worm registers its executable file in the system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices]
        "E-Mail" = "%WinDir%\Troyan.vbs"
Payload

The worm sends itself to all contacts in the address book.

It also sends notification to the remote malicious user that the victim machine has been infected. A harvested pwl file is appended to the message. This file contains user passwords.

Propagation via email

The worm harvests email addresses from the MS Outlook address books. It then cyclically sends its body to all harvested addresses. "

I use Fire Fox Thunderbird - I have never used MS Outlook - can this worm also use Thunderbird?