Wednesday afternoon, at exactly 3:20 pm, one of my other gmail accounts sent
a spaam message to everyone in my address book. Apparently, this
particular email with the subject proclaiming the electronics-brand_dot_com
website is "out there".
Gmail has a nice little feature that you can call up (at the bottom of the
webpage) to see the five most recent accesses to your account by IP
address. It was from this that I was able to find that IP address
219.150.241.155 accessed my account via the browser at the same time that
the email was sent. From a few "who is" sites, details on this IP address
are extremely sketchy, but it appears to be from the land down under.
The password I had on this account is not in the dictionary; it was mixed
case but no numbers or special characters. I have changed my password and
secret question on the account. I ran a complete scan with the corporate
McAfee scanner on my laptop and came up clean. I do not, as a rule, use
"public" computers to access my email and, on the very rare occasion I do, I
always clear the cache and shut down the browser. I plan on checking the
home computer this evening for malware. My best guess at this point is that
I might have a keylogger on my home pc. (FWIW, the home network is behind a
Netgear consumer-grade router, and I use AVG Free 8.0 on the home pc (WinXP
Home SP3), which is shared by four people that all have "Limited" accounts.)
Is there anything else I should do with this information? This was my first
experience with an email account that was compromised.
TIA,
- Dan
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