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If you haven't created any Rules, your page should look like this:. The example below is a hacker trying to get your information. Make sure to check your Rules every so often to make sure there are no unwanted Rules. How to check for viruses on Outlook Desktop 1. Open Outlook on your desktop. Click File in the top left corner. Click Rules and Alerts. If you have never created Rules, then your screen should look like this:. Here is an example of a suspicious Rule:. My emails are combining, for example a business email combines the To and Subject lines with a non-business correspondence.

I am not getting some emails and other emails are being sent to my trash folder. It may be that emails are being tagged for the wrong folders.

Leo, my friend sent me a email with no attachments and when I opened it, nothing on my chrome would load. It says the pages I opened are not responding. Hi Leo — somehow a virus or something has changed my email address. Everyone erases my email right away before reading it because of this. Do you have any idea how to get rid of this? I have had this address for a very long time and would like to keep it if possible.

I also have a second address that is attached to the same account. I like the first one because it is easy for people to remember. It can make your address a spam magnet. In general, you should be able to go in and change the sender information in your email program or web interface.

If it is through an email program, this would be a sign of malware and you should scan your computer for malware. I recieve emails from work with files as attachments. When I receive an email with a PDF attachment.

I download the attachment but it opens as a poster for a visa assistance company in the Philippines that I recently used. Any ideas?. Okay, all those rules are also applied for all kind accounts, right? Such as social media account or blog account?

Let say, someone unintentionally uploaded image to a blog from their computer with virus in it or the computer already has the virus. The account or page is not infected. However malicious software — be it an image that exploits an unpatched vulnerability or anything else — has the potential to infect machines that visit that page. Fortunately this is extremely rare. Syncronizing your account simply means that an malicious extension for example that is installed on one machine in Chrome will automatically be replicated to your other Chrome installations.

You might remove it from one, but it comes back when sync happens from one of your other machines. The only solution is to temporarily disconnect ALL machines from that syncronization, disinfect ALL machines, and then carefully re-enable sync one by one. I feel VERY stupid. Just last night I opened an email on my computer from a person that I kind of know. I thought this was something important but in the body it said Error.

That is what I did. I know that everyone now is cringing. This was something that caught me off guard. There were all kind of things that popped up on the computer that seemed bogus. The computer is fine now. This is a feature that I depend on for my smartphone. What should I do? Leo, my problem is this: I get no e-mail period. This includes a free antispam gateway , which uses cloud-based filtering to block spam, phishing emails, and malicious attachments on IMAP and SMTP servers.

Additionally, Comodo Antivirus for Linux includes a built-in mail gateway—one of the only email security systems that supports Linux. The tool also supports scanning encrypted messages—an important bonus for those that use tools like Pretty Good Privacy PGP to encrypt and secure their email communications. Every desktop email user should have an antivirus program with email scanning installed.

I got the same one today, but 24 hours to comply. Filed FTC report. The password they had is a very old one and I make new passwords up all the time. For anyone who is reading this thread, It's a good idea to change your passwords regularly if you don't already.

I got the same one yesterday. What is an FTC report? I forwarded to Comcast's Abuse comcast. I know Password is one of your password on day of hack.. Lets get directly to the point.

Not one person has paid me to check about you. You do not know me and you're probably thinking why you are getting this email?

When you were viewing videos, your browser started out operating as a RDP having a key logger which provided me with accessibility to your display and web cam. We are going to refer to it as a donation. You'll make the payment via Bitcoin if you do not know this, search 'how to buy bitcoin' in Google. I have taken care of my actions. Nevertheless, if i do get paid, i will destroy the recording immediately.

If you need proof, reply with Yeah then i will send out your video recording to your 8 friends. I got this as well. Looks like the hackers get people's passwords by simply searching any of the numerous data breach databases available on criminal forums.

I panicked at first but being in IT I read the entire email and it seemed very suspicious obviously including the wording used. I changed all my accounts using the password that was compromised.

You could go on your life like this never happened and you will not ever hear back again from me. Got this also. I knew it was not true because 1. I don't visit porn sites and 2. I don't have a webcam. Concerning they got an old password, but it appears to be an old forum password as I use much more secure PWs for email and all other important accounts. I got this email twice today, from two different email addresses. I'm not worried because I never visited porn websites, LOL.

Better luck next time suckers. At first I was worried that they knew an old password but when I read the email, I was like.. Plus the webcam on my computer is covered, LOL. Deleted the spam. I got the same email today. But the password they tried to show me I don't know where or if I've ever used that one anywhere? Is there somewhere I can go to see where I would have ever used that password?

Hey please tell what happened did you send the money did any harm come upon you afterwards? Because i recieved the exact same email i am so panicked right now please someone help! I have received these. I figure if it was real the scammer would include an example of my 'embarrassing' data to induce a bit of serious panic.

Not that I have anything to hide sigh. Personally I'm more worried about identity theft. In They do not have any video; they do not have access to your computer. They simply got access to some leaked database that contained your email address and some old password.

All the same script based on an old Dropbox password.