[Ubuntu-BD] Sorry

[maSnun]

I don't think virus can access browser's saved password. It's lame to blame
virus for spam emails from a webmail service. Virus or Windows has nothing
to do with it.

He gave his password somewhere and allowed the service to harvest his
addressbook.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Mohammad Mukhtaruzzaman
<jewel98 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Internet browser can save the passwords. So, it is possible that
> virus/program can obtain information from them, because keystroke logging
> is
> more difficult to get success for id hack though not impossible.
>
> All the browser have support for saving password. Internet explorer doesn't
> show saved passwords to the users, but Mozilla even can show the saved
> passwords to the users. So getting password not too much difficult.
>
> I have not much info about specific email service provider. But if you
> analyze hacked id, you will see that these id can be used in POP3 account.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:43 PM, maSnun <masnun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks a lot bro. It has started to make sense. BTW, how does the virus
> > obtain the mail ID and password? People enter them inside a browser,
> right?
> > Do they log the key strokes? In that case, how did they know which one is
> > password? (email ID is detectable using Regex).
> >
> > Yahoo! US didn't support SMTP access for a long time, don't know about
> > recent updates. Are they offering free SMTP now?
> >
> >
> >
> > 2011/10/14 Mohammad Mukhtaruzzaman <jewel98 at gmail.com>
> >
> > > No webmail is affected by virus. When the program called virus obtain
> the
> > > mail ID and password, then it uses these information to send mail. They
> > > don't use webmail, rather they use software/program that can send mail.
> > To
> > > send mail form any account only id and password is enough, no need to
> > enter
> > > into that email account using that website. Because, mail/smtp address
> > > format are common for most of the email service provider.
> > >
> > > জুয়েল
> > >
> >
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