Gmail account gone funny - anyone else with this problem?

[littlegreenfairy]

It seems like my gmail has been compromised and sending out spam to anyone I've ever contacted

Anyone else having this problem?

I never log in to gmail from anywhere other than my home mac

And I'd just like to apologise to every single PHer who might have got one of these damn messages.

[Somewhatfoolish]

What's your password?

Have you definitely never logged on anywhere apart from your mac, ever? And is your mac a laptop?

[littlegreenfairy]

Err well my password is quite random and not used anywhere else without a combination of other letters and numbers.

I always use my mac and it is a laptop

I've now changed every password I have.

[SS HSV]

Sorry about that I was just trying to spam from a mac, I've never done that before

[littlegreenfairy]

SS HSV said:

Sorry about that I was just trying to spam from a mac, I've never done that before

Git.

But I forgive you

[skeggysteve]

LGF,

My Gmail is working fine so, sorry, but I suspect the problem is at your end.

Hope you get it sorted without to much hassle.

[littlegreenfairy]

Ahhh cock.

I don't know how something has gone wrong I'm so bleeding careful.

[littlegreenfairy]

There is a nifty little tool on gmail that lets you see what IP has logged in.


Allll my home IP (I assume...they are all the same) bar one that is way different about an hour ago. I wasn't home an hour ago

[deevlash]

my msn account did something very similiar recently, spammed my contacts with some crap about some chinese shopping nonsense.

[NiceCupOfTea]

I got one of your emails!

So how has it become compromised then?

[Urban_Ninja]

littlegreenfairy said:

There is a nifty little tool on gmail that lets you see what IP has logged in.


Allll my home IP (I assume...they are all the same) bar one that is way different about an hour ago. I wasn't home an hour ago

really, where does it tell you what IP's have logged into the account?

thats quite handy, as Im sure my last gmail account was comprimised by some arse who I used to hang around with.

[littlegreenfairy]

Right at the bottom of your inbox is a little link that says "Last account activity...blah blah hours ago on this computer. Details"

Click on that and it tells you the IP's of where and when you logged on (think it shows about 5 log ons)

NCoT - it appears that someone logged in as me and started spamming people. Including my boss and my bosses boss. Yey.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Can you "decode" the IP address to a machine/domain? Not sure how you'd do it but should be able to translate it to "a.b.co.uk" sort of thing...

[Leithen]

Have a look at 1Password for OS X by Agile - excellent password manager that allows you to generate much tougher passwords whilst only having to remember one master password.