[Klug-general] (no subject)

[George Prowse]

On 10/11/2010 14:21, Mike Evans wrote:
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>> well I went to send and email and it asked me for the password but when
>> i had a look online it had already sent it. That leads me to believe
>> some keylogger is on my computer.
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> That doesn't sound like a logical conclusion based on the evidence and 
> what we know about Thunderbird.  Thunderbird itself generally stores 
> passwords required to access accounts it is configured to access.  
> Even if Thunderbird had succeeded in sending an email when you had not 
> given it a password I don't see why that means there is a keylogger on 
> your computer.  Keyloggers typically record keypresses under certain 
> circumstances, and then send the results to another computer on the 
> internet.  They don't start dispatching emails for you.
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> Of course, if you do have a keylogger operating on your machine then 
> it may well have been logging whilst you changed your gmail password. 
> However, assuming you are using a Linux machine this is (again) 
> extremely unlikely as the vast majority of those things target Windows 
> users, and security on Linux has always been such that it is very hard 
> to install something like that secretly.
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> Mike
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This is Server 2008R2.

It's not really a thunderbird thing but something *pretending* to be 
one, i.e. saying please enter your password when there is no point