URGENT! A Hacker Lurks!

Comment by Monica Lorraine Beaudry on August 1, 2011 at 11:33pm

Treat your passwords like your tooth brush. Change them every two months and don't share them with anyone.

 

 

Comment by Tara Rose on August 2, 2011 at 12:40am

     I see these kinds of emails quite often. Especially when the had "Re" in it. About 6 monhts ago I had my major primary email stolen, that's right stolen. It turned out that the theif had somehow miraculously was able to get my password, or figured my password somehow someway. I could no longer log in to my own account. I was devistated. I worked frantically for days to get my email back. I had to get with the administration or creators of, etc, and explain to them that it had been stolen.They sent me and email to my aternate email asking me to describe some stored messgaes and some sent messgaes etc. I did that and the next day they sent me an eamil back to my alterante saying sorry but I didn't give enough information to them to prove that the email was in fact mine.

     We went to my wife's eamil and sent them so many ones that I had sent to her and of ones she had sent to me from that email. The next day I got a verification that my email was mine again and so I had to change the password to one so strange that I don't belive any hacker could ever bust it again.

        This thief saw everything obvilously, all my personal stuff in there. Well you can imagine.I can now look at go to the search box and click in a letter, any letter like and M or a B or a G, any letter and their will be email addresses that were sent from mine to people that I do not know. It was horrilbe to say the least. But now when I go to my email which is several times a day, I just delete any emails if thier not from work or freinds or PE.We all should be very careful and leery of these things. If I really wanted to with the info I now have in my email, I could find this person. I'd love to do that then knock on his door, and well, you know the rest of the story.

Comment by Cheryl Jacob on August 2, 2011 at 4:49am

Never had a problem.  I must be smart or something.  Or not click on stupid shit.  :)

Comment by Traci O'Gara on August 2, 2011 at 12:04pm

Classic "sucker play" is from a proxy server (hidden identity of hacker via a 3rd party server instead of directly from their own PC) email sending out fake page from a site you visit and log in to often. Your PC was identified by the hacker because some lazy person did not delete email addresses from forwarded emails and got the "copy list" instead of "BCC".  They will "backdoor" their way into your PC and generate the page to you!  It will look "official" and say something like "your session has timed out, please log in again"!  you suspect nothing and BOOM, you've been hacked!  They now have your PW to that site (Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook, PE even)  If you see that, quit the app and re-log in and change your PW immediately!

 

Another one to AVOID ALWAYS is that dreaded pop-up that informs you on an official looking anti-virus page that your PC has been detected of having like 75 worms/viruses or something like that.  They then have you click to read on which then sucks you out of a bunch of money attempting to upgrade and clear out the "worms".  It looks convincing and many, many, even savvy users, have fallen for it!  Plus, it's costly and a real pain to remove it from your system!

 

Always look at the address of the emails that come your way...often, there is a slight mod to the real one...and please, everyone, delete all the prior histories of forwarded emails to you when resending them...kinda like covering your mouth when you cough!  (smile)

 

 

Comment by LAINIE NELSON on August 2, 2011 at 12:12pm

Thanks Michelle.

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