Hackers

[Thorgecko707]

I'm at my breaking point. Is it just me, or are there people scamming for info? Seems like as soon as someone has my info my yahoo, paypal, and facebook get attacked. I don't feel like buying from new breeders now out of fear of an attack. I can't even check emails as of a few minutes ago due to someone trying to change my password. And getting a text to change password is even worse because you know someone is trying, ruling out glitches.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Sounds like someone is recording keystrokes. You may very well have to wipe your system and reload the OS. I had that happen years ago and had to dump everything. Major PIA!!!

It was like a virus I couldn't get rid of.

 

[sunshinegeckos]

that really stinks. I had someone hack into my facebook and sent a virus to all of my friends. I had to change my password and I had to change my phone number because they got that from my facebook and proceeded to text me 20 times a minute with stupid stuff. And the spammed my email so I changed that. It was such a hastle. Hackers ****

 

[Thorgecko707]

My iPhone has norton and my laptop only allows facial recognition. I wish there was a way to buy animals without giving your name, address, phone, email, paypal, ect.

 

[Dimidiata]

Im with the keystrokes idea. One Virus system that im well aware of involves sending a person a email with a encrpted virus. The virus is part of a software system that you can buy online. It allows the sender to view every keystorke you make and record your activity. This would leave you wide open to attack.

 

[C C Gecko]

Yeah there is a way, buy local, but that really limits your choices for geckos.

I do hope you get it all worked out.

 

[animeavatar]

Creepy! Knowing what you do!

 

[Destiny]

Yup.. local.. OR TRAVLE! Come see me... I will hook ya up.

 

[satyr666]

It could be a keylogger try running http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free it's a free anti malware program good for removing malicious software.

 

[4mb3r]

Yeah ive gotten the 200000 text message thing.. They sent over 100 text messages a day for like 3 days straight.. Its sad how people have nothing better to do then send out viruses and whatnot

 

[Desdemona]

I am with the keylogger crowd. TrendMicro use to have a really good and free scan but I think they took away the free. I used them to find a virus on my ex's compuer that Norton wasn't detecting.

If you store photos, vidos, etc (no operating system!) on a seperate harddrive it makes having to restore your workstation a lot easier. I never save photos on my OS HDD anymore. Just stuff I don't care if it gets deleted and software programs (since I have no choice on the later).

 

[Klogue1]

I remember a couple months ago somebody hacked me World of Warcraft account... now this wouldn't be much of a problem to me since I haven't played it in a while, but it has our personal information such as address, name, phone numbers, AND some financial information... so I was pretty worried for a few days. I even tried to change the password back by resetting it through email, but they hacked my email too! They haven't done anything major as far as I know, however. I think they just wanted to mess around with me and use my account for spam & advertisement for "WoW gold". They had hacked it the first time and got my account temporarily banned, then came back to steal the account itself.

Sort of off topic, but I agree with you on hackers... absolutely hate them. I could provide many more examples of hacks (though not all on my accounts) but I don't want to hijack

 

[Thorgecko707]

Well we have been overrun. Facebook is gone. I managed to save all sales data, which is what they were after. Someone in San Jose. I have their IP address and plan on having it investigated.

 

[Desdemona]

Nice, hope you can track them. While it may or not be helpful to your situation... make sure you use "strong," passwords. At least one upper, one lower, one number, and a special character. A min of 8 characters and try to avoid dictionary words. Using obvious character substitution is starting to work less because hack software will search for that as well, for example a @ instead of an "a." Use as many different passwords as possible. Since most hacking is done over the wire and not in your home then writing things on paper is better than using the same password on everything. Don't use paper at work or public locations though.

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[UnicornSpirit]

It sounds like you might have a Trojan. I wish you lived locally because there is a small computer place called Hackers Ink http://www.hackersink.com/
They would be able to find the Trojan without having to wipe your computer clean.

 

[grboxa]

Well we have been overrun. Facebook is gone. I managed to save all sales data, which is what they were after. Someone in San Jose. I have their IP address and plan on having it investigated.

:main_thumbsdown:wow...just make sure it all checks out. alot of these guys use a VPN to mask there 'true' ip and route it to a different fake ip, so take extra measures. hope it gets sorted out.