NickTheGrip Posted January 28, 2012 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Posted January 28, 2012 Warning to all idiots. I consider myself reasonable secure when dealing with online stuff, but today my yahoo account was hacked. At 1am, Central time someone logged into my yahoo account from a mobile in Spain, and used my email to broadcast spam to all 533 contacts in my address book. I sincerely hope I did not have any of you guys in there (I don't think there are too many) but if you got one of these from me, I sincerely apologize. If you have a yahoo account, make sure you set up the secondary log in check that they offer, but never seem to tell anyone about. Go to Account settings and select "Set up your second sign-in verification". This will allow Yahoo to force verification if your account is logged into from another location or computer/device. It is a little more of a pain, but it is better than what happened to me!!! BTW, If you didn't get one of these spam mails, I now know a great place to buy totally legitimate Viagara with no prescription and it says it is genuine, so it must be Awards
WHITEBOY Posted January 28, 2012 Member ID: 171 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 51 Topic Count: 65 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1487 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 443 Achievement Points: 8690 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 28, 2018 Birthday: 05/05/1970 Posted January 28, 2012 NickTheGrip - Yahoo account hacked Warning to all idiots. BTW, If you didn't get one of these spam mails, I now know a great place to buy totally legitimate Viagara with no prescription and it says it is genuine, so it must be lol
Noears711XI Posted January 28, 2012 Member ID: 238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 189 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2162 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 1940 Achievement Points: 19609 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 8, 2022 Birthday: 07/09/1957 Posted January 28, 2012 Dam you Whiteboy I hate those avatars of yours they are distracting. What were we talking about Oh Yeah! Thanks for the info Nick. Awards
BigPapaDean Posted January 28, 2012 Member ID: 1128 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 78 Topic Count: 1217 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6581 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 4445 Achievement Points: 63856 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 02/13/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Tuesday at 05:48 PM Birthday: 10/21/1954 Device: Windows Posted January 28, 2012 Noears711>XI< Dam you Whiteboy I hate those avatars of yours they are distracting. What were we talking about Oh Yeah! Thanks for the info Nick. +1000 Awards
PimpedOutPete Posted January 29, 2012 Member ID: 174 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 130 Topic Count: 387 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 15031 Content Per Day: 2.60 Reputation: 8047 Achievement Points: 92232 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 59 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 22 hours ago Birthday: 04/23/1970 Device: Macintosh Posted January 29, 2012 Noears711>XI< Dam you Whiteboy I hate those avatars of yours they are distracting. What were we talking about Oh Yeah! Thanks for the info Nick. I agree.. and NIck, I did mention to change your password from 1 2 3 4.... lol Awards
BUDMAN Posted January 29, 2012 Member ID: 800 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 152 Topic Count: 139 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7117 Content Per Day: 1.25 Reputation: 4657 Achievement Points: 60658 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 05/29/1957 Device: Windows Posted January 29, 2012 Better run malware that has been going around !!! Awards
LtLaszlo Posted January 29, 2012 Member ID: 151 Group: ++ COD2 Admin Followers: 62 Topic Count: 190 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 9241 Content Per Day: 1.60 Reputation: 24525 Achievement Points: 95621 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 323 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 7 hours ago Birthday: 05/17/1959 Device: Kindle Fire Posted January 29, 2012 My brother-in-law had something like this a while ago, but he has U-verse email. I and others in his email list were getting ads for Viagra every day. I thought he was screwing around with me (old dude jokes), but found all in his address book were getting it and he wasn't sending them. Fortunately, it didn't seem contageous so I don't seem to have an issue. I think he finally did something, since the mails stopped coming (or they ran out of Viagra!). Awards
NickTheGrip Posted January 29, 2012 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Author Posted January 29, 2012 Yeah, basically, somehow, they get hold of your password, or figure it out (I am not sure how they figured it out. This was my old yahoo password, I can put it here because I will never use it again and it is worthless and not even close for anything else - 5Gv8fTY61) Anyway, the best thing to do is to change your password (if they don't do that first) and like Budman says, run AntiMalware. I found 8 browser hijackers on my computer so I think somehow they got a key logger installed. Otherwise, how the hell would they guess that password!!! Shows you cannot be too careful All I can say is: Good, up to date antivirus package Malwarebytes, up to date and run a minimum of once a week BTW, I noticed your work email in the list so assume you will get one of the spam mails, along with most other people at work. Awards
casper Posted January 31, 2012 Member ID: 2963 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 73 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 12 Achievement Points: 533 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 21, 2013 Birthday: 11/27/1946 Posted January 31, 2012 This is a good idea on the 2nd password. In my area this situation has been occurring very regular! Everyone has been watching over the accounts and makes lots of noise if a blank subject email shows up. About the only thing left to do is change your password regular and make it difficult plus the 2nd password. Good luck hope you get the creature that is causing the headache....
NickTheGrip Posted January 31, 2012 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Author Posted January 31, 2012 Without a trip to Spain I guess I wont, but I sure think about what I would like to do to him/her if I did happen to meet them. It would not be pretty and you would mostl likely be watching about me on the news Awards
little_old_man Posted February 1, 2012 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.19 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Posted February 1, 2012 I had the same problem on a hotmail account. What I learned was that you can easily stop it by changing your password, and once you've done that run a full scan to clear out any residual files. You probably downloaded the virus when you received one of the emails that you're now sending out, and "inadvertantly" clicked on the link in the spam which automatically downloads a trojan into your account. The links are just a scam and from what I hear don't actually lead to a sales site for Viagra, they're just a means of embedding the trojan into your PC. Awards
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