I've been hacked!!! Help

[VicodiN]

Note: It is possible to install a PW stealer/keystroke recorder onto a victim computer through both viewing an email and/or accepting an instant message... Open anything odd lately? But, 90% of the time, and anti virus would pick that up... AdAware wotn help with this problem... It's also getting to become a normal occurance of herbs utilizing telnet/dalnet to access seperate IP's to exploit IE Back Orafice etc

Yahoo's been a mess since the sale happened a few years back... I personally wont use their email service because Ive heard too many horror stories... You may just want to ditch the Yahoo mail, and get something more secure- IE Excite.com, mail.com, etc-

 

[randypj]

Very interesting thread. Please keep us informed.

I believe someone else brought it up. I wanna know what happens when you set up and access accounts from another trusted location. Preferably, via a dialup connection. Preferably with a clean pc, not using your equipment.
--Randy

 

[kantonburg]

Well AFAIK nothing new has happened. We have transfered all important mail from her account to an account I made her with our domain. Took this to convince her to move to a real e-mail account

 

[Cybordolphin]

I don't see how the person in CONN can be hacking into your email unless they have a trojan residing on your system, or you and your fiance are using the same information for setting up your new email accounts on Yahoo (meaning same date of birth, pets name, etc..), that the PERP is using to get into your email accounts.

If you set up a new Yahoo! email account and then go to the old forum you frequent using that username (usually the same name as your email account), then the PERP in Conn., knows your email name..... and can then as mentioned use the "lost password" scenario, and obtain your new passwords, if you keep using the same qualifying information (same date of birth, same pets name, etc).

I would experiment and create a new email account (this time using different qualifying information), and go back to the forum and let everyone know that you have a new username. See what happens. Then do the same thing using the past qualifying information (the information the PERP may know of) and see if the PERP then gets into your email account. This will help to narrow down HOW the PERP is doing it.

There really is not any other way for the PERP to do this.

 

[alm4rr]

use the secure login versus jsut the regular login.
people can use packet sniffer to catch all the text u send out.