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Stalking a girl online

Rumpltzer

Rumpltzer

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A friend of mine gave a guy her MSN username and allowed him to add her to his friends list a while back. She lives in the Los Angeles areas and he's in the Bay Area (7 hours driving distance?). She kind of regrets giving him her username because the guy is making the e-moves on her and asking her to meet him and stuff. He sends her random hello messages all the time, and she usually ignores him.

This weekend she tells the guy that she now has a boyfriend and would like him to stop asking her out. While she was online, she was also downloading pics from her camera to her laptop hard drive. There was a few minutes of pausing from the guy and then he says, "Your boyfriend doesn't look like he's Chinese." He then drops off of MSN.

My friend is creeped out because she didn't tell the guy that she was transferring pictures and she thinks he somehow had access to her hard drive. She freaked out and deleted the guy off her MSN.


She was using her laptop on a wireless connection in her house. She was sucking down the pics from her camera to her "My Pictures" directory. She had her WinXP firewall turned off (I don't know why). They guy "works with computers". Do you really think he could have been looking at her stuff??

Note that I'm not asking how it could be done. I'm wondering what the chances are that he could have pulled it off...


Cliff's:
1) Friend has guy on her MSN friends list
2) She's using wireless laptop connection at home while downloading pics from camera to hard drive
3) She thinks cyber-stalker was looking at the pics on her hard drive
4) Do you think he could have been doing that??
 
he is faking, he didn't haxor her

ignore him

if he calls or shows up, then go for the restraining order
 
If she's really concerned, just reinstall windows and have her buy you some beer for the time. Helps to have a DVD burner or external hard drive to back everything up for the reinstall.
 
Or it could be as simple as he read a comment from one of her other friends, and made an assumption, correct or otherwise. I don't think I'd worry about it much.
 
AIM filesharing is turned on. It's probably set to enable file sharing with my friends w/o asking for permission. Your friend is an idiot when it comes to computers. You are also an idiot when it comes to computers. Turn in your nerd card.

Edit: Tell her to check her facebook and myspace. The idiot comments still apply.
 
Possible, but not probable (you'd need some really insane haxor skillz to do that). Just to be on the safe side, do a full virus scan, spyware scan, and get her a decent firewall (read zoneAlarm). There is a very remote chance that he implanted a rootkit on her computer. In any case, here are some free utilities that can detect/do all of the above.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Security/RootkitRevealer.mspx
http://www.free-av.com/
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Per...html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/c...sp?dc=12bms&ctry=US&lang=en&lid=nav_za (I personally use Comodo, but she sounds like something of a comp noob so she might not know how to deal with all of the alerts)
 
Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
A friend of mine gave a guy her MSN username and allowed him to add her to his friends list a while back. She lives in the Los Angeles areas and he's in the Bay Area (7 hours driving distance?). She kind of regrets giving him her username because the guy is making the e-moves on her and asking her to meet him and stuff. He sends her random hello messages all the time, and she usually ignores him.

This weekend she tells the guy that she now has a boyfriend and would like him to stop asking her out. While she was online, she was also downloading pics from her camera to her laptop hard drive. There was a few minutes of pausing from the guy and then he says, "Your boyfriend doesn't look like he's Chinese." He then drops off of MSN.

My friend is creeped out because she didn't tell the guy that she was transferring pictures and she thinks he somehow had access to her hard drive. She freaked out and deleted the guy off her MSN.


She was using her laptop on a wireless connection in her house. She was sucking down the pics from her camera to her "My Pictures" directory. She had her WinXP firewall turned off (I don't know why). They guy "works with computers". Do you really think he could have been looking at her stuff??

Note that I'm not asking how it could be done. I'm wondering what the chances are that he could have pulled it off...


Cliff's:
1) Friend has guy on her MSN friends list
2) She's using wireless laptop connection at home while downloading pics from camera to hard drive
3) She thinks cyber-stalker was looking at the pics on her hard drive
4) Do you think he could have been doing that??
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Chances of him doing something like that are slim, but still present. Best to wait, and buy your friend a gun 🙂.
 
Just tell her to tell him that shes chris hansen from dateline and that she would like him to come to the studio for an interview. That should get rid of him.
 
well... say the wireless was encrpyted with even wep 128 bits... easily hackable, get the encryption key.. now you're onto the network.... now who in the name of retard at microsoft decided to share the c: by default by going to: start-->run--> \\ip.computer\c$

now with that said, what are the chances that she actually set an Administrator password on her machine (most likely case = has an account other than administrator with a password) 😛... so anyway, yea its pretty easy... depending on the circumstances...
 
MSN Messenger allows you to block people from seeing your online status and from contacting you. She needs to block him and set her preferences to "Only people on my Allow List can see my status and send me messages" so that he can't just get a new account and add her. Click on the "See who has added you to their contact list" to see who is on there and block anyone you don't know. That doesn't solve the question of whether he's installed some kind of stalker software or key loggers on her computer, but it's a start.
 
Originally posted by: randomlinh
does she have pics of said bf on myspace/facebook/etc? If so, he probably went there to look, and then boom, current situation.
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I agree. Her MSN username is probably her Myspace name. Or her email addy.
Pop that in google, get her myspace url, view bf, make comment, act spooky.
Nothing to it. Weird people.
 
If she has no firewall/or at least a router in the picture, it's possible he got a trojan virus on her computer somehow, many will let the person connected browse the person's hdd view webcam etc.
 
Originally posted by: TheGizmo
well... say the wireless was encrpyted with even wep 128 bits... easily hackable, get the encryption key.. now you're onto the network.... now who in the name of retard at microsoft decided to share the c: by default by going to: start-->run--> \\ip.computer\c$

now with that said, what are the chances that she actually set an Administrator password on her machine (most likely case = has an account other than administrator with a password) 😛... so anyway, yea its pretty easy... depending on the circumstances...
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Maybe if she did apply passwords and you have a password cracking tool. Windows XP doesn't allow remote logins with blank passwords.
 
Everyone says highly unlikely OP's friend's computer hacked into but didn't I read here a while ago (months ago or more) about some member who hacked right into Anandtech and assumed the identity of one of the mods? If Anandtech is vulnerable why not some girl with less than average computer skills.
 
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