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Off-Topic => Chatterbox => Topic started by: ashman12 on August 10, 2010, 03:18:19 PM

Title: Email Warning
Post by: ashman12 on August 10, 2010, 03:18:19 PM
This is a warning for those of you who have me on yourr email list on MSN.
 
My account has been hacked into and someone has been using it so if you receive an spam/junk mail from me it is not me.
 
I will be making a new account as soon as i can so i will post it here when i have made it.
 
Also Acams if you read this you will be receive a pm from me about a password change if thats ok.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: Serge on August 10, 2010, 03:20:25 PM
It hasn't been "hacked". You were just stupid enough to get spyware installed on your PC, which then got your MSN and email passwords.

Also,y ou can change your password manually on the forum, no need to email an admin.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: ashman12 on August 10, 2010, 03:23:11 PM
The only things that have been installed on my pc other than msn and other software like anti-viruses are games.
 
And i didnt know i could change my pass through my profile i thought i needed to get an admin to do it.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: Urjak on August 10, 2010, 03:24:43 PM
It hasn't been "hacked"

Serge I love you. Seriously, people use "hacking" far too often and inaccurately.

And also Ashman, just becasue you don't "think" anything malicious has been installed does not mean that there isn't malicious software on your computer .
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: frezal on August 10, 2010, 03:27:52 PM
The only things that have been installed on my pc other than msn and other software like anti-viruses are games.
 
And i didnt know i could change my pass through my profile i thought i needed to get an admin to do it.
Have you installed any "codecs" while possibly trying to view porn?
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: ashman12 on August 10, 2010, 03:29:29 PM
Ok so let me rephrase the first sentence then,
 
someone has gotten a hold of my password somehow and is talking to my friends and other contacts through it.
 
@Frezal lol my dad has blocked access to websites fthat you need to 16 or over to view and i dont know how to change it.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: Urjak on August 10, 2010, 03:31:45 PM
someone has gotten a hold of my password somehow and is talking to my friends and other contacts through it.

Talking as in an intelligent entity? As in actually holding a conversation? If so, then have you must have given your password to someone, either accidentally to one of your friends or as Serge said stolen via a program.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: powerrave on August 10, 2010, 03:36:36 PM
if your mail address has indeed been hacked and someone else is using it to contact others, will you then also please make sure that my (and SotG's) forum, Tales of War, stays out of trouble. as you may understand, i am not waiting to later on find some spam on my own forum.

list is in my sig.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: ashman12 on August 10, 2010, 03:40:32 PM
I haven't gave my password out to anyone although a couple of my friends know my hobbies ( or some of them at least ) and my pass is one of them so it could be that but i doubt its one of them as none of them have a sense of humour.
 
And by convo all that Ive heard from my friends is that one of them sent a message saying who was talking ( because I'm usually not on till around 9 and it was saying i was online at 7-8 and they got a message back saying "Its me obviously"
 
Powerrave i think i used a different email for your website ( i think i used my google mail account which is what ive used for most online websites since ive made the account)but im not entirely sure.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: ACAMS on August 10, 2010, 03:47:12 PM
I haven't gave my password out to anyone although a couple of my friends know my hobbies ( or some of them at least ) and my pass is one of them

So your password was "Crossdressing"
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: frezal on August 10, 2010, 03:53:19 PM
I haven't gave my password out to anyone although a couple of my friends know my hobbies ( or some of them at least ) and my pass is one of them so it could be that but i doubt its one of them as none of them have a sense of humour.
 
And by convo all that Ive heard from my friends is that one of them sent a message saying who was talking ( because I'm usually not on till around 9 and it was saying i was online at 7-8 and they got a message back saying "Its me obviously"
 
Powerrave i think i used a different email for your website ( i think i used my google mail account which is what ive used for most online websites since ive made the account)but im not entirely sure.
Change your password to one that doesn't suck. Something along the lines of "1E_bxK7$5DwJLm0pB". Keep a slip of paper in your wallet containing the password in some discrete format (such as hidden within some matrices or something) until you have it memorized.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: powerrave on August 10, 2010, 03:57:21 PM
Powerrave i think i used a different email for your website ( i think i used my google mail account which is what ive used for most online websites since ive made the account)but im not entirely sure.

i have checked for you and it shows a Hotmail address.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: ashman12 on August 10, 2010, 03:59:32 PM
Oh well is there any spam/junk from my account and if so then i am very sorry.
 
@Frezal thanks for the tip but it wont let me sign in to MSN now.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: powerrave on August 10, 2010, 04:01:33 PM
there isn't. well, not yet as far as i can now say. it may still come.

EDIT: i can also just change the e-mail address your account uses. if you PM me your google mail, i will change that. pass would still need to be changed tho.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: G.K. on August 10, 2010, 04:04:44 PM
LOL @ ACAMS

And PR, don't worry. With my mod powers on ToW I'll eat any spam for you. Like I ate you that one time.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: powerrave on August 10, 2010, 04:06:47 PM
hold on... you eat spam? the forum post kind of spam and not the food in can kind of spam? o_O
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: G.K. on August 10, 2010, 04:09:28 PM
Yes, I print it off and eat the paper.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: ashman12 on August 10, 2010, 04:12:29 PM
It must taste like ink.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: G.K. on August 10, 2010, 04:13:00 PM
Not that I remember.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: powerrave on August 10, 2010, 04:14:28 PM
omnomnom paper. tho i don't see how you require mod powers for that, i don't care. it's still better then someone who eats half a plastic bottle.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: G.K. on August 10, 2010, 04:16:40 PM
Eating you was better. :P
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: powerrave on August 10, 2010, 04:19:44 PM
oh really now... oh shi! *finds out about a missing left arm*
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: G.K. on August 10, 2010, 04:24:32 PM
That'll teach you for writing on my face. :P
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: powerrave on August 10, 2010, 04:37:39 PM
how the hell is this similar!?!?
*respawns*
that's better.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: frezal on August 10, 2010, 04:47:50 PM
Oh well is there any spam/junk from my account and if so then i am very sorry.
 
@Frezal thanks for the tip but it wont let me sign in to MSN now.
Do this to all of your accounts. On accounts that are actually important, use different random passwords.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: Serge on August 10, 2010, 04:49:19 PM
lol my dad has blocked access to websites fthat you need to 16 or over to view and i dont know how to change it.

lol internet nanny. You must have one hell of a helicopter parenting. Also, a Ubuntu Live CD will bypass any filtering whatsoever.

I haven't gave my password out to anyone although a couple of my friends know my hobbies ( or some of them at least ) and my pass is one of them so it could be that.

hahaha. Way to choose a secure password. +fY3g5H#r89 is a pretty secure password, and not hard to memorize. At least use that sort of security. Even better, have a different 13-character (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, special characters) for each account. It's not that hard to remember, and it will save your arse the next time.

Also, I am still willing to bet $2 that it was just spyware.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: frezal on August 10, 2010, 04:57:17 PM
Eating you was better. :P
eating
eat ( P ) Pronunciation Key (t) v. ate, (t) eat·en, (tn) eat·ing, eats v. tr. 1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption 2. Vulgar slang. To perform oral sex on 3. Informal. To bother or annoy 4. To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eating (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eating)
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: G.K. on August 10, 2010, 04:58:53 PM
LOL, but you emboldened the wrong definition.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: Serge on August 10, 2010, 05:00:01 PM
Eating you was better. :P
eating
eat ( P ) Pronunciation Key (t) v. ate, (t) eat·en, (tn) eat·ing, eats v. tr. 1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption 2. Vulgar slang. To perform oral sex on 3. Informal. To bother or annoy 4. To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eating (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eating)

Usually there are no sexual connotations to "eat sb" unless it's used as a phrasal verb: "eat sb out".

Also, it's your turn on GamesByEmail.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: frezal on August 10, 2010, 05:03:29 PM
Usually there are no sexual connotations to "eat sb" unless it's used as a phrasal verb: "eat sb out".

Also, it's your turn on GamesByEmail.
"Usually" being the key word there.

As for Risk, DAHMN! I hit "Done" yesterday, but I guess it didn't take.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: ashman12 on August 11, 2010, 12:36:54 PM
Is there a way to make files/folders password protected.
Title: Re: Email Warning
Post by: Urjak on August 11, 2010, 12:49:15 PM
This may be of some help:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/110663/windows_tips_passwordprotect_your_sensitive_files_and_folders.html (http://www.pcworld.com/article/110663/windows_tips_passwordprotect_your_sensitive_files_and_folders.html)