Topic: Sure I am being hacked? (Read 8086 times)

Stormbringer · « **Reply #60 on:** May 04, 2004, 10:04:35 am »

that sounds like an older bug from a few months ago. Virus used for spammers to take over. Forgot it's name.

Sethan · « **Reply #61 on:** May 06, 2004, 01:05:32 am »

Cheese - there are a number of viruses that will scan your computer for Email addresses and use them to send out Email using their own SMTP engines - so you would never know if your machine was sending out messages, except that it would be slow (due to the volumes of messages being sent by the virus).

Newer versions of these viruses also alter the source address - so the mail doesn't look like it is coming from you. Someone with your Email address on their machine may have the virus, and the virus is changing the source address so the mails it sends look like they are coming from you (among others).

Finally, some viruses originally arrive in the form of a delivery failure message.

TheBigCheese · « **Reply #62 on:** May 07, 2004, 03:01:30 am »

This should be stickyed as there is some good advice here

last night someone logged in as me on messenger with my MSN ID ???

whilst I was on, it then crashed.

Sethan · « **Reply #63 on:** May 07, 2004, 11:00:27 am »

Cheese - stickied. See above about task manager stuff and changing passwords.

TheBigCheese · « **Reply #64 on:** May 11, 2004, 02:06:29 am »

I 've done all the suggestions and it seems to have worked so far,

thanks guys.

Sethan · « **Reply #65 on:** May 11, 2004, 02:43:03 pm »

Cool - glad you got your machine back.

TheBigCheese · « **Reply #66 on:** May 12, 2004, 04:51:21 am »

I've also linked to this site from another I visit alot, people there seem to be having alot of problems too and I know you boffins here always have the answers

I also changed my passwords to be very long and include numbers, not sure whether that will help, I made sure both my hotmail and yahoo email have different passwords.

Sethan · « **Reply #67 on:** May 12, 2004, 10:58:58 am »

Who knows - maybe Taldren will pick up some customers from it.

Good job on the passwords. Very long is not necessarily required (though 6-8 characters minimum is a good rule of thumb), but including numbers is good (and special characters if allowed).

Demandred · « **Reply #68 on:** May 15, 2004, 06:45:45 pm »

These days a firewall is essential. Even if no live cracker would run across your IP address, there are always worms port scanning blocks of IP addresses. And Microsoft rarely patch a security hole before there's something nasty running around in the wild.

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