I have a question about computer hacking....?
Jan 02, 2010 by lisa m | Posted in Security
Yesterday I got an e-mail from my best friend that she didn't send. It was for a Canadian prescription drug service where you could buy women's and men's viagra for real cheap. A few hours later, my best friend sends out an apology to everyone regarding the prior e-mail and said that she didn't send it and that she had Yahoo checking into it. I talked to her today, and she says that Yahoo can't do anything since there's no way to see who sent it or how they got her info. As we're talking, I remember back to a few nights ago when I was reading something online and the article vanished, the screen went blank, and then the article popped back up as if nothing ever happened. Now my friend doesn't have her own internet service, she goes to places that offer wi-fi where she can just borrow a signal.. and those are known to be dangerous since they're not secure and hackers can just jump on in. But... is it possible that my computer was hacked into, and now someone is seeing who my contacts are, and sending out e-mails under my friend's address? I checked my email and nothing out of the ordinary has been sent. I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary with my computer. Or is it more likely that her computer was the one that was hacked into? Is there a way to tell this? I know we have all sorts of stuff on ours... antiviral program, firewall... but either way all this makes me so paranoid....
Thanks
It was most likely her email that was hacked. The hacker then used her address book and email client to send out the spam to her contacts. She should scan her computer with her AV and a spyware scanner. Malwarebytes is the best one.
Being online at a public wifi spot is risky, as you said. Your friend should never access credit card or bank accounts while on a public spot. She can use PeerBlock to help with blocking unwanted connections. But sometimes the access point is hacked and she might log on to the hacker's wifi instead of the free one.
If she sees there are several access points with similar names, that's a sign that a hacker has set up a bogus access point to try to steal data from unsuspecting people logging on. She should always manually search for access points and then choose to connect, rather than have her computer automatically log on.
http://malwarebytes.org/
http://www.peerblock.com/
| Jan 02, 2010
Your friend signed up for some sort of contest... something like "Upload a picture of your cute pet, win $1000".
Your friend was asked to provide her email address... y'know, so that she could be notified in case she won.
Then she was told that the picture with the most votes wins, so she should tell all her friends to come and vote for her picture. In fact, the website even offered to send emails automatically if she'd just give them the proper addresses.
And boom, they have everything they need to be able to send out emails that seem to come from your friend. No hacking requred.
baudkarma | Jan 03, 2010
My girl friend who was with me at the time said no,mine was big enough,ha ha ha ...true story...
I tried to unsubscribe,,then find you can't,so now I I just hit delete..ha ha ha ha...
Must hurt them more than it does me...That's all I can suggest.....
eric | Jan 03, 2010
I actually ended up speaking with the hacker before he did it. He sent me a message and continued to say things until I would respond. once I responded, he tricked me into logging out and logging back on. I'm assuming that once I've made contact he has my connection info. And the log in process allows him to see what my password is. But he messaged me my own password and then logged me out of my account.
I called yahoo, they gave me access to my account and just told me to keep my password updated.
When i was in college, we had to change our school and computer passwords every 3 months. And when I get crazy emails from my friends it seems to stop as soon as they update their password. Though a hacker can get into our account and have access to your contacts, if you keep your password updated, they won't have access for long.
EVille | Jan 04, 2010
Change your password monthly... weekly... daily... tell no one the secret prompt answers... always give the wrong birthdate as often a hacker can be a friend or nosey relative whio knows too much about you...
Never never never allow anyone Remote access to your computer and if you do ..change the password immediately afterwards... In this case it is obvious your girlfriend allowed the hacker or it was more likely a spammer access to her address book via a worm or trojan...
As soon as I receive a mail from a spammer trying to sell me a dick enlarger or informing me that I have just inherited $100,000:00 from a distant cousin... or that I have won a 21 day stay in Australia if I can answer a simple question.... BLOCK THEM >> I SAY BLOCK THEM>> its simple.... Go to Message.... then Block sender... and never reply.
OK Happy days ... Good Luck... BB
BB | Jan 04, 2010
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