My Yahoo Mail hacked

jolynyk · Post by **jolynyk** » 5 Mar 2012 9:43 am

My Yahoo mail has been hacked. Somebody from Spain is asking my contacts to send $1900 to an address in Spain. If any body here recieves that it's not from me... I notified Yahoo, & changed my password..

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 5 Mar 2012 10:29 am

Notify all of your contacts that your account was hacked.

jolynyk · Post by **jolynyk** » 5 Mar 2012 10:44 am

Wiz, I can't all my emails have been deleted back to Sept. 2010, as well my Contact list is empty, so all my contacts are lost..

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 5 Mar 2012 11:16 am

I'm sorry this happened to you.

jolynyk · Post by **jolynyk** » 5 Mar 2012 11:25 am

Thanks Wiz.. Almost enough to make a person quit this computing.. I'm just hoping none of my contacts Fall for this...

steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 20 Mar 2012 5:35 am

Wiz, beside notifying all contacts about the hacking (which I am doing now), what can be done? MyYahoo email was just hacked a few hours ago. I am in the process of notifying everyone but what can some clean this out of my computer? Just bought a new iMac several months ago Did not expect this. . Thanks stevet

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 20 Mar 2012 6:13 am

steve takacs wrote:Wiz, beside notifying all contacts about the hacking (which I am doing now), what can be done? MyYahoo email was just hacked a few hours ago. I am in the process of notifying everyone but what can some clean this out of my computer? Just bought a new iMac several months ago Did not expect this. . Thanks stevet

Change your password to a much stronger one that isn't in the dictionary.

Don't fall for email phishing scams asking you for your password to reset some feature. All legitimate ISPs and email providers already have that on file.

Scan your computer for keyloggers.

steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 20 Mar 2012 6:23 am

Hi, Wiz I have just changed my password and also never do the second.
What does it means to "scan for Keyloggers" THANK YOU stevet

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 20 Mar 2012 6:35 am

steve takacs wrote:Hi, Wiz I have just changed my password and also never do the second.
What does it means to "scan for Keyloggers" THANK YOU stevet

Steve;
Are you still in China? That is where the hacked emails are coming from. Read the Whois look-up on 123.53.106.152 and you will see the province and city of origin.

A Keylogger is spyware that gets silently installed onto unpatched Windows computers, or by trickery onto Mac and Linux computers. It stays hidden as a background driver and intercepts all key strokes you enter. Keyloggers are coded by the people owning them to watch when you visit particular pages they are interested in, then they begin capturing keystrokes as you type login credentials. These logins are then sent home to the command and control servers maintained by the criminals and used to break into the monitored accounts, be they your bannk, email, web hosting, ftp, PayPal, eBay, etc.

What security programs are you using on your computer? What OS are you using? Know that a Mac user can be tricked into installing malware by social engineering in a Trojan installer. Once you supply the Admin password, you self-infect the computer.

jolynyk · Post by **jolynyk** » 20 Mar 2012 8:42 am

Finally got mine sorted out back to normal again.. Different password etc..
Wiz, what is the difference between Trend Micro & Kaspersky ??

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 20 Mar 2012 5:10 pm

jolynyk wrote:Finally got mine sorted out back to normal again.. Different password etc..
Wiz, what is the difference between Trend Micro & Kaspersky ??

One begins with T and the other with K!

But that's probably not what you were asking. You are asking me to compare two of the cream of the crop security companies and that is hard to do. I use Trend anti virus plus, but have not tried anything from Kaspersky. I read both company's blogs and can state that both are involved in some of the biggest takedowns of cybercriminals and botnets to date.

I think that you should try each one out, one at a time, until the trial periods expire. Install, test until expiration, then uninstall the first one. Reboot, then install the other and run it until it times out. If you find that one uses less resources, or finds more problems, that may be the best one for you. If one bothers you with a lot of notices and questions, it may become annoying. You could go with the quieter brand, or be better informed with the noisier one.

If you would like, I can prepare a page for you to use to download trial versions of each company's main programs. I am an affiliate for Trend Micro and Kaspersky.

steve takacs · Post by **steve takacs** » 21 Mar 2012 7:06 am

Thanks for all the information, Wiz. I changed the password to a stronger one and am not having a problem now . stevet

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 21 Mar 2012 8:36 am

I received one of these emails from Steve's hacked account and opened it without previewing it. Will that cause any problems or is there any other action one should do in a case like this?

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 21 Mar 2012 11:17 am

Jerry Overstreet wrote:I received one of these emails from Steve's hacked account and opened it without previewing it. Will that cause any problems or is there any other action one should do in a case like this?

Even if you opened the one I got, there was nothing harmful in it. The only link had to be copied and pasted to be useable. The spammer was promoting cars, motorcycles, electronics, et al.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 21 Mar 2012 12:34 pm

Thanksalot Wiz

I appreciate all your help on this board.

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thanks, wiz