Follow Up form hotmail account being hacked
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still no reply to the email just yet
vixen - the grand national thats jut gone i uploaded like £10 each day of the meetings, and my bank had rang me 3 days into it worried of suspicious activity
At least with the bank I worked for, there were different priorities for people who had been known to gamble/were regular gamblers and people who had never done it.
Soldato
got it back
all the guy had bought were credits for a game called "habbo" so no address or anything left...what a sad case LOL
Habbo hotel?
My little sister plays that, she is ten!
Find out his username then post it here and we can all sign up and track him down on habbo hotel and do something funny
hes not really left any trace of anything, i only know he used it for that because of the receipts in the email which i had to search for...still looking though through all the junk emails and everything will let you know
i dont believe it, we managed to get the account back, change the password the security question the alternate email and everything, only to find today, its gone again!!!!!
we need to be able to get in just to redirect everything to a different email, as quite frankly she wont be using hotmail anymore
STUPID ******* HOTMAIL!!!!
we need to be able to get in just to redirect everything to a different email, as quite frankly she wont be using hotmail anymore
STUPID ******* HOTMAIL!!!!
Permabanned
I don't really understand, I've had a hotmail account for about 12 years and never had any problems like this. Mind you, I barely use it anymore.
Soldato
Got to be a keylogger somewhere or a trojan that is forwarding your saved windows passwords.
Soldato
Got to be something local then, he's getting your passwords from your machine.
think that one could possibly be the alternate email address thing, not sure, going to do a full format of the laptop when my RAM gets back from being replaced, and then doing a full format of the PC as well and starting from scratch on everything
After you format, how long before this type of thing happens again? Do some research on securing your OS , e.g. not running as Administrator.
Soldato
My brother got his hotmail hacked, then got it back then got it hacked again. Also got his Steam account and his gmail, he's got his Steam account back but still hasn't got his gmail back yet, they seem to take forever dealing with hacked requests.
He's most likely got a trojan for this to keep occuring
BeatMaster
He's most likely got a trojan for this to keep occuring
BeatMaster
well ive formatted now, cant say ive ever heard of running under something aoised to admin, care to shed any light on that?
Associate
Make sure you have a decent anti virus and firewall running.
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/advanced/useraccount.mspx
Running as a limited user will prevent a lot of malware from operating because they are denied access to system areas. It won't stop everything but it will greatly reduce the amount of damage they can do.
Good firewall and antivirus packages provide additional defensive layers.
If you have wireless internet, lock that down too.
Personally, I dual boot and do all my financial transactions under a base install of Arch Linux with just Firefox and Open Office installed. That way, I don't have to concern myself with any of the Windows malware and their numerous attack vectors.
Don