Really getting tired of hacking now

muon said:
Is that what you took away from my entire post?
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Answer the question. You claimed that he had a keylogger running on his system because he'd been tricked into installing one.

You either have some evidence for that statement or you don't. Which is it?
 
FoxEye said:
Answer the question. You claimed that he had a keylogger running on his system because he'd been tricked into installing one.

You either have some evidence for that statement or you don't. Which is it?
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Some comprehension of speech would be better. I was clearly going through how multiple passwords could be breached.

I dont actually have evidence how any of it happened. It might not have even been through the email address.

You gonna pick up on how no one in this thread actually knows how this happened?
 
muon said:
It's your own fault for letting your microsoft account get hacked.

Losing control of you email account is asking for serious trouble. Why don't you have 2FA for the microsoft account?

Worse still you have a keylogger in your computer which again requires you to have fallen for a trick.
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Perhaps English is not your mother tongue, but your third sentence above is a statement, not a question or a suggestion or an idea.

If you meant it as a theoretical/hypothetical situation then fine. But that isn't what you wrote.
 
Lopéz said:
And how does it being in the current KS3 IT curriculum help someone who left school decades ago?
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Because its common knowledge. So common that 11 Yr old who are taught about it most likely already knew about it.

Must be living under a rock or simply computer illiterate to not know about it.

Also... this is GD. These responses are expected.
 
FoxEye said:
Perhaps English is not your mother tongue, but your third sentence above is a statement, not a question or a suggestion or an idea.

If you meant it as a theoretical/hypothetical situation then fine. But that isn't what you wrote.
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Perhaps you'll realise this is a forum where thing should be interpreted more as speech. What I said is fine in the context of what I was saying.

It's only ambiguous if you take sentences in isolation.
 
muon said:
Perhaps you'll realise this is a forum where thing should be interpreted more as speech. What I said is fine in the context of what I was saying.

It's only ambiguous if you take sentences in isolation.
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We're not mind readers. If you don't phrase things properly we're all left guessing what you mean.

I for one interpreted your post as you telling the OP he had a keylogger on his PC.

Anyway we can move on now that you've clarified you were merely positing that as a suggestion.
 
It is rare to get an email account breach, though I've seen a few incidents by other people.

Most people get tricked by either clicking on a fake email or through malicious adverts on websites.

1. Block the adverts using an adblocker.

2. As for the email.. put your arrow over the From name on the email (I'm assuming you're using a web interface to read the emails) and it'll reveal what the true email address is.

If you're using an email client program then there usually is an option to view the message source, and you can read through the email without actually opening it.

If you are suspicious of an email, especially one that wants you to click a link, I always just go straight to the website and bypass the email.

Maybe you should enter your email address in to this site and it'll tell you about any website breaches your email address is listed on: https://haveibeenpwned.com
 
So rather than mud slinging

What would people suggest we use to help protect ourselves.

I use a pay version of lastpass for my passwords and notes
2FA is in place for most things (not that it helps totally with Paypal as proved by my recent hack issue)
 
The person who has access to your email will try lots of sites which relate to that account. So if you can't get control that email address pronto it's worth logging into the accounts that are linked (such as Argos etc) and changing the asscioated email address to prevent any more releases of information. It's worth making a new email account anyway at this point. Banking and sensitive sites are worth having a separate email address from forums etc.

I'd also be looking to wipe any operating systems you use that you use before doing the above. This is due to you being unsure if you have some logging going on in your OS, be that phone, PC, etc. It's not ideal, and possibly not needed however but it sounds like you have issues. Depends how much effort that is for you versus getting malware scanners etc.
 
Holy moly.

As said if MS are making you wait there must have been a load of issues flagged up. I would seriously consider closing that account when you regain control and creating a new one. if you have any banks or any other important services linked to that account, get them changed now. consider them all compromised until you do.

Learn about 2fa. create a new account and lock it down.
 
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