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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 27, 2012 - 02:26pm PT
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Not sure how it happened but it did. I am not sending links to anyone so beware. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Death to those f*#king hackers!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Dec 27, 2012 - 02:31pm PT
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Just got one.....deleted.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Dec 27, 2012 - 02:40pm PT
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window?
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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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Dec 27, 2012 - 02:43pm PT
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Death to those f*#king hackers!
by which method?
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Dec 27, 2012 - 02:58pm PT
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Yep, got your e mail.
So you can't get me a deal on Viagra?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Dec 27, 2012 - 03:02pm PT
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Fuk, I clicked it without thinking.
It was blocked as a trojan horse. Thank gawd for avast.
Hope there's no more to it......
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 03:05pm PT
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So, I have avast. I didn't click on anything that would give this to me.
I have windows XP. Before you go all apple on me, it is a university issued machine.
How does this happen?
And for hackers - death by AR-15 of course!!
Do I need to do anything other than change passwords? Any advice is welcome.
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John M
climber
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Dec 27, 2012 - 03:08pm PT
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So does this mean that you aren't leaving brassnuts and coming to california to be my slave girl?
Dang!!#$@@!
Damn those rat bastard hackers. I even took a bath.
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GhoulweJ
Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
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Dec 27, 2012 - 03:09pm PT
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Feeling left out :(
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 03:12pm PT
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Maybe I managed to stop it before it got to GhoulweJ.
I hope I stopped it. Scared to touch anything on this dang machine now.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 27, 2012 - 03:41pm PT
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I feel so left out...
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Dec 27, 2012 - 03:49pm PT
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Hackers don't deserve death by boobies.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 27, 2012 - 03:55pm PT
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Ahem, are you using protection?
That's a good place to start.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 27, 2012 - 03:56pm PT
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Have you noticed any symptoms that you can elaborate on?
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 27, 2012 - 04:00pm PT
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OK now for some remediation. Though it is advised by some not to run this unless instructed to by an expert, I would download and run ComboFix.
Do not download it from anyone other than bleepingcomputer and follow the instructions carefully. It can take a while and it can require multiple runs.
Did I say it's free?
This is what eradicated the ugly rootkit mentioned above but it does a nice cleanup job in toto (not the dog).
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 27, 2012 - 04:13pm PT
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email hacking, as far as I've read, is usually fairly benign. I've opened a few, but I usually delete them without opening. The ones I've seen are easily identified by having an improbable linkup between the sender and the topic.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 04:16pm PT
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My machine has malwarebytes and hitman pro. Wrong in earlier stmt about avast. Running malwarebytes in safe mode right now. Maybe my machine is not compromised and only email and facebook were. I do not use the same password on email and other places. Just Wonder how this happens.
Does this just sometimes happen? Or did I likely do something to allow it?
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 04:16pm PT
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Also never saw a weird link. Not sure where it came from.
My keyboard has been a bit possessed but I thought I just needed a new one. I go thru them pretty regularly.
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