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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 27, 2012 - 11:26am 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 - 11:31am PT
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Just got one.....deleted.
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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Dec 27, 2012 - 11:39am PT
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same here,, THANK YOU for the heads up Girl!!!!
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Dec 27, 2012 - 11:40am PT
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window?
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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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Dec 27, 2012 - 11:43am PT
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Death to those f*#king hackers!
by which method?
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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Dec 27, 2012 - 11:44am PT
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Send em to me Crimpie! ill show em something they never saw before,, the inside of their skin..;-)
and yeah i have windows..
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Dec 27, 2012 - 11:58am 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 - 12:02pm 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 - 12:05pm 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 - 12:08pm 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 - 12:09pm 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 - 12:12pm 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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t*r
Mountain climber
where the wild things are
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Dec 27, 2012 - 12:39pm PT
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i got one from "you" too - glad i saw this and just deleted it. good luck with the comp issues!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 27, 2012 - 12:41pm 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 - 12:49pm PT
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Hackers don't deserve death by boobies.
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locker
Social climber
state of Kumbaya...
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Dec 27, 2012 - 12:52pm PT
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Wish I had seen this first...
Yes you DID get hacked and I just opened the fuking thing and also emailed you back letting you know you've been hacked...
Figures!!!...
LOL!!!...
Check your email...
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 27, 2012 - 12:55pm 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 - 12:56pm 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 - 01:00pm 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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locker
Social climber
state of Kumbaya...
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:04pm PT
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zBrown...
Though I opened the link...
so far no problems that I am aware of...
Seems that my FREE virus crap MAY have worked as I got an audible and written warning that "Malware has been detected and blocked" right after opening it...
EDITED:
If anyone want's to know or is curious, I am using the free version of AVAST (as suggested by Steve W)...
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:13pm 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 - 01:16pm 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 - 01:16pm 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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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 01:19pm PT
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Thanks for the suggestions. Will see what I can do...
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:20pm PT
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i was hacked once using a photo sharing site- photo bucket, and while you have that account open- using it, others can enter that account by going through the properties of any pic youve posted on forums from that site. And can add a virus..
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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:24pm PT
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Does this just sometimes happen?
that's been my experience. just change your passwords for email, and fb.
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Riley Wyna
Trad climber
A crack near you
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:27pm PT
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But I have already started working Crimps!!
Noooooooooooo!
. Houston Mom Earns $6,795/Month Part-Time
Patricia Feeney of Houston,never thought she would have a job working at home until one day she filled out a simple form online. Before she knew it, she discovered her secret to beating the recession, and being able to provide for her family by working from home.
I read Patty's blog last month and decided to feature her story in our Career News segment. In our phone interview she told me her amazing story. "Since getting my Work-At-Home-Digital I actually make about $5,000-$7,000 a month using the internet. It is enough to comfortably replace my old job's income. And the best thing is that I only work about 10-12 hours a week from home so I now have a lot more time for my family."
Working online has been a financial windfall for Patty, who struggled for months to findBold Text a job in a struggling economy through many online job agencies such as Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com and Snagajob.com. Her big break came one day when she found the Work-At-Home-Digital in an online classified ad. "I lost my job shortly after the recession hit, I needed reliable income, I was not interested in those "get rich quick" scams you see all over the internet. Those are all pyramid scams or stuff where you have to sell to your friends and family. I just needed a legitimate way to earn a living for me and my family. The Work-At-Home-Digital provided that for me..
I asked her about how she started her remarkable journey. "It was pretty easy. I filled out a short form and applied for a Work-At-Home-Digital. There is some maintenance fee, so it's not really free, but it was under $50. I received access to the system and within four weeks I was making over $5,000 a month. It's really simple, I am not a computer whiz, but I can use the internet. I post links that are given to me, I don't even have to sell anything. They are constantly recruiting people to post links, you should try it."
You don't have to be a job seeker to benefit from this free kit, but it is certainly an ideal alternative to working full-time. "I still search for full-time jobs but to be honest I'm earning more money than any of the jobs I have applied for anyway. I have a few friends that are doing exactly the same thing as me. Some of them are making over $600 a day. Really the sky is the limit, if you put in the efffort."With the recession in full swing and jobs hard to find, working from home is certainly the way of the
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:27pm PT
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My Yahoo and then Skype got hacked very recently and I'm an apple guy who'se usually cognizant of what not to click
Send blank emails out to a bunch of people on my behalf and talked to Taiwan using up my skype credit
Could have been worse and hope it doesn't get worse
peace
karl
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:28pm PT
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photos, games, sites streaming music or video, the dread porn, anything that's sending something to your machine
i've used malwarebytes before it's good
GMER is good too
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:38pm PT
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Thanks for the heads up Crimp! FWIW I got an email from you with a link at 11:12am PCT, so whoever it is was still at it then...
Cheers.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 01:44pm PT
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Hack. Still hearing from those who are getting emails. Guess I can't stop that. Doh.
Just last night I signed up for instant view on Netflix and listened to Pandora radio for the first time this week. Bad ideas?
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:45pm PT
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havent had any issues with either Crimpie. Netflix is secure..
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 01:50pm PT
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One thing I do is work with my emails logged in and open. Sounds like that is a bad idea, no?
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:54pm PT
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from what the last COMP GEEK i talked to told me, its usually coming from something you go to like a vid, link, etc. If you get to those via email~~?
its ALL over my noggin Crimpie.. I know i felt totally VIOLATED though..In 74- if you would have told me a machine could violate me through space and wires, , i would have laughed.
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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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Dec 27, 2012 - 01:58pm PT
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It's very possibly nothing you did. Your return address might have been found among a friend's contacts, and the virus is spoofing emails "from" you.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 27, 2012 - 02:09pm PT
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Callie
I use avast on my Microsoft 7 computer. Never had any problems with
being hacked or infected since I've had it. But I'm no longer on FB,
and don't get netflix. . .
I hope you get it fixed without too much pain!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Dec 27, 2012 - 02:12pm PT
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How come nobody ever hacks me? What, am I chopped liver?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 27, 2012 - 02:19pm PT
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So people will do anything to generate some email.
I didn't see any parrots in mine so I tweeted it to a flight into the nether.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 02:58pm PT
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I think it clearly originated from my machine as I got a zillion 'out of office' replies and tons of 'failure to deliver' (old email addresses I guess).
Ran the root kit thingy and malwarebytes and all came up clean. What a pain.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Dec 27, 2012 - 03:03pm PT
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How come nobody ever hacks me? What, am I chopped liver?
Just sent you a pm bvb, click on the link.
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Burchey
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Dec 27, 2012 - 03:09pm PT
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Happens to the best of us.
I just ignored the email - I knew you wouldn't email me on purpose =)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 03:13pm PT
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I knew you wouldn't email me on purpose =)
Boo on that Burchey. I definitely don't feel that way at all. For the record, there is only one person in all my years here on the taco that I would never communicate with. That certainly is not you!
Interesting though that you got it - I assumed it lifted addresses from gmail (which I know it did) but maybe it got them through the taco too? A mystery.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 27, 2012 - 03:17pm PT
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I blame the parrots, but Pente was probably the mastermind.
Anyway, about our date on Saturday night...
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 03:26pm PT
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My angel parrots were all napping. Pente on the other hand... Unlike birds, cats are post-fall creatures you know.
Haha!
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khanom
Trad climber
Greeley Hill
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Dec 27, 2012 - 04:36pm PT
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My girlfriend ran into a cross-site scripting vulnerability with Yahoo Mail. Clicking on the link would grab your session data and compromise your account. Interestingly Gmail flagged the ensuing spam, but Yahoo Mail did not.
Basically re-iterated the point that if you are going to check out a suspicious link do so in a browser with no cookies and not on Windows (e.g. incognito window in Chrome). Could also go through an anonymizing service.
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Burchey
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Dec 27, 2012 - 04:39pm PT
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Heard.
I guarantee it was the parrots.
Guaranteed.
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Timid TopRope
Social climber
'used to be Paradise, CA
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Dec 27, 2012 - 04:55pm PT
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Hey Crimpergirl, I just sent you the thousand dollars you were asking for to get you out of that Moroccan jail after having your money and passport stolen. Hope that helps.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Dec 27, 2012 - 05:49pm PT
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I also received a hacked email from lynne leicthfuss. I clicked it and then deleted it--It then proceeded to send out random emails from me to others. They used the title RE: Hey (your name here). So this might be a supertopo thing. This was about a week ago and I have not had any more replies
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 27, 2012 - 07:41pm PT
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XP? Good lord. 11 years old now - only 15 months until MS end-of-lifes it. I hope at least it's got service pack 3 on it.
Tell the uni IT department to give you a Win7 boxxen.
Oh, and Riley, why are you giving the spammers free column space? Remove that crap.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 27, 2012 - 07:44pm 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.
Run ComboFix and run it.
http://combofix.net/
Got yer expert instruction now Crimpie. Damn! those Brauns think alike.
just saw this, very likely you're OK (Well certainly more than OK, IMO)
Ran the root kit thingy and malwarebytes and all came up clean. What a pain.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 10:52pm PT
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Thanks Werner and others - combofix in the morning it is!
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 27, 2012 - 11:49pm PT
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Yeah Karl, with the increasing popularity of Apple products, the scumbags will start targeting them more.
What's a good protection for a Mac? No jokes please.
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matisse
climber
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Dec 27, 2012 - 11:51pm PT
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I got one too. I feel special.
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 28, 2012 - 01:18am PT
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Yeah Karl, with the increasing popularity of Apple products, the scumbags will start targeting them more.
What's a good protection for a Mac? No jokes please.
There was a good thread on this over at TidBITS recently:
http://talk.tidbits.com/Anti-Virus-Comparison-Test-td4657102.html
But honestly, I haven't run A/V software on a Mac since the days of John Norstad's Disinfectant.
Keep your Mac system software and browsers up to date, don't install Flash (use Google Chrome's built in Flash if you really need to view one of the dwindling Flash sites) or Acrobat, disable Java in your browser and don't 2-click suspicious files. That'll pretty much take care of things.
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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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Dec 28, 2012 - 03:39am PT
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I think it clearly originated from my machine as I got a zillion 'out of office' replies and tons of 'failure to deliver' (old email addresses I guess).
You get replies, which only means that the "From:", "Return path:" and/or "Reply to:" email addresses are yours, which is exactly happens with spoofing. A better test is whether some of those replies come from email addresses you don't recognize.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing
The basic idea of short emails with a link to the virus is the strategy of the old "Netsky" worm, which used spoofing. So anyway, if the scans come up clean, you may actually be clean.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 28, 2012 - 06:45am PT
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Hey Timid--I'm in jail in Nigeria and they're askin' for $500 bail!!!!
hee hee hee. . .
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 28, 2012 - 07:07am PT
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Interesting Murcy. There were addresses I did not recognize. And there were many that are not in my address book but are places I sent a single email to...sometimes a year or more ago. Bizarre. Wonder if I can figure out more looking at all the returned emails I got.
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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Dec 28, 2012 - 09:02am PT
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i did find out last night that there are TONS of viruses being sent out from places like Africa, and the ME. Some sort of cyber war going on i would imagine.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Dec 28, 2012 - 09:04am PT
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Graphically speaking, the idea is to keep all the bad stuff, portrayed here by Tinkerbell, from entering your private domain.
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froodish
Social climber
Portland, Oregon
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Dec 28, 2012 - 09:32am PT
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^^ Oh those Disney animators ;-)
As others noted email is easily spoofed but if you have a copy with the complete headers SpamCop is pretty good about determining the actual source:
http://spamcop.net
Was it a web mail account?
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 28, 2012 - 10:43am PT
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gmail account. I assume that is a webmail account??
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Dec 28, 2012 - 11:47am PT
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I got ther email...
Completely forgot this post and only remembered after clicking....
No harm no foul
Similar thing happened a week or so ago with Lynne.
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QITNL
climber
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Dec 28, 2012 - 11:53am PT
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Try this
https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=50270
and then this:
https://support.google.com/mail/bin/mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=checklist.cs&tab=29488
(You will need to copy & paste those links)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 28, 2012 - 12:29pm PT
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Thanks QITNL. Looks like I've done most of that. Still, I'd not seen these pages - they are really useful!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 28, 2012 - 02:12pm PT
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Yeah Karl, with the increasing popularity of Apple products, the scumbags will start targeting them more.
I don't think it's a apple virus or anything. If they can get you to sign a phoney page that looks real, they get your info without regard to OS. Or they can just attack your account without involving your computer at all, or steal your info from a server that's not properly protected
Peace
karl
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LL LL
Sport climber
moving thru
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Dec 28, 2012 - 09:52pm PT
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Sorry Jingy et al. I answered an email from a close friend. Turned out to be a false one. How can hackers know so much?
Anyway, when I answered I got slammed....then everyone on my email address list got slammed too. Again, sorry. Lynne
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