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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 04:19pm PT
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Thanks for the suggestions. Will see what I can do...
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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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Dec 27, 2012 - 04:24pm 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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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 27, 2012 - 04:27pm 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 - 04:28pm 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 - 04:38pm 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 - 04:44pm 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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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 04:50pm 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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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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Dec 27, 2012 - 04:58pm 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 - 05:09pm 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 - 05:12pm 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 - 05:19pm 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 - 05:58pm 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 - 06:03pm 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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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 06:13pm 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 - 06:17pm 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 - 06:26pm 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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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Dec 27, 2012 - 08:49pm 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 - 10:41pm 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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