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All My Passwords Changed

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Christopher, Aug 17, 2010.

  1. SwoLy-D

    SwoLy-D Member

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    R2K is in the right frame of mind.

    No one writes a keylogger site to "Clutchfans.net"... you probably typed your password to Live or FB or the other more popular password-requiring sites on someone else's phishing site and wham-o, they tried all the other services and gotcha. :eek:
     
  2. Ziggy

    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

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    Go to a new PC and change your passwords again man. Before its too late. Then sweep your current PC.
     
  3. Rockets2K

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    methinks you mis-read me Senor Swoly.

    I meant a keylogger installed on his computer. Phishing would seem a likely culprit if it was jsut one site, but he is saying it is all of his regularly visited password protected sites. (unless he uses the same password on all sites which is damn dumb)
     
  4. SwoLy-D

    SwoLy-D Member

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    ^ Yeah, gotcha, but I understood you about a program on his PC to record his keystrokes. :eek: I knew that.
     
  5. tingYAO

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    Im sorry. I will change them back for you but I must get my leaders permission first.

    I should not have done that to you Christopher.
     
  6. DallasThomas

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    I would tend to think it's an actual person on the other end of this. Not that they didn't get your password by using a keylogger or something of that nature, but the absence of emails would easily be explained if there were an intelligent person behind it all...

    If somebody had the password to your email account, they could easily change/reset passwords on other sites and go back to delete the email confirmation.


    But then who would do such a thing? If this was indeed the case, I'd suspect someone you know - random account phishermen wouldn't bother with that extra step.
     
  7. RickRock713

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    this made me laugh..
     
  8. Christopher

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    You b*stard! :p


    I'm always extremely careful about making sure I go to the right sites and now fake ones.

    My passwords are all very different.

    On the key logger, no one with access to my computer would do that. Can you use a program like that and send out the info to a remote computer?

    So far all the passwords haven't been changed again. They are all very different from before.

    I was kind of hoping there was a new virus out there people knew about that did this or allowed that sort of access. It's a rotten feeling, as I'm always careful I've never had any security issues.
     
  9. Dr of Dunk

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    Been downloading any torrents lately? :)

    Sounds like you have a keylogger or some kind of trojan phoning home keystrokes.
     
  10. Thefabman

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    they got you!

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    All your bases is mine!
     
  12. ArtV

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    Listen to Rockets2K. And yes, it can and most of the time does come in as a trojan - just like a virus - and sends what you type back to "home base" anytime you are online. Get on a clean computer and change the passwords to all your accounts. And if any account is tied to a credit card or bank account, inform the companies - they will need to cancel and issue new cards/accounts.
     
  13. v3.0

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    does malwarebytes or norton/mcafee find and remove these keyloggers?
     
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  14. Xenon

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    Go check a mirror and make sure you're still you.
     
  15. SuperVon

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    League freak the answer is AFL.
     
  16. RocketMadness

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    I think a keylogger is spyware. Which most anti virus can detect. You can try that or use rkill.
     

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