Hacked

Somone hacked my userid and mass edited over 500 of my posts to inclulde links to pornographic, and presumably dangerous, web sites. I deleted all of the posts I found with bad links in them. Stefan apparently deleted, or edited, many more.

If you see any others, please let me know and I'll get rid of them.

I'm very sorry that at least one child was exposed to some bad stuff. Hopefully, we've prevented any more. I've changed my password and run an AVG virus scan but nothing was found. If anyone has any advice on other measures I can take, lets hear them.

 

This isn't good for anyone to know that the threat is out there for this to happen =(

 

It is from a phishing scam. A website popped up that looked like something you were familiar with, and asked for your user name and password, and when you entered it, it took over from there.

Be sure to change any other passwords that are the same as the one you used on here. For example, if you use 1234 as your password for Maverick Forum and your bank account, be sure to change both account passwords.

Never seen one hit a forum...usually send emails out about porn or viruses to everyone on your email list.

Are you sure you didn't get drunk and post those porn links yourself???

Sorry, not really funny, I know. Very disturbing, actually, and irritating to have something like this happen to you.

 

Good idea to think about other passwords. I changed another that would be really bad to have hacked.

Its surprising when I get malware. I'm very cautious, e.g., I won't open links in stuff that has been forwarded and I hover to check the URL before clicking on links.

I'd like to get the SOB in a room for a few minutes.

 

Download Malwarebytes if you haven't already. Get it from malwarebytes.org. Run it once a week or so. Just the brief scan, and if it finds something, run the full scan.

Much of the stuff infecting us nowadays is not "virus" but malware, and many of the virus scanners do not pick them up. Malwarebytes picks up 98% of them, and it is free.

One problem is if you are already infected with a bug, it may interfere with your installation and running of malwarebytes. They actually write their bugs to prevent you from installing bug removers.

 

I run Kapersky on all our computers, it won't let me do nothing it deems dangerous, it amazes me some times.

 

Also to anyone on here, don't make your password "maverick".

All it takes is someone to see your email in a post and they can log into your account.

 

Oh crap...I'd better change mine then...

 

Sri to hear u were hacked. I had that problem abt 18 mos ago and it took me a year to figure out how to get past it. It was as simple as changing my email password. It caused me a lot of grief. I bought new hardrive, installed virus software in addition to the McAfee security that comes w/ my Yahoo. My computer was generating mail and links that had all those in my address book pissed-off - to say the least. I even went to the point of erasing all my address book - though I did back it up.
After all that, it was as simple as changing my email password - took me a year to get rid of it. A friend of mine told me to change the password and that ended a year of grief. I feel ur pain.

 

Assume you're talking about an email ADDRESS in a post? How would that expose the password if it happened to be "maverick"?

 

You probably got hijacked through Facebook.
I know a few people that clicked on that "See who's been looking at your Facebook"

 

That's good to know. I did have the problem a few years ago where someone was sending bogus email that looked like it came from me. Was never clear if the bogus emails were actually being generated from my computer or if there was a way to send email and make it look like it came from a different sender, e.g. me.

 

I got mixed up, on other forums you log in with your email instead of your username. But on here you only need the username.

So anyone can try to get into your account by just using your name and guessing if your password is maverick.

I'm pretty sure Stefan can track log in's by IP addresses tough, so if anyone tries he can figure out who did it.