OT: Computer hack

[DudyDog]

Need some help fella's...

Opened my email last week and had 189 unread emails. I normally get 4-5 a day from family or friends. These were from all over....the U.S., U.K., Russia maybe, some in Arabic. I only opened one....from Wal-Mart. It was showing someone ordered a $1600 camera lens, but they canceled it on their own due to "insufficient account information". I immediately changed my password. I blocked each of the other ones, but I could read in the title that most were "Thank you for signing up for....or Thank you for subscribing to".

I go on for the next several days and maybe got 2-3 more. I block each of these as I get them.

So today I check it about 6 pm and I have 431 emails! All like the same as before. So I immediately change my password again. I haven't gone in to block any of these, but will.

I check my anti-virus every day to make sure it's working properly. It has been. I even have a VPN set up. I just ran a full scan yesterday with 0 problems. I use Avast and actually have a pay subscription, so it's not just a lower level freebie.

I'm not sure what's going on. Has anyone else ever run into this or know what the hell is going on here? I appreciate any input.

Let me add this...I don't know if this is anything or not....I'm paranoid as hell now. So I google to try and find something...."Have I been hacked?", etc. etc. So one site tells me to open Task Manager and look at it, so I do.

I'm going through and I see CPU time, which I assume is the time each application was in use?? I see that Skype is at 2:46:51

Problem is, I DON"T Skype. Never have. Does this mean anything? Is someone watching me through the camera? Is it one of you???? I'm getting ready to put some tape over the camera anyway to be safe.

What the hell is happening to me??

 

[JoMo MoJo]

I had some ***** in Temecula, California ordering all kinds of **** from Home Depot on my account that had a Home Depot credit card that expired years ago. I don’t know if the purchases were charged to the acct or not and didn’t care. If they were stupid enough to sell **** to a woman with that expired credit card then they deserve all the money they lost because they damn sure will never get a dime from me.

I suggest dumping your yahoo email address and stick to gmail. Yahoo is a portal for scammers, spammers, phishers and all other shenanigans.








And stop streaming porn

 

[fishwater99]

Sounds like Mole Crickets on a bunch of Dales to me...

Your screwed...

 

[DudyDog]

I had some ***** in Temecula, California ordering all kinds of **** from Home Depot on my account that had a Home Depot credit card that expired years ago. I don’t know if the purchases were charged to the acct or not and didn’t care. If they were stupid enough to sell **** to a woman with that expired credit card then they deserve all the money they lost because they damn sure will never get a dime from me.

I suggest dumping your yahoo email address and stick to gmail. Yahoo is a portal for scammers, spammers, phishers and all other shenanigans.

I never said I had yahoo email. But I'm curious to know how you knew I did?

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Because you didn’t put the tape over the camera

He’s got screen shots. Passed them around the last SPS tailgate. Also, please hurry and donate via that last email so Russia won’t win the election.

 

[jxndawg]

I’ve resigned myself to this kind of stuff being a part of living in a digital age. I take every reasonable precaution I can ... I change the passwords on all my financial/email accounts once a year, I only use Yahoo email for silly/personal stuff, etc. The only cards I use are my debit card and an AmEx I have to pay off every month, and I don’t use either anywhere shady on the internet ... having said that, I got a call from my bank’s fraud monitoring dept. on Christmas Eve 3 years ago, and again the Fri before Labor Day the following year, and AmEx on Memorial Day weekend b/c “I” was going on a shopping spree (one of mine was a Home Depot too). The AmEx lady explained that they get your card no. some kind of way, and then bide their time until a big holiday/shopping weekend, hoping that the increased volume of transactions going through will let them slip past fraud monitoring programs. Pain in the arse.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

You haven’t changed any passwords or given your email out through any links or pages sent on your email have you? Always change passwords on the actual site where you type the link in the address bar.

Your email has gotten out somehow. You either typed it in a scam site or there has been a data breach somewhere. Is a lot of it focused on Walmart? Where you said a lens was ordered? You ever remember inputting info from an email? Sign up for this? Verify that? Anything? If you have a Walmart card... cancel it. Get another. Make your password for the site so strong you have to write it down. Use scrambled letters numbers and characters.

Oh oh and as far as the Skype:

[video=youtube;7YvAYIJSSZY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY[/video]

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

Download a password utility such as KeePass or last pass to build and manage a database of all of your accounts. Use that tool to generate strong unique passwords for the sites that you have accounts with. Also, enable two factor authentication on any website you can. Banking, email and social media should be top priorities.

The utilities I referenced require some learning between new software and new habits. However those are not difficult tasks, and more importantly you will be better off using a password manager.

Unrelated to account management, it is very possible that your pc has aids. RIP

 

[jxndawg]

^^^This^^^
I don’t use a password program, but haven’t had an incident since I beefed up my passwords ... I use the first letters of a sentence like, “DonMullernsIsDaBest4Coaching@FootballGamez69.”

Two factor authorization is also big. I recently made a big (appliance) purchase on Home Depot’s website and used my AmEx. When I hit submit, a box popped up asking me to enter the code that had been sent to my phone. Right on cue I got a text from AmEx w/ a 6-digit code to enter, and then it went through.

 

[SwampDawg]

Blatant highjack here: Got a notice on my Samsung Android phone that my software would be updated. Not given a choice to say no, just when. So I accepted. Next morning everything looked the same. At first. Then I noticed a Facebook icon. I have not had a facebook account in years, and never on a phone. So I worked around and either deleted it or hid the icon. Not sure. Then I noticed my notification rings had changed. No big thing, but I liked the ones I had so I went to the place that had my originals. It had changed, to something called Sound Picker. It wouldn't let me change anything unless I agreed to let them rummage around in my files. I realize that millions of people/companies already have that access, but I said enough is enough. I will just learn to live with the obnoxious tones I'm locked into. Then went to my Capital One account. Tried to access my old statements and was told I would have to give THEM access to my stuff. I refused, and my mission for today to press this issue. Is it really Capital One asking? If so what would their reasons be? If not them, than who? Any advice or knowledge from the Pack?

 

[The Fatboy]

The app asking for permission is not giving them permission to rummage through your stuff, its giving the app permission to use those things when you ask the app to.

For instance Capital One isn't looking at your photos or using your camera to take pics of you without your knowledge, but if you want to deposit a check using their photo deposit option you have to give the app permission to access your camera so it can take a picture of the check.

 

[SwampDawg]

I'm not sure you are right, but I am going to call them today. In the first place, the fact that all of the three things I mentioned took place right after the "update." Two of the bad things were after my info, and from what I've been reading about Facebook they probably were also. That would make 3 out of 3. Also, I can understand (maybe) Capital One asking for permissions like the camera access you are talking about, but I can't understand them blocking me from looking at my own data to force me to acquiesce. But, I will find out and report back.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Just send me your login info and I will look into it for you.***

 

[codeDawg]

Your email has just gotten out and your provider isn’t doing a good job of filtering spam. If you use your cable provider email, change to Gmail, Outlook.com, or one of those providers that offer a lot more services including enhanced SPAM filtering.

Now, this doesn’t mean something isn’t going on in your system. If you are suspicious, take the computer to someone local that a friend recommends. They can take extra measures to scan the system.

 

[tenureplan]

Sounds like phishing scams and your email address has made it to the dark web. Use this site to check.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

FWIW don't EVER click on email links even if they are from institutions you do business with. Go to their site and log on. Don't be a phish.