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password stolen....??? anyone
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2002 10:36 am
by Kathleen
This morning I went to sign on and guess what my aol account password had be stolen...!! sending out thousands of e-mails... from my account....
Please remember to change your passwords....
Kath
Re: password stolen....??? anyone
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2002 8:05 pm
by TINA-T
WOW...........never heard of that one kath??
how did/does it happen...........for us uninformed ones
Re: password stolen....??? anyone
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2002 8:59 pm
by Kathleen
Someone got into my AOL account... Aol said a hacker!! found out with some kind of scan that they could steal my pass word....!!!!!!!!!!
Well I never changed my pass word for ten years...LOL... but now I will change it all the time!!!
They also said that a virus called Trojan can attach to mail sent out to me and steal my pass word...
so AOL closes your accounts and you have to phone them....
Just proves you are never too old to learn a new trick....LOL... just to lazy to change my pass word...
Anyway my files are new on this puter... so it had to be boring reading...lol... I don't keep personal information...ie bank or credit cards on line..... on this computer so.... they sent out all the porno....
they could not spam my address book... I had to delete all the mail sent from my account to over 280 people.... and that mail sent a 1000 e-mails they said....
Interesting way to start what was already a BAD DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But it is fixed now.... new locks... you can also get this trojan at a web server........ scan use your Nortons.... and I also have a remover now!!!!!
Kath