Re: Need advice about hacking and security
From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)Date: 10/28/02
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From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) Date: 28 Oct 2002 22:38:02 GMT
dlor60@hotmail.com (darlene) writes:
]Tiger Hillside <tigerhillsideNotReallyHere@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<3hhqrug424q47vt3k8rhv7ohaenv6v15a9@4ax.com>...
]> In comp.security.misc I read this message from
]> dlor60@hotmail.com (darlene):
]>
]> >If anyone can please give me some insight about some computer issues,
]> >I would appreciate it.
]> >
]> >Since I've had my used computer for about 2 years, I've had my privacy
]> >violated to the extreme. All of my email accounts - Hotmail, Yahoo,
]> >my Outlook, my personal files have been tampered with. The sites
]> >where I frequent, some sock puppet apparently take personal info from
]> >personal emails and post them in their messages. I receive offensive
]> >purported porno 'opt-in' emails that I did not subscribe to - even
]> >within a few hours of creating a brand new email account. I also get
]> >taunted by a psycho cyberstalker who puts her name in the 'subject' or
]> >email address of porno junkmail to make it appear to be unsolicited
]> >spam.
]>
]> I am not convinced this is stalking. I get lots of porno spam
]> with names in the header like it comes from a "real" person. The
]> same names show up a lot.
]>
]>
]> [snip]
]That's can very much be the case, however, the 'name' of this person
]from the fake spam is the same name of the person who posts personal
]info from my outgoing emails in public ng's. For every email I send
]out, she posts something from *that* letter the following day in an
]unrelated ng. She is a bonafide psycho.
]If that doesn't qualify as cyberstalking, in the summer of last year
]some sock puppet who found out which internet clubs I frequent,
]started a chat session and brought up a very private and personal
]matter that no one could have known about. I had written to someone
]just prior to this 'person' chatting with me about this particular
]matter. After this 'person' mentioned the details of MY life in the
]context of her conversation, 'she' asked me for money. The unspoken
]was perfectly clear.
OK, it does look like the evidence is clear. So, the most likely thing
is that your system has been comprimised. If it is a Win system that was
easy. Then she can read anything and everything on your computer,
including the outgoing mail folder.
Wipe, reinstall, and harden. (harden means install all the OS updates,
and install firewalls, etc.) Wipe means save personal data (eg files you
have written, your mail folders, etc.) and then erase everything.
Reformat the disk. REinstall means get a good copy of the OS and install
it again as if your computer were a new computer. Then get the personal
files and put them on.
Then make sure that you keep up will all the updates to your OS, and
that you never open attachments to mail files.
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