Re: Need advice about hacking and security
From: BoB (rhoward30@myrealbox.com)Date: 10/30/02
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From: BoB <rhoward30@myrealbox.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:12:01 -0500
On 28 Oct 2002 22:38:02 GMT, unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
wrote:
>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.
Since you insist on 'chatting' there is probably nothing even a
professional can do for you. Your habits are and will continue to be
your downfall. There is no good news.
>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.
BoB
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