Re: msn messenger hacked

I got the same kind of problem, whenever start my computer, automatically
message pop up in the rigth corner that will let me if someone in my add a
contact log in. Though I haven't log in my messanger. How can I overcome this
problem. I know someone is controlling my messager, I am woried about the
situation.

Thanks,
rock






"Charlie" wrote:

Yup, they are out there and easy to get a hold of.
I work at a major university and a couple of years ago a student used one on
a bunch of machines to steal faculty, staff and student passwords.
Fortunately he got caught and was prosecuted.

This got picked up by the media, so you can imagine the PR problem that it
caused the University. In fact we didn't have a Chief Security Officer at
that time, but we now have that and a whole department to go with him. It
was all prompted by this incident.

Interestingly, that anecdote helps make my point about sharing logon
accounts. Admin rights were of course needed to install the keylogger
software. In some cases the student was able to do so because he would grab
a machine that someone with Admin rights hadn't logged off of. Although
mostly he targetted Windows 9x boxes, on which the world has Admin rights.
Another of the many reasons that that OS never had any business being in the
workplace. Same can be said of pre-OSX Macs.

BTW - Glad to hear that he's your EX husband!

"smd9296" wrote:

Two years ago, I had a suspicion that my email was being read by my (now ex)
husband. Determined to find out for sure, I emailed my sister and said some
unflattering things about him. When he came home from work that day, he was
furious with me for saying these things. He had no way of knowing my
password (mine are always obscure), but had installed a keylogger.

"Charlie" wrote:

It also could be as simple this:
You used someone else's computer while logged on with an account that others
use. You set up your MSN account, and unfortunately those things tend to
save passwords and start at login by default (not real familiar with MSN
Messenger, so I may be wrong about that particular app).

I only say this because I was visiting a friend a couple of months ago and
when she logged on to her computer for me to use, I noticed that her brother
had set up his Yahoo Messenger account. One of his chat friends started
chatting with me. When I let my friend's brother know about it, he was
incredulous; he had no idea he had set auto login.

This may not be the case at all in your situations, but the point is to be
careful to pay attention to the settings when setting up apps such as e-mail
and IM programs, especially on shared machines.

"Robert Moir" wrote:

TJ wrote:
I have had almost the exact situation occur, however someone hacked
in and printed all my messages. I would also like to know where this
occured from, possibly an IP address so that I can pass this info on
to the authorities. Thank you, please help. This has caused a great
personal problem for me, and may cost me custody of my children.

in both cases, the most likely explanation is that someone installed a
"keylogger" onto your computers to record your activity. If anyone else uses
your computer and has admin rights then you cannot trust that computer if
you do not also trust the admin.



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