July 09, 2012
E-Mail Hacked
About 3 hours ago I used one of the computers at a friends store, I sent an E-mail while I was there.
About 2 hours ago I started getting texts and E-mails from people telling me I was spamming them.
It seems some Ukrainian jackwagon hijacked my account and tried to sell everyone I've ever E-mailed weight loss products.
Golly! People I hadn't heard from in years hate me now.
After an hours go-round with AOL I got my account unlocked and all seems to be well. My friend knows and has disconnected that computer.
I have McAfee on both the MAC and Windows partitions of my Mac and it says its clear so I don't think that there is any virus problem with my system.
I sincerely apologize to anyone who got spammed.
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About 2 hours ago I started getting texts and E-mails from people telling me I was spamming them.
It seems some Ukrainian jackwagon hijacked my account and tried to sell everyone I've ever E-mailed weight loss products.
Golly! People I hadn't heard from in years hate me now.
After an hours go-round with AOL I got my account unlocked and all seems to be well. My friend knows and has disconnected that computer.
I have McAfee on both the MAC and Windows partitions of my Mac and it says its clear so I don't think that there is any virus problem with my system.
I sincerely apologize to anyone who got spammed.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at
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Presumably you now know this: never, ever, use a password-protected service on a public access computer.
Also, get rid of McAfee on Windows and use Microsoft Security Essentials instead.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Mon Jul 9 20:41:53 2012 (+rSRq)
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(Also, never use a password protected service on your own computer if you're connecting to a public-access Wifi.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Mon Jul 9 20:43:01 2012 (+rSRq)
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...and make sure you didn't re-use that password anywhere else. A close call along those lines inspired me to start using the LastPass plugin for Firefox. I'll never be *able* to type the password in on another system, for one thing. 
Posted by: Douglas Oosting at Mon Jul 9 22:33:02 2012 (N9Lwt)
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And never feed them after midnight!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tue Jul 10 05:54:16 2012 (PiXy!)
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LastPass is not applicable to public computers, I think. Multifactor auth is, however.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wed Jul 11 20:51:06 2012 (5OBKC)
Posted by: RickC at Fri Jul 13 23:18:30 2012 (WQ6Vb)
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