I Has A Hacker

[Rio]

Bout a week ago one of my contacts on yahoo asks "why'd you come back so soon after leaving." After a long moment of constant puzzling we both realize someone has hacked my account. I asked this guy to keep any eye on the hacker to see if he returns. Low and behold, he does, forcing me to change my password. And this is where things get bad...
I come on and have 254 new mail messages. All of them are porn. So now I have to delete a ****load of porn everytime I log onto yahoo. But that's not all. This guy that was supposed to keep an eye on him ends up thinking that I'm playing a 'game' on him. That's right, he thinks the hacker is actually me. Why? Cause he asked him really lame questions like "what's you're real name" "who's your favorite guitarist" and "How old are you?" All this info is stuff that you can easily find out by looking at my personal info on my youtube or yahoo account. So he easily gets it all correct.
But then the guy who was supposed to keep an eye on him gets mad at me. Supposedly because he doesn't think it's funny anymore. When I try to tell him I'm being serious he just ignores me and makes an impression of some guy hacking his account. Then we got into a fight and he now ignores me everytime I log onto yahoo. Therefore I don't know if this guy still hacks my account.
Most importantly, though, how do I get rid of all the porn?!

[Deathtanz Mantisk]

Don't resist the lewd mails, but embrace them instead, young padawan.

So the guy only hacks your yahoo messenger? That doesn't sound too bad to me. :X

[viruszero]

well, best way to be rid of them if you are so inclined is to block the sender... And anything that sender sends to you goes right to junk mail or to be deleted.

But you might want to see id you've been signed up for some sort of mailing list... if so, see if you can remove yourself from it. But make sure to be careful when trying so as the site your email might have been added to may not be a legitimate one that removes your email when asked.. (So ti could just be safer to block everything from them.)

[nekogabby]

This happened to mu mum a while back.

VZ has a good option but to get rid of the porn in your in-box you're gonna have to manually delete it from your e-mail. That's the only conclusion I have for that, but someone may have a better idea.

[Albireo]

Nov 10, 2008 7:51:28 GMT 2 viruszero said:

well, best way to be rid of them if you are so inclined is to block the sender... And anything that sender sends to you goes right to junk mail or to be deleted.

But you might want to see id you've been signed up for some sort of mailing list... if so, see if you can remove yourself from it. But make sure to be careful when trying so as the site your email might have been added to may not be a legitimate one that removes your email when asked.. (So ti could just be safer to block everything from them.)

Or you could just go make a new email, after that, make more to confuse the person. Make a few, so that they themselves will find it tedious.

[viruszero]

That might not work... depending on how they figured out your email password. If they guessed then long as you make a fairly strong password that isn't easy to guess then you should be fine just changing your password. But if they used a keylogger or trojan, then you're in for some more serious trouble. (As changing the password won't do any good because they can all too easily figure it out.)

So now, if you make a dozen emails and they have a keylogger, they have access to all the accounts now as well... Doesn't really solve anything.


So I think it may be a good idea to change your password first and foremost (from a secure or non-infected pc if possible), then update your antivirus, disconnect from the internet and give your pc a scan. Ensure it's clean, then maybe change the password again just to be safe.

[-Arc' Avery;;]

Me and Raikon had a similar problem back in the day, if I recall.

Whenever I sign on, I simply asked raikon to ask me a password, if I got it right, it was me, if I got it wrong, it wasn't.

Low and behold whoever had my password never used my account after that.