Yahoo email hacked and fixed

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Switchblade

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#1
Dayam! The list was long! It seems that my Yahoo mail account was hacked the other day and some assclown sent out a virus, which ony tested the recipiant's anti virus software in from what I can tell, all cases.
I have fixed the issue of hacking by insuring the new password is 'safe' and changing a few other items in the account. If any of you received this e-mail I apologise as it is the one I do use for all my contacts.
I have taken all the recommended steps to insure it does not happen again so hopefully no one here other than those who I have already contacted were affected.
Regards,
Switchblade, aka James
 
#2
Re: Yahoo email hacked and fixed

You're not the only one. I got one too about two months ago, and my wife last month. I'm not sure what it was that we opened (I'm usually pretty careful), but it was a pain in the ass. In our cases we were both being remotely used to send mass spam across the globe.
 
#3
Re: Yahoo email hacked and fixed

Mine was done last week, yahoo had to clean my mailbox, my email was down for 4 days, I lost every contact, and every email, Yahoo told me at the beginning they could recover both, but they did not.
 
#6
Re: Yahoo email hacked and fixed

Make your password 15 characters and use a mix of upper case, numbers...etc

For example:

HarleyDavidson

Change that to:

H@rl3yD@vids0n

What that does is forces the decryption to take 1000 years longer...a lot of hacking tools don't account for the upper special characters.

And of course the longer the better.

I just changed my yahoo as well.

I'd still run a full system check and maybe download one of the free "ROOTKIT" checkers too, no AV in the world will pick up a rootkit except a rootkit revealer.
 
#7
Re: Yahoo email hacked and fixed

Good advice from ArcticLight. You can also think of something easy to remember, and type it one key to the left or right

snipershide

Becomes:
abuoweagusw

Add special characters and numbers at beginning or end

Josh
 
#8
Re: Yahoo email hacked and fixed

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ArcticLight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...and maybe download one of the free "ROOTKIT" checkers too, no AV in the world will pick up a rootkit except a rootkit revealer. </div></div>

What's a "ROOTKIT"?
 
#10
Re: Yahoo email hacked and fixed

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Situation Normal</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ArcticLight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...and maybe download one of the free "ROOTKIT" checkers too, no AV in the world will pick up a rootkit except a rootkit revealer. </div></div>

What's a "ROOTKIT"? </div></div>

A rootkit is a peice of software which "roots" your machine. Root access is a term for complete administrative control to modify anything, including the normally protected operating system files. Once your computer is rooted, they can do anything and everything to it and it's very difficult to discover and remove because they will often hide themselves and change the system to where anything you do to try and fix it doesn't work by default.

One of the first rootkits that got out into the wild was one that Sony actually developed and distributed on music CDs as a form of DRM to prevent people from pirating music, since then they've become a major part of the scammers' toolbox.
 
#11
Re: Yahoo email hacked and fixed

If you trust those, "sneaky fucking Russians".
http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363

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#13
Re: Yahoo email hacked and fixed

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Situation Normal</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

What's a "ROOTKIT"? </div></div>

I battled with one on one of our computers for months until Tucker301 turned me onto the only program (out of the countless I tried) that found it. Tricky little bastard and I wasted a tone of time and money trying to figure it out.
 
#15
Re: Yahoo email hacked and fixed

Good day,

Link to an article on password selection which explains how NOT to select a PW. Change passwords on all websites, email accounts and system logins every two or three months. If running Windows, upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer supported by your operating system if you use that. It's preferable to use Firefox with NoScript, Adblock Plus, and Ghostery. These are add-ons available at the FireFox add-on site, get a friendly geek to explain how to use them. Update your Windows system on the second Wednesday of every month with Microsoft Update or Windows Update. Install MS Security Essentials or one of the free AV software packages. Don't believe that just because you use a Mac or Linux based system you aren't vulnerable, either. If you use Linux, you probably already know what to do to keep the system up to date.

Have fun,
DocB
 
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