Helldiver
Bronze Knight of the Realm
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Been trying to figure this out since it seems I got my ymail account hacked into and it sent off a mass email to everyone on my contact list. Got a friend at IT that really couldn't tell me the cause (aside from the usual change your password stuff).
I keep completely different passwords for my games, important stuff like bank, and email. I may have slipped and used my email password for a forum somewhere, but I don't recall.
So my questions to the pros are:
1- How did/does this happen?
I'm running Malwarebytes and MS Security Essentials, both are kept very up to date. I'm running a Malwarebytes scan right now and it's taking forever (4TBs on two drives). So far no worm has shown up. I've not had a worm or Trojan show up on this PC ever. MS Essentials is always on and kept up to date.
Was this caused by a worm/Trojan in my PC? All scans show green and everything normal, I don't download malicious EXEs, or any EXEs for that matter, and buy all my software. The only thing that I get that is mysterious is this "you need the latest version of Flash" popup window at some websites, which I'm sure redirects so I always close those.
2- So I updated -all- of my passwords including email, bank, games, everything. Is that enough? or is there something more I should do?
3- I use Internet Explorer 10, and keep everything up to date. Is IE seriously the culprit to this? Never really liked the firefox interface and the way it looks/feels, so I stuck with IE.
Network wise, I have a cable modem from Comcast, that goes to a router that does not transmit. The whole house is hardwired to the router. I don't have any exceptions in its firewall and have pretty much kept it as default. Same goes for my windows firewall.
I rarely get hacked like this, the last time was my battle.net account which I'm still baffled as to how it happened. The only clue I could think of was that I may have accidently used my email password on a forum. So when this happens I feel vulnerable. I'm really curious as to how this happens.
Thanks a lot in advance.
I keep completely different passwords for my games, important stuff like bank, and email. I may have slipped and used my email password for a forum somewhere, but I don't recall.
So my questions to the pros are:
1- How did/does this happen?
I'm running Malwarebytes and MS Security Essentials, both are kept very up to date. I'm running a Malwarebytes scan right now and it's taking forever (4TBs on two drives). So far no worm has shown up. I've not had a worm or Trojan show up on this PC ever. MS Essentials is always on and kept up to date.
Was this caused by a worm/Trojan in my PC? All scans show green and everything normal, I don't download malicious EXEs, or any EXEs for that matter, and buy all my software. The only thing that I get that is mysterious is this "you need the latest version of Flash" popup window at some websites, which I'm sure redirects so I always close those.
2- So I updated -all- of my passwords including email, bank, games, everything. Is that enough? or is there something more I should do?
3- I use Internet Explorer 10, and keep everything up to date. Is IE seriously the culprit to this? Never really liked the firefox interface and the way it looks/feels, so I stuck with IE.
Network wise, I have a cable modem from Comcast, that goes to a router that does not transmit. The whole house is hardwired to the router. I don't have any exceptions in its firewall and have pretty much kept it as default. Same goes for my windows firewall.
I rarely get hacked like this, the last time was my battle.net account which I'm still baffled as to how it happened. The only clue I could think of was that I may have accidently used my email password on a forum. So when this happens I feel vulnerable. I'm really curious as to how this happens.
Thanks a lot in advance.