Someone hacked my yahoo account and has my password now??

I'm assuming that somebody has hacked my account and has "stolen" my password because I couldn't log into my messenger (several times) yesterday.
Every time when I tried to log in, I got "booted" and the following message appeared:

"You have been signed off because you signed in on a different computer or device."

Anywho, I can log in and use my messenger now.
What do you guys think?
Is there any explanation for this other than my concerns that I've been hacked?

and no I never signed in from another computer...only from my pc

yea, the explination is you logged in somewhere and it saved your password becasue you didnt uncheck the option box for that. people who think they are getting hacked are usually self-important *******s who dont realise no one gives a **** about them or the stuff in their email/on their computer etc.

change your password, and forget about it.

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people who think they are getting hacked are usually self-important *******s who dont realise no one gives a **** about them or the stuff in their email/on their computer etc.

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Well.... That's all a bit strong....

I believe you will find that it means he's logged in somewhere else at the same time he is logging in from the computer that gave him this error.....

Yes, it's a dumbass thing to do - forgetting to log out.... but it should go away soon when the session dies..... If it doesn't... then yes.... someone is probably using his account.... which is bad...

To the OP: Be _careful_ about what you do where..... Logging in an a cybercafe PC to see if that "hot chick" has replied to your message and forgetting to log out can mean that the "hot chick" will be fulfilling your current fantasy with someone else tonight......

Actually, she's rather good.... ;)

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people who think they are getting hacked are usually self-important *******s who dont realise no one gives a **** about them or the stuff in their email/on their computer etc.

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OR they are security-minded people who USE paranoia because they DO care and give a **** about their computer/system and KNOW that it doesn't matter if the person knows you or whatever that their system can still be compromised or hacked no matter what? Ever think of that before you decided that he was an idiot? Sorry if I come off like an *******, but what Tiger said is right.. That was a BIT strong.

bullshit, the majority of people who say "omg im getting hacked" are just idiots who think someone actually cares about their email or their computer instead of blaming it on their own mistakes. there is a huge difference between being hacked and downloading some lame virus (this is not being hacked, and not -always- the users fault)

yes you could be "hacked" if you are a no one, but the person doing it is a moron, and its something that could most likley be stopped by a free firewall and anti-virus.

This guy made a simple mistake that is overlooked by a lot of people. The problem will more than likley be solved by a password change and checking his info on the account wasnt changed (alt email/secret quesions). or it is one of his friends who he gave his password/wsa shoulder surfing and they are just dicking around. but to think he is actually being hacked is a rediculous assumption.

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[B]I'm assuming that somebody has hacked my account and has "stolen" my password because I couldn't log into my messenger (several times) yesterday.
Every time when I tried to log in, I got "booted" and the following message appeared:

"You have been signed off because you signed in on a different computer or device."

You can receive this message when you have logged into Windows messenger and then try to access MSN Messenger. This may not be an attempt at hacking at all.

Ensure that Windows Messenger is not running then attempt to log in to your MSN Messenger account.

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You can receive this message when you have logged into Windows messenger and then try to access MSN Messenger. This may not be an attempt at hacking at all.

Ensure that Windows Messenger is not running then attempt to log in to your MSN Messenger account.

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It wasn't MSN/Windows Messenger. It was Yahoo.

XTC46: Your right to a degree, I just think you were a tad harsh about it. In this particular instance when it comes to a messenger service or an e-mail, you're probably right.

Hi Pootie , and welcome to AO :)

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"You have been signed off because you signed in on a different computer or device."

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Am I right in thinking that you meant to say "youare signed in"?

That means that you are still logged in from a different computer, or someone else is using you account.

As suggested, change your password. Also the password reminder stuff......errrrrrr like your mother's maiden name is "George Bush", your favourite animal is the Brasilian Goliath Spider..and so on.

If you are being attacked, just changing your password will not work.........your new password can easily be socially engineered by someone who knows enough about you. These days it is all done automatically by "bots" so you need to lie in answer to these questions......I am sorry, but things really are that bad :(

Good luck :)

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favourite animal is the Brasilian Goliath Spider

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HEY HOW DID YOU GUESS MY FAVORITE ANIMAL?!!?!?!

OMG HAX!

It's better to use a phrase you can remember for the authentication questions. It's trivial to get files with lists of common names and answers to these questions. "What is your favorite color?" -> "I like blueberry waffles."

Change your password, contact yahoo to change your security question and answer if you need to. Try not to pick anything easy, use numbers and letters. Contact yahoo about it and let their customer support/technical support look into the matter.

And not everyone who goes after nobodies is an idiot...the nobodies have poor security on their boxes for the most part and make good sacrificial goats for doing recon on others or to do actual attacks via proxy. Sounds like someone piddled in your cheerios xtc, attacks on people asking for help isn't needed.

Juridan is right. machines like these would make excellebt zombies in a ddos or similar distributed attacks, so being a little paranoid is ok. Maybe my response was a bit harsh. But in reality, the chances this was a legit attack are very low. Sure it could be a warning sign that his computer has been compromised and someone took the saved password from his machine and is logging on his in in an elaborate attempt to do some social engineering with the name and it would not trace back to the thief. Or they could just be doing it to mess with him and show they got his info.

so if you are worried take the appropriate steps mentioned above. Scan your computer for viruses/other malware THEN change your password for every single program/website/computer you access. then go ahead and get a new IP from your ISP even if it is DHCP they will usualy stay the same for some time. You may also want to go ahead and check all your banking statements and alert you bank to be on the look out for possible identity theft. Also inform your employer of possible data leaks if you have done work from home. Oh and let any friends that have used your computer to log into their eails to have their info changed as well. this should give you the reassurance that everything will be ok.

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And not everyone who goes after nobodies is an idiot...the nobodies have poor security on their boxes for the most part and make good sacrificial goats for doing recon on others or to do actual attacks via proxy

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That is very true...............there are usually two reasons for this sort of thing (assuming that it really is an attack, of course):

1. Wind the person up ( I am not sure, but I think that the US equivalent of that phrase is "pull your chain"?)

2. Practise

Obviously, I have discounted criminal intent, you must decide on that :)

The advice to consult the mail provider is good, I am sure that they will try to help.

One other thing that came to mind was if you had a keylogger on your system, you would have no defence worth talking about.

Is your PC physically secure or do others share it, have access to it?

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Congratulation XTC46, you just exposed yourself as a huge jackass. Which part of:
"and no I never signed in from another computer...only from my pc", didn't you understand.
LET ME SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU...I never chat anywhere else other than at home, so this pretty much excludes your guess that I probably just forgot to sign out from another computer.

Secondly, I find it quite ironic how you accuse me of making "ridicilous" assumptions about being hacked, yet you're the one who moronically jumps on conclusions without knowing anything about me.
How do you know that I'm not using a firewall, anti-spy/malware tools and an antvirus program?
Currently, I'm using Zonealarm Pro (albeit it can be argued about how effective a sowftware based firewall really is), ad-aware, several other anti-spy/malware "clients" and a decent antivir program.
My browsers of choice are Opera and Mozilla, besides I'm very cautious with what I download from the internet. To be honest, I rarely download stuff but if I do, I make sure that it's from an official site.
When using the Yahoo Messenger, I never click on any links within the client, never share files with someone I don't know. Most of the time I just talk to the people who are on my buddy list.

Also, which basket case would give his password away - even if it's your friends?...yeah right, good one buddy.
"Shoulder surfing", huh? May I ask, how old are you?

The first thing I did, after this problem occured was to change my password - thanks for nothing.

So there you go, you just made a fool out of yourself but please go ahead and type more ignorant babble bullshit and let me publicly bust your ass again or just stay the **** out of my thread and let people post some constructive info here.

To everone else, thanks for the input. I am not giving details here but I've very good reasons for thinking that someone indeed tried to get into my account and read my mails.

So, what I'm asking here is, are there any known bugs/"Yahoo glitches" that occured lately within the yahoo servers, does anybody else ever had this problem before, or is it most likely that I've been hacked?

P.S.: I already scaned my system and nothing seems wrong (I'm the only one who uses my computer).
It's supposed to be very easy to hack an email account, if you know how to do it...

Errrr,

Pootie, could you go into your site preferences on the main page and activate your AO PM (personal messaging) system..... that way we can have discussions "not in front of the kids" :)

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It's supposed to be very easy to hack an email account, if you know how to do it...

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That is total BS put out by skiddies who could not hack their way out of a paper bag. You are sure that only you "uses" the computer...............our question was "has access to" was it not.?

Have you changed the password remember prompt as suggested?

I am not disputing your assertion that you have been invaded, I am just trying to figure out how?

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lol I exposed my self as a jackass long ago.

what does age have to do with shoulder surfing anyhow? its a very easy, very effective way of getting passwords done by many people both amature and pro. A LOT of people give passwords out.

as far as I know there have been no glitches with yahoo messenger that would give this error. There are numerous viruses out that use the messenger but they generally wont show you the message. I give the info that I did becasue like you said, I DONT KNOW YOU. you could be some dipshit 6 yearold on a computer in his school. If you changed your passwords and scanned your computer then good for you, you took the right first steps. if you are seriously concerned email yahoo and see if you can get the IP of the lat places it was signed in from (they probably wont giv this to you, but its worth a shot if you are seriously concerned)

breaking into yahoo/gmail/hotmail USED TO BE relativly easy, now it is much more complicated becasue they are far more aware of attempts and general security has gotten better (including time outs, failed attempt lockouts, etc. If someone is reading your email then they probably know you personnaly and have atleast some reason to want it. there is very little you can do at this point aside from playing defense and taking the steps you already have.

it sucks, but wait and see if it happens again. you said you changed your passwords, go and change the info like above (secret questions/alt email accounts) if you use standard passwords change them for everything that you used that password for.


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after a bit of thought (no, really this time) it occurs to me that this type of error can occur if you get disconnected from the server (not signing off) and then trying to reconnect before the server times your account out and kicks it off. This can happen specificly in dial up situations becasue the IP address would have a high chance of being different so it would look like a new connection? but if it saying you logged in, it would a bit more difficult to pull this off. unless there was a server delay that held you as connect and then you reconnected it could show as a second connection, but that is sort of far reaching. just a thought though.

Hey Hey,

Apparently an extremely negative thread will go to positive when you accidently hit I Approve on the thread.

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Anyways... I can't believe this thread has gone on this long... This is worse than the person asking for help with spyware or hardware or anything else like that... This is an idiot who has a) saved their password on another computer, b) made their password or password reminder question easy enough for someone to guess, or c) is an idiot (hrm.. I think this one can be assumed regardless) that let someone, as XTC46 pointed out, read over their shoulder.

I feel that I've been pretty good lately about complaining about posts and the quality and type of posts, but this is a new low.

I can understand nihil responding to this thread... he's got more patience than pretty much anyone else on this site and seems to have a way of handling the drivel that some of these people dish out.

This 'thread drought' that we're currently experiencing is a shame... I've seen more daily posts in the past than I've seen combined over the last couple of weeks. The addition of this thread just heightens the pain...

On top of that, I can't believe how rude and ignorant Pootie is being, and for the most part, he/she has been allowed to get away with it. I've seen others banned for less than his/her last post, yet this is being allowed to continue. Is this due to our discussions on APs lately in addicts? Where are the people that stand up and protect us from trolls. That's all that last post was... a troll's post and that's all this thread is to begin with.. It saddens me to see a 'newbie', and I'm just using site titles here, get away with being so out right rude to a 'senior' who has contributed many good items in the past.

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Anyways there's my rant and my two cents.

Peace,
HT

I can see why XTC46 jumped on Pootie. A lot of low knowledge users (who to be honest don't know any better) will scream "I've been hacked" whenever their computer does something odd.

Pop up window = hacker
getting a virus (that shows up on Noton 2000 that hasn't been updated ever) = hacker
Spam = hacker

They watch too much TV and seem to think that some super talented coder wants to personally invade their computer and look at their secret stash of pr0n and read their emails about last Sundays car boot sale or whatever.

When you've heard the same story 100's of times it gets hard to be polite and give the right advice especially when you know 9/10 times you'll be ignored and have them beating down your door in 6 weeks screaming "hacker" again and expecting it to get fixed for free.

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Originally posted here by XTC46
what does age have to do with shoulder surfing anyhow? its a very easy, very effective way of getting passwords done by many people both amature and pro. A LOT of people give passwords out.

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I thought that by the given information (now), you would have figured that I'm a very conscious user who wouldn't let something like that easily happen.

nihil, my PM is active.
Nobody else besides me uses my computer, I'm trying to change the security question as suggested, even though I think that no one could have guessed the first promt (I'm 100% sure about that and I never gave any details about it away).

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And not everyone who goes after nobodies is an idiot...the nobodies have poor security on their boxes for the most part and make good sacrificial goats for doing recon on others or to do actual attacks via proxy. Sounds like someone piddled in your cheerios xtc, attacks on people asking for help isn't needed.

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This is just as dumb as thinking that if I use a web-server as a place to centralize and command a botnet... I'll fill up an entire ****ing page filled with crap like /blah, *command, (ect). No no no... if im going to do something like that instead lets say a blue background on a web-page means SYN flood and a URL leads to the target.

"attacks via proxies", please... I've said it plenty of times in threads and it doesn't seem to stick with you guys.

Most people would automate everything. A computer looking for something to exploit, the odds of there actually being a human consciousness behind most internet attacks as it were are between slim and none. No real criminal has the patience or any time at all in between their lives otherwise. As if some ****ing nitwit is going sit around for hours to hit a big red "pwned j00" button sort of speak intil a freaking arm falls off.

And proxies are services... if you actually look how things are done in the real world you'll know that services are sold to people dumb enought to use them.

Atleast XTC46 for one can think in realistic terms.

Look, I don't think that an anonymous person got into my account.
I said that there are good reasons to be sceptic and question if an acquaintance of mine got my password. I'm pretty sure that if someone really wants your password, there are ways to get a hold of it.

It's known that there are people who make a business out of hacking an yahoo/hotmail account on demand. Granted, some of it is just scam but some not.

You wanna how I know? A friend of mine once created a hotmail "dummy" account and sent a request to one of these "hackers", asking for a prove that they can really hack accounts, by sending him his own password. I want to point out that this was only for security purposes. Anyway, that person sent him indeed the correct password and my friend instantly cut off all communication with him.

I could post the email here but I probably won't since it's illegal.
Besides, I wouldn't recommend getting in contact with these people because as I stated before it's illegal, immoral and they'll most likely try to blackmail you and press more money out of you.

So let me rephase that I just wanted to know if someone had similar problems with the yahoo messenger or heard of any Yahoo glitches lately, so that I can determine in a way whether I've been invated or not.

I can understand nihil responding to this thread... he's got more patience than pretty much anyone else on this site and seems to have a way of handling the drivel that some of these people dish out.

Erm....no. Not even close.


On top of that, I can't believe how rude and ignorant Pootie is being, and for the most part, he/she has been allowed to get away with it. I've seen others banned for less than his/her last post, yet this is being allowed to continue. Is this due to our discussions on APs lately in addicts? Where are the people that stand up and protect us from trolls. That's all that last post was... a troll's post and that's all this thread is to begin with.. It saddens me to see a 'newbie', and I'm just using site titles here, get away with being so out right rude to a 'senior' who has contributed many good items in the past.


Most of the complaints about pooties questions were actually handled in his original post. He/she came here to ask people opinions on whether it could be a hack or not, and also mentions that he/she only uses the account from a single machine.

A good portion of the responses to this thread were in a rude tone and sound like a bunch of self important jackasses who can't take the time to properly read or comprehend what the person was asking. "well obviously the user is a retard who uses a poor password and logged in from a different machine despite the fact that blah blah blah blah malarky"

If I got reponses like this I'd be calling bullshit on you guys as well. Especially when followed by obviously false information like 'anyone who hacks a noob is obviously an idiot blah blah blah'.

Instead of preaching your own bs...why not just offer up some legitimate causes of what the user is seeing? Maybe the yahoo servers were experiencing problems? Maybe the service was hosed on his machine and zombied out when he tried to open it up again? Maybe someone actually did hack it? People do steal those accounts to be stupid, commit fraud, do further damage with worms, harassment, etc...

Hey, and an even more novel idea. Before you go name calling maybe collect some more info to troubleshoot or give the person some real steps to take such as contacting the service provider and changing his authentication info?

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Instead of preaching your own bs...why not just offer up some legitimate causes of what the user is seeing? Maybe the yahoo servers were experiencing problems? Maybe the service was hosed on his machine and zombied out when he tried to open it up again? Maybe someone actually did hack it? People do steal those accounts to be stupid, commit fraud, do further damage with worms, harassment, etc...

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So let me rephase that I just wanted to know if someone had similar problems with the yahoo messenger or heard of any Yahoo glitches lately, so that I can determine in a way whether I've been invated or not.

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Some stuff has already been posted and you clearly have not read it yet or found what you wanted to hear 'eh? But from the looks of things I & many other people would say that this whole thing is just shits and giggles... just turn the dials or pull the rings attached to the strings of all the talking dolls & action figures... just to hear them all yap on and on and on is entertainment sort of speak. Its beyond clear that a proud few here enjoy being played with though 'eh Juridian?

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Your opinions are irrelevant, it's obvious you just like to troll..

- contact user about this assignment: AP Poster: chsh

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Im glad atleast someone can spot one troll.

Hey Jur, since you've posted just to bitch... how about you along with the rest of us trolls just fallow up on whats been said for once and leave it be. Actually chsh, im debunking some of the biggest lies in the security industry and everyone knows it. Specifically targeted attacks have almost reached the status of near myth.

Pffft... :rolleyes:

I read what the others posted, some of it legit...alot of it bs.

Responding to trolls with flames is just letting them pull your strings. If this guy was a troll and you simply gave answers that were helpful and left it at that the troll would get bored and quit.

Actually, If you read my posts to this thread you'll see that I offered up other possiblities and some steps to take to troubleshoot and fix the problem.

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You wanna how I know? A friend of mine once created a hotmail "dummy" account and sent a request to one of these "hackers", asking for a prove that they can really hack accounts, by sending him his own password. I want to point out that this was only for security purposes. Anyway, that person sent him indeed the correct password and my friend instantly cut off all communication with him.

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Ok.... I didn't agree with XTC's initial comment.... But I have to agree that I am beginning to come around to his POV.....

Let's look at what you said above......

1. "A friend of mine" = Your buddy told you one time that <insert escapade here>. Don't tell me... Your friend is much more technically adept than you... In fact, in the circles you frequent, he is considered and u|3eR 1337 H4x0r.... Sorry son, but "My friend told me" always raises the brown flag of Bullshit.

2. "asking for a prove that they can really hack accounts"... This _implies_ that the account is hacked at the root. ie: at Yahoo, MSN or wherever... Now, your friend is telling you that these chaps have free, unfettered access, unnoticed by the Secadmins and Sysadmins of the most attacked email systems in the world to the actual stored passwords, in clear..... C'mon, think man/woman/child..... The best they will get is a hash of the password, then they have to crack it.... Since your boy was testing them one would assume that the password was a little harder than "password"... 'cos I can manage to guess that one and I'm rapidly becoming a doddering old fart..... So they then had to run a password cracker on it that would probably take a day or three to manage, most likely much longer..... But they manage to sneak in and out repeatedly and no-one _ever_ notices!!!!! I see the brown flag again.....

3. "Anyway, that person sent him indeed the correct password". Was your friend forthcoming with the communication method used to challenge these 1337 H4x0r's? Is your friend secure? Is your friend an idiot? You decide.... But I will tell you that the source of the password wasn't the provider.... Thus there is only two possibilities.... Your friend is a moron _or_ the Brown Flag is on it's way back up the flagpole again!!!!!!

Lesson 1: Your friend has more brown flags than you can shake a stick at.

Lesson 2: Listening to "friends" talking about how good crackers are on silly **** like Yahoo mail etc. is about as worthwhile as slapping your balls on the table to make them bigger..... They might get bigger but it hurts like hell in the end.

Lesson 3: Don't come somewhere where many people do this for a living and quote your "friend".... many of us here equate that to their kids imaginary friend who tells them there are vicious crocodiles under their bed at night so they can't get up to piss....

Lesson 4: Be nice... You are dealing with suspicious SOB's.... They don't suffer fools gladly, they see many people cry that their account has been "hacked" when no such thing has occurred and they listen to people _all_ the time that _say_ they are secure. Give the information requested and hush.... They'll help if they can....

Fair?

I think we should be mean to some of these people.

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I earn a living dealing with B/S from idiotic users who think the computer is a television with a typewriter plugged in it, M$ Windows = computer, any beep, message box, popup, 404 page or cd drive revving up when a cd is put in it is caused by a virus or hacker. they think their password being the same as the login is secure, and that they really can get thicker fuller erections in 3 weeks if they give [email protected] their credit card info, thru the link they gave which takes them to adlkjcdklj.aliuboihjen.com. They freeze up and feel helpless when they see an interface on a program that looks the teeniest tiniest different from what they used before. They don't understand that "Bookmarks" and "Favorites" are the exact same thing, even when the dropdown for it is located in the exact same frickin spot and the IE links are there too. They don't understand the concept that sometimes CDRs in the spindle can be bad, and refuse to try it again, instead asking me to worry about it. They can't make the association in their heads that a picture of a printer, usually means print. They connect their home computers directly to the internet, and surf the web on XP with no service packs or updates. They all love email attachments from strangers too. They install the legit Kazaa and then wonder why their computer got so much slower. They also love to go look at weird random pron sites from russia on their non-updated machines and wonder where all this pron popping up came from. The ActiveX control install dialogue box is their best friend, and you can never say no to your best friend, can you? They think the registry is something sex offenders have to sign up for. A command line is how the military knows which people can give commands and who has to follow them. IP is some strange fetish that they've seen on all those porn sites they've gone to. They'd love to ping and sniff the ports of those naked people they've been looking at. They'd love to "finger" them too. They somehow manage to get the priviledge to work from home and then let their kids play on their computer and significant others go to those porn sites too. They think RSS is short for their country's secret service. They love to think that no one can get sued downloading music or movies. Oh, and everyone knows that preferences and options really aren't the same thing, even when only 1 of them appears in the menus or dropdowns. They also love to talk about how their doing a good job of keeping their computers and information safer than another person in the office, while they send emails with their passwords in it. They also think its no big deal to put a social security number in an email. oh and they know that Apple doesn't sell computers anymore, macintosh bought them out. Wardriving is what soldiers who drive tanks in the desert do. Their kids know how to use their computers better than they do. Yahoo, Comcast, Earthlink or AOL are the people responsible for the internet. Its because of those 4 companies we even have the internet. Everyone also knows that you can't use a computer if your not sitting in front of it. Permissions are something you give your children. They say "What is this IRC stuff i've been reading about? Is this the new killer chat software? Yahoo and AOL must be pissed off that this new chat program just came out." Oh and "You can find directions and maps online without using mapquest?"

Anyway, now that i got all that off my chest, I don't think that XTC's response was that out of line. You start wanting to say some of this stuff to people after looking at your RSS feed and there being a spyware thread or an AOL/Yahoo/MSN messenger hack thread in it every day. Sorry to rant, but come on. Sometimes enough is enough. I know i make a living helping people doing this, that part i'm not complaining about. Its the having to see the thread titles everyday when i'm not getting paid for it that bugs me.

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Hey, and an even more novel idea. Before you go name calling maybe collect some more info to troubleshoot or give the person some real steps to take such as contacting the service provider and changing his authentication info?

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Because some people see "AntiOnline Newbie" and assume that this guy knows jack **** about what he's talking about, dealing with, etc.. Elitism at it's best :D Overall though, I agree with you Juri.

Oh, and by the way.. TheSpecialist:

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Im glad atleast someone can spot one troll.

Hey Jur, since you've posted just to bitch...

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Shut the **** up. I can spot one troll as well. The very one I'm typing about at this second. Juridian wasn't bitching, he was pointing things out. If ANYTHING, YOU posted to BE a bitch AND bitch at the same time as I am doing now. Thank you... :)

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Because some people see "AntiOnline Newbie" and assume that this guy knows jack **** about what he's talking about, dealing with, etc.. Elitism at it's best Overall though, I agree with you Juri.

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actually, i assumed he was an idiot becasue he hasnt proved otherwise. Ive dealt with complete and total morons for years while doing computer work, ive had self proclaimed "network admins" not know what ping is and "MS Certified systems engineers" not know how to get to computer managment on a windows box. So until I know what a person is capable of, I start with the down and dirty basics. And I question every thing they say becasue rule 1 of computer work is USERS LIE!

If this was a legit "hack" then I apologize (but I doubt this is the case), if it was a server glitch I gave a few possibilities of what could have happened. If its what tiger is saying, then I was right and this guy is a moron (I still believe this is the case).

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There is a very simple way to gain full access to anyone's Hotmail account. Microsoft took over Hotmail completely on 1st November 1998, and since then there is a little known loophole around getting anyone's password. If you send an email from your current hotmail address to [email protected], with the Subject field containing the word "password" (without quotes), and in the contents of the message put the hotmail address of the person whose hotmail address you wish to hack eg '[email protected]'. Also include your own password for your own account in the message. By doing this, the computer that receives the email believes you are a Hotmail System administrator, and sends you the password you require within 2 days. It should look like THIS.



[ How it Works ]

The computer which receives your email automatically believes you are a Hotmail System Administrator, and sends you a return e-mail (within 5 hours to 2 days, depending on how busy the Hotmail Network is), the return email contains the password you requested.



[ Remember ]

That's the biggest sack of **** SocialEngineering attempt in history. Most at least try spelling the address right.

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HEY HOW DID YOU GUESS MY FAVORITE ANIMAL?!!?!?!

OMG HAX!

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looks like someone will be changing there AO password shortly.... ;)

Anyhow if you logged on somewhere else, why don't you just go back to that place and see if your account is logged on there, and if so then just sign out from it etc ..

[QUOTING POOTIE]
Someone hacked my yahoo account and has my password now??
posted 06-19-2005 04:16 PM

I'm assuming that somebody has hacked my account and has "stolen" my password because I couldn't log into my messenger (several times) yesterday.
Every time when I tried to log in, I got "booted" and the following message appeared:

"You have been signed off because you signed in on a different computer or device."

Anywho, I can log in and use my messenger now. What do you guys think?
Is there any explanation for this other than my concerns that I've been hacked?


Hi Pootie.

I know that your inquiry about the log-on problem is quite old, but just in case someone else might stop by--this being on October 10th or beyond--having experienced this same error message that you have been seeing, this post might be of further assistance to them as I haven't noticed some of these things mentioned in any of the replies to your former posting. I know that the error message that you received ~~"You have been signed off because you signed in on a different computer or device"~~ can definitely happen as a result of various things; but I'll just mention the most likely reason....

Sometimes when Yahoo Messenger users click on the EXIT option from the Yahoo menu, the computer doesn't always shut the program down, but instead signs the user out of the program leaving the service available in hibernation on the lower desktop toolbar tray. Even though the Yahoo Messenger window closes, users may still see the "gray sleeping face" rather than see the Yahoo Messenger icon disappearing from the toolbar when their computer has failed to perform the exiting command, but performed the sign out command instead. People that do not pay attention to their toolbar when they try to sign in again by clicking on the Yahoo Messenger icon located on their desktop screen, end up having a new Yahoo Messenger application trying to open and a previous older application of Yahoo Messenger from the desktop toolbar trying to come out of hibernation at the same time trying to perform the same sign-in function.


HOW TO FIX


All you need to do to fix this problem--(((with no other windows or programs open on your desktop toolbar to get in the way: i.e., websites or other computer programs)))--is right click on the center of the desktop toolbar, and click on TASK MANAGER. When the Task Manager window opens, you left click on the PROCESSES tab once. Now left click on USER NAME to sort the processes into categorized groups. Your computer user name (i.e. Marys Computer or whatever you've named your personal computer log-on session) should appear at the top when you click on the USER NAME column tab. In the processes running with your name as the user at the top, look for MSGSYS.exe, Ypager.exe, and/or Ymsgr_tray.exe. Right click on those processes individually and a menu will appear with a list of selections. Click on END PROCESS (NOT "Process Tree") to manually shutdown and close those Yahoo programs that are running. Once you've manually made your computer shut these programs down, you should be able to log-in again to Yahoo Messenger successfully after completing these steps without receiving the error message you were previously receiving.


IF THIS SHOULD NOT WORK


If you are unable to sign back in to Yahoo without getting the same error message after you have manually shut down any existing Yahoo programs and commands on your computer, then the only conclusion is that your Yahoo identity is being used by another person at another location. If this is the case, and if you are persistent, keep trying to sign in to boot the other person off. The program may keep giving you the familiar error message over-and-over again, but quickly close the message windows and sign back in FAST. Once you are able to successfully boot the other person off and get into your identity, immediately, and very quickly go to your account and change your password so that whomever may be using your identity cannot get back in.


IT MAY NOT BE THAT SOMEONE STOLE YOUR PASSWORD!!


Yahoo Messenger has the lamest security questions that I have ever seen if you cannot remember your password. As most Yahoo users know, you are given a choice of 5 or 6 security questions that the service will ask you to pick from as the question it will ask you should you ever lose your password. For example: If you were to decide to use the question, "What is your pet's name?" and your dog's name is "Fluffy" chances are that anyone you might talk to on a dog website, chatroom, or any other website is going to take note that you own a dog named Fluffy as you will most likely share your fondest memories and best of times that you've spent with your furry companion. Anyone wishing to steal your Yahoo identity that knows your ID screen name can apply for a new password and the security question "What is your pet's name?" pops up giving whomever might be trying to break into your ID account the ultimate opportunity because he or she remembers that you talked about a dog named Fluffy a lot. This person enters "Fluffy" as the answer and he or she is in! Presto! Bingo! Now he or she has access to your private emails, archived Yahoo Instant Messenger IM's, and can obtain all of the addresses for your friends, pals, family, co-workers, etc. And if the person is there to cause you some real trouble--and let's face it, most hackers are there for that purpose, and that purpose only--they can send out some really nasty emails to people pretending to be you, or worst yet, forward emails to people that you would never want reading the things you'd been writing about them secretly.

It's best that you pick a password that no one will know; sure. But it's also a good idea to provide an answer to the Yahoo security question that no one would guess. Like if you want to use your pet's name for the pet question, and your name is John Doe, you are 30, you live in Greenville, and you drive a Nissan, then type the answer as: FluffyJohnDoe30GreenNissan. There is no way that anyone would guess all of that, and it would be really hard to break through that string of text! :)


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I gave him green because he put a lot of work into his first post
if it helps anyone cool.. if not let this thread be over



note to TerrySharpe

if you see a blinking date REALLY ask yourself the question.. "what can i add to the topic"...
and if the date is over a year old... don't bother...

enjoy AO :)

Ha. I didn't see the date either and greened the OP because I didn't think they deserved to be negged that hard for asking a question that was somewhat legit. I even put "Welcome to AO" in the comment, haha. I feel so stupid. TerrySharpe, you post so pertifully.

I shall close this one my friends :D