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hello,
two days ago while I was chatting with my buddy (IM), these vietnamese like texts suddenly popped up in my friends IM screen which she denied sending it.Bê hai d?u freewebtown.com/gaigoitanbinh/index.html
Trình di?n xi?c “r?n tóc gáy” freewebtown.com/gaigoitanbinh/index.html and many more.Also I ask her why she kept on logging in and out, which also she denied doing it.The worst part was, somebody butt-in in our chat. This person kept sending messages using my friends ID.
Can somebody tell me whats happening here? and how to get rid of this?
If there are already topics posted similar with this problem can somebody give me the link.
Thanks!
Sounds like your friend might have clicked a link in a pm and gotten their name stolen from them. The the person who stole the Account then uses that account to try and steal more names as some people think it is their friend and usually trust any links that are given and click on them. Usually a fake login page or something similar to steal the passwords from people. Thus starting a new cycle, every new account that is stolen all of the users in the accounts buddy list is spammed with more links.
This is not hacking. If someone was hacking you they would have access to all of your files in your pc among other things. So don’t confuse someone who is simply stealing accounts as hacking.
but what puzzled me is this person who “stole” the account can butt-in when I am chatting with my friend and using my friends YM ID…its like I am chatting with two different people in one ID at the same time in same YM session…
another way to describe it… its like a YM conference of 3 people with just 2 YM ID involved.More than likely your friend is infected with some sort of messenger worm or malware thats injecting the message on their pc in set intervals.
One way to check is get her/him to use the yahoo web messenger which has a different api to send to and then if it doesn’t happen in the web messenger you know its something on the persons pc adding the messages for them, which to be honest is very simple to do on yahoo messenger. And they will have to use removal programs for trojans, virii, etc to find what they have on their pc is thats the case.
Yahoo! Web Messenger – Yahoo! Messenger for the Web
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@tim2679 224013 wrote:
Sounds like your friend might have clicked a link in a pm and gotten their name stolen from them. The the person who stole the Account then uses that account to try and steal more names as some people think it is their friend and usually trust any links that are given and click on them. Usually a fake login page or something similar to steal the passwords from people. Thus starting a new cycle, every new account that is stolen all of the users in the accounts buddy list is spammed with more links.
This is not hacking. If someone was hacking you they would have access to all of your files in your pc among other things. So don’t confuse someone who is simply stealing accounts as hacking.
yeah, i agree.
once before, my account was also sending spam to my contacts
i was told of it, and i realized my pc was infected with whatever it was.
solution: free your pc from virus, malware, spyware, trojan, worms
and all those parasites.and when someone sends you those links, don’t click on them at once
ask them first what’s in that link before clicking
if the sender talks to you, then you may consider clicking on them
otherwise, if there is no reply, then you should doubt it’s merely scriptThis is clearly a case of “phishing” using a fake login page! Once your friend logged into the fake yahoo page, a program sent your friend’s id and password to the owner of the fake page. Then all the hacker had to do was to change the password, log into her messenger, and your friend would have been kicked out of messenger and unable to log back into it.
All this probably took only a few minutes or less. Yahoo has added the sign-in security seal feature as one way to try to prevent people from losing accounts to phishing.
Here’s yahoo’s article on phishing, what it is, how to spot it, what to do if you suspect you’re a victim of phishing, and how to protect yourself.
Yahoo! Security Center: What is phishing?Yahoo security center’s homepage
Yahoo! Security Center: simple tips and solutions for computer security and online safetyThis is the page of the security center which explains the security sign-in seal. This seal recognizes the PC you use to sign in with, and if someone tries to sign in on any other pc, they will be unable to sign into your account even with correct name and pwd.
Yahoo! Security Center: What is a sign-in seal?When I logged into my yahoo email recently, it asked me if I wanted to create a security seal, so most likely you will see the same message when you log into your email again.
I got the same thing from a friend’s computer the other day. My Messenger has been slowly going bad. I was using an older version cuz I don’t like the newer ones. Now, my smilies are gone. I have been running an armada of spyware programs, my AV and even outside AV’s and I can’t find anything!! I tried System Restore which I really don’t like to do, but I’m not seeing a satisfactory fix. As soon as I finish changing ALL my passwords I’m gonna try a few more things and if they don’t work I’m going for a reformat…I’m friggin pissed.
Another thread discusses a similar problem:
dr_web;224646 wrote:This is an IM worm. To disinfect remove the following registry key and reboot.HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun
Yahoo Messenger = “%Windows%SSCVIIHOST.exe”Maybe this will help you. Take care to back up your registry if you do this! I have not tested this solution!
someone is sending me deliberate messages from my girlfriend`s aim while she is logged in and blocking all the messages i send her. how is this possible?
If you are sending messages to your girlfriend’s AIM from Yahoo (the forum in which you posted your question) then it’s no wonder she’s not getting them. Yahoo and AIM are not interoperable.
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