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  1. 04-05-2009 11:10 AM #1
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    Default Email got scammed

    So my trainer_jxxx hotmail address sent out a ton of spam this morning to everyone in my address book. Ad aware, spybot and AVG have found nothing. I changed my password on another computer but is this something that is a mediocre concern or a big one. I use two hotmail accounts on this computer but the other has had no issue as of yet.

    FWIW I use comodo, snoopfree and scotty as well but have been getting the odd blue screen but last time I started using comodo I had the same issue with freezing. A format is in the works but I want to look into fixing anything first. My trainer email is out there from all the forums I have used and pretty much anything I register to, but the password has never been tough logic puzzle. My wireless was also used by a wife's friend last night and she is no computer techie.

    Any tips before I wipe this bad boy clean, change my passwords and then return. I'd hate to erase the new luckbox I seemed to have discovered this week.
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  2. 04-05-2009 12:20 PM #2
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  4. 04-05-2009 12:25 PM #4
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    yea it rifled through my address book and when my blackberry started going off every 5 seconds form mail daemons sending back bad addresses I knew something was up. My other email was untouched and it was actually sent from my hotmail, not just using my address.

    Not sure what to do but I chnaged the password on another computer for now. I will format tonight.
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  5. 04-05-2009 12:52 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by will641
    change sites. hotmail fails.
    Agreed, but so much stuff is logged in, or registered though this one
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  6. 04-05-2009 01:14 PM #6
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    Does anyone know how secure Blackberries are (I'm assuming very high), or how they transfer passwords when accessing sites?

    All I know is that if you have outlook at home, and you set up pop3/smtp to access an on-line account it sends your password as a text file.
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  7. 04-05-2009 01:40 PM #7
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    Yeah, I got it too. fwiw I use separate email accounts (and passwords, ldo) for every poker account. That way if one gets compromised at least my losses are restricted to the monies on a single site.
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  8. 04-05-2009 01:46 PM #8
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  9. 04-05-2009 05:05 PM #9
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    ii got some nasty spyware last night, and we talked online, but I was also watching hellboy2 on some unsecure site, so I attributed it to that.
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  10. 04-05-2009 05:21 PM #10
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    We talk on trillian using an AIM account. I wouldn't worry. Plus you didn't answer me last night. We talked on Friday.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jyms
    We talk on trillian using an AIM account. I wouldn't worry. Plus you didn't answer me last night. We talked on Friday.
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  12. 04-05-2009 07:01 PM #12
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    we talked last night, you sent me a HH

    remember, I ripped into your bet-sizing
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  13. 04-05-2009 08:05 PM #13
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    Oh yea, you were bitching about calling eh dwarfman challenge the dwarfman challenge and I agreed.

    Maybe we need a poll.
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