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Computer 'problem' solved and the flood

September 16th, 2008 at 12:28 am

My computer has been doing weird things, or so I thought. Emails were held up for several days or disappeared. People sent me things I never go, ones I sent never arrived....THEN, a bid I made on ebay said it was retracted by me (I never retracted it) and a site I write for had entires I never recalled making. So, I have been working with tech support of our ISP. We were hacked. I am bad. real bad. Quite a few of my passwords were the same. The ones that were the same were messed with. The ones that had another password were not. I should have had a different password for everything (but I'm too old to remember them all.) The ISP can't tell me who-that would take law enforcement to get involved, but they can tell me where (what part of the state) the person was at--they told me where, and it pretty much narrowed it down to a family member who has had such issues in the past.... So, passwords are now changed and all are different....Lesson learned. I guess I need to read through my posts on here and see if they are all really my posts, or have been edited or deleted......

Then, IKE made his way to Missouri....well, not all of IKE, just his rainfall. The gutters were overloaded and it all came into the basement. We lost quite a few books (more are still drying in the oven). What a mess. We have bought the items to reinforce the guttering and drain it way away from the house, and will do that tomorrow.

3 Responses to “Computer 'problem' solved and the flood”

  1. Broken Arrow Says:
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    Interesting!

    You were hacked... by a family member.

    I rotate most of my passwords as frequently as one to three months.

    Kind of funny why I even bother sometimes, because I can't imagine anyone wanting to hack into my electric bill account and pay it for me, but it just works out easier this way....

  2. fern Says:
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    Wow, a family member. That's too bad. It seems you need passwords for so many different sites that, like you, i find it impossible to keep them all straight and so i prefer to use the same PW for multiple sites. Not a good idea, i know.

    Are you going to confront said family member? What is their problem??

  3. sillyoleme Says:
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    Alot of my passwords are the same, or a small variation. BF threw a fit at me because I had stored my usernames & passwords for many sites in my "Favorites" list. It was so easy to be able to click on the site, and see the username & password right there. Now I know better! :S

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