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[erika]

Note: somehow a spammer hacked into my gmail account and spammed every single person I've ever contacted with a Viagra ad. (Stay classy, spammers.) If this is you, I'm sorry.

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[myparade.livejournal.com]

i didn't get one and now i feel horribly left out and embarrassed

[erika]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME I LOVE YOU THE MOST <3<3<3

[alchemi.livejournal.com]

Been there done that.

Boy did I hate it.

[erika]

At least I was able to rectify the situation before anything bad happened--like to my paypal account.

[blogdrassil.livejournal.com]

Man. I was wondering where I could get some... someone forward?

[erika]

Hahaha! Not funny. :P

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:(

I hate it when stuff like that happens...

[erika]

It's so embarrassing. I'm the most computer literate of my entire family and most of my friends, despite one of them having a degree in Comp Sci, and I get hacked? Ugh!

[http://users.livejournal.com/labyrinthine_/]

oh, that's what that google doc link is? I didn't click it; you email everyone how often? yeah, that's right.

[erika]

Never! I don't think I've ever even sent out a suicide note that way. Because I am not an attention whore.

[reservoir.livejournal.com]

Uh oh, that explains why the link didn't work for me lol :( I didn't get an ad, just a page not found. Being on a mac makes me too reckless sometimes and I'm gonna get burned one day.

I'm sorry <3

[erika]

Yeah, me too. It's so embarrassing! Luckily I changed all my passwords before s/he could do any real harm, like to my Paypal account.

[saraastruc.livejournal.com]

So, I am in a million people's email address books because of 3WA. I get spam from hacked accounts every.single.day. Die, spammer scum. Die.

(I never blame the account owner, for that way lies madness.)

[erika]

I love you, Sara. mwah!

[spr0cket.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing you had a pretty strong password? Although, if you're using open wireless that could have been the source of the compromise.

[erika]

I did have a very strong password, and I have no idea how they got it. And no, I'm not using wireless at all.

But it's changed to something I don't use on any other site (which I should've done in the first place) so hopefully if that was the breach, it'll be good now.

[spr0cket.livejournal.com]

Knowing you, I figured as much. You're not going to fall for a phishing scheme or have a password like abc123. Unsecured wireless was the only one of the common compromise sources that came to mind.

Here's the rest of the stuff we usually ask people when they call into my office with a compromise:

Are you on a Windows machine? If so, are you fully patched with all the latest security updates?

What browser are you running? Your best bet is Firefox with Adblock Plus and No Script installed. With the web based threat now so prominent, you can go to any common website, like cnn.com and get infected with malware without even realizing it. Even the best anti-virus software only picks up 1/3 of compromises on machines. To sum it up, if you're browsing the web, even using best practice, you're going to get had at some point time on a Windows box (and even Macs aren't full proof).

If you're super paranoid (like I am), you might want to flatten and rebuild just to be safe. I'd be worried about a sneaky key logger or something else floating around on my machine.

[spr0cket.livejournal.com]

Yes, I realize I'm probably telling you things you already know. Just ignore the paranoid girl who works in a network security office. ;)