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[Admin-DeV] User ID Intercepted

  • 20-07-2008 10:38am
    #1
    kerfuffle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭


    My user ID was used yesterday by someone else. The last time I posted as 'Kerfuffle' was the the 15th July - post count at that stage was 15. The ID was used yesterday to post messages in the Poker and Rants sections and also to start a new thread in Travel on the loss of a passport. The person posting appears to be an 18 year old living at home. I have no idea how this happened. No one else has access to my PC (though I did use an internet cafe earlier in the week). I received some pop-up messages in last few days referring to a security cert and saying that the domain name has changed and that maybe that site could be intercepted. But I didn't really take it seriously and just bye-passed it. How would the site be intercepted? I have now changed the passport, don't know if this is sufficient. Can the messages posted yesterday be removed from my account?


Comments

  • #2
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Sure. Make sure you change your password, and any passwords to sites you were using that day.


  • #3
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    The site should not be giving you that warning when you go to it. Sounds like some kind of Malware trojan or something. Get a good virus/trojan/malware detector for your machine and for our part we'll look into this.

    DeV.


  • #4
    kerfuffle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭kerfuffle


    Thanks for the advice, will def look into getting a dector for Malware/viruses etc for the machine. Changed the password last night and there are no more new threads so that's good.


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