Is it possible to hack into another person's email account (like a hotmail/yahoo account) and read their messages?? How would one know for sure if this were happening to them?
The only thing you have to worry about (realistically) is remembering to close your browser if you use Yahoo/Hotmail. If you leave your browser open, someone could just go back through the page history and access your account.nope80 said:Oh yeah..well i know if they had my password it would be possible to login but i'm almost 300% sure that it would be IMPOSSIBLE to figure my password out. There isn't anyway through some crazy special code that they could have FOUND my password-or were given it through some special program?
Thanks.
BklynWill said:If you change your password, be sure to include special characters, such as: %,$,&, etc... With new technology, simple word or phrase passwords can be figured out in less than a minute.
Eraserhead said:Grrrr. Can you clarify this? Now I'm all paranoid. I have passwords for about 10 things and they are all the same but without these special characters. Should I go change them all?
Baditude said:A few months ago I started receiving emails from people I have never heard of asking me to remove them from my mailing list..... This was the clue that someone had hacked into my account!!! I had to wipe my whole computer because they also infected my computer with a virus and I had to have my cable modem reset because due to security measures my computer was locked. So I am much more careful with my accounts now!!!!!
BubbleBobble said:This probably means your email was "spoofed," or used as the sender without your permission, and not that you got a virus.
Ex: I go online and for every transaction that I do, I use your email address. Poof - your email is everywhere on the internet, and you'll get tons of email from people you don't know.
Most keyloggers are not detected by antivirus programs.fullefect1 said:If you have a trojan program with a keylogger you can get anyones password within a couple minutes, assuming that they type their password in everytime they log on. As long as you have an up to date Anti-Virus program you should be able to detect trojans on your computer.