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.