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I have gotten 3 emails that came from hackers! 2 was from my daughter's computer. Someone hacked her computer and send emails to everyone on her address list. I did not know this and opened the email! My old computer was already having issues and that email did not help!
The subject was ' Hello' on one and the other was 'Greeting' and they both came from a hacker ! I just got an email from another person and she was warming people about an email they got from her , her computer was hacked too! I did not open that email as I had no computer. It had some numbers as the subject . If you get any emails that say 'Greeting' or 'Hello'
from someone you know , be sure ask that person if they send it to you before opening it.
 
i put my lap top on yesterday it wifii Fiber optic,an icon came up saying someone nearby was using my wifi,it was going very slow and kept disconnecting had keep changing search engines..using my pc not lap top now....do i have someone hacking in
 
Yes or no, either hacking yours or tap your Internet for free doing illegal business like maybe downloading child porn and you could be held responsible. Lock up your WiFi ASAP!

caz12 said:
i put my lap top on yesterday it wifii Fiber optic,an icon came up saying someone nearby was using my wifi,it was going very slow and kept disconnecting had keep changing search engines..using my pc not lap top now....do i have someone hacking in
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i kill little b****ds there kids home opposite me so very possible
 
I just got an email from American airline and the 'subject matter' was my ticket is attached to my email. I never called any airline and I am not taking a trip! I marked the email spam then deleted it. CRAP , does this mean I been hacked already?? I did not open it.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I just got an email from American airline and the 'subject matter' was my ticket is attached to my email. I never called any airline and I am not taking a trip! I marked the email spam then deleted it. CRAP , does this mean I been hacked already?? I did not open it.
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It could have been an error in an email address and someone else should have gotten this. Delete yes, but I would watch out about marking as spam for if you do order one at sometime it may well land in your spam folder.
 
Smart decision, don't open it. Sometimes it got built in program to trigger unwanted command when one opens it.

whatdidyousay! said:
I just got an email from American airline and the 'subject matter' was my ticket is attached to my email. I never called any airline and I am not taking a trip! I marked the email spam then deleted it. CRAP , does this mean I been hacked already?? I did not open it.
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Jane B. said:
It could have been an error in an email address and someone else should have gotten this. Delete yes, but I would watch out about marking as spam for if you do order one at sometime it may well land in your spam folder.
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I will not be flying anymore, my ears pop so badly I end up in great pain.
 
It's not really hacked PC. Those "fake" emails are sneaky way to get somebody to click the link (the link would lead you to bad site to steal any information from you). As for an example, you get one from "Paypal" and saying that you must click on this link to update your security information. But if you click the link, it would lead you to fake Paypal site and you update anything it asked and then they have your personal information - aka identify thief.

If you're getting fake email, I suggest you just point your mouse to the link (DON'T CLICK) and it would pop up the Internet address, you will see the different address other than it supposed to be. Just block them and delete it.
 
Understand what you mean, but still once get in, its still called hacked.

JMH said:
It's not really hacked PC. Those "fake" emails are sneaky way to get somebody to click the link (the link would lead you to bad site to steal any information from you). As for an example, you get one from "Paypal" and saying that you must click on this link to update your security information. But if you click the link, it would lead you to fake Paypal site and you update anything it asked and then they have your personal information - aka identify thief.

If you're getting fake email, I suggest you just point your mouse to the link (DON'T CLICK) and it would pop up the Internet address, you will see the different address other than it supposed to be. Just block them and delete it.
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JMH said:
It's not really hacked PC. Those "fake" emails are sneaky way to get somebody to click the link (the link would lead you to bad site to steal any information from you). As for an example, you get one from "Paypal" and saying that you must click on this link to update your security information. But if you click the link, it would lead you to fake Paypal site and you update anything it asked and then they have your personal information - aka identify thief.

If you're getting fake email, I suggest you just point your mouse to the link (DON'T CLICK) and it would pop up the Internet address, you will see the different address other than it supposed to be. Just block them and delete it.
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Thank you, I will have to learn how to block an email, I never did it before.
I do not open any emails anymore that say it from AllDeaf as I am not sure if it really is.
 
diehardbiker said:
Understand what you mean, but still once get in, its still called hacked.
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You're right.

There are many ways to get his email addresses without hack his PC. I have seen similar problem with iPad just few years ago - they hacked iPad email provider service. My mother only use iPad (not PC) and somehow they got list of her addresses and send out bad emails to everyone on her list (including me).

So, it's very unlikely that OP's PC were hacked. It's possible that he got virus that collect some PC information or his email provider service were hacked or the person clicked the bad email and it relieve your address list. It's hard to pinpoint where...
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Thank you, I will have to learn how to block an email, I never did it before.
I do not open any emails anymore that say it from AllDeaf as I am not sure if it really is.
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I mean Spam Folder. If you see bad emails, you can just move it to Spam Folder and add the address to Spam list or something like that.
 
Yeah, it could be anything really. Malware, and other stupid applications that benefits almost nobody but the creator sometimes gets the benefits. SICK!


JMH said:
You're right.

There are many ways to get his email addresses without hack his PC. I have seen similar problem with iPad just few years ago - they hacked iPad email provider service. My mother only use iPad (not PC) and somehow they got list of her addresses and send out bad emails to everyone on her list (including me).

So, it's very unlikely that OP's PC were hacked. It's possible that he got virus that collect some PC information or his email provider service were hacked or the person clicked the bad email and it relieve your address list. It's hard to pinpoint where...
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caz12 said:
i put my lap top on yesterday it wifii Fiber optic,an icon came up saying someone nearby was using my wifi,it was going very slow and kept disconnecting had keep changing search engines..using my pc not lap top now....do i have someone hacking in
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Sometime bad router or poor setup wifi or bad laptop's hardware wifi that cause disconnecting issue or poor performance. It was not JUST cause by hacker.
 
caz12 said:
i put my lap top on yesterday it wifii Fiber optic,an icon came up saying someone nearby was using my wifi,it was going very slow and kept disconnecting had keep changing search engines..using my pc not lap top now....do i have someone hacking in
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Is your WiFi password protected?
 
I just got an other email with daughter name but she did not send it to me! I called her and she said it was not from her. I marked it spam and deleted it.
The subject matter was 'Hey!' I notice the spam I have gotten had a greeting, like 'Hello', 'Hi' or 'Hey' as the subject.
 
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