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Posted on: Thu, 11/30/2006 - 8:16pm
protecting my email account
Hello everyone, My ex has some kind of program where he puts in my info and he gets access to all my email accounts. He has hacked into my aol, read and deleted my saved emails and pictures. While I would love to be able to get into his, I rather take the high road and not do it. What I would like is to find a way where I can protect my email so that he does not hack into it again. Is that possible? Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated. Thanks to all, Travelgrl

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Posted on: Sun, 12/10/2006 - 4:12pm #1
Hmm...

i know I dont know much about this, but there are several spy programs out there that can do the remote observation...they cost around 100.00 on the average...and some of them can and do get around things like norton and macafee... If I was you I would REALLY go through all "My computer" folders and such....one of the programs in particular is Spyrecon....It is pretty good too.

It has lots of capabilities and is hard for Norton to find if it is setup correctly...

 

 

Big brother is watching....beware!!!

Posted on: Mon, 12/11/2006 - 6:25am #2
Thank you all for your
Thank you all for your inputs. I ran the pandasoftware as Preslieperfect suggested and it found 42 spyware programs - ouch! Most were in my cookies file. I don't know enough to verify if it picked up whatever he had used. He is very saavy, I know he downloads most of his programs from limewire. I guess I won't know until he tries again. I changed all of my passwords but I did that last time and he broke in and erased all of our pictures The ironic thing here is that he is that he always talked about respecting ones privacy LOL. Sometimes I wish I could give him a taste of his own medicine but again I would not even know where to begin.
Posted on: Sun, 12/10/2006 - 11:57pm #3
norton's 
even though the remote monitoring software would most likely be set up
 to run in stealth mode, she would still have to open an attachment or 
download something in order for the program to be loaded onto her
 hard drive.  he could bind it with another program or with a photo, a 
joke program or something along those lines, but it's still gonna have a
 suspicious extension such as the ones i mentioned in my last post on
 here.  for ex: .exe, .scr, .pif or something like that.  there's a possibility
 he could do something with a vbs through the use of a webdownloader, 
but he's have to be a pretty smart buckaroo or know someone who is to
 come up with something that complex.  besides, i think microsoft has 
patched all the security holes that would allow that to be installed.    
and just as an aside...i wouldn't depend on norton's to find my big toe,
 much less anything malicious on my computer.   that software is a joke, 
 in my opinion anyway.

Posted on: Thu, 11/30/2006 - 10:48pm #4
aol passwords

with your aol, is he changing your password?  because if he knows enough information about you and the right information, all he has to do is call their 800 number and go through the automated process in their system to change the password.  it's so simple it isn't even funny.  if your password isn't being changed, however, then he must be gaining access some other way. 

i would go back and check any emails he's sent you in the past that have any attachments and see if any of them have file extensions .exe, .scr or .pif.  if so, he could bind a trojan or keylogger, etc. to them and your anti-virus or spyware software not pick it up.

also you might try going to pandasoftware.com and doing their online scan and see if it picks anything up.  it's a really good scanner, and it's been successful every time i've ever recommended it to anyone.  if it does find something, you can pay like $12 or something like that and they'll email you a username and password that you can plug in on their website, and it will remove the malicious software that was found.

Posted on: Fri, 12/01/2006 - 6:02am #5
Thanks. He is not changing
Thanks. He is not changing my passwords. He told me once that it was a program he ran where he puts in my name, etc. and it spits out all my email accounts from there he can pick and choose and from there it opens it up for him. I've never heard of such a thing and was wondering if anyone here knew of such a program. He even knew of my old email accounts that even I had forgotten about.
Posted on: Sun, 12/10/2006 - 3:55pm #6
have you checked in your registry
for anything suspicious? A lot of these programs can be disguised and hidden in emails so that he does not have to have actual access to your computer. Does he email you every few months or so? If that's the case, he could be installing constant updates to a spyware program so that the anitvirus won't find them. If you can't check the registry yourself, do you know someone who can?
Posted on: Thu, 11/30/2006 - 8:54pm #7
Paranoid
Well you are a bit paranoid but I guess you have reason to be, the way to protect your email is to change the password often (and use caps and symbols in password) and change all of your secret questions to fake answers.
Posted on: Thu, 11/30/2006 - 8:26pm #8
Re: Ex hacking into Account
I would change all your passwords and run Anti-Virus and Spyware for keystroke recorders.... that should do the trick   Kahdaver
Posted on: Thu, 11/30/2006 - 8:46pm #9
Help with my email account
Kahdaver wrote: I would change all your passwords and run Anti-Virus and Spyware for keystroke recorders.... that should do the trick   Kahdaver I should mention that we do not live together and he does not have access to my laptop. He does this remotely. But thanks for the suggestions, I ran 3 different spyware and an anti virus (do you think I am paranoid ;o) Thanks for the input