I know for a fact that a friend of mine hacked my hotmail and nearly destroyed my forum and got access to my MSN which has a lot of things he CANNOT know about. I'd like to know if Gmail has any such weaknesses.

~Arkhan

How did he hack your Hotmail account? I doubt it was actually a weakness in Hotmail, but rather something simpler like guessing your password. Any webmail system is "vulnerable" to that.

Hmmmmmm... I highly doubt that he guessed my password. See, he told someone how he did it and they told me... it all makes sense... although he could lie... just like him, that lying cracker-wannabe.

~Arkhan

more likely he sent you a file which actually had a trojan attatched to it and just found out your password that way, its pretty easy really.

Hmmmm... yeah that could be it, he once copied the Sims files off me... >_> how can I stop him giving me Trojans?

~Arkhan

get a virus checker, a firewall and dont accept any dodgy looking files like "porn.exe"

basically dont accept files from him

Will Norton AV 2004 do it?

~Arkhan

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Originally posted by Arkhan
Will Norton AV 2004 do it?

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Woot. Thanks. Do you have an idea how you make a trojan?

~Arkhan

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Originally posted by Arkhan
Do you have an idea how you make a trojan?

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Hmmm... but then what if he makes a new one that hasn't been seen before and Norton fails to pic it up?

~Arkhan

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Hmmm... but then what if he makes a new one that hasn't been seen before and Norton fails to pic it up?

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If you havent updated the definitions then there is a major security hole there, also your firewall should block it (if you have one)

What if he had my IP adress? I know how he can easily get it. In fact, assume that he has it. He has it.

~Arkhan

if he has your IP address that wont be too much of a problem, unless your pc is infected with a trojan

check for vireses using nortan get a good firewall... and how can that person be a friend?? if he hacks into your stuff

Um, no I use Internet Explorer.

Oh and as for him being a friend... he's my good friend/arch enemy... but that's not the point of this topic.

~Arkhan

hmm nvm because if you use fire fox i know you can check saved passwords lol maybe if he came over to your house or if you came over to his  and clicked save password then yea ..

...I don't think I clicked save password, I hope I wouldn't be that stupid. So either he

a) Hacked my hotmail like he said
b) sent a Trojan (he's done it before)
c) guessed it.

Ruling out C because he couldn't have guessed it.

~Arkhan

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...I don't think I clicked save password, I hope I wouldn't be that stupid. So either he

a) Hacked my hotmail like he said
b) sent a Trojan (he's done it before)
c) guessed it.

Ruling out C because he couldn't have guessed it.

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Originally posted by Anubis
It's hard to make a trojan, what most people do is take an already existing trojan (for example Sub7) and mod it for your own needs...But making one from scratch is some nifty programming...

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Originally posted by DangerXone
hmm nvm because if you use fire fox i know you can check saved passwords lol maybe if he came over to your house or if you came over to his  and clicked save password then yea ..

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Originally posted by toddy
what about doing your secret question ?!?! and then changin your password

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*ahem* I know he actually hacked it because he then used a password recovery system on the forum I am an admin of to get my forum password then take screenshots of my admin CP. I thought he was tricking me though, so he changed his group to admin and gave himself privilages. I know that it was him because I'm the only admin. He admitted to it after.

~Arkhan

Has this guy ever had access to your PC?

If so, he may have got any auto complete passwords by using programs available on the net. I know this because I got all my auto complate passwords up and deleted them and any internet history using this program.

IE doesn't clear all you history. So I advise you check your PC using a program like this.

Goto "NirSoft" (use google to find site address) and look for "Protected Storage PassView". It will show anything history left on your PC that IE has left.

You may find other good programs on there. By all means check them out too.

Also from now make sure you don't save any auto completes (eg forms etc). Goto Tools, Internet Options, Content, Auto Complete.

Apart from that, if there is anything else, I'll get back to you 2moro.

Okay. I'm also changing my password daily.

~Arkhan

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DangerXone
    hmm nvm because if you use fire fox i know you can check saved passwords lol maybe if he came over to your house or if you came over to his  and clicked save password then yea ..

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the passwords are encrypted... *sigh*
and if you're using IE it's the same.

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Well the harm is done just dont commit the same erors never accept something from that guy anymore or trust him..

i think it was prob the secret question thing ive known someone have their hotmail hacked that way.


i had someone try that on my yahoo account but it failed cus yahoo just emailed me a new password to my other email account......

Yeah, that's quite possible. Thanks

~Arkhan

hey!

one easy way to hack ur forums and emails is sending u a keylogger. that's pretty easy. u can put one into an image file, then it runs on the background and it can send emails with the logs to the email of the hacker. then u just need to check the logs for the logins and passwords

if u dont have an anti-virus or a spyware detection tool ur just a lamb in the middle of an african savanna

another reason may be the hotmail's changing passwords with the "secret question" wich is not that secret cause if u know where the contact is from u dont even need to know wich is the right question, u just need to guess the answer.

another way maybe be hacking ur forum and if u have an old version that is also very easy, and if u use the same passwords both on the email and forum login... u know what that means.
try to have ur forum version updated, install and anti virus like avast! 4 and periodically run an  ad-awarescan that should solve ur problems, and btw dont forget to have a working firewall

Off topic: Actually I'm a demon in the middle of Australia.
On topic: But I have Norton 04.

~Arkhan