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Jenda

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Can someone explain...?
« on: 21 May 2005, 17:06 »
I'm not sure, whether Windows is to blame for this, but how the hell is it possible, that I got a spam message (caught by Gmail), that contained a link to a website, which contained my password (as in password.somethingaboutyogurts.com), which in turn I started using on a few websites (Microsuck, diplomacie.valka.cz, and then just my Jabber account, I think) and this computer just a few days ago? The second website being a Diplomacy game community, in Czech, that I've been a member of for the last three years.
I'd love to blame Windows, but since I use Firefox and OOo and Exodus or Gush for everything I do, it just doesn't seem to fit in...
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Re: Can someone explain...?
« Reply #1 on: 21 May 2005, 17:47 »
could be spyware or a bug in firefox.
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Re: Can someone explain...?
« Reply #2 on: 21 May 2005, 18:14 »
Are you really sure that they've hijacked your password? There is a pretty big probability that It's just a coincidence if It's a easy one. I could understand if it is some kind of cryptic password. What it could be though is a some kind of trojan horse that has fished it from your Windows? machine.
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Re: Can someone explain...?
« Reply #3 on: 23 May 2005, 00:16 »
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Are you really sure that they've hijacked your password? There is a pretty big probability that It's just a coincidence if It's a easy one. I could understand if it is some kind of cryptic password. What it could be though is a some kind of trojan horse that has fished it from your Windows? machine.
That's what I was thinking. But the password is a normal word, although not used often. Think "aurelius" or perhaps "nonahedron".
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Re: Can someone explain...?
« Reply #4 on: 24 May 2005, 22:38 »
sounds like the sort of word that computer geeks use all too often.
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Re: Can someone explain...?
« Reply #5 on: 25 May 2005, 13:20 »
Sounds like a temporal anomaly, or did I just juxtapose a misconception? :D
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