Sassinak
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msn - stolen id !!Through my msn I received a link from someone to "msn photoshare" or similar. I clicked on it and tried to log in to find out whether it was worth trying it. Once logged in, nothing happened, no photos to see. I closed the page down and forgot about it.
MSN suddenly began shutting down with a pop-up saying that I had logged into a different computer. Annoying, but not too dreadful, until I got a message from WG to say I had sent her a link while I appeared to be offline. She deleted it.
I contacted my PC buddy lol who had also had a link sent from my machine. She said that when I tried to log into the photo site, my password and ID had been "Harvested" and someone was now logging in as me and sending links to all my contacts.
I went to my Hotmail account and changed the password and that seems to have solved it for now. Apologies to anyone else who might have received a link from me 
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IainC
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Yeah, I had a <yourname>.checkpics.com or something from a mate this morning as well. Brought up an IIS7 webpage.
Not had any issues with MSN dropping out though, had only clicked on it as he'd been out at a golfing thing that I'd been meant to be going on so I figured it was maybe pics from that.
Can't see how it'd grab your MSN details though?
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IainC
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Just googled the one I'd been looking at and it looks like at some point it was used to grab your details by requesting you to login using your MSN name/password which would be how they'd grab it, looks like it's dead now from my link to it.
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Sassinak
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Yup that was the one . Thanks Iain 
I would warn your mate because they obviously have his password.
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IainC
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Yeah, already mentioned to him this morning when I did the "WTF?" type message back to him
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wildgarlic
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I think the message here is that if you receive a link that you weren't expecting ASK the person sending it BEFORE clicking on the link... and if any such link asks for log in DON'T DO IT.
Oh... and passwords. Don't use the same one for your msn as you do for your bank or other important online stuff.
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IainC
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Definitely use different passwords for different things. It might be a PITA when you need to remember so many but it's worth it IMO.
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kimmie
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sorry sass i think it was my pc that did it to you....and matt's friend thats done it to me! am now scanning my pc with anti virus and will change password too!
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IainC
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you must have logged into the webpage though did you?
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Martin
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(tries his best not to adopt a "holier than thou" expression) 
I think the giveaway is what "MSN" stands for - Microsoft, spawn of the very devil........rightly loathed throughout geekdom - personally, I wouldn't risk anything to Microsoft, particularly all my personal details - there are freebie services out there which will do the same job but better - anything branded Microsoft is a target for every hacker going (it's rubbish programming, and full of easily exploitable "holes") 
I've now been running Linux exclusively for over a year - this sort of nonsense is just a bad memory - Linux is designed with all the doors firmly closed and bolted, Microsnot is made with them all wide open......
Hugs laptop running Ubuntu, and has secret smug grin......... 
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kimmie
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| Quote: | | you must have logged into the webpage though did you? |
yes i did because both matt and his mate are into photography....i thought he had sent some pics!
 martin
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Diana
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| kimmie wrote: | | sorry sass i think it was my pc that did it to you....and matt's friend thats done it to me! am now scanning my pc with anti virus and will change password too! |
Yeah, I keep getting messages with links from you Kimmie - when you're not logged in
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Sassinak
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Kimmie, A virus scan on your machine won't show anything, because your machine is not infected. You just need to change your Hotmail/MSN password
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