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RLD hobbies

I’m not sure, but my account might have been hacked at RLD hobbies.

I emailed Robby and advised him.

I also changed my password, but cannot take down my profile.

I would think that changing the password would be sufficient…

For the rest of us, what makes you believe your account was hacked? (so we know what to look out for)

Greg

An email from “RLD Hobbies” with a link. Nothing else. I left off the http:/www.

ladingafdekken.nl/assets/media/quick_reply.php?ride=2px5df5dbp4c2erh

hello Jdbouck

(Link here)

Rldhobbies

I also received one of those phishing emails this morning. If you looked at the senders address you would have immediately seen that the email was not from RLD but some other email address. The link of course goes Lord knows where. It is highly likely that almost anyone’s address book that had emails from/to RLD or the receiver could be the culprit. I have gotten to where I look at the sender’s info and if I don’t immediately recognize it, I delete the email. If I ‘THINK’ it might be legit, I contact the alleged sender before opening it.

Just sayin’

Exactly Bob, more likely someone got hold of someone’s address book, than RLD was hacked.

(of course it could have been Robby’s address book!)

Greg

Bob “IA3R#7” Cope said:

I have gotten to where I look at the sender’s info and if I don’t immediately recognize it, I delete the email. If I ‘THINK’ it might be legit, I contact the alleged sender before opening it.

Quite wise; quite wise.

Anybody need to buy a truck tarp from Germany?

Couldn’t resist searching this out on my “junk” PC.

Sometimes I wonder if those kinds of emails somehow grab a name from my address book. I don’t normally click links in emails unless there is a message that sounds legit in the body of the email. Like a friend of mine sending me a link to a railpictures picture or something. The off the wall stuff just gets dumped.

David Maynard said:

Sometimes I wonder if those kinds of emails somehow grab a name from my address book. I don’t normally click links in emails unless there is a message that sounds legit in the body of the email. Like a friend of mine sending me a link to a railpictures picture or something. The off the wall stuff just gets dumped.

The reason we all seem to the the same kind of spam, is that most of us are in each other’s address books. All it takes is one of us to visit some nefarious site without up to date virus protection, or click on some bogus email link and get their computer infected. Then the emails start.

The best defense against this kind of stuff is to use the brains you were given. Unless youre expecting something, never, under any circumstances, open any attached file in an email. Never trust a link that looks like its from a bank, or Paypal, or anything else you have an account at. Always hand-type links to your bank, or use your own bookmark files.

True. I find that usually if I hover my mouse pointer over a link, the actual URL appears in a dialog box at the bottom of the screen. Its amazing some of the URLs I see in that box.

David Maynard said:

True. I find that usually if I hover my mouse pointer over a link, the actual URL appears in a dialog box at the bottom of the screen. Its amazing some of the URLs I see in that box.

Amazing

Phishing/virus are still being sent out within emails of ‘yahoo’ origins.

As recent as last wk. received another — know it — delete without looking beyond the name on it !

The original person that had his address book hacked thanks to the first yahoo hack, passed away last yr. He was a local GR enthusiast and friend ! He was somewhat unbelieving a couple yrs ago when I informed him his email was sending out phishing/viruses likely due to the yahoo hack. I suggested he contact ‘yahoo’ and also toss all his virus checking software at his systems in hopes of finding deleting any onsite infections.

So when I sent a email to Robbie this past wk. and received his (quick) reply, noting his use of ‘yahoo’. I cringed hoping he is not one of the thousands the hackers subverted re.yahoo servers/acc’ts.

doug c

Be careful with virus programs as they run in the background all the time. If more than one is installed and you do not have a solid state drive then many systems slow down to a crawl. I once found a laptop that took 35 minutes to boot due to 5 virus programs all active at the same time.

In the latest windows systems one must delete the prefetch and tmp directories to keep an optimum speed.

Dan Pierce said:

Be careful with virus programs as they run in the background all the time. If more than one is installed and you do not have a solid state drive then many systems slow down to a crawl. I once found a laptop that took 35 minutes to boot due to 5 virus programs all active at the same time.

In the latest windows systems one must delete the prefetch and tmp directories to keep an optimum speed.

I never understood the desire to run more than one virus protection. A single one takes a significant percentage of your processing horsepower. Run one good one, and also run a handful of browser extensions, and you’re good to go.

I have 3 different ones, but, but 2 of them don’t run until I tell them to do a scan. So they only use processing power when I am not home using the computer. Different scanners are tuned to different types of garbage. So, occasionally, one of them will find something the others have missed. But, for full time running in the background, I only have one.

Bob What virus program do you use? I have one called Viper, and it never seems happy with this site, but no problems.

Pete Lassen said:

Bob What virus program do you use? I have one called Viper, and it never seems happy with this site, but no problems.

I use AVG on the PC, and BitDefender on my Macbook.

I also run Adblock Pro, Ghostery, and Privacy Badger in all my browsers. I turn off Adblock Pro for various sites I want to support, but only if they have non-intrusive ads.

Bob, you are right, the key is to not run more than one RESIDENT or REAL TIME virus programs, it can not only slow things down, but you can have actual conflicts.

The real time ones hook into the communications systems at very low levels (as they must) and there have indeed been situations of deadlock when 2 programs are “fighting” to be first to scan an incoming data stream.

To run a scanner separately, you can use as many as you want, of course, and often I do a Malwarebytes scan at the same time as another manual virus scan.

Recently, AVG seems to have become bloated, slow, and incessant ads popping up. I’ve been trying out Avast, but a word of caution, when installing, choose the custom option, and uncheck all the other “free” junk they offer (those items CAN be uninstalled later).

I’m still using Adblock Pro and Ghostery too, and make use of the “whitelist” features of both, so after a few visits, sites that I want them on (as Bob says to support) is automatic.

By the way Bob, I did convert www.elmassian.com to HTTPS (you will see the green lock in FF), and was able to get a 3 year certificate for about $30, and the installation in my site and enabling it for a total of $100.

Regards, Greg

Yea, a few months ago I had a fight with AVG, and tried to uninstall it. It didn’t completely uninstall. The next time I booted up my computer, AVG did a repair on itself, and things are running better now. Although I still get slow spells on certain sites. I don’t know if its AVG slowing things down, or not.

Bob McCown said:

I turn off Adblock Pro for various sites I want to support, but only if they have non-intrusive ads.

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