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someone is hacking my COW ID and posting spam as me
I tried commenting on Kylee’s Arson dogs story and spam from India is being posted instead of what I type
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I have flagged the fake doppleganger posts and changed my login, hopefully that helped stop it. Did you guys do anything on your end?
“Oh, you wanted to RECORD that?”
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Hello Mark,
Your posts don’t appear to be coming from a different IP address, which means the issue is most likely within your computer, or browser. I would run a virus scan, check browser extensions, and/or try a different browser. We haven’t done anything on this end, but will continue looking into finding anything further here. Please let us know what you find on your end. I notice the bottom links don’t show up on your most recent posts, did you change anything on your end?
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All I changed is my login password. I’ve been slowly moving over to firefox and chrome from safari lately, because I can’t update safari on my imac any more without updating my OS which I’ve frozen. Between firefox and chrome, which would you say is more secure?
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Seems back to normal for now.Well, normal for ME.
It was the weirdest thing: I typed like three sentences and hit send, and there was fake text about adobe products dropped in there instead, plus three underlined hotlinks in the sig file area to some guy in India.
I don’t do sig files any more, not since the cool kids stopped doing them.
So it’s a dead give-away it’s not me, if you see a post purporting to be mine, with sig files, containing links. Did you save the posts I red-flagged? Maybe you can trace them back to the source?
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You should definitely be running the latest versions of operating systems and software. Otherwise you will get a virus. Both browsers are secure, if they are updated.
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Did you do a virus scan? I wouldn’t doubt it was some malware in your browser doing it. All the posts had links to spageotech at the end of them, which is the only indication I see of the source. All the posts were coming from your IP address, which means it was your system doing the posting. Your system or browser seems to have been hijacked with some sort of malware.
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It just happened again, this time, when I posted from home on a different machine using a different browser and after running virus scans.
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It just happened again, this time, when I posted from home on a different machine using a different browser and after running virus scans.
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Okay Mark. Thank you for letting us know. I’ll take a closer look to see if I can find any other clues.
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I downloaded a fourth antivirus/malware scanner, and it picked up something called 64240.emix Heuristics.Phishing.email.SpoofedDomain. So I think we found the initial source on my machine, but to me that doesn’t explain how it still works on my COW posts when I post from either home or work, on completely different systems, on supposedly secure new browsers. Did it maybe contaminate something to do with my COW membership info on your end?
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