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antinomy
06-19-2004, 08:30 PM
If you've been doing PTR for awhile, then you'll have seen emails about payment accounts getting hacked.

The same can happen to your GPTR programs - and one of our members has written in to say this happened to them and they are scared they are going to lose all their clickings as the hacker is busy deleting all their accounts.

First things first in an emergency like this: For all Cash Crusader programs, simply go to the forgot password page and request a new one as quickly as possible. That way you have some chance of stopping them in their tracks. It's also worth writing to the program owners to say what's happened - some are quite good about collecting access information which can be used to prosecute the hacker.

For programs where your email address is used for the login id: sign in and change your password

Payment accounts - sort them out as soon as you can.

For some programs, you will get deleted if you are inactive for 7 days, so don't dilly dally about.

Now you've heard before that you should use different passwords for different programs, but if you've got a key logger recording what you do, then you need to take this offense.

Once you're sorted, make sure you check the processes running on your machine and set your security high enough to protect yourself.

Andre
06-20-2004, 05:03 PM
Thanks antinomy, this is some great tips!

VamPvixen
07-02-2004, 04:57 AM
Great thread! Thanks!

Yes this is important. I managed to save some of mine however the time it takes meant I lost a few.

If you have a keylogger or a stealer you must make sure your system is absolutely clean before you take back control of the accounts or the hacker will just get your new password.
I had to unfortunately wait a few days before I could clean my PC so by the time I did I lost a few acounts.

Always make sure you research what you have in your system as soon as you find you are in trouble and how to get rid of it completely! Dont take chances. And while you do this (if you are researching online) make sure you do not under any circumstances log into any site at all you are a member of . I shut everything off and blocked all trafic on my firewall except yahoo and google and my antivirus programes sites while I searched for the information I needed.

Once you have all the information and tools at hand then clean you PC as fast as possible and then log in to all your accounts and do as Antinomy sugested above.

Once again thanks for a great thread Antinomy! I sincerley hope none of our members here has to go thru what I did and that this thread will not be needed.