posted January 22, 2020 10:53 AM            

I'm careful about giving any of my email addresses to get quiz results (which infuriates me when I take pages of a quiz only to be told I then I have to give my email to get the results, though I have found that plenty of times it's easy to give a fake--and rude--email addie) or read a news article, because I know damn well they get sold to spammers.

And yet recently, despite my precautions, the spam I've gotten has gone through the roof, and much of it is related to astrology and psychic stuff. It's only happening to the email that's associated with this site (that is registered here and back when I was a mod people could click on it, though this happened well after my stepping down as mod). So naturally I have to wonder if this site has somehow been compromised by spambots stealing email addresses.

posted January 24, 2020 11:15 AM            

WHEN I get tempted to sign up for an astrologer's (or anyone's) email, I PAUSE. I look for a statement that says that they do not SELL your information.

IF I don't see that, I almost always ditch 'em.

And, I now have begun to delete subscriptions to emails of ones that come with "no valuable (to me) content" anymore.

So. A few days ago, I went to click on one of my youtube desktop shortcuts to an astrologer I've watched for years .

Instead of the astrologer's channel, I found it HIJACKED by MAGA PRO-TRUMP people.

MAGA PRO-TRUMP-supporters HACKED my computer
They took-over one of my desktop youtube shortcuts.

- http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum26/HTML/004548-3.html

posted January 24, 2020 01:22 PM            

I don't know how well you can handle computer control, but this brief vid might give you some inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGgJwcC4P30

I can't say as I don't know your browser or how it was hijacked (I hear Java vulnerabilities are usually involved but turning off Java can create many other problems). I'm afraid until it cuts into the profits of YT (and others) that it's not a bug they consider important to fix.

Since this isn't the political forum I won't say more than that, other than there seems to be a conspiracy to get FOX News everywhere funded by very wealthy corporations and they might exert influence over (or even be within) Google, which in turn controls YouTube. AT&T might be involved as well. I don't know for sure, just that some Wall Street businesses were forcing like hospitals to actually promote FOX News over the wishes of doctors and medical staff (in fact, that took precedent over hiring medical staff and doctors, in the specific example I'm thinking of), and your problem might be an extension of that. That is, it might be a problem that isn't going to be fixed at all assuming Wall Street businesses are promoting this kind of activity as well, but there will still be tricks to take back control of your computer. It's unfortunate that we get put into that position.

posted January 29, 2020 06:17 PM            

Thanks for the URL.
I don't use Google Chrome (yet), but maybe I'll find the way to apply those kinds of settings.

I had done some fishing around the day after I saw the hijack, using some of the Function-numbers that reveal materials. I wasn't sure what I was looking at.

What I did see was that this 'change' of my youtube-shortcut occurred on Jan 15. I deleted it now.

Haven't checked ALL the shortcuts yet,
but the ones I use most seem to be working fine.

Again, thanks for the research and feedback.

posted February 02, 2020 03:15 PM            

Well... The ~noyve of them!! ..

When I clicked tab OFF, nothing else happened.
Last time, I had shut down EVERYTHING, to reboot. Then, I gingerly picked my way around 'what' I chose to open on the internet.

posted February 06, 2020 09:34 AM            

quote:

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Originally posted by teasel:
..I can usually just click out, or back-space.
If you can't, disconnect the internet.

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Yeah, my roommate watches things that come through his facebook on his robot-phone. Sometimes the video keeps running. He can't click it off. (He has a rather-nasty temper!!! ..) He had tried all kinds of things. Would go back to his phone, and it was STILL running.

Since we have wifi, I had suggested turning that off, then on... (he refuses to listen).

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quote:

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Randall
It's a cleverly disguised pop-up ad.

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In a different LL thread, I described trying to open an email from a UK astrologer. They send me daily horoscopes, and articles on sky aspects.

When I'd open that particular email then click onto their website for further materials, I had been getting those loud and very-alarming sirens with a countdown clock and warnings that my computer was being harmed, and that IF I didn't click something right away, many files would be deleted from hard drive.

It "looked" like it was from MS Windows, and McAffee (which we already had installed a long time ago).

Well.... The problem seems to have stopped with that UK website (yay!). This morning I was able to access them.

We now have some kind of 'new' icon that appeared on desktop for McAffee Live.

I have NO IDEA where that came in from!

I had been having very very frustrating problems with yahoo where I was avoiding them as much as possible. My emails were wonky. I was ready to switch emails to a different company.

Am glad that things 'seem' to have calmed down this morning on the internet service.

You know, I' -----

WHOAH!!!
The POST I just published happened "on it's own". I didn't hit 'Submit now' … it submitted the post ALL BY ITSELF???

I don't like that!!

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