Gmail hacked - Evo is number one suspect

What makes you think it had something to do with the EVO other than that it was coincidental timing?
Spammers are usually pretty good with proxies too, those addresses probably aren't anywhere close to the truth

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IOWA said:

Yeah setting up a proxy is childs play. Also, since your gmail got compromised, and if your password is up to snuff like you say it is, then more than likely it wasn't brute forced either. So your either looking at a phishing scam(browser hijack etc) or one of the machines you use to access gmail has a keylogger trojan.

-my advice as a former "hacker"... do a complete rollback of at least 60 days on any/every machine you own. Then create a new windows user account, and xfer the files you need saved, and delete the old winuser account.

Then go to start> winconfig. Disable everything not vital to running windows. (Graphics drivers, etc) if winconfig is corrupt, you've been hit by a nasty and a full wipe may be in order. (Every situation is different)

If you can't rollback, then a complete wipe is in order. To prevent yourself from being infected again, download a registry startup monitor, that allows you to see and alert you when a registry change is being attempted regarding startup. If you don't recognize the change at hand, don't allow it, and the virus won't be allowed to start with boot. If your unsure of the process name, google it. Most legit processes have some documentation, as well as malware. If it is malware, do a thorough search on your pc and manually remove said process.

Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.

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bbenny said:

today my gmail account was hacked and spam was sent from me to my entire email contact list.

here were the suspect IP's, and the message was about viagra pills. embarrassing to say the least.

Mobile Romania (89.37.187.9) 5:47 pm (1 hour ago)

Mobile United States (CA) (173.117.223.143) 12:16 pm (6 hours ago)


I have a very complex password and am a web developer that is very anal about privacy and security. had gmail for years, and just got the evo, and then this happens days later. not pleased at all.

has this happened to anybody else?

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My wife has the Droid Incredible and one evening she noticed she could not check her email on the phone and that all her email accounts the password was changed...

Luckily we were able to get back into them by the lost password option and security questions. We have no idea how it changed, plus we both use Macs so no viruses on the computers, and on her phone she had one of those virus scanners, so we think the phone someone did something as well....

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guess this is why my coworker uses a 36 character algorithim for all of his passwords...and he changes it weekly.

still laugh at my friends who use the same password for everything.

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IOWA said:

Lmao @ people really beleiving macs are somehow magically virus free. If you learned the truth(which is macs are more vulnerable to hacks and malware than windows. Tested & proved, many times. Google it.) you wouldn't touch a mac with sensitive informations.

And here's something I just thought of. Are you guys rooted? Maybe its the root hack itself that's doing this.


Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.

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IOWA said:

Lmao @ people really beleiving macs are somehow magically virus free. If you learned the truth(which is macs are more vulnerable to hacks and malware than windows. Tested & proved, many times. Google it.) you wouldn't touch a mac with sensitive informations.

And here's something I just thought of. Are you guys rooted? Maybe its the root hack itself that's doing this.


Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.

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