In justafish <
[email protected]> had this to say:
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I have recieved a small message pop up when I am logged on, saying
that I have been signed out of net. passport because another user has
just signed in as me. Is it ever common for that to happen?
I don't *think* that's normal. I'm pretty sure that it isn't normal. You
don't have another PC that's automatically signing you in do you? You might
try scanning your computer for malware (just to see if there's a trojan or
the like) and installing a third party firewall which will warn you of
outbound access if it's properly configured. Using that method you'd then
want to go ahead and change your password to something hard to remember.
Personally? I like something like p@ssw0rd$1 as my password as it's easy to
remember and difficult to guess or brute force.
I'll give you my standard pile of links to give you some free software that
you can use to check for trojans or other malware that could have leaked
your password.
Virus:
www.grisoft.com - AVG
www.antivir.com - AntiVir
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - CA eTrust
Spyware:
www.lavasoft.de - AdAware
http://security.kolla.de/ - Spybot
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx -
Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta
Trojan:
www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/ - a Squared
http://swatit.org/ Swat It
Before cleaning download this:
LSP-Fix - a free program to repair damaged Winsock 2 stacks:
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Use that should cleaning out your PC remove or damage your in-place winsock
and you can't connect to the internet.
From the virus and trojan category pick one application, they're all free,
download it and install it. Make sure that you update it. From the spyware
category pick all three, download them and update them to the latest
definitions. Reboot, press the F8 key over and over again, from the menu
select Safe mode without networking. Do your cleaning in there. Reboot to
regular mode and run the scans again. This isn't going to be quick or easy
but it might just solve your problems and it should prevent you from further
problems so long as you keep them updated and scan often. Most of them can
be enabled to update and scan automatically.
Galen
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"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."
Sherlock Holmes
