A hacker (who knew the # of one of my e-gold a/cs) planted
a Trojan Horse in my computer that reported my password
enabling him/her to raid my account. (He didn't know the a/c
#s of any of my other e-gold a/cs, so he/she didn't touch them.)
The Trojan Horse was named "Kern32.exe" and was loaded into
my Widows\System folder. It was run by adding files to my Startup
menu.
Not all Anti-Trojan software recognized the Trojan, but I found a
great package that did.
I repeat, revealing your a/c # is a huge risk. It gives the hacker half
of what he needs to access your a/c.
Your e-gold accounts would be much more secure if you had to
reveal a Payment # to get paid, and you reveal your a/c # to nobody.
Frederick Mann
At 03:27 PM 05/23/2001 -0700, Vince Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[snip]
> > A hacker (who knew the # of one of my e-gold a/cs) planted
> > a Trojan Horse in my computer that reported my password
> > enabling him/her to raid my account. (He didn't know the a/c
> > #s of any of my other e-gold a/cs, so he/she didn't touch them.)
>[snip]
>
>The only way someone could have "hacked" your account is a) your
>passphrase sucks and only took a couple of tries or b) you gave it to
>them.
>
>More than likely is was b) in the form of cliking on an e-qold link
>instead of e-gold.
>
>Having an account number is no security risk. I can go to the E-Gold site
>and pick a number at random and start trying passwords. Of course I would
>get locked out in short order, but that is beside the point.
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