what can I do to prevent this..

anything???

Depends.

Are you being hacked now, or are you just wondering?

The best you can do is set strong passwords on your paypal/bank - things like:
Ajd^3R7#g€9z
for your password - nobody will ever realistically be able to guess that, or BF it.

Secondly, install anti-backdoor software to stop you downloading keyloggers etc. Firewall your outgoing connections.

Lastly, if you're paranoid, ditch windows. Seriously - it's too exploitable. Recent exploits have allowed someone to have complete control of your machine remotely, allowing them to install what they please, such as software to allow them to grab your passwords as you type them in etc. Some of the software available is pretty nasty. It can turn on your microphone and/or webcam and watch what you're doing. Send screenshots of your desktop, allow them to have fun and invert your mouse, and so on.

Ditching Internet Explorer (if you can't ditch Windows) will help. Use Firefox.

also never give out your password to anyone.. don't fal for an email that claims the paypal needs you to verify your info

Use a firewall
Use an Anti-Virus
Use a strong pass
Use Firefox
Use your ISP email

Ditch Windows. Change your password to something more secure.

Ditch the modem :D

even though I don't understand all of your replies...I am copying them and looking them over. Sigh...I don't know if I am being hacked into now..I closed my bank account, and the person went into my bank account, long story...but they did it all via the internet..

i never had a husband. ahahha.but seriously,
I will have to look into this...

i have alot of these things..but I am not sure about ditching windows and what you are speaking about...ditch windows and go with what?


I am computer literate, but only to a point...you people probably know more about thing then I do.

You should contact your bank and paypal immediatly! They might be able to help in some way.

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Originally posted by TechSolution
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no no no

if you wanna be really secure, go with OpenBSD ;)

Ok windows is fine, if you know how to use it fully. Like what everyone else has said ditch windows and get a unix based system OpenBSD is pretty cool.

First you need to find out how they got it, it might not even be os related. There have been a lot of phishing schemes recently and he might have fallen prey to one of them.

Originally posted by marissam
ditch windows and go with what?

Get a mac ;) OS X Panther (http://www.apple.com/macosx/video/small.html) is great, and best of all it's much more secure than windows, and even easier to use.

Stable BSDs tend to be better than Linux in security... Still, if there's a flaw in another program (like Apache, etc.) you can have problems.