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| Topic | What caused you to get Hacked or your first VIRUS |
| Lazy_Haar 05/02/24 9:06:37 AM #34: | Error1355 posted...
My PC doesn't have a camera hooked up to it, so I'd be damn impressed. You ever see/hear about those scam emails that say they hacked your webcam and recorded you as an attempt at extortion? I once got one, myself, despite the fact that my desktop doesn't have one and my laptops always have a piece of electrical tape over the built-in ones. I think I started to do it after I saw a story where they were interviewing Zuckerberg years ago and you could see the tape on his laptop, though I also try to make sure any webcam drivers are uninstalled, too (though who knows when a laptop might decide to try to reinstall things on its own). Anyway, I'm also reminded now that I once clicked on a link to a news article about something gaming-related that was posted in a topic here, from a gaming website I'd never heard of, and I immediately started having pop-ups and redirects when trying to browse afterwards. I took it as an excuse to do a reformat and fresh install, then started using NoScript for a while after that one. --- You haven't set a signature for the message boards yet ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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