pan6467

In the process of editing my information here (changing my e-mail address and adding Yahoo messenger handle), I noticed I had been subscribed to threads I either never have been to or haven't been to in a very long time. And posts I was subscribed to were no longer listed.

Then I noticed that my signature had gone from having JIMMY BUFFETT spelled that way to "JUMMY BUFFETT" (And I am very anal about spelling .... as you can tell by my posts, I edit them...... every time I see I made a mistake.... I can't believe I haven't noticed the "JUMMY BUFFETT" sooner.

I admit those seem small.... but now I am wondering if someone is in my account or if I am losing it?

And why would someone want into my account and change things?

Hmmmmmmm..... am I paranoid or are "they" out to get me...... whoever the Hell "they" are and why would "they" come after me? Why would "They" leave such obvious things for me to find?

Unless of course "they" want me to know "they" are after me, to see how I would react............

bwahhahhahahahahaha I am losing it...... and this is clean and sober..... and the above is dead serious which makes me think I may need a jacket to hug myself and rooms that have nice soft walls and a station wagon with a wailing woman sound and a revolving cherry on top to take me there......

Of course "they" could be my ex-wife playing mind games..... the bitch.... or I could just be going crazy and have snapped under all the problems and stress I've had lately....... or I could just need laid.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

Ishmal

change your password,

then "they" will be stumped...

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Benji

Stay out of your account for a week, and see if there are any login's recorded or something? But if someone is using your account and they read this they will not log in to foil my plan!

pan6467

See "They", whoever "they" are now know I am onto them...... And how do I know that one of you posters aren't one of "them"?

But the question remains..... why would "they" be after me?

To be honest I always thought paranoid delusions were just egos gone awry because the people who had them believed the world couldn't function without them.......

See paranoia is where you THINK someone is out after you.... I KNOW someone is after me...... but the question is why......

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

aberkok

Hopefully your password isn't 1...2....3.....4......5. That's the kind of combination an idiot would have on his luggage!!

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pan6467

hmmmm how did you know my password, including the exact number of dots??????????

And how did you know I had it on my luggage also?????

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

ManWithAPlan

It was me...

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aKula

That's not the real pan, they stole his account and are now posting this to keep us confused and unsuspecting.

Martian

In fact, pan6467 was kidnapped by the Illuminati months ago and now resides on... The Island. They've replaced him with a look-alike, but cracks were showing through, necessitating that the Illuminati stage an elaborate hoax detailing several minor changes to pan6467's account followed by a post highlighting those changes and therefore removing suspicion from the double and placing it on some non-existant third party. Our task now is to find out what pan6467 knew that necessitated him being moved to... The Island and to attempt to free him. It's a dangerous job. And actually I hear that... The Island actually isn't such a bad place to be. And nobody likes danger.

Yeah, on second thought we'll leave him to it, I'm sure he doesn't need our help.

Seriously dude, why would someone break into your account to change 'Jimmy' to 'Jummy'?

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Elphaba

Pan, when my post count hit 666, some unidentified source changed me to "Evil" for a day. Some higher power must be the cause of your woes. You're doomed, man.

Sultana

*giggles*

*laughs harder*

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pan6467

I joke because it seems so stupid and because I don't want to sound too crazy..... but I really am concerned.

I know it seems little and wouldn't mean much but this has me truly wondering.

I mean subscriptions to threads I swear to God I never have been in or knew existed...... and now I am thinking about the other weirdnesses on my puter.

Like now I'm finding pictures in my computer that I have never seen, e-mail coming in from people I never met who talk to me like I'm an old friend, people on my messenger (Yahoo who IM me even though they I have no idea who they are and they aren't spammers...) and when I talk to these people I get like a hi response and they may say 1 or 2 things then say "oops sorry wrong person" and that's it..... then a day or 2 later comeback and do the same thing.....

This all started about 2 weeks ago when my computer crashed and I had to reload everything...... I thought it was a virus but now I wonder if someone in my apt. complex or somewhere tapped into me.

My computer's history has sites I've never been to.

People are saying they said hi to me and that I was logged in when I haven't been.

If I didn't know better I'd swear someone was using my computer when I wasn't here. Or the ex wife is trying to fuck with me.

Am I paranoid or do I have reason to be?

I mean it's not like my CC or bank account has money disappearing or that I'm getting things I didn't order or such things.

I just haven't said anything before because I don't want people thinking I've lost it

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

aKula

maybe someone's trojaned it and connecting through it for kicks?

analog

There are various funny things that happen to a person's title at certain intervals... and pretty much no one but Halx even knows what they all are, because he manually coded them all in himself. The "evil" thing is one that I know of already.

And I guess in all the confusion, you didn't actually fix your sig, because it still says JUMMY.

tecoyah

Are you running a wireless system at all?

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JustJess

I read this thread the other day, and it said Jimmy Buffett, and now it's wrong again. That's odd.

I don't think you're crazy - I think Tec's onto something.

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pan6467

No Wireless and yes, I see it says Jummy again, and I swear on all that is holy I did NOT change it.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

Charlatan

Maybe it's Jimmy Buffet himself playing games with you...


Make sure your wireless is WEP protected. Make sure you change ALL your passwords.

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pan6467

I just don't know anymore... this is getting too wierd for me.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

pan6467

I just changed my password.... is there a way a mod can find out what time my signature was changed?

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

pan6467

Could the fact I very rarely log out and usually put my puter on "stand-by" when I leave and nothing when I am here and go to bed?

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

pan6467

Wow...... I changed my password, as stated above, got a PM tried to just use the link from the email notice and it told me to log in.... logged out the one window and tried to log in..... the new password wasn't matching had to have a new password sent to me.......

I know this sounds crazy...... but it's scaring the fuck out of me now, I'm either cracking up or someone is truly pushing my buttons.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

tecoyah

It does sound as if someone is remote accessing your PC......if so, this is not a good thing.....I am going to check a couple things here....brb


*edit*....I got nothin on my end

Silvy

looks as though someone has hacked your account (possibly by accessing your PC first).
Could someone log in from a second PC using the stolen password, and then not log out (so password changes will not affect them)?

It must be a serious hack if everything is done from your PC (by local or remote access). Someone would have to go through a lot of trouble to record changes and change everything back when you're away.

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pan6467

The question to all this would be why?

I don't hurt anyone, I mind my business, I just do not understand why anyone would do this to me.

If I knew some big corporate secrets or if I had pissed off the right people I may understand, but I'm just a drug counselor/student, who as far as I know has no enemies.

Weird...... scary and unbelieveable.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

Ishmal

yer,

i've been following this thread since Pan started it...

and it definately said Jimmy when i last looked...

very strange indeed!

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t3m3st

My Advice:

If you can change your password from a different computer, do that.

I'm assuming you're on Windows for the rest.

Download Zonealarm. Google it. It's a free little firewall that might help you out.
Turn on your OS's firewall.
Download Spybot S&D and Adaware. Google them, or try download.com
Update your Antivirus.
Run scans with all those programs.

Try disconnecting your computer from the internet and reconnecting whenever you need it. If actually shutting down your computer is gonna help, do it.

I'm sure I've got more ideas... PM me if you need any help.

Editing to add... You didn't have to have pissed anyone off neccesarily to have instigated this, if it's a hack. It may be random and just for kicks.

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pan6467

I downloaded Zone Alert when the computer crashed a couple weeks ago and I love it.

I do have a question, is it possible the crash was someone jumping in so that when I did get ZA they were already in so it wouldn't show?

(My crash was: the screen went black and when I would reboot it would go through the opening info then go black like Win.XP wasn't loading or working .... so I just reloaded my XP, that's all I did not sure if I corrected anything or just left everything that had been there in the memory as I do know my memory has dropped by about 5-6%, yet nothing shows up on my virus, spyware and adware scans.)

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

pan6467

Ok so I went to turn off my puter as I was leaving to go out to eat and ZA comes out and says there is an access on my computer and I can name the network along with 2 choices I can't remember them.... I ended up locking the internet because my computer would not shut down.

Is there anyone (RoadRunner) I can call and have them check me out before I wipe my computer clean?

And will wiping it clean help, if they are already on my IP and whatnot?

The odd thing is shortly before I tried to logout and turn it off my ex-wife came online (we're still on each other's Yahoo IM's.......) I seriously doubt she would do it, but I don't think I know her as well as I thought.

The people above me, in my apt. complex I'm pretty sure are drug dealers or meth cookers and maybe they are doing this, I just don't know who to trust or what to do anymore.

Someone please HELP

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

t3m3st

If there's a mod watching this thread, can you maybe send it over to tilted computers?

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QuasiMojo

This whole thing is so "WestWorld" ma-a-a-n.

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raveneye

Pan, my 2 cents:

This is a practical joke played on you by another TFP member, or a friend who is familiar with your TFP use. It's unlikely that some random person has accessed your computer in the first place, and if they did, why on earth would they edit your TFP profile? So in my opinion there's nothing to worry about, this is just somebody playing a harmless practical joke.

So it comes down to, who would be able to edit your profile? Here are the possibilities:

-- a TFP moderator
-- a TFP member who is an experienced hacker who managed to hack his way onto the TFP server
-- an acquaintance of yours who is familiar with your TFP interest and who watched you log on, or has access to your computer

If I were you, I'd be racking my brain trying to think of a reason anybody would be wanting to play a practical joke on me, someone who is familiar with TFP and knows me either personally or through my TFP posts.

If the person did not know you fairly well, then they would probably be doing this to other members also. If it's not someone you know physically, then it's probably a TFP member that you've interacted with a lot.

In any case I don't think it's something to worry about, in terms of any kind of harm.

Lasereth

This thread is seriously entertaining. Keep up the good work.

-Lasereth

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pan6467

Glad someone is getting a laugh out of it.

I have tried ZA, Spybot, Adware and several other things and so far it seems better. I even took it into the UofA computer center and they couldn't really find anything wrong, a few viruses but nothing that would say for sure I was compromised.

Maybe I was just paranoid, and maybe someone in TFP land was just messing with my head and changing "Jimmy" to "Jummy" (which as soon as I post this I am changing back). And maybe someone knew my Yahoo password and just signed onto theirs using my name and password to screw with me.

Maybe a lot of things.... but the biggest and scariest thing is the fact that ZA came out with one of those warnings as I was turning off saying it had detected another user computer on me and did I want to add it to my network...... or something to that effect. That I wish I could have copied or pictured so that everyone could see what I am talking about, and maybe explain to me that it wasn't serious.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"

Rawb

pan, it sounds like someone has installed a "rootkit" on your machine and is messing with you.

I would guess that it is all for a lark. But you sound pretty nervous about it.

Here is what I would suggest you do:

Download knoppix, burn the CD and run it, at least for a day or two. Knoppix is a CD-based linux distribution (meaning, that if you have someone who has remote access to your computer, their access methods won't work under linux), it won't write anything to your hard drive, or make you lose any data. Setup a new webmail account (with a new and unique password), login to TFP, and have it change the email address to that new webmail account, then change your TFP password, and use the password that you just got at that new webmail account. If you have TFP problems beyond that... there are bigger forces at work here.

pig

Yeah, I was thinking about "who has access to the email account you signed up with / use?" All they would have to do is request a TFP password change, then reset it to whatever it was originally, but now they have your password. They then proceed to Jummy your ass straight to loony bin.

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MSD

I checked all IP addresses you've ever used on TFP, and they're almost all from Akron U or roadrunner, with the exception of one from Stark Library in Canton, two from sssnet.net and one from one from the *.oh.us domain.

genuinegirly

So I'm enjoying this thread too. It's freaky though... i hope i have everything set up to avoid something like this.

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ManWithAPlan

ironically (to this thread) i just got 6 e-mail reply notification messages for this thread (in a row.. all at 11:27... i think mrselfdestruct is hacking us =p

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pan6467

Akron U and RR are me, Stark Library is the only other possibility. I have no idea what sssnet nor *.oh.us is. I only access from here or home (the SCL may have been when I moved and didn't have access for a couple days).

Thanks Mr. I truly appreciate the help.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"