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Ask Vic — My Facebook Account was Hacked, Now What?
Article by Vic HargraveFiled under: Ask Vic,Hackers and Phishing,Password,Social Networking,Tips and Tricks | RSS 2.0 | 4 Comments |
Elsie Porter writes:
My Facebook accout was hacked in February. The hackers used my profile photo and name and sent all my crafting friends messages saying I said, “Check out this link.” That link took them to NASTY Stuff and had a virus as well. My one friend let me know that Facebook put all safety settings back to “everyone” or “friends of friends.” No wonder I got hacked…
Vic’s answer:
Elsie, there are two issues here:
1) Your Facebook account was compromised and used to send malicious links to your friends. You and your friends can avoid falling prey to malicious links in your Facebook News Feed in the future by using Trend Micro™ Titanium™ Maximum Security. This version of Titanium provides a plugin to Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers that will mark the links that show up in your Facebook news feed and Google searches indicating whether the links are safe or dangerous.
2) As for the problem with your Facebook account getting hacked, there is no single solution, so I recommend following these hack proofing techniques:
- Choose hard to guess passwords. See my Fearless Web article on how to do this.
- Verify you’ve chosen a strong password by using Trend Micro’s password checker.
- Change your password every few months. That makes it more difficult to guess.
- Don’t share your password with anyone, even if you trust them completely. You can never be sure whether other folks will be careful with your account.
- Share your personal information with friends only.
If you are unable to recover your account, go to the Facebook Security page to report the problem. On that page Facebook provides several nice tools you can use to get back control of your account.
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4 Comments to "Ask Vic — My Facebook Account was Hacked, Now What?"
Vic Hargrave:Tuesday, 29. May 2012 at 7:42 pm |
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The first thing I would do is check the time on your PC. Assuming you are using Windows, do the following: 1. Click on the clock in the task bar. Next try clearing all your cookies and browsing data. Assuming you use Internet Explorer do teh following: 1. Open Internet Options in your Windows Control Panel. Taking these two sets of actions should take care of your certificates problem. Let me know if you continue to have problems or are using a browser other than Internet Explorer. |
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denise:Monday, 4. June 2012 at 5:05 pm |
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my account was hacked also. I was on my kindle when it happened. as far as I know I can not put trend protection on my kindle. am I correct? I changed my password on fb and am hoping for the best. thanks |
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Vic Hargrave:Tuesday, 5. June 2012 at 4:52 pm |
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If you were able to change your Facebook password then you are still in control of your account. I recommend that you change your password every couple of months and don’t let anyone use your account or know your password, even if you trust them. As for security protection we do have Trend Trend Micro Mobile Security Edition for Android mobile devices which should work on your Kindle Fire since it runs Android. |
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Judy Boyer:
Saturday, 26. May 2012 at 8:38 pmWed. got msg:”…problem with this website’s security certificate” facebook (fb), then e-mail. All was back nxt am. happened again to fb. got in once & pics didn’t sho w red “x”. Now can’t get in again. Not tech savvy, older and no one to help. tried clicking everything.