They didn't need your computer to raid your Paypal account. Remember that
Paypal is a website you can log into from any computer, anywhere in the
world....if you have a username and password. Someone figured out your
password and stole your money....I doubt they used your computer unless they
raided your computer to get where you wrote the password in a file.
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Chris Crawford
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On 12/24/07 5:51 PM, "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Nevertheless, I suffered a raid on my Paypal account recently because
> my OSX firewall settings were wrong (as my son contemptuously
> informed me). Eight spurious transactions of $50 and $100. This
> happened two days after making a couple of purchases from Hong Kong
> and China. I lost nothing as I was able to reverse the transactions
> but it was annoying and took time to sort out, including a couple of
> days with my account suspended.
> Fortunately I have email notification of all transactions and saw
> them immediately.
> Unfortunately my account is linked to my bank so there were a half-
> dozen calls on that account to top up my deliberately low PP balance.
> But for the international delay in transfer, I may have lost funds.
> GriSoft now assures me that I'm running in Stealth mode, that is that
> I don't exist, but does it only check for Windows vulnerabilities?
> Could we still be vulnerable to intrusions tailored to find Mac users?
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 25/12/2007, at 8:57 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> It's one of the (many) advantages of running a Mac, Bob. If the
>> Grisoft site is right, it's very reassuring ...
>
>
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