Good frickin' security-breach morning.

[scyllacat]

I know, it's not morning anymore.

Last night I tried LimeWire for the first time.

Less than 12 hours later, someone had charged (or attempted to charge) $700 to my paypal account.

I shut down all my files that I had been sharing. I do not like to think of this. Everything seems wide open now.

Yes, all my financial files, and all the accounts I use regularly, IM, email, have had passwords changed.

I'm so naive sometimes, thinking people are not up at all hours wandering through my old documents....

Comments

[mother-beech.livejournal.com]

Yeeek! That makes me scared!! I use LimeWire, but I have a small amount of files that are open to be shared. I should probably go through and dump those anyway at this point. I'm glad nothing really terrible actually happened, but boo hiss for interweb-scares!

[mtn-hermit.livejournal.com]

Was it that there files shared that you didn't realize were shared?

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

Yup. They're unshared, and removed, and locked out of other users. Like, I had no idea, but I stupidly went to bed without shutting down.

[grizzlydan.livejournal.com]

Limewire BAD. Very bad. Uninstall now, please.

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

'k, done.

Got an alternate suggestion for peeps who want file sharing? I'll pay a reasonable amount for it.

[mtn-hermit.livejournal.com]

Yes. Shareaza (http://www.shareaza.com). Open source, so no spy-ware or ad-ware. I've used it for years and loves it.

[peteyfrogboy.livejournal.com]

Yikes! That's another good reason to keep being a worthless leech like me. :)

[jackothegreen.livejournal.com]

Limewire not bad. Hackers and Phishers bad. Set LIMEWIRE to no share your files and let them phish elsewhere.

[snooze.livejournal.com]

I'm not too sure what you installed LimeWire for, but Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php) is a good peer to peer file sharing site. It's not exactly like LimeWire in that the Azureus program doesn't search for files - you have to go to a torrent site like Isohunt (http://www.isohunt.com) to download a torrent, then open it up with Azureus, and BAM! Instant* download!



*instant-ity may vary depending on your connection speed.