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[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

I might even own an Anne Murray album or two!!! (NOT)

GOD NO!!!!

Oh good, you said (Not) I feel better now

Edited October 16, 2007 by ~Laura and Nick~

[~Nini~ 2]

*starts an Anne Murray bonfire, dances around it*

I had to stare at those CDs all the time at work...

[Ban Hammer 13,098]

Someone hacked in to my ebay account today and bid on 22 mobile phones on ebay.uk

It's really weird and I wouldn't have known except the thief tried to change the email address on my account (haven't looked at my ebay account in several months).

You know how you get those phishing emails from 'ebay' periodically which are obvious frauds, well I think they are obvious. Anyway I see this email come in today and I'm thinking - yeah, but I open it and it's not a fraud, it has my name, my login name etc at the top. So I go to ebay and log in and there is a copy of said email in 'my messages' - so it is legit - confirming my change of email address on the account.

Look further, here are all these items I have 'won' and several more that are pending. I contacted ebay security and they managed to cancel 18 of the auctions the dim wit was bidding on - but how inconvenient is that for the people who were selling those items?

I'm just glad my login for ebay and paypal are different.

So I had to change all my passwords, including my email password. Dweebssss!

do you by any chance have any programs that check both antivirus and spyware? it sounds like you might have a keylogger.

[trailmix 77]

do you by any chance have any programs that check both antivirus and spyware? it sounds like you might have a keylogger.

I did, apparently it may not have been very good (not sure if it was that but it crossed my mind) - so formatted the drive and reinstalled windows, got new antivirus software, very annoying.

[misa 2]

For those applying for or already applied for EI... I posted this in the pinned thread:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...t&p=1273347

I know I can do telephone reporting, but I'd rather mail it in so that there's an actual papertrail.

[DeadPoolX 9]

do you by any chance have any programs that check both antivirus and spyware? it sounds like you might have a keylogger.

I did, apparently it may not have been very good (not sure if it was that but it crossed my mind) - so formatted the drive and reinstalled windows, got new antivirus software, very annoying.

A good program to use (although it does cost) is called ScanSpyware. It seems to catch everything that Ad-Aware and SpyBot tend to miss. I still use those two as well (I also run SpywareBlaster too), but I'd definitely recommend getting ScanSpyware, if nothing else.

Of course, make sure to run a firewall and a virus scanner. Two good ones that're easy to come by are ZoneAlarm and AVG Anti-Virus. There are others of course, but I really like those, since they don't hog system resources or mess up the OS (like McAfee and Norton usually do).

[trailmix 77]

do you by any chance have any programs that check both antivirus and spyware? it sounds like you might have a keylogger.

I did, apparently it may not have been very good (not sure if it was that but it crossed my mind) - so formatted the drive and reinstalled windows, got new antivirus software, very annoying.

A good program to use (although it does cost) is called ScanSpyware. It seems to catch everything that Ad-Aware and SpyBot tend to miss. I still use those two as well (I also run SpywareBlaster too), but I'd definitely recommend getting ScanSpyware, if nothing else.

Of course, make sure to run a firewall and a virus scanner. Two good ones that're easy to come by are ZoneAlarm and AVG Anti-Virus. There are others of course, but I really like those, since they don't hog system resources or mess up the OS (like McAfee and Norton usually do).

AVG was what I was using - however I still don't know if it was keylogging or not, nothing else was compromised, just cleaned it all up to make sure. Also use Ad-aware and use spybot from time to time.

I suspect it has more to do with Ebay and less to do with my computer. It had been months since I had logged in to ebay.

[lynamon 0]

For those applying for or already applied for EI... I posted this in the pinned thread:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...t&p=1273347

I know I can do telephone reporting, but I'd rather mail it in so that there's an actual papertrail.

I didn't know that we could do telephone reporting .. hmmm .. do you have more info?

[misa 2]

I didn't know that we could do telephone reporting .. hmmm .. do you have more info?

I don't, but I think several others (mephys comes to mind) do telephone reporting. I think... maybe emancipation did?

[Emancipation 2]

I didn't know that we could do telephone reporting .. hmmm .. do you have more info?

I don't, but I think several others (mephys comes to mind) do telephone reporting. I think... maybe emancipation did?

I never did it personally, but I've read loads of people who had like a month of cards to submit and when they were talking to Out of Country Claims office basically asked nicely for them to take the cards over the phone instead of filing a whole group of cards at one time via mail. It's not like in Canada that there is a dedicated line for it, it's just when you are talking to the gals ask them nicely with loads of sugar on top to take your cards "while you got 'em on the line"..

I think it's kinda a one time deal though, not like every week you can call in your cards.. That's my guesstimation.

[Carlawarla 1]

There was a mix up in my cards not being mailed to me for several weeks, and I phoned EI. They didn't know what happened, but took myinformation over the phone. I asked if I couldn't just always do my reporting by phone and the lady said no, unfortunately, out of country claims can only mail in their reports except for exceptions like I was experiencing. I was thankful that incident only happened once. Otherwise, my cards and monies are always on time and deposited as per schedule.

Carla

[Krikit 1,163]

I think I'm going to take a break from VJ for a while. All the negativity is bringing me down. It's even crept into the Canada Forum.

[trailmix 77]

I think I'm going to take a break from VJ for a while. All the negativity is bringing me down. It's even crept into the Canada Forum.

Ahhhh! don't go krikit!

[Flames9_RN 358]

VJ can be grim at times, but for the most part us canucks try to remain positive!! Just ignore the negative people as much as possible!! Don't feed them anything to get them started,lol

[trailmix 77]

VJ can be grim at times, but for the most part us canucks try to remain positive!! Just ignore the negative people as much as possible!! Don't feed them anything to get them started,lol

Speaking of food, I think it is lunch time!!