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    Quote Originally Posted by Pokemon Trainer Sarah View Post
    Actually I can't access admin logs. xD I dunno if Apollo can. Harry or Ray will have to check it out. I can't imagine a mod would do this though. I can understand a joke, but that image is rule-breakingly big. Are you sure no one else knows your password or could have accessed your account?
    I'm positive. I always log out of public computers and my laptop and I live at least 7 miles from any friend who could use it or see my password as I enter it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Obliveon View Post
    I'm positive. I always log out of public computers and my laptop and I live at least 7 miles from any friend who could use it or see my password as I enter it.
    The public computers could have been infected with a virus that recorded passwords (I believe called keyloggers?). I'd suggest a virus scan of your computer, as well, and then changing your password.

    What is odd, however, is that this seems to be a prank. The issue is finding who did it. Prank or not, if a Senior Moderator or Admin did it, they broke privacy and must be dealt with. If someone got into your account, however, you'll need to change passwords (after virus scanning), and possibly on more sites if you find a virus or logged in elsewhere on other sites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grassy_Aggron View Post
    The public computers could have been infected with a virus that recorded passwords (I believe called keyloggers?). I'd suggest a virus scan of your computer, as well, and then changing your password.

    What is odd, however, is that this seems to be a prank. The issue is finding who did it. Prank or not, if a Senior Moderator or Admin did it, they broke privacy and must be dealt with. If someone got into your account, however, you'll need to change passwords (after virus scanning), and possibly on more sites if you find a virus or logged in elsewhere on other sites.
    I doubt it was a public computer. The ones I use are college computers and they wipe their hardrives automatically every time they shut down. Besides, I don't know anyone at my college who would want to do this. The other public computers are my local ones at the Library, but no one in town knows I like Pokémon so they wouldn't be able to do this. There is ONE person who comes to mind, and who is a brilliant hacker, but I don't know who they are in real life and the "I got you a balloon" part doesn't fit their personality.

    I suppose it's possible, but I doubt it. This computer is new and has Norton. I don't think it was a virus on my laptop but it has been working funny lately because Kaspersky antivirus needed to be renewed so it wouldn't let me update Windows 8.
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    Just because no one knows you like Pokemon, does not negate you from being a target. It would be someone you wouldn't know in the case of a virus catching your password, and at least it seemed to be a harmless prank. Viruses don't pick the victim, especially on public computers. They take all who come.

    Knowing someone in real life does not make you safe from being hacked. In fact, it makes it easier for them due to the fact they can remain anonymous. Your friend may have done a prank, and you should ask them if you can.

    EDIT: Do what Sarah suggested, but do a virus scan first.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grassy_Aggron View Post
    Just because no one knows you like Pokemon, does not negate you from being a target. It would be someone you wouldn't know in the case of a virus catching your password, and at least it seemed to be a harmless prank. Viruses don't pick the victim, especially on public computers. They take all who come.

    Knowing someone in real life does not make you safe from being hacked. In fact, it makes it easier for them due to the fact they can remain anonymous. Your friend may have done a prank, and you should ask them if you can.

    EDIT: Do what Sarah suggested, but do a virus scan first.
    MegaZone/PokeZone is NOT my friend. Trust me. And my friends aren't the type to pull internet pranks [or rl pranks for that matter]. Like me, they're all sensitive people and know just how much this would hurt me or make me angry. I believe you about the virus, but what would be the point of this? I don't think it was intended to be harmless because of the image limits. If I hadn't found and fixed it, I would have been in trouble. If it is Mega, then he did it intentionally to spite me because of something that happened on PokeHunngry.

    Anyway, what's also odd is that my sig wasn't changed anywhere else. The image is a direct link to PokeHunngry, so they could've changed it there too just to be mean but didn't.
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