Oddchat Security Warning
Just a brief warning to all fellow IRCers or Oddchatters.
I was given a website address to visit a while ago by one of the chatters in IRC who claimed to be a "Hacker".
I visited the website using a seperate IE window, and the window got closed automatically. After I told everyone what visiting the website did, the hacker started laughing at me, but seemed annoyed that I was still in oddchat.
I never figured out what visiting that website did to my computer until very recently. I opened IE from the start menu and, suprise suprise, I find that the "microsoft internet explorer" had been changed to "PreXidy TeaM explorer".
The homepage address had been changed to the website address that I was given in the IRC chat by the "hacker", so that whenever I tried to open internet explorer, it would close.
This is done through a script that actually modifies registry information. This is rather worrying, as this script could be used to change vital data in your registry.
I would urge that ALL oddchat users absolutely refuse to visit any website given by anyone unless they know what they are visiting or who they are dealing with.
Also, avoid even talking to users that are requesting info that could lead to them being able to access your account. The most you should tell anyone, is what your name is, what your hobbies are, and what country you are from. Never tell them your age, kids names, wifes names, moms names, dads names, or anything else that they could use to attempt to guess your password.
If you must talk about any of the above, and your password is for instance your mothers name or your date of birth, just lie to them about it, say that you are a year older or younger than you actually are, or that your mother is called something she is not.
There is actually no great threat if you stay in the IRC chatroom. The most that any hacker could do to you is kick you off of IRC, change your windows color scheme, move your mouse, or send you irritating windows popup messages.
This is done using a program named Sub7. People who use programs like this are known as "script kiddies". So if someone gives any kind of indication that they are using one of these programs, simply exit Oddchat.
Thanks everyone, and stay safe!
Death...
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