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I feel as tho I've been hacked or something :/
Hey all...
I know it's a strange title there but that's exactly how I feel lately. I've changed my passwords to both my email & FB in the past month like 3x's already. And some really strange things are happening that I have no explanation of whatsoever. Let's start with how it all began. We had a serious snow storm a few weeks back. It was actually a blizzard (2nd one I lived thru) Now some of may say so what you got a lot of snow...well that's not all a blizzard actually does...it starts days before with some freezing rain...ya freezing rain which is really then you get the hollowing winds like a train running thru town and then finally when you think it's all settled down that's when the blizzard actually starts to wind up and start at one end and work its way thru the country and when it gets to you...you better have everything you need because you aren't going anywhere with the amount of snow mother nature is about to dump on you. And that's actually what she did. She dumped so much snow on us over the frozen ice etc. that I couldn't even find a window to look out from thry were covered in snow and my poor pooch he had to go outside but I couldn't get the door open it was jammed in by all the snow. Well all this snow did something to my router and my dish box too actually. The hubby took care of the Dish and I unplugged the modem and the router and let them sit for a bit while I tried to look out any window to see the damage but it was still snowing...But when I plugged the modem back in I waited for everything to light up before I plugged in the router. Now I'm not sure if I put them in the right ports or if I've chosen the correct settings...but what I don't understand is...if I have a wireless router that gets hooked up to 2 pc's and a printer via phone line...why or how does Realtek come in play here?
And I do apologize for this being a long note here but if I don't tell it in details then I get confused and you'll be confused lol. Now since all this I tried to play with the router a bit by switching the plugs into different ports or change the settings and I had noticed a while back after my initial reinstall that my laptop was really kinda luggish...my bars were never really full anymore. Until I had changed the settings but when I changed these settings I also noticed that there were some other strange things going on. But I need to back up just before that...because before all that I had hit the reset button and totally lost our router info and everything that went with it. I had no clue whatsoever on how to get it back either. It was 2 days before I finally asked my son for his help. So when he came over the one day I asked him about it and he actually did it all from his phone...amazing what you can do with technology today...my son's a computer geek in a sense and works for a Dish Co. as their #1 Dish installer etc. so he knows a bit of what he's doing so I felt comfy with him. But still after all of this is said and done...I really started feeling nervous about something and I couldn't put my finger on it for some reason...so I changed my password for FB no problem and did the same on my iPhone no problem...now on my email I also have that to where it's a 2nd step verification with my iPhone so I felt ok with that. Until last week when I had to send a letter to my lawyer and it was sent no problem but I found it very odd that I get a letter from their "postmaster@theirdomain.com" at 3:15 a.m. like wth is that all about? That's about all I could say at that moment lol...seriously...and I didn't bother resending it because I had sent it to his personal email and he did get it that time. But I also received another email from that "postmaster" once again on the next day as well. Well then I started thinking maybe I have something wrong in my email so I changed my password in there and I did this probably 3x's in the past 2 days...because I really started getting unwanted mail and in my iPhone I some how lost my contacts and I have no idea what happened there because I didn't do anything to my phone at all and then here's the big one...I get a phone call from somebody in Domenica. Thankfully I wasn't near my phone to answer it. So strange things happening in my iPhone all of a sudden where I'm losing my contacts my most important contacts. And when I try to change my password for my email in my email like I've done before I get this message now that says..."server is unavailable" but I can still do all my other stuff. And my wifi on my iPhone still says what it's supposed to and has a lock on it. I just don't feel comfortable at all.
So I feel I've been hacked and I definitely don't feel comfy at all...not sure about my router or my MSE...or my SAS or MAS for that matter. How do I go about fixing any of this or where do I start? Any advice or help would greatly be appreciated
Thanks
DoeZ