{"id":66,"date":"2010-06-19T01:39:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T00:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2010-06-19T01:39:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T00:39:23","slug":"family-and-email-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Family and email security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just spent three hours cleaning out my mothers computer. Hadn&#8217;t been virus or spyware checked in over two years. Fortunately she doesn&#8217;t browse much so she got away with some odd keylogger and AV-avoider. But that seems to have been enough for someone to get into her Yahoo Mail account, change the password and spam her contact list saying she&#8217;s in financial trouble in Kuala Lumpur (and to send her money there, of course) before deleting not just those sent items but everything else in the account.<\/p>\n<p>So we finally figured out the password reset secret answers and got the passwords reset using <a href=\"http:\/\/keepass.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">KeePass<\/a> this time. It will probably take mum some time to get used to it, but the other option is setting her up with webmail on my server instead where I can restore from backups, because there seemed to be no way to restore once the trash file has been emptied..<\/p>\n<p>That said though, half an hour ago I found a link to the mailbox recovery form. It&#8217;s only a maybe, and only good for 24hours after deletion,\u00a0 but it&#8217;s a better chance than none at all. And thanks to using KeePass and helping her pick the master password, I could get in to use the form while she&#8217;s asleep.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe if we&#8217;re lucky, morning will come around and some of her mails will be restored to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech support for family is tricky, especially when the damage is already done..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[23,22,25,26,24],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-email","tag-family","tag-spam","tag-spyware","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-fox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}