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All of my accounts keep getting hacked, from my google account all the way to my steam account! I have avast which I dont think it works very well and I use an ad blocker. My steam account has been hacked twice and my microsoft account has been before. I have been able to always recover them since I am a "tech savy" person. But does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop this?

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Atleast change ALL of your passwords to different unique ones, use the feature on a lot of services to 'logout' all active sessions, and enable 2fa 

 

And before doing so check what your recovery settings are and if they're going to secured email accounts etc 

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11 minutes ago, DarkBlocks said:

All of my accounts keep getting hacked, from my google account all the way to my steam account! I have avast which I dont think it works very well and I use an ad blocker. My steam account has been hacked twice and my microsoft account has been before. I have been able to always recover them since I am a "tech savy" person. But does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop this?

change all of your passwords. Never use the same one for multiple accounts. Stop vissiting strange websites.

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11 minutes ago, DarkBlocks said:

All of my accounts keep getting hacked, from my google account all the way to my steam account! I have avast which I dont think it works very well and I use an ad blocker. My steam account has been hacked twice and my microsoft account has been before. I have been able to always recover them since I am a "tech savy" person. But does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop this?

Use unique strong passwords. I have tiers for my passwords that range from throwaway to "this is the only one with this password"

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32 minutes ago, DarkBlocks said:

All of my accounts keep getting hacked, from my google account all the way to my steam account! I have avast which I dont think it works very well and I use an ad blocker. My steam account has been hacked twice and my microsoft account has been before. I have been able to always recover them since I am a "tech savy" person. But does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop this?

Honestly sounds like you either went on a bad site or downloaded/torrented something you shouldnt have and are now paying the price for that. 

 

Change all accounts and Pw but at this point you may have to just make new accounts for Gmail. 

 

AVAST is useless, it wont prevent your mistakes. 

 

Also sounds like you may need to wipe your windows install, you can download malwarebytes and do a full scan, but otherwise you may have to wipe all the drives or buy new ones and break the ones infected.

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Thank you everyone! Well when i was first hacked I changed all my passwords to something else that wasn't so obvious and short, and possibly I may of downloaded something that could've given me a virus. I may get something like nordvpn or something similar but, thank you all for the help!

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4 hours ago, DarkBlocks said:

Thank you everyone! Well when i was first hacked I changed all my passwords to something else that wasn't so obvious and short, and possibly I may of downloaded something that could've given me a virus. I may get something like nordvpn or something similar but, thank you all for the help!

A VPN won't help stop you from getting a virus. 

I would recommend being extra cautious about what links you click as don't download anything suspicious. 

A good anti-virus like eset or Kaspersky will help but none are fool proof. 

https://www.av-comparatives.org/

That site does great work on checking those solutions. 

If you want to download suspicious software do that in a sandbox vm as well. 

Also if your email is on your phone, check your phone as well. 

If your phone is compromised they would be able to get all your accounts linked with it too. 

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keepass can help keep track of your passwords in a special file, so you could store the password file on a usb, disconnected until needed, or bitwarden is also an option.

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How bad is e-waste?  Listen to that Joe Rogan episode.

 

"Now you get what you want, but do you want more?
- Bob Marley, Rastaman Vibration album 1976

 

Windows 11 will just force business to "recycle" "obscolete" hardware.  Microsoft definitely isn't bothered by this at all, and seems to want hardware produced just a few years ago to be considered obsolete.  They have also not shown any interest nor has any other company in a similar financial position, to help increase tech recycling whatsoever.  Windows 12 might be cloud-based and be a monthly or yearly fee.

 

Software suggestions


Just get f.lux [Link removed due to forum rules] so your screen isn't bright white at night, a golden orange in place of stark 6500K bluish white.

released in 2008 and still being improved.

 

Dark Reader addon for webpages.  Pick any color you want for both background and text (background and foreground page elements).  Enable the preview mode on desktop for Firefox and Chrome addon, by clicking the dark reader addon settings, Choose dev tools amd click preview mode.

 

NoScript or EFF's privacy badger addons can block many scripts and websites that would load and track you, possibly halving page load time!

 

F-droid is a place to install open-source software for android, Antennapod, RethinkDNS, Fennec which is Firefox with about:config, lots of performance and other changes available, mozilla KB has a huge database of what most of the settings do.  Most software in the repository only requires Android 5 and 6!

 

I recommend firewall apps (blocks apps) and dns filters (redirect all dns requests on android, to your choice of dns, even if overridden).  RethinkDNS is my pick and I set it to use pi-hole, installed inside Ubuntu/Debian, which is inside Virtualbox, until I go to a website, nothing at all connects to any other server.  I also use NextDNS.io to do the same when away from home wi-fi or even cellular!  I can even tether from cellular to any device sharing via wi-fi, and block anything with dns set to NextDNS, regardless if the device allows changing dns.  This style of network filtration is being overridden by software updates on some devices, forcing a backup dns provuder, such as google dns, when built in dns requests are not connecting.  Without a complete firewall setup, dns redirection itself is no longer always effective.

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