Sleepwalking, Virus or Hacker?
 

Waking my computer up this morning, one of my for sale threads on Pelican was open in Firefox. That thread was last opened on 4/27 and I remember opening it.

I have both Firefox and Safari, but use FF 99% of the time.

Timestamp was 3:13AM

That's the strangest part. There was no timestamp trail to find the thread and open it.

Also, it was open as a "new post," that is the last part of the address was the Pelican thread ID followed by the thread title followed by "-new-post.html."

I have a Mac, use Avast and just a week ago ran a virus check with nothing found.

Now and again, Avast gives me the red virus screen of death when I click around on Pelican. Related?

My sense is it has to be a hacker who can open a window from my browser history, but couldn't actually close the window, or wanted me to know they have access to my computer.

Thoughts?

Maybe the browser crashed and re-started at some point, opening something from the history list?

Perfectly plausible.

There's spirits about.

Just stay away from the porn sites and it will stop.

You only say that because you are part of the cabal. :)

I have to take your word that it's plausible, but probable?

I am going with "chariots of the god's"

Have had it happen to me.

The raid controller in one of my boxes used to crash it in the middle of the night.

Had no idea it was happening.

OSX has a real time snapshot feature, anything open when the OS or hardware crashes will re open on reboot, even a doc that was not saved.

Thanks Wayne. What do you mean by session? I open and close and quit and open probably 100 times per day.

Quick question: what happened to the mobile version of Pelican for Safari on an iPhone. it's the web version but in nano format.

Disable your internet access at night. If they can't get in they can't look around.

Shaun, leave a cookie and a glass of milk out next to your computer at night. If you are sleep walking, you'll eat the cookie and drink the milk.

That does sound strange. I'm a Mac guy and would find it difficult to believe that you were hacked unless you changed a lot of OS X defaults.

re: iPhone - the forums look fine on my iPhone 5S running the latest IOS. You can actually switch back and forth between the regular view and mobile view. Since you appear to be in the regular view, do this:

scroll to the very bottom of the page
on the left side there is a drop down list that lets you choose between vBulletin style and mobile style. That should do it.

cheers,
Michael

Hey Michael, no, no change in settings.

I changed the dropdown box setting on my phone and it's more visible, but totally different from what I am used to. Before the change the other day, surfing Pel threads on my phone was easy and highly visible. Now one version is micro and the other is odd with view thread buttons. anyway, not a big deal.

Are you coming to Avengers on Saturday?

I actually like this. Just have a lot going on that would lead to a little paranoia.

Shaun, no, I can't make it to the movie tomorrow night - kid's school function going on for graduating senior.