👍 #836 – My Email Is Hacked, How Do I Fix It? – 7 Things You Need to Do NOW!

A (Slightly) New Look

You may notice a slightly new look to Confident Computing.

Besides looking (in my opinion) slightly more professional, it should also now look better on mobile devices, and a wide variety of screen sizes.

As always, I don't set a font size and I don't set color. The defaults in most email programs are a reasonable sized black on white. If you're seeing something else, look to the settings in whatever program you use to read email. (Sorry to have to say this, but I get complaints from time to time, and it's typically not something in my control.)

I may have a few more more minor tweaks coming in upcoming weeks.

This week's articles & videos

One day you wake up to find your email account has been hacked.

What do you do next?

This week's featured article walks through the steps you need to take ASAP to attempt to recover your account, minimize the damage, and prevent it from happening again. My Email Is Hacked, How Do I Fix It? - 7 Things You Need to Do NOW!

Also this week:

• Copy-protected website? Don't count on it. (Mostly a warning for webmasters: if it can be seen, it can be copied.)
• You should have a recovery email address for your online accounts, but where?
• CPU maxed out? How to find the culprit.

TEH Podcast

Gary's new Mac with the new M1 processor is fast. We acknowledge SpaceX (and baby Yoda)'s trip to the space station. Would you get your prescriptions from Amazon? Bill Gates' new podcast. Boy's State. MacOS Big Sur, the importance of different passwords, and more. TEH 118: Zippy new Mac, SpaceX launches with Baby Yoda, Pharmacy takeovers, after Covid and young politics.

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Be the person who's kind first, this week, OK? Stay well...

This Week's Featured Article

My Email Is Hacked, How Do I Fix It? - 7 Things You Need to Do NOW!

If your email is hacked, there are several steps you need to take to fix it and prevent it from being hacked again.

https://askleo.com/5415

Also This Week on Ask Leo!

How Do I Copy Text from a Copy Protected Website? Assuming your intent is legal or at least moral, it's not hard to copy content from a webpage that attempts to prevent it. https://askleo.com/4360

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What Recovery Email Address Should I Use? Your recovery email address is easy to overlook and forget, but it can be critical to regaining access to a compromised account. Here's what you need to do. https://askleo.com/127155

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How Do I Find Out What Program Is Using All My CPU? Occasionally, one program uses all of your computer's processing resources. Using Task Manager, it's easy to figure out which program that is. https://askleo.com/3003

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What Good Is an Image If I Can't Restore an Old Backup to a New Computer? Image backups are excellent protection against data loss, but restoring an old backup to new computer isn't why you do them. https://askleo.com/3963

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What Good is an Image if I Can't Restore an Old Backup to a New Computer? Image backups are excellent protection against data loss, but restoring an old backup to new computer isn't why you do them. https://youtu.be/-Jsp2G8Vgac

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How Do I Find Out What Program Is Using All CPU? Using Task Manager to Track Down CPU Hogs Occasionally, one program uses all of your computer's processing resources - the CPU. Using Task Manager, it's easy to figure out which program that is. https://youtu.be/idMWDDBPGCs

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What Recovery Email Address Should I Use? Why Your Choice Matters Your recovery email address is easy to overlook and forget, but it can be critical to regaining access to a compromised account. Here's what you need to do. https://youtu.be/dQtFfjjU43w

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Tip of the Day: Change Your Router Password #short If I could have you do one and only one thing to your home network to improve security, changing your router's default administration password would be it. https://youtu.be/_I6d8F4vUvQ

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Email Hacked? Seven Things You Need to Do As Soon As You Realize Your Email has Been Hacked If your email is hacked there are several steps you need to take to fix it, and prevent it from being hacked again. https://youtu.be/T_Xv_dD2ClQ

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How Do I Copy Copy Protected Website Text? Why Copy Protection is Futile There are several techniques to copy protected website text. Content creators need to realize that at a very basic level, if it can be seen, it can be copied. https://youtu.be/Hwtp3Te4UPY

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