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SeatedNut Pillar of the Community United States 2797 Posts	Posted 02/15/2012 09:28 am Was checking a few listings last evening and opened one for an 1878 Morgan. A pop-up immediately appeared "User Authentication" with a spot for the userid and password. I clicked on the x box to delete the pop-up and proceeded. I re-clicked on the page to see if this was an anomaly and the pop-up reappeared. Reported it to ebay. Never, Never, Never enter your userid/password if you see this! I suspect this was a hijacked account from someone who entered their userid and password on a similar pop-up. The cancer grows. Report this Post to the Staff

wquinn Pillar of the Community United States 2295 Posts	Posted 02/15/2012 10:28 am Thanks for letting us know about this. Please keep us updated on what ebay replies with. Report this Post to the Staff
biokemist6 Bedrock of the Community United States 12437 Posts	Posted 02/15/2012 11:15 am I encountered something very similar to that last year, it was actually a virus on my computer that would pop off every time I tried to visit ebay.com but never showed itself any other time. Report this Post to the Staff
Broken-Coin Pillar of the Community United States 1812 Posts	Posted 02/15/2012 12:59 pm I registered with ebay back in early 1997 (a great site back then)... In April of 2006 I had a ebay Coin Store with a direct link from my store to my PayPal account that had been hacked into and these b@stards somehow blocked me from accessing both my accounts... The end result was that after both accounts were unfrozen, I closed my store on ebay and closed out my PayPal and Checking Accounts (also had to change my credit cards)... When ebay refused to provide me the necessary information on the person/persons so I could pursue legal action against them, claiming they were prohibited by law to release personal information, I was done doing business with them... Report this Post to the Staff
VisigothKing Pillar of the Community United States 4778 Posts	Posted 02/15/2012 1:07 pm Careful. You can still get something bad installed on your computer by closing out malicious popups and ads with the close button (the red one). When you can, try closing ads/popups through Task Manager. Report this Post to the Staff
trdhrdr007 Pillar of the Community United States 2335 Posts	Posted 02/15/2012 3:54 pm Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I'll pull the ethernet cable out of my modem when I get a suspicious popup, turn off my browser & run a check on my system. Report this Post to the Staff
VisigothKing Pillar of the Community United States 4778 Posts	Posted 02/15/2012 4:04 pm Better being paranoid than spending a lot of money getting your comp cleaned or even having to buy a new one entirely because of a virus or infection. Edited by VisigothKing 02/15/2012 4:05 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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