sovrappeso Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 When I signed in to Sheffield History Forum (not to be confused with SF history & expats), I received a message saying that someone had signed in simultaneously from Woking. I have since changed my Microsoft account password but the same thing happens. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghozer Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Who is your ISP? It may be that the routing of your ISP means it thinks you are in Woking.. Go here, https://www.iplocation.net/ see where it thinks you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sovrappeso Posted March 26, 2021 Author Share Posted March 26, 2021 Thanks Ghozer, It says I am in Sheffield/ Chesterfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKAMD Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 I recently had my outlook email account hacked; beware of email alerts from Microsoft urging you to verify your account. If you hover the curser over the senders name it will identify the real sender's address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirsty Relic Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Full anti-virus checks needed at first sign of problems like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKAMD Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Thanks Thirsty Relic. Just done a scan and no virus found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotequila Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ghozer said: Who is your ISP? It may be that the routing of your ISP means it thinks you are in Woking.. Go here, https://www.iplocation.net/ see where it thinks you are That was educational, apparently I'm using Mac OS X and I'm in Southampton 😂 I'm on a Chromebook in Sheffield. To the OP, if you're worried about a hacked account, run your antivirus and then change your password, don't do it the other way around. Edited March 26, 2021 by Pyrotequila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghozer Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 9 minutes ago, Pyrotequila said: That was educational, apparently I'm using Mac OS X and I'm in Southampton 😂 I'm on a Chromebook in Sheffield. To the OP, if you're worried about a hacked account, run your antivirus and then change your password, don't do it the other way around. It may identify as Mac OSX as it will report as a "Unix" variant etc, so if you OS Just reports as "Unix based" - the best guess/most popular Unix based is Mac OS and for Southampton, that's as I said above - because that is the location your ISP is routed from, and is the closest point the website can identify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sovrappeso Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 I've run McAfee full antivirus scan & found nothing. Just noticed that McAfee's ID for my laptop is not the same as Windows 10's ID for it. Is this normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghozer Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 2 hours ago, sovrappeso said: I've run McAfee full antivirus scan & found nothing. Just noticed that McAfee's ID for my laptop is not the same as Windows 10's ID for it. Is this normal? It's probably basing on your Computer name or something... you can usually set this manually.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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