Boy, do I feel dumb today >_>

Hello fellow netizens! Today is a new day after discovering my home computer got hacked ^^'.

So, it goes like this: My roomate somehow managed to get his discord account taken from him, only to have it used as bait for everybody on his friends list! Whoever had access to his account was at least smart enough to do a pretty good imitation of his chat patterns, so I was pretty surprised when I found out I just downloaded malware (T▽T)

Thankfully, I was able to get ahead of things and disconnect my desktop from the internet as well as change all of my passwords. I haven't seen any repercussions from this event so far, and, I'll be honest, I don't pray very often, but I definitely did last night.

At the end of the day, I see it as a good opportunity to check up on my personal security.... And a good reason to reset my desktop (ノ﹏ヽ). I have been humbled today, and I hope you all can take my mistake and use it to check up on your own personal security on the great big World Wide Web!


ps: 

Saving passwords on your web browser is a horrible idea! Please be sure to remove all auto login information from your browsers! It's incredibly easy to grab this information with access to your computer! If you think it wont happen to you, then you are the prime target for this. We are all vulnerable.


Good day.


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