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in the zone files, which I had never done anything with either, and when that was fixed, my e-mail at hypermart worked. When I finally got on my e-mail at hypermart, I was delighted that it had a log which contained the IP address of the last four times you log in, plus the day and time you logged in. I made a practice of checking it. At first, as usual, I did get some e-mail, then I found an unknown IP address in my log. It was 12.45.243.150, and it was on 9/13/2004 twice at 11:45 am (Boston time). >AT&T WorldNet Services ATT (NET-12-0-0-0-1) >12.0.0.0 - 12.255.255.255 >BIZLAND BIZLAND716-243-128 (NET-12-45-243-128-1) >12.45.243.128 - 12.45.243.191 This made a huge impression on me. That morning, I had intended to go to another URL, but I got to the log in page at hypermart when I remembered that I was going somewhere else, so I entered the other URL. I suspect that this person was in the practice of piggy-backing on my login, and when I went elsewhere, it logged his IP instead of mine. I believe that this is called “hijacking your browser” in the anti-virus lexicon. I had never heard of it at the time, but have seen it in various sites when I have searched for various virus solutions. So I did report this to haltabuse.org, a non-profit organization which tries to help with situations of internet abuse like this. I also reported it to Bizland, which is where whois says this IP is located and to hypermart. Bizland never responded but a few days later, my inbox was jammed with both feedback and spam, so they apparently got the offender and returned my e-mail. Hypermart said that they were working on a new e-mail system to prevent "sniffing" which is what they said they had used to get on my e-mail, and indeed, they did install a new e-mail system a few days later. Unfortunately, there was no log |
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