Suddenly all my cookies were gone. I had to re-login into everything. Why is this?

Have I been hacked or something? :confused:

Are you using Firefox or IE? Firefox has been know to lose bookmarks. It maybe could lose cookies also.

Suddenly all my cookies were gone.

while you were away, this guy here paid you a visit ;)

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8493/cookiemonster2xi2.jpg

seriously now, you didn't clean your temp files by accident?

I know for sure that I didn't clean then by accident. I was checking my email, then played some civ, then came back to recheck it, and they were gone.

I am using Explorer.

And no I didn't download anything.

you don't have any auto-cleanup programs set up?

and sometimes these things really are just random events. it's microsoft after all :p

sounds like a random glitch since I doubt someone would hack you to delete your cookies:lol:. you could report it, but you'd be lucky if they fix anything within 3 years.

But what if they did it to get all my passwords when I re-login?

Change your passwords.

:hmm: Didn't think of that.

I just realised that that won't help me a bit if the hacker can still see what I'm writing!

If you're that worried, run all the anti virus and ad ware and spyware scans you can get your hands on.

Any specific programs I should be looking for?

But what if they did it to get all my passwords when I re-login?

if someone wanted your passwords I doubt they would have deleted your cookies which have all your passwords.

but if you really want to be freakishly paranoid you should get a program that checks for keyloggers, change all your passwords, get a firewall and block all unnecessary ports, and stop using internet explorer(which is good advice no matter what)

you could try


http://www.spywareremove.com/removeSystemErrorFixer.html


http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html



http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/threat_analytics/hijackthis.php

http://www.adwarealert.com/index.php?hop=advanced99&p=3&gid=1072645447&oid=&aid=&

Thanks Cutlass, I'm actually already using a few of these.

if someone wanted your passwords I doubt they would have deleted your cookies which have all your passwords.

but if you really want to be freakishly paranoid you should get a program that checks for keyloggers, change all your passwords, get a firewall and block all unnecessary ports, and stop using internet explorer(which is good advice no matter what)

A program that check for key loggers? Where can I get that?

Thanks Cutlass, I'm actually already using a few of these.



A program that check for key loggers? Where can I get that?

you could try


http://www.spywareremove.com/removeSystemErrorFixer.html


http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html



http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/threat_analytics/hijackthis.php

http://www.adwarealert.com/index.php?hop=advanced99&p=3&gid=1072645447&oid=&aid=&

as far as I'm aware all of those will check for keyloggers. If you've already used some of those and didn't find anything then I doubt there was ever anything there to begin with.

It's windows. Sometimes it just screws up. Go use it like normal and see what happens.

Ok I guess life goes on.