Hacked

One of my gmail accounts was hacked late last night by someone on a mobile device in Brazil. I only know this because I tried to login to use Google Reader and had to go through a few hoops to regain access to my accounts because they reported suspicious activity. I think I must have tried to gain access soon after the access from Brazil, based on the login record. The first thing I saw once I got into my gmail account was a couple of undeliverable messages from an online pharmacy that supposedly came from me. It appears that exactly two emails were sent and both returned because both are closed. I followed instructions given at the gmail website for this scenario and  it seems like my account is now secure again.

In related news, I had to do a reinstallation of Windows today, only a few months after the previous one. I’d been having some trouble with my computer which seems to have escalated about the time I had some trouble with some memory, although that might just be coincidence. I’m now in the process of reinstalling programs as I need them, which is a real hassle. Also, trying to get my Outlooks set up properly took a lot more work than I expected. But I did manage to get rid of a couple of problems from my old data file so that Outlook works better now than it has in a long time.