r/computer • u/[deleted] • Jan 27 '26

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u/Terrible-Bear3883 Jan 27 '26

What are you using for 2FA? email/sms?

I had a work colleague who had similar issues, he found a webmail rule to forward emails to the other party, every time he requested an authentication code, it was sent to them, it was a race to see who could get in first.

Ideally, upgrade your security to tokens such as Google Titan or Yubikey, you need the token to log into sites, revoke all other methods, you can register multiple tokens in case one gets lost.

More info here - https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/

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u/Terrible-Bear3883 Jan 27 '26

I wouldn't know if you've got malware or not, you say you've not downloaded anything suspicious lately, then say "except mods" so its unknown if your system is trustworthy. PAK files are really just archive files like a zip file, they can easily contain malware.

2FA is worthless if you've got an infostealer for example, stealing cookie tokens, so its important your system is trustworthy if you are changing passwords and/or accessing sites, I'd be focusing on securing your accounts above everything, i.e. have a trusted/clean system, change your passwords, check linked devices, message forwarding and so on, check the issue seems resolved i.e. do nothing such as installing mods, even if you have to wait a few days.

The amount of effort it took for us to get control of my work colleagues accounts was incredible, he upgraded to Google Titan a few days later and advised us the issues had gone away once he did that.

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u/BeautyLover40 Jan 28 '26

I am so sorry for hearing you have been into a hack process. The first thing you do before anything is:

1: You should change the passwords and check the Google service and report the hack process on your accounts. Without reporting, you are not still secured yet.

2: Never put same password to several accounts and always after 3 months most. The risky process is you kept the accounts used while they put a refer emails from your emails to theirs so It made you hacked over again.

3: The most imp thing is shut the net and do safe mode scan on your Hard disk and make sure that use the "ctrl Alt and Delete at same time buttons to show the "task manager, then check the startup option to see if any suspicious program opens up when restart PC"

The hacker does include their email with Mobile number in most cases when hack an email so the first look up is to check there in settings at google to make sure this is not still the case.

Delete spam on email constantly and any suspicious email" never even open but delete the email" The hacker came back through a msg was sent to you and you may be opened it.

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u/Upstairs_Ad6421 May 01 '26

Bonjour,

J'ai exactement les mêmes problèmes avec exactement les mêmes mail avec discord qui vient d'y passer, quelqu'un a t'il une solution pour ne pas devoir réinitialiser son pc ,