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General => General Chat => Topic started by: Tiwaking! on November 20, 2012, 10:32:09 pm

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: Tiwaking! on November 20, 2012, 10:32:09 pm

Hi everybody!

My flatmate just got one of these messages from google.
(http://blog.plaxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/google_suspicious-sign-in-prevented.jpg)
We thought it might have been his cellphone signing in, but it turns out to be from an attack site in China.


I have never had this happen to me yet and was wondering: Had anyone else had had this happen?

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: Dr. Acula on November 20, 2012, 11:02:45 pm

Yup, had this happen once before, someone from Mexico apparently tried to sign in to my account, but Gmail blocked it; Never happened since. Your flatmate shouldn't worry too much as long as it's not a recurring thing.

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: Aloysius on November 20, 2012, 11:31:40 pm

Had it happen to my facebook account years ago. (wow, facebook is old now)

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on November 21, 2012, 09:05:47 am

It was me, i'm always hacking into your guys google accounts.


However this time I was careless and got blocked.

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: mycoolcar on November 21, 2012, 07:55:35 pm

Had a message on gmail once saying someone from China tried to log in but was blocked.

When I went to USA and signed in on my laptop, it asked me a couple of security questions before it would let me in. Googles does wells.

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: Aloysius on November 21, 2012, 09:09:05 pm

Yea I like the creepy yet useful security features that question why a user that normally signs in from New Zealand is suddenly, hours later, signing in from a different country.

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: Mr_St1nky on November 21, 2012, 09:14:49 pm

I had my hotmail account hacked by someone in a Govt building in Beijing once.

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: oefox on November 22, 2012, 11:03:31 am

So long as your google account has a strong password you should be fine, in saying that, don't install dodgy apps.

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: Scunner on November 22, 2012, 11:44:45 am

I Google'd "Suspicious Sign In" and got this ...

(http://c.cslacker.com/3024l.jpg)

Title: iGoogle is dead
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 15, 2013, 12:29:54 pm

This was bizarre

Got a weird notification about something called "iGoogle". The help article is ironically not available in New Zealand English
I dont even know what 'iGoogle' is

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en-NZ&answer=2664197

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on January 15, 2013, 12:59:00 pm

You don't know iGoogle?

I used to use iGoogle, you could sign in and customize your google page with gadgets and stuff.

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: Pyromanik on January 15, 2013, 05:43:36 pm

Remember the days when Google used to have a simple page, and it searched, and got what you wanted, and linked straight to it, and did it fast, and didn't try to keep an active history of every user on the internet...

Seems so long ago.

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: Bounty Hunter on January 16, 2013, 08:25:53 am

Quote from: Pyromanik;1514731

Remember the days when Google used to have a simple page, and it searched, and got what you wanted, and linked straight to it, and did it fast, and didn't try to keep an active history of every user on the internet...

Seems so long ago.

And everything was hardcore aligned down the LHS

I use to use it to download mp3's back before most people knew what an mp3 was....why did we tell people about the internet? it seems people ruined the internet.

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: mattnz on January 16, 2013, 07:50:22 pm

I use iGoogle. Pretty much an RSS feed aggregator in a webpage.

Title: Google Suspicious Sign In
Post by: flyingpuffin on January 17, 2013, 11:26:20 am

Had the same thing a long while ago too :(

Title: "Looks like" Lojban
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 21, 2013, 01:03:22 pm

Quote from: Scunner;1509604

I Google'd "Suspicious Sign In" and got this ...

([url]http://c.cslacker.com/3024l.jpg[/url])

Hmm.

Looks like Lojban.