[cardman]

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It appears that they accessed my email account as well and deleted the confirmation emails that were sent when they purchased the gift certificates. Because of this I did not realize what was happening until it was too late.

I had all windows security updates running, an anti virus program, a software firewall, a hardware firewall and I never downloaded suspicious files/executables. I am not sure what more I can do. I went out and bought vista and new firewall/anti virus software but I really don't feel much safer.

I am not sure what to do, I feel pretty helpless. I am going to contact the police today, but I'm not sure what their power is in this type of situation. Does anyone else have any suggestions or feedback?? Has this happened to many others?

man feels like every time I post here, I'm posting something crappy that has happened [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img].

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Man that is awful! 40K is a lot of money to lose. You might not want to format your old hard drives yet. Might be useful as evidence or clues. Buying new hard drives might be better.

Seems like you're pretty safe on security. Don't know what else you can do.