"Stefanie Pesch" <no.RemoveThis@spam.de> wrote in message news:btosmk$9h78c$1@ID-131934.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Hi,
>
> a friend of mine has booked a ticket for a concert and a few minutes later
> it was booked again. When he complained to the ticket-company and said that
> he only ordered one ticket and asked why they charged him two, they said
> that it was booked twice. When they checked their log-file, they found that
> one was ordered from my computer. But to do so, I would have had needed my
> friends log-in, his PIN and his bank account. Now he is really pissed off at
> me and thinks I spyed in his stuff, which I definitely didn't.
>
> However, there is no question that the order was sent from my computer. Now
> my question: Since I know I definitely didn't do this and noone else has
> access to my computer - is there any kind of virus that can do things like
> that? Like a trojan virus or anything that scans computers which I have a
> connection to (via FTP), spys out passwords and then completes actions like
> booking something the other person did just a second ago?
>
> If there is a Virus like that, please tell me. My anti-virus hasn't found
> anything, but I know I didn't betray my friend and I don't want our
> friendship to be ruined. So I am looking for an explanation...
>
> Thanx,
> Steph
Not a worm or virus that I know of, but it is entirely possible for
something like this to happen especially since many people are on
broadband and use wireless networking without any consideration
for security. Your freind could have been hacked and then had his
password or other pertinent information stolen, and then perhaps
the perpetrator could use your wireless network to book another
ticket from the IP# your ISP had assigned to you. For all intents
and purposes ~ the second booking would be attributed to you.
Since you didn't say anything about your actual system configuration,
this is all just guesswork on my part, but you can see that such a thing
is possible.
> PS: Please excuse my english.
If you hadn't said that, I wouldn't have even known that you weren't
a native English writer.
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