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As stated, I did do some research before I just blindly downloaded an app. There are places that will pay you for doing surveys. I have actually received funds from those places in the past. You get like 3 cents a survey and you have to have a minimum of $5.00 before you can withdraw anything. So, after about a year I was able to get $15.00
I assumed this was similar. The app had over 5 million downloads and had a very good review rating. And it looked pretty much like the same thing, I would have to wait for about a year before I could withdraw the minimum of $20.00. You can shorten that time by making in-game purchases. The app will give you "challenges" that you must complete by X amount of time. Some, if not most, of these challenges are impossible to do without making an in-game purchase.
I assumed that was how this app was making its money. People sign up, they play games. They may even become addicted to the game. They end up making $50.00 of in-game purchases for what would end up being a $20.00 Amazon gift card.
But, you are under no obligation to actually make any purchases, it will just take you a years worth of casual playing to get your gift card. That is what I was going for.
I could be wrong. I might not have gotten hacked. I am a little up there in years. It is very possible that the email I didn't think I deleted was actually deleted by me. It is also possible that the slowing and lag I was getting on my phone and PC were, in fact, caused by to many programs on a single device.
I simply think that I was hacked.
Online survey websites are the ones you stay away from.
I'm assuming he got this app from Google play?
would be funny if he just downloaded an apk file from some random website
yeah even though I use script block and SpywareBlaster I am still suspicious of unknown urls
Well, no one on the outside can tell you for certain. You reported some symptoms and actions that can reasonably lead someone to conclude that you may have been infected. But again, no one can tell you that, you have to determine that via scanning and whatnot.
But did you not reinstall your OS? Then scanning becomes a moot point.
Malware operators can impersonate many legit and not-so legit sites. What they want is to hit as many as possible with the same stick. If you provided the suspect site with your email address, maybe it's time to change it. You already said it yourself, better be safe and have a little inconvenience. One way you can check if your email got on a bad list or two is by determining if there's a sudden andmajor increase in spam emails to your acct.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-malware-infiltrates-60-google-play-apps-with-100m-installs/
Is your system OK now, OP? If you've been victimized in some way, you're in the same boat as tens of millions of other people. Don't know if you were legitimately infected but hopefully everything's OK now.
Thank you. Yes, I think I locked everything down pretty good here.
I did a hard reset of my phone. Because I connected my phone to my PC, I did a clean install of Windows 11. I have changed all the passwords of everything I use. While my old passwords were good, them being more of a pass phrase than a password. With the help of a password generator, I got over 20 new passwords and changed all my passwords to everything.
I am in the process of deleting my 2 old email accounts and generating a new one. I have managed to change my email to most all of my online accounts. It is rather disturbing at how easy it is to change your email account with companies you do business with....
As soon as I get everything changed, I will be deleting my old emails. I don't really want to because I have had them since the late 90's. But I would rather be safe than sorry.
I thank everyone for their input on this issue. I am grateful.
You don't need to delete them. Keeping them there is fine if you want to look at them every now and then.
A while back Gmail had a thing where they would import from other email accounts. I don't remember if that's still a thing or if it was even only other Google Gmail accounts.
You sound like me though. I had held onto some Yahoo ones that I never used but still went back to every now and then. But about a year ago I think it was I decided to let them go and actually deleted the accounts.
They were emails I had used since the Napster and Yahoo! Chat days.
Someone else on here said that Mistplay was safe and that my problems were probably a combination of my system being slow and my own bad memory, something that I have admitted to on this thread.
I can't comment on Mistplay. Its basis for working as a company is completely reasonable and feasible. I have seen (and even taken part) in variations of what Mistplay offers. Not saying I am going to go back to it, but it is very possible that Mistplay had nothing to do with my computer issues.
And if I am going to be honest with you guys, I should probably lay out all of the security issues and red flags I had before all of this began.
1) I have not changed my passwords in over two years. And my passwords consisted of two passwords for every site I went to and while those passwords were all upper and lowercase, included a number, and included a symbol, it would not have been overly difficult for someone who knew me to guess what my passwords might have been.
2) I have had the same emails since the late 90's. I have used these emails to communicate with people I probably should not have been talking to. An example is I liked to target email scammers by replying to their email, doing a mass reply warning other people of the scam, or even calling back some of these scammers. I don't think they ever got my phone number as I have not yet received one scam call.
3) I have not been a nice person online. You piss off the wrong people online and it really doesn't matter how many times you change your email and passwords. Someone will make you their hobby.
4) Lastly, I have gone to websites that, if named, could get me banned from Steam. I don't "borrow" games or even movies. All I get are TV Shows that go on air, even without cable TV. It is perfectly legal to take an old school VCR and record TV shows and even movies. That is basically what I am doing.
One or all of these activities are what could have caused my problems. I do think I have it fixed. My phone is no longer randomly hanging up on me and randomly playing MP3's. My computer is running faster than ever, as proved by 3DMark.
So whatever security issue I had, it seems to have been solved by one or more of the actions I took. Or, it could very well have been a figment of my imagination and/or paranoia, take your pick. I have been keeping an eye on my bank and credit card. There have been no unauthorized access to my back (2-factor authentication enabled) or my credit card (same with the 2-factor authentication)
So, I think I am golden now.