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AIM password recovery

Postby Ron Williams » Fri 17 Jun, 2005 3:23 pm

I got locked out of my AIM screen name. I am not sure why, but I am sure it was a hack. I can log into other ones of mine but cant log into my rwilliams21677. I have used this one for a while, and use it for this forum and my forum. I think my time using it proves it mine. I have also contacted antony and andrew t on it. If anyone knows of a brute force password cracker that I can use to crack the password, please post it.
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Postby Antony » Sat 18 Jun, 2005 11:58 am

Firstly, check if you typed the password correctly (case sensitive).

Try checking AIM website, and see if there's a password recovery feature, and make sure the email address you supplied to AIM was valid (and you have access to that.)

Otherwise, bad luck.

My ICQ account was hacked (partial info being changed) for more than one year, and I haven't got it back then, so I stopped using ICQ, and now only AIM (iChat actually).
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Postby Ron Williams » Sat 18 Jun, 2005 1:06 pm

I supplied a correct e-mail when I signed up. I used an ISP e-mail (rwilliams21677@comcast.net), when I moved to a new ISP, the tyrants at comcast locked my e-mail account.
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Postby Antony » Sat 18 Jun, 2005 1:13 pm

piranarew wrote:I supplied a correct e-mail when I signed up.
when you change your ISP, you should update your contact info. (Okay, most people forget about that, including myself)

piranarew wrote:when I moved to a new ISP, the tyrants at comcast locked my e-mail account.
Since you left your original ISP, you no longer paying for the service, they have to right to terminate any service to you. There's no need to call them "tyrant".
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Postby Ron Williams » Sat 18 Jun, 2005 1:33 pm

piranarew wrote:when I moved to a new ISP, the tyrants at comcast locked my e-mail account.
antony wrote:Since you left your original ISP, you no longer paying for the service, they have to right to terminate any service to you. There's no need to call them "tyrant".


With the price comcast charges ($50 per month) and all of the dropped connections and no reimbersement, they are tyrants. I have DSL now ($30 a month) and its faster and has not dropped the connection.
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