My phone is hacked: messages with no subject nor content keep coming in and wont go to trash. What should I do?
I cannot get rid of messages coming in every 2 minutes. They have no content nor subject listed. They are complitely blank. They wont go to trash
OK: I think I got rid of this by simply turning off the phone: cannot see messages anymore!
Ruby Chu wrote:
My friends said that if I go to Apple store and report, they can use IMEI number to block the phone from accepting any Sim Card. Can anyone tell me if this is true?
No.
The only way to locate/disable/erase any lost/stolen iPhone/iPod Touch is through Find My Phone or a similar app. However, this requires that Find My Phone be setup/activated, on your phone, before it was lost/stolen. You would then login at iCloud.com & try to locate it. This requires the phone be turned on & have an Internet connection. There is no other way to locate a lost/stolen iPhone. Apple can't/won't help you, nor will your carrier. Report the loss to the Police, your carrier & Insurance company. Change all of your passwords, especially your Apple ID/iCloud password NOW!
If your carrier offers Blacklisting & they Blacklist the phone, it will be unusable as a phone.
If locked with a passcode, and running iOS 7.0, then phone cannot be activated or the passcode removed without knowing your Apple iD/Password. It will be nothing but a useless paperweight.
If not running iOS 7.0, the phone can be forced into recovery mode & restored.
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Can message filters cause messages with blank subject and 1969 dates
I have done many things to try to trace why I get messages with blank subjects and 1969 dates.
downloaded TB
created all new folders
moved only persdict and msfFilterRules to the new profile.
At this try
set the option NOT to download messages on startup
went off line and compacted all folders.
emptied the inbox and all subfolders.
Exited TB.
deleted all files under pop.verizon.net except msgFilters rules.
Deleted all msf files for local folders in my profile.
opened TB.
a few times
--With Firefox went to verizon webmail and moved a few messages to the Verizon inbox.
--moved to TB window
-- Clicked <get messages>
-- still received blank messages with 1969 dates
-- deleted those messages
-- emptied trash
went to the filter rules and unclicked all filters that send files to local folders
left 2 rules in place
(1) if a sender was in my address list send the message to inbox folder called "Known sender"
(2) if the subject was NOT a weird string like "&*%$@!+=?><" send the message to inbox folder called "Suspicious" This filter is because there is not an ELSE function in TB it is extremely unlikely that a message would have such a subject.
[These two filters should move all messages except junk to the two folders.]
I then tried the above procedure of going to Verizon, moving messages to Verizon Inbox, etc. a few times.
I did NOT get the messages with blank subject and 1969 date!!
Questions:
(1) Is this just a fluke?
(2) From understanding the internals of TB is it reasonable that some now-unchecked message filter(s) had caused there to be the oddball messages?
(3) if It is a filter rule, how can I find out which one it is?I looked though all the condition specification options I do not see how using header info in a condition specification would '''change '''the header info.
I looked at the possible actions on filters.
I only see "tag" and "Star" as ones that might change header info.
However, I found out that when I unchecked the first 17 of 19 filters and just had the two I explained above I would sometimes get a message with the 1969 date.
Since then I deleted those two rules and made new versions and moved them to the bottom where the earlier versions had been. I have not had the 1969 messages since!!
I have put a new filter at the top of the list that checks whether the date is before 1/1/971. If teh date is before 1/1/1971 the filter tags the message as important and moves it into the inbox folder named "Suspicious".
I have not seen any 1969 messages since then.
Since the problem was intermittent and because I was not able to create conditions whereby The 1969 dates would or would not occur, the problem may not be 'fixed'. I'll watch it for a while
Meanwhile, I'll continue to manually go though the webmail on Verizon and as a test only download mail that I do not want to save for the long term. Messages I want to keep I'll move messages I want to keep for the long term into foldrs on Verizon. '''If '''after a while, I do not get any more of the 1969 messages, I'll move messages I want to keep into the Verizon inbox and download them into TB -
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You can check your USB drivers this way:
Plug in your phone into your USB drive. Assuming your Blackberry is "seen" by your computer...
Go into the Device Manager on your computer (control panel)
Expand the Universal Serial Bus controllers item on the bottom of the list
Right-click on BlackBerry Smartphone and choose Properties
Click on the Driver tab
Click on the Driver Details button
You should see one driver. I saw two. The one the BlackBerry likes is the RimUsb one.
So here's what NOT to do: We tossed the entire driver that was the "extra". This effectively made using my mouse and keyboard impossible, as they are USB, and sent my poor husband into the basement to find a million-year-old keyboard (and then a mouse) with the old fashioned kind of connectors (PS2). Bleh. Don't do that.
Here's what I did that worked (not saything this will work for you -- this modifies the Registry so better do a system backup with that backup and restore if you're nervous about this sort of thing):
From the start menu, choose run, and type regedit to get into the Registry editor.
Follow this file path: Computer, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Control, Class
Click on: {36FCE60-C465-11CF-8056-4445535400000}
If there's an item on the right called "UpperFilters", delete it. (see pictures)
Hope this helps someone.
Karin
First pic: shows "before"
Second pic: shows full file path and "after" -
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summarizing:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3694
Check USB connections
If there’s an issue with the USB port, cable, dock, or hub, or if the device becomes disconnected during restore, try troubleshooting the USB connection, then troubleshooting your security software.
Common errors: 13, 14, 1600-1629, 1643-1650, 2000-2009, 4000, 4005, 4013, 4014, 4016, “invalid response”, and being prompted to restore again after a restore completes.
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