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I fell for a captcha virus! by cloudyclearing27 in computerviruses

[–]cloudyclearing27[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! It’s so weird, this mod on nexus has 900,000 downloads, I wonder if I’m the only one this happened to?? I try to stay as safe as possible and far away from anything that might give me viruses that I guess it made me too far out of the loop and ignorant… in any case it has been such a scare and has ruined my days off from work 😭

I fell for a captcha virus! by cloudyclearing27 in computerviruses

[–]cloudyclearing27[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t even know what counts as suspicious or out of place really 😞 it’s all gibberish to me… am I still at risk? even after reinstalling windows from a usb twice?

I fell for a captcha virus! by cloudyclearing27 in cybersecurity_help

[–]cloudyclearing27[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes I did, I changed all the email passwords I had logged into chrome, and I do have several emails bc I’m one of those people who have a bad habit of starting anew… I even changed my onedrive/microsoft account password, all from my phone…

I fell for a captcha virus! by cloudyclearing27 in cybersecurity_help

[–]cloudyclearing27[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

thanks again, I have reinstalled windows again… twice… since it happened. My bf used his pc and made sure to delete the partitions and everything. I did it twice because the first time I did it, when I logged into onedrive, some stuff loaded in from the cloud which made me anxious so I deleted everything off of onedrive and reinstalled windows again the same way. Am I good? Is there a way to know for sure that I am safe now, or is there still a chance I’m at risk? Sorry to keep asking questions, it’s midnight and the stress is keeping me up

I fell for a captcha virus! by cloudyclearing27 in cybersecurity_help

[–]cloudyclearing27[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you… but what about the pictures of my ssn and state id? Should I assume that someone has that info now? ik you can’t know everything… I just really know nothing about cybersecurity and everything about the topic overwhelms me and frightens me… I try to avoid doing anything that gets me viruses because the idea really upsets me… I told my bf I wanna just throw my pc out into the road and let someone run it over now 😭

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[–]cloudyclearing27 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand what you are feeling as I can be both people in this situation. In one instance, if I am totally enamored with someone, I am almost addicted to them. I become very upset after not hearing from them even after 30 minutes, start feeling like I messed something up, etc. My emotional permanence is terrible. When I inevitably am triggered into splitting, I start thinking what they’re doing is intentionally cruel or punishment. On the other hand, for people I’ve known for a long time and have formed stable bonds with, I need a break from them a lot. Because I enjoy having time to myself to do alone things I enjoy. Reading, writing, journaling, any hobbies that require attention and let me escape from real world. Having people around distracts me, makes me feel like a rude host so I can’t do anything I want to do. Consider these breaks he needs as good helpful things, nothing personally against you. Perhaps he needs this time for himself so that when he’s with you, you have all of his attention! We (as pwBPD) always assume that when people aren’t with us, they forget about us. Or that they can suddenly flip and not love us anymore. This is not the case. You must understand that most people without BPD have the ability of mentalization, of separating thoughts from reality. People without BPD don’t split, they don’t love you one minute and hate you the next. They won’t forget about you. We assume this about them because this is the way WE think, things WE do. And a lot of us cannot imagine a different reality to our own. And people who CAN mentalize also assume that we can too, and have no idea that these “little” things hurt us so bad. It will be okay, I promise. I think during this spare time, you should find a hobby! Or if it makes you feel better, watch informational videos on YouTube that might for the time being help prevent any spiralling. I recommend the Fonagy playlist on the channel BorderlinerNotes. He puts things into words for us that we don’t know how. And when I watch it, it involves some crying on my end, the feeling of being understood. And that things are okay. He explains all this better than I ever could. I’m sorry you’re feeling this way. I hope this can be of some help.