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From: Gary E	10/28/2009 5:03:51 PM
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I folks, let me tell you what happened.... PC 1 is a XPpro desktop that I use for trading PC 2 is a laptop with vista they both connect to a router with hard wires and then to DSL My typical use is to turn off PC 1 after trading stops at aprox 5:00 Eastern Play with the laptop till whenever and when done I just close it's lid and let it run all night. Following morning I start PC 1 and connect to Interactive Broker... This is what happened today... Start the log in screen and type in my user ID, hit the Tab key to move the cursor to the PassWord window, Type in the PW Today, I got a message telling me the Caps and PW were wrong... Ok.. look at it and there are 2 things wrong.. the Caps are on and the Tab did not move the cursor to the proper window.. After fixing it I then got the screen to put in the second set of password numbers and it connects the TWS... Now I think everythings ok... Now open the lid on the Laptop, and connect to a second account at IB... OHH... NOW I get the SAME situation... the tab key did not move the cursor and the caps were on and as the PW was in caps after my user login name... THIS IS TO MUCH OF A COINCIDENCE... and I NEVER lock the caps on.. NEVER... What are the odds of the SAME conditions being accidently applied to both pc's by me?...None, Nada, ZIP, ZERO... So my first thought was that somehow someone put something on my pc to steal the login names and passwords... So, I changed the PW's at IB and ran a Malware Scan on the laptop that took over 4 hrs...and found nothing...The Malware is running a search on the desktop now. Help ..Now what .. Any Ideas?? Thanks Gary

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