Have you ever been hacked?
Sunday, May 18, 2003 by robsvoyage | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
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Reply #2 Monday, May 19, 2003 12:19 AM
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| #3 by goodmorphing - 5/19/2003 1:02:05 AM Um.... these days some worms and viri can disable your own virus protection. To be really sure, go to a good on-line virus scan and run that. Norton has one, McAfee does too. They are free. |
Listen to GM. I had a worm on my home machine that disabled Norton, put exclusions in it for all the places it spread itself to, and then took over the auto-update files so that Norton couldn't pull updates to get rid of it.
I would suggest running Mcafee's online virus scan. It's free to scan with, but you have to pay for it to get rid of the infected files.
| #4 by Citizen ponz14 - 5/19/2003 4:56:26 AM Dude formatting is the best solution u should do it about every 3 months if needed it helps trust me |
What?! I wouldn't follow that advise. There are *very* few times that you should ever have to reformat. It's just a waste of time and energy.
The worm that I got on my machine was the first one that I ever got at home, and I've never been hacked. It also took no time at all to recover from it. Reformatting and restoring would have taken days with no better results than just cleaning the worm.
Reply #7 Monday, May 19, 2003 6:23 AM
if you don't download illegal software its hard to imagine you have a 'worm' or virus, it also can come trough mail, but if yo scan your system, your virus scanner should come up with something, if it dasn't, just read post #5
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It's quite common to get hacked, but most of the time, people who hack into your system mainlynwant to set up a FTP site to use your computer as a warez server. It's happened to me twice before, and I ended up with a few gigabytes of MP3's and pirated applications. I have since then installed Zone Alarm and that took care of that. Using just XP's built-in firewall doesn't cut it, that's what I had before.
So, in short, hackers aren't interested into deleting files and shortcuts on your system, they want to use your system for warez. So I doubt that's what your problem is.
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Reply #14 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:31 PM
| Styl Skinner: if you don't download illegal software its hard to imagine you have a 'worm' or virus, it also can come trough mail, but if yo scan your system, your virus scanner should come up with something, if it dasn't, just read post #5 |
See my post above about the worm that I had that took out Norton. Worms are a lot trickier than they used to be. They typically install backdoors.
You can get viruses (especially worms) from more sources than email and files. They propagate through shared drives, some through remote desktop when you connect local drives, and some can even get to you from infected websites if you don't have proper security. Read up on that type of information on the support pages of virus protection software.
If you are curious about where pings and port probes come from, check out BlackIce. It will also allow you to ban IP addresses when they become bothersome. It also tells you the severity of that action that is happening. Some behavior that looks like a hack is actually normal behavior.
Paxx is correct, however. Hackers want to place warez on your machine and use you as a file server. They typically go after anonymous FTPs on company servers, however (more space and bandwidth).
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I used norton Anti virus...All clean
I used ad aware and it came back with 57 programs so I got rid of all them
Then I installed Sygate Personal firewall so I hope that helps to.
Reply #19 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:27 PM
Mcafee missed many viruses in their test. I tried getting the top rated program but, it isn't a commerical product. This program missed none of the viruses. And, the company didn't answer the telephone. Strange. So, I guess I'm stuck with second best.
I run Norton Internet Security Professional, Norton AV, Spybot search & destroy(a free program which is great for catching trojans and spyware). I've read many threads at Win Annoyances where people have been infected with worms, trojans and spyware that do most of what you are describing. There was a new one recently that was infecting a lot of people online. And, the new Spybot build came out two weeks later. Be careful because, nothing is free online. Especially those screensavers, they will infect you. Spybot search & destroy seems to be the best program for trojans, worms and spyware. And, its free.
Reply #20 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:32 PM
Also try, SpyBot Search & Destroy, it will get many things that Ad-aware missed, as well as registry orphans that Norton Utilities missed, I guarantee you, and it is free too.
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Reply #1 Monday, May 19, 2003 12:05 AM
Run a compleate virus scan on your entire system, maybe you are over looking something.