Hackers??

by **bojangles** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 2:57 am

Tonight I came across something that worried me a bit, my mom had received an email from a friend containing a joke picture. I thought it was funny so I had her forward it to my email account. Later I opened the picture and noticed that the homepage of the site was strange. In the address bar I removed all the information about the picture so it just had the [url]www.[/url] .coml(im not gonna put the site address on here because I dont want anyone's computer to be hacked into) and I took me to a parent directory. In the directory one of the files was Hacked.Jpg. I opened it up and It had accessable pictures of all the stuff on my harddrive. Soon after I got a virous alert thing from my norton's antivirous. I cleaned it up easily and eversence its been fine. I'm a little bit worried and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions...ect...

Sorry about the length of this post...also if its hard to follow just tell me and I hope I can explane better...

Thanks... :help:

by **bojangles** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 3:20 am

A little follow up... I noticed these weird program files in my c drive...all of them are 0 kilos and have weird names. They all have "last updated" dates from completly different times some dating back to feb 2003. Ive noticed them before but didnt think about them til now. Here is a screenshot I took. :confused:

by **Chacal** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 3:51 am

Are you sure your Norton Antivirus is up to date? Do a complete scan of all your hard drives.

Then I suggest you install a personal firewall like Norton Internet Security. It will catch traffic in and out of your computer.

by **bojangles** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 12:08 pm

Thanks chocal, I'm 100% sure my antivirus is up to date.

I also put my firewall back up.

by **Evan** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 12:40 pm

I have a router. NAT firewall

by **bojangles** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 2:00 pm

Yeah, my firewall is through my router. It was down because I took my router to a Halo party at a friends house a few nights ago, I never got around to setting it back up.

by **{CN}Doomfarer** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 8:50 am

can you say, "oops"? :eek:

by **Chacal** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:48 pm

I think everyone will agree that your mom needs to spank you in a most vigorous way. I suggest Sannop records the session and posts the .wav here.

by **Mosaic** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 7:53 pm

Jeez, that sucks. Things like this happens to me also, I have norton antivirus and firewall (software only) with both up to date, but I took down the firewall one day for a little bit and then instantly these viruses started showing up (thankfully antivirus caught them) but they started showing up so fast one after the other, I finally freaked out and turned my firewall back on and they stopped.. very strange. I have since did a full scan of my computer and everything is fine since I deleted the viruses. But this kinda shit really freaked me out.

by **Sannop** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 8:06 pm

Originally posted by Chacal
I think everyone will agree that your mom needs to spank you in a most vigorous way. I suggest Sannop records the session and posts the .wav here.

for some reason this really disturbs me... :eek:

by **Chacal** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 3:57 am

Don't worry, .wav is sound only.

We could post it as a warning... kinda like when I planted the severed head of my first unruly student of the year, on a post near the door to my classroom.

by **Sannop** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:30 pm

I am going to have to try that....

What do you teach?

by **bojangles** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 12:41 pm

I think the spanking can be done without

by **RCglider** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 6:38 pm

A hardware firewall is not airtight and it is a mistake to think it is. If you're running XP, disable UnPnP (uses ports 5000 and 1900). If your NAT is unpnp aware, you have a port open that can be exploited. Just disable it and use only when you need it.
Do yourself a favor and use a sw firewall like zonealarm (easy but not a "true" firewall) in addition to the router. Tiny (same as Kerio) is a full control firewall, but it takes time to get used to it and you need to know what you're doing.
Concerning Norton Internet Security, it's a rehashed version of one they bought the rights to (AtGuard I believe). It's ok, but like most everything Norton has, is so top heavy with junk it hogs resources in my opinion.

Also, anti-virus does not detect most spyware and other bugs not recognized as viruses. I prefer Pest Patrol, but there are others such as AdAware. Run a spyware detector and see what you find!

by **{CN}Doomfarer** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:52 pm

I guarentee you that it will be an adventure... First time I ran Ad-aware I was dumbfounded by the amount of CRAP that was hanging out on my PC... I had been using a different prog to clean things out, it was not NEARLY as effective...

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