I have a question about computer hacking....?
Jan 02, 2010 by lisa m | Posted in Security
Yesterday I got an e-mail from my best friend that she didn't send. It was for a Canadian prescription drug service where you could buy women's and men's viagra for real cheap. A few hours later, my best friend sends out an apology to everyone regarding the prior e-mail and said that she didn't send it and that she had Yahoo checking into it. I talked to her today, and she says that Yahoo can't do anything since there's no way to see who sent it or how they got her info. As we're talking, I remember back to a few nights ago when I was reading something online and the article vanished, the screen went blank, and then the article popped back up as if nothing ever happened. Now my friend doesn't have her own internet service, she goes to places that offer wi-fi where she can just borrow a signal.. and those are known to be dangerous since they're not secure and hackers can just jump on in. But... is it possible that my computer was hacked into, and now someone is seeing who my contacts are, and sending out e-mails under my friend's address? I checked my email and nothing out of the ordinary has been sent. I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary with my computer. Or is it more likely that her computer was the one that was hacked into? Is there a way to tell this? I know we have all sorts of stuff on ours... antiviral program, firewall... but either way all this makes me so paranoid....
Thanks
It was most likely her email that was hacked. The hacker then used her address book and email client to send out the spam to her contacts. She should scan her computer with her AV and a spyware scanner. Malwarebytes is the best one.
Being online at a public wifi spot is risky, as you said. Your friend should never access credit card or bank accounts while on a public spot. She can use PeerBlock to help with blocking unwanted connections. But sometimes the access point is hacked and she might log on to the hacker's wifi instead of the free one.
If she sees there are several access points with similar names, that's a sign that a hacker has set up a bogus access point to try to steal data from unsuspecting people logging on. She should always manually search for access points and then choose to connect, rather than have her computer automatically log on.
http://malwarebytes.org/
http://www.peerblock.com/
| Jan 02, 2010
Your friend signed up for some sort of contest... something like "Upload a picture of your cute pet, win $1000".
Your friend was asked to provide her email address... y'know, so that she could be notified in case she won.
Then she was told that the picture with the most votes wins, so she should tell all her friends to come and vote for her picture. In fact, the website even offered to send emails automatically if she'd just give them the proper addresses.
And boom, they have everything they need to be able to send out emails that seem to come from your friend. No hacking requred.
baudkarma | Jan 03, 2010
My girl friend who was with me at the time said no,mine was big enough,ha ha ha ...true story...
I tried to unsubscribe,,then find you can't,so now I I just hit delete..ha ha ha ha...
Must hurt them more than it does me...That's all I can suggest.....
eric | Jan 03, 2010
I actually ended up speaking with the hacker before he did it. He sent me a message and continued to say things until I would respond. once I responded, he tricked me into logging out and logging back on. I'm assuming that once I've made contact he has my connection info. And the log in process allows him to see what my password is. But he messaged me my own password and then logged me out of my account.
I called yahoo, they gave me access to my account and just told me to keep my password updated.
When i was in college, we had to change our school and computer passwords every 3 months. And when I get crazy emails from my friends it seems to stop as soon as they update their password. Though a hacker can get into our account and have access to your contacts, if you keep your password updated, they won't have access for long.
EVille | Jan 04, 2010
Change your password monthly... weekly... daily... tell no one the secret prompt answers... always give the wrong birthdate as often a hacker can be a friend or nosey relative whio knows too much about you...
Never never never allow anyone Remote access to your computer and if you do ..change the password immediately afterwards... In this case it is obvious your girlfriend allowed the hacker or it was more likely a spammer access to her address book via a worm or trojan...
As soon as I receive a mail from a spammer trying to sell me a dick enlarger or informing me that I have just inherited $100,000:00 from a distant cousin... or that I have won a 21 day stay in Australia if I can answer a simple question.... BLOCK THEM >> I SAY BLOCK THEM>> its simple.... Go to Message.... then Block sender... and never reply.
OK Happy days ... Good Luck... BB
BB | Jan 04, 2010
How do I get rid of Antivir Solution Pro?
Aug 27, 2010 by SophDuude | Posted in Software
A few weeks ago, a pop up came onto the screen whilst I was on the internet and it looked just like the control panel menu and it looked as if it was doing a scan or something. It wasn't until I saw the internet bar at the top that I realised it was a pop up and so I closed it before anything happened. Then a few days after this pop ups came onto the computer saying things like ATTENTION ! SPYWARE ALERT and it tells me I have trojans and stuff. The worst part is though that random internet sites come up every few minutes and these are like viagra.com and adult.com. Why the hell are these coming up? I have never ever been on any sites like this and it makes it look as if I have because of this. I cannot connect to the internet on it because the screen says we can not show this page as it could have harmful things on... It wont let me go on google on it, or any other websites and I know google is not harmful. I have read up on it and it says that this is a virus and is downloaded manually, but I haven't downloaded it, it was just there one day. Also I have read that a programme called Spyware Doctor gets rid of it, I checked that this was safe and lots of people recommended it and said it was by afar the best anti virus software, although it has found some risks but it will not get rid of them until I buy the product. I don't want to buy a product to get rid of it, is there a way to get rid of this Antivir Solution Pro without paying? I have noticed that the only way to acces the internet or the laptop without it coming up with all the pop ups is to use the laptop in safe mode, it has windows xp on it. But it is my boyfriends family laptop and so I need to get it sorted asap! Please someone help me!!! :(
I have been on that 2-spyware website and that told me to download spydoctor. I cannot get on the internet to download that malwarebytes thing unless I go into safe mode with networking... Also there is norton on the laptop and it has done a full system scan and removed loads of stuff but not the virus. I read that the antivir solution pro has something in it that makes it not be able to be detected by antivirus software sometimes, is this why norton can't find it? I have the norton disk and its the one that includes everything its the best one you can get so its not as if its missing some of the features so shouldn't it take this virus out? Its realy annoying me I'm going back home next weekend and so I need to sort it before then. Sorry for been so difficult Im useless with things like this. Would it DEFINATLEY come out or might I have to buy a new harddrive or something? Thank you so much everyone! If someone could give me a step by step guide on what to do it would really help!! :)
Firstly and most importantly
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MUST YOU PAY FOR THIS SOFTWARE, IT WILL NOT UNINSTALL ITSELF THAT WAY OR STOP HARRASSING YOU. ALL IT WILL DO IS PASS YOUR CREDIT CARD DETAILS ONTO FRAUDSTERS
Now how to get rid of it....
The previous poster that suggested Norton - forget it, Norton wont run if Antivir Solution Pro is running as the minute you try and run the setup Antivir will tell you, you have a virus in the file and stop it from running (it's lying you don't really, it's called a DOS (Denial of Service) attack).
There is a really easy way to get rid of it, but it depends on how competent you are with your PC...
I've repaired numerous PC's with this problem and it takes me about 10 minutes 'cos I know what I'm doing... however average person not knowing what they are doing could take them a lot longer...
Firstly you need to get into Safe Mode, in Safe Mode this Antivir Solution Pro wont run so you can then begin to start removing it (the only problem is neither will most Antivirus software either so you have to remove it manually - Brilliant!
You are running XP - good that makes things a little bit more easier -
Press F8 on your computer as it's booting (when you first turn the computer on your should either have a black screen with all writing on it telling you what memory you have and everything or a company logo like Dell or Compaq or something, in the brief few seconds between that disappearing and the Windows XP logo appearing you need to press F8 (usually you can just repeatedly press F8 on the keyboard as the BIOS screen is on, sometimes you trigger a keyboard fault when doing this and need to press F1 and then continue pressing F8)
If you do this right you will end up with the Windows startup menu (you can also invoke the Windows startup menu by pressing the power button down when windows is booting for about 20 secs so the computer goes off and then turning the computer back on, this is not the ideal way of doing it, but it does work)
When your in the start up menu choose Safe Mode (the top option) (use up and down on the arrow keys and press Enter to select)
Once you get to Safe Mode it will ask you if you want to use enter Safe mode or use system restore click Yes to proceed into Safe Mode.
When in Safe mode click the start menu and click run
type MSCONFIG
Go into the Startup tab of MSCONFIG and go through the programs listed
Most of them should have a command starting "C:\Program Files\....", or some will just have the command name, or "C:\Windows\..." most of these should be ok
You will find one or more that will have a location of C:\Documents and Settings\.."
This is Antivir Solution Pro.
Now to find this little devil and get rid of it - there is two ways to do this, one way leaves all your normal settings in place, but involves a bit of typing, and the other way changes a lot of your safety settings, showing hidden files and all sorts, so I'll demonstrate the easy way below with the typing, as long as you type exactly as I've put below you should be fine..
The easy way with the typing
firstly make a note of what directory the EXE file is in e.g. if the command is something like
C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\5AABB6\3DAC6.exe
you need to make a note of
C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\5AABB6
(btw the virus really will most probably end in a really weird name and be in a weird directory like above - it's a randomly generated number to try and prevent detection)
click Start and run and type CMD and press enter
This will open the little black box
In the black box type the following (nb <ENTER> = press enter key) :-
C: <ENTER>
CD \<DIRECTORY> <ENTER>
(replace <DIRECTORY> with the directory from above without the C: bit at the beginning e.g.
CD \Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\5AABB6 )
then type
ATTRIB -R -A -H -S <FILENAME.EXE> <ENTER>
REN <FILENAME.EXE> <FILENAME.BAK> <ENTER>
(replace filename with the bit at the end of the command after the end \ that we didn't note down in the directory e.g.
ATTRIB -R -A -H -S 3DAC6.EXE <ENTER>
REN 3DAC6.EXE 3DAC6.BAK <ENTER>
Once you've done this for all programs that are running from the Documents and Settings folder, reboot your computer into normal mode
This should stop Antivir Solution Pro from running and allow you to use Norton or ESET or whatever to clear the remains of it up
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