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Post by mar on Mar 29, 2005 13:48:31 GMT -5
some fuckers hacked into my girlfriends comp an changed p/w
got it reset but......
theyve got into her ebay ac an put up dodgy phones 4 sale-weve emailed ebay help
weve cancelled her credit card just in case
to stop more hassle for the moment weve disconnected the internet link
1 what else should we do?
2 how to stop it happenin again
3 anythin weve missed?
appreciate any help
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Post by pizzy on Mar 29, 2005 17:49:20 GMT -5
not much else you can do mate... you seem to have it covered in terms of damage limitation.....
what you need to do is remove the trojan horse and keyloggers installed on your system that allowed the hackers to access your computer.... and then stop them from doing it again.... so u need to do this
1. Get an upto date anti-virus scanner and run it 2. Get an upto date spyware removal tool and run it 3. Get an upto date firewall and install it
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Post by mar on Mar 30, 2005 12:49:06 GMT -5
not much else you can do mate... you seem to have it covered in terms of damage limitation..... what you need to do is remove the trojan horse and keyloggers installed on your system that allowed the hackers to access your computer.... and then stop them from doing it again.... so u need to do this 1. Get an upto date anti-virus scanner and run it 2. Get an upto date spyware removal tool and run it 3. Get an upto date firewall and install it shes got norton antivirus shes got ad-aware spyware remover i put windows xp firewall on so just run those yea?
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Post by pizzy on Mar 30, 2005 13:20:30 GMT -5
should do the job, Windows firewall isn't known for being the best though... try zonealarm
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Post by pizzy on Mar 30, 2005 13:21:07 GMT -5
and heres my 450th post..... couldn't resist ;D
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Post by $ilvers on Mar 30, 2005 14:06:55 GMT -5
i use both ad-aware and spy sweeper on my pc. i find that they can each find spyware that the other can't.
spy sweeper is free - can't do harm having more than one program that stops spam progs!
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Post by nyr401994 on Mar 30, 2005 21:19:35 GMT -5
and heres my 450th post..... couldn't resist ;D congrats!
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Post by nyr401994 on Mar 30, 2005 21:22:14 GMT -5
if you go to the windows website, there's a beta anti-spyware that really works. it's much better than aol's and spybot's. and it's also great with trojan horses and viruses. i suggest you download it if you have windows xp.
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Post by mape on Mar 30, 2005 23:19:48 GMT -5
i've had a lot of troubles with zone alarms in the past so i'd suggest not using that particular firewall. It screws up your computer when you try to uninstall it. I suggest you try sygate's firewall or maybe even kerio.
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