hackers?

[papamark]

hey,

most times wen i switch on my pc the homepage is changed to some random hacker site and there is always a message from a group sayin they are hackers on my desktop.
does ny1 else hav this problem and got ny suggestions on wot i can do?

[Mist]

Disconnect your pc from the internet.

Backup any *data* files only like word docs and possibly email onto cd or floppy.

Format your computer and resintall windows, or use the recovery disk to return to factory condition if you have one.

When you reconnect to the Internet, change all your passwords.

Consider getting a personal firewall, such as zonealarm.

[David Grohl]

zone alarm is a very good firewall application that is class for being a free download. i use it and dotn know were i would be without it. you can find it by simply searching for sone alram in a search engine but im sure your aware of that by now ;)

[Mr_Wobble]

Have you been visiting porn sites (or anybody whose been on your computer), and have you clicked on a link that resets your homepage, or bookmarked the site, or did it ask you to download any file of any kind? If so, it may just be a simple case of uninstalling that file, and resetting your homepage to your usual page.
Check to see if your dial up properties have been changed too, sometimes if you download a file it will put a premium rate net connection in as your default dial up.

Mr_Wobble ;)

[David Grohl]

Originally posted by Mr_Wobble
Have you been visiting porn sites (or anybody whose been on your computer), and have you clicked on a link that resets your homepage, or bookmarked the site, or did it ask you to download any file of any kind? If so, it may just be a simple case of uninstalling that file, and resetting your homepage to your usual page.
Check to see if your dial up properties have been changed too, sometimes if you download a file it will put a premium rate net connection in as your default dial up.

Mr_Wobble ;)

theres a man speaking from experience :p

you could into the internet control panel and change your home page address.

but i would follow mists and mr wobbles advice

[Kiezo]

Woah!

Don't format your computer just yet!

Don't connect to the internet, and scan for viruses first - namely trojans.

[mrbounce]

Originally posted by Kiezo
Woah!

Don't format your computer just yet!

Don't connect to the internet, and scan for viruses first - namely trojans.

yeah.. sounds like u just need better security..

get a good firewall... (http://www.zonelabs.com)
and if u havnt allready, get some antivirus software, this ones free (http://www.grisoft.com)

[Guest_]

a format and reinstall is unbeatable.

www.microsith.com

:p

[Monserrat]

I got hacked a couple of months ago. However, it wasn't made quite as obvious as saying "we have hacked you!". Only when I was unable to log onto "The Site", I then realised that someone had control over my password.

Thanks to a very helpful admin called Karla, I managed to get my account back. I was naive and have learnt the lesson. The following would be useful:

1) Get firewalled straight away - Look n Stop or Zone Alarm
2) Install Ad-Aware and scan for spyware
3) Install an antivirus + latest antidote + scan for virii
4) Reset your homepage
5) Check your add/remove program options for anything you don't recognise

Links:

Zone Alarm (http://www.zonelabs.com)
Look n Stop (http://www.soft4ever.com/)
Norton Antivirus (http://www.symantec.com/nav/nav_9xnt/)
Mcafee Virusscan (http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/vs7/)
Ad-Aware (http://www.lavasoft.de/)

[Daffeh]

some idiot sent me a trojan a few months ago and my firewall picked it up and told me from wot ip and port he was tring to access my computer from, so i swiftly copied and pasted his ip into this magical wee program ive got, and remotely made his computer print "you are a hairy axe wound" and shut down his computer. Highly amusing, well i thought it was :D

[Makoto]

Ahhh homepage hijacking. A really good anti-spyware site you might wanna take a look at is:

www.cexx.org - Also has a bit about your problem too. Well worth a look.

[Me_and]

If it's a boot sector virus (if you don't know, don't ask), formatting won't work. Do a virus scan, there's a free online one at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp, and get ZoneAlarm. NEVER open email attachments that are .pif, .scr or .exe without checking that the sender definatly wanted to send them. And if you have to use P2P software, use Kazaa lite. It's bad, but not as bad.

[Braidsta]

once i visited a cracks page lookin for product keys and they had loads of ads and pop ups.
when i started IE again the site had automatically changed the homepage to some anime site.
loads of sites also add them to your favourites too.
considering i dont click links or activate anything myself (i find its best to stop touching things till they've stopped appearing and then close them all) it's clear that pop ups and shit are gettin worse and worse.:mad:

[Daffeh]

Yeah, i would advise downloading that ad-aware

[White Noise]

Ad-Aware rocks. the first time i ran it, it picked up 118 spyware related files....:crazyeyes

[Fenix Blade]

Originally posted by Daffeh
some idiot sent me a trojan a few months ago and my firewall picked it up and told me from wot ip and port he was tring to access my computer from, so i swiftly copied and pasted his ip into this magical wee program ive got, and remotely made his computer print "you are a hairy axe wound" and shut down his computer. Highly amusing, well i thought it was :D

Oohh I want it! I want it!

[Shogun]

The adware is very good,got it and scanned my computer,found over 200 infected files but got them deleted.

Imesh was to blame :banghead:

So now i use kazza lite,much safer.