Deliberate Intruder

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Chadvibubbaro, Sep 29, 2008.

  1. Chadvibubbaro

    Chadvibubbaro Private E-2

    Hello everyone, I am new new to any forum. I have someone in my area deliberately messing with my pcs. It's for control mostly so he's watching what I do. Have 3 pc's, 2 use xp and one Ubuntu. Hughesnet is my new internet provider (had sooooo many viruses and other junk from my local phone co DSL so I switched). Have bought all new hardrives and reinstalled everything and it's better than before but still have problems....setting change, files move, one day Hughesnet showed I downloaded over 400MB of something - never found out what it was. Use SpySweeper, AVG and Webroot firewall. Any other ideas on locking out a deliberate intruder like settings in xp or services I can disable. Don't know enough about ports and stuff to see what's going on behind the scenes. Is Ubuntu really more secure?
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi and Welcome


    Quickie question do you have a wireless router? if so do you have its security set as in Wireless Encryption (WEP, WPA/PSK etc ) as if you dont someone could if they are within range connect to your open wirless connection and download whatever they want from the internet using your broadband.

    So check the modem/routers manual and settings to enable Wireless Encryption or if your not using the wireless side of the router but its wired then check the routers settings to disable wireless.

    If they have potentially hacked/infested your PC, we would need to find out what they used so run the below guide and attach the logs.

    Please follow the instructions in the below link and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.


    • If something does not run, write down the info to explain to us later but keep on going.
    • Do not assume that because one step does not work that they all will not.
    Notes:

    1. If you run into problems trying to run theREAD & RUN ME or any of the scans in normal boot mode. You can running steps in safe boot mode but make sure you tell us what you did later when you post logs. See the below if you do not know how to boot in safe mode:
    2. If you have problems downloading on the problem PC, download the tools on another PC and burn to a CD. Then copy them to the problem PC. You will have to skip getting updates if (and only if) your internet connection does not work. Yes you could use a flash drive too but flash drives are writeable and infections can spread to them.


    plus a guide on how to attach the logs HOW TO: Attach Items To Your Post
     

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