Hacked by 8BITS

jjbusiness1 · Sep 1, 2007

Dear Professional:

Each time I get this message "Hacked by 8BITS" when I go online; it is next to a web page address/title on top left hand corner of my computer screen, where this microsoft explorer icon is in this blue bar; I use Microsoft XP. :confused I've had this problem at least a month. What can I do to get rid of this error? Thank you.

JJ

abri · Sep 2, 2007

jjbusiness1 said: ↑

Dear Professional:

Each time I get this message "Hacked by 8BITS" when I go online; it is next to a web page address/title on top left hand corner of my computer screen, where this microsoft explorer icon is in this blue bar; I use Microsoft XP. :confused I've had this problem at least a month. What can I do to get rid of this error? Thank you.

JJ
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Hi jjbusiness,

Does it appear when your startpage opens? Or is it there regardless of whether you are at your start page or some other webpage? It's possible the website you use as your start page has been hacked.

If you go through our standard cleaning procedures, we can give you more information about this problem and about whether your computer is infected by looking at your logs.

Welcome to Majorgeeks!

Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support

Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.

Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.

If, after doing ALL of the above, you still have a problem, make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis taking care to install it as per the instructions to the proper folder and to properly rename the hijackthis.exe file to analyse.exe. This is very important due to some new infections going around!

When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too:

CounterSpy (this one must be saved by you)

(AVG Antispyware log – this one ONLY IF you were not able to run CounterSpy)

Bitdefender – from step 6

activescan.txt – from the Panda scan from step 6

runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat

newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat

hijackthis.txt – the log from the analyse.exe scan – (HijackThis has to be renamed and be in the proper folder – read the instructions!)

NOTE:You can only attach 3 files in a single message so it will require that you use two messages to attach all of these logs!
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