Re: Outlook hijacked
From: Billy O'Connor (billyoc_at_gnuyork.org)
Date: 02/21/04
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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 03:21:33 GMT
zrep@ngoc.com (R Pierce) writes:
> I have XP Pro on a DSL connection, with XP Firewall enabled. Despite
> all the flack it gets, all of the online "testers" of firewall
> security never find any holes in my system.....
>
> Today, while my wife was typing an email, someone started typing on
> the email with her. They mimicked words that she or her prior
> correspondents had used in older emails (as if they had been read
> previously. My wife typed who is this?...reply was "This is
> -------".....She then typed "Where are you?"...the reply was "in your
> house..."
Get that hulk off the network, *now*.
> Clearly somebody was online with her real-time. After this short
> exchange, all kinds of odd word combinations were typed on this email,
> things like, "man at 10 o'clock, man and a half, man and woman,
> etc..over and over and over.
>
> I cannot see that any of my personal files were opened, as judged by
> modification dates.
Did you check all of your hidden/cookie files and the registry?
Well, it doesn't really matter, you're compromised.
>
> Is it possible for a hacker to look into unopened emails? One of the
Yes, the attacker has full control of that machine now, if they can
"type" into an email you're composing.
> parts of the email was actually a reference to a new email my wife had
> yet to read.
>
> How is this accomplished? It is as if someone had a remote assistance
> request from us somehow, which was not the case here. Besides
Yes, that probably *was* the case, you could be compromised simply by
visiting a malicious web site.
> unhooking the PC from DSL or turning it off is there anything else I
> can do? Another firewall program? Any ways to find out who this was?
Unplug that computer from the network *right now*. Format the drive
and reinstall an operating system.
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