Re: HELP! I've been made a client on my own PC!
From: JM (Jose.Matthews@med.ge.com)
Date: 06/21/02
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From: "JM" <Jose.Matthews@med.ge.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:42:43 -0700
Thanks. Frankly, I do believe that it is someone who
knows me and has targeted me. While I do have access to
certain BIOS settings, I do not have access to passwords,
etc...files that have been titled in a manner that gives
hints to who this may be.....I have looked at some log
files and can see where a person/system was "calling" and
or the results of pinging ports for signals. Firstly, I
have tried to reformat and re-install quite a few times,
and it doesn't seem to help. I've also downloaded a BIOS
upgrade from HP, with no change. I have removed all
network options....always seem to have a "Entire Network"
icon, that when selected gets denied due to no
access......LOTS of restore type files all over the
place....I disable Taskmanager, to no avail...same with
PCHealth...the default web addy on Explorer says something
like "blahblahblah....redir....)...ScanDisk always runs
ok, but never seems to do a complete surface scan....I
have Norton System Works, which includes antivirus
applications, but have seen messages that the definition
files have been corrupted....I have Symantec Internet
Security loaded as a firewall, etc.....There are just too
many thing. Um, again, I'm running a home/Desktop PC, yet
in certain logs I've seen references made to a certain
laptop.......a "wireless" device icon suddenly showed up
one night...Feeling pretty dumb. Is there someone maybe I
could send the HD to for analysis? Thanks again for your
help...I sure appreciate it. It has been frustrating.
>-----Original Message-----
>I don't think it's very common for a hacker to lock you
out of BIOS
>selections. If this is a hacker, it sounds like someone
who knows you and
>has targeted you. But it sounds more likely to me that
this could be some
>sort of system failure or maybe a virus. Can you
describe in more detail
>the things that are going wrong?
>
>One sure test would be to format and reinstall Windows
again, and don't
>connect it to the internet. If you still have problems
[or if you know that
>you had problems after installing Windows and before
connecting it to the
>internet], the problem is probably not a hacker. Use a
hardware and/or
>software firewall, starting with Netgear or Linksys
BEFSR41 around $70, and
>consider installing Sygate firewall as well [free for non-
commercial use]
>and check the log of blocked packets. Install an
antivirus program like
>Norton that is set to download the latest updates every
day. Search your
>machine for files that have changed in the past day or
two or three to look
>for possible evidence of hacking. Download and run fport
from
>foundstone.com and pstools including pslist and
psloggedon from
>www.sysinternals.com to look for anything unusual. You
may want to run
>Scandisk, and download and run some sort of hardware
diagnostic tools on
>your computer, and/or have someone else look at your
computer for problems.
>
>I'm not convinced that fdisk is always necessary or
beneficial when
>reinstalling Windows. One issue is that any sectors
marked bad on your hard
>drive are I believe marked good again after the
reformatting.
>
>
>"JM" <Jose.Matthews@med.ge.com> wrote in message
>news:f3e501c21948$adeec000$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
>> Hi folks... please help...My home PC is an HP Pavillion
>> 8670C, was running Windows 98 and upgraded to ME and I
>> believe I was struck by a virus and/or a hacker.
Anyway,
>> this person has gained control at his/her will, and I am
>> now a client on my own PC and have vurtually no control,
>> have been locked out of lots of BIOS selections, and
have
>> no access to the network that appears to have been
>> established on my PC. Whoever has done this continually
>> fu**s with me when I'm trying to use this system, and
I'm
>> not skilled enough to know what to do. Have tried
>> changing hard drives, have fdisk'd a million times, but
to
>> no avail. This person is even accessing my system via
>> wireless technology. I'm desperate, what can I do?
Would
>> really appreciate your help. How can I fix this, and
are
>> there any telltale signs/logs that might lead me to who
>> this person is? (Just in case, I have pretty much taken
>> the system apart, including removing the hard drives,
just
>> in case). Thanks so much!
>
>
>.
>
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