Re: Please help I have been hacked!!

From: NeoSadist (ne0$@d1$t)
Date: 09/15/02 

From: "NeoSadist" <ne0$@d1$t>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 19:18:41 -0600

"alec" <alec34us@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1161501c25c4d$653451c0$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> Dear Newsgroup,
>
> I have just realized that my computer at work had been
> hacked. It is Windows 2000. Someone has hacked into it
> and made it a file server for "Star War" movies. It has a
> trojen on it. My question is how? Or more important is
> there any third party software that I can scan our other
> office computers for this. How can I check. I had no
> idea this was going on in my computer. I am scared!
>
> Thanks for any help!!

First of all, if you don't have anti-virus software, get some. If you do
but it doesn't detect it, get Norton Antivirus or something that you
actually pay for.
Second, get a firewall. Any firewall. Delete the movies.
But are you sure you were hacked? What if it's your friend or son or wife?

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