Re: Someone hacking a computer on our network!!

From: Peter Kaufman (pmkdatabase_at_yahoo_dot_ca)
Date: 07/29/04


Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:28:34 +0700

This is more of a question to the experts that responded but you might
want to try it in any case ... I wonder if a tool like Active Ports
might be handy to get more info on what is going on - it should show
all traffic in and out including any initiated by a trojan.

Peter

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:52:13 GMT, greenbay <greenbay@telia.com> wrote:

>It has happend three days, first two months ago, second were yesterday
>and thrd day was today,
>
>Its a windows 2000 pro, sitting behind i firewall. The hacking
>symptoms is like pcanywhere och vnc, you can see everything day do.
>First time they wrote something in the start-run, yesterday they tried
>to change password on the computer.
>
>I have scanned the computer with mcaffe virusscan, spybot, adaware,
>aatools, and spyremover(dont remember the name) is installed on the
>computer.
>I have checked the registry for porgrams that starts up, checked
>installed programs(add remove programs), going thru the services,
>checked process running under task manager. Looked for strange
>connections from the computer, witch netstat. And havent found
>anything. i havent checked this things when the computer was remote
>controlled, but right after, without switching off the computer.
>
>I can guess the computer makes a connection out from the network to
>the hackers computer or something. I have checked the firewall for vpn
>connections and there is nothing unusual with them.
>
>Anyone have ANY suggestions, I will try them all :)
>
>Thx
>



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