I've been cracker jacked

[emma royds]

Hi everyone, just to warn you all despite my high security awareness, I have been hacked. I suspected after getting a pop up for the second time telling me there was an update for adobe flash player that there was something wrong. I don't have flash player you see. I have also had multiple application hangs, and just recently noticed in event viewer that certain windows processes and ports were registering as exceptions in windows firewall. I don't use windows firewall by the way, as it is naff. In fact truth be told nearly all firewalls are, and can be bypassed by hackers. (False sense of security) "Zonealarm" being an exception which I don't use for reasons I don't wish to go into. The other exception, provided it is configured correctly being "Tiny firewall" I also noticed various changes had occurred to my system, which I corrected straight away. But my suspicions were confirmed when I changed my password and later checked the security logs in event viewer, only to find that there had been been four failed logon attempts. (Bad user name and or password) and it defo wasn't me. Anyway this is the second time this has occurred in two years, and I strongly suspect that it is an employer of my service provider. Like many companies now it has employed indian workers based in India to deal with customer services, and technical problems ect. I'm not going to go too much into detail as to why I suspect this to be the case, but lets just say I got a suspicious phonecall the other night. It concerns me there are more and more criminals operating within companies these days, whether it be banks or internet service providers, or any other organizations. My advice to windows users is to do regular checks in event viewers security logs to see if anything looks abnormal. And never ever buy anything on line, just look at what has happened to TK Max customers, thousands of people's details have been stolen. Hacking used to be a hobby of the geek, but know it is the occupation of the serious criminal, and they are the cleverest people in computing at the moment, always keeping one step ahead of the good guys. If you haven't got a degree in internet security, then your most probably vunerable to attack. For me now it's just a case of sorting a few things out, then I'm off the internet for good, it's just not a safe place anymore.

P.S, I just found out that Dell computers (Second largest suppliers of computers in the world) are in the process of shipping some of there computers pre-installed with a linux operating system after a survey revealed over 70% of it's customers who completed the survey said they would prefer it to windows.
Three cheers to dell, thats all I can say. Microsoft windows sucks big time.

[friendsinthesky]

..yep everyone's vulnerable to hackers. Welcome to present time.

Maybe you should get yourself an external hard drive.

[emma royds]

..yep everyone's vulnerable to hackers. Welcome to present time.

Maybe you should get yourself an external hard drive.

What good would that do? unless of course it uses some form of encryption. I'm not that familiar with external drives. Are they really any safer?
One thing i've never understood is why my computer uses a FAT32 file system as opposed to NTFS, I use a 2.4 Gig Althlon 64 with 1 gig memory and a 400 gig harddrive, partioned in two. And I'm using windows Xp home edition. I don't understand why it's not NTFS.

[friendsinthesky]

What good would that do? unless of course it uses some form of encryption. I'm not that familiar with external drives. Are they really any safer?
One thing i've never understood is why my computer uses a FAT32 file system as opposed to NTFS, I use a 2.4 Gig Althlon 64 with 1 gig memory and a 400 gig harddrive, partioned in two. And I'm using windows Xp home edition. I don't understand why it's not NTFS.

Gee, I wish I had your computer hooked up to the fastest broadband, but I'm on some pre-historic beast on dial-up (FEEL MY PAIN, PLEASE!) but as for a external hard drive, you can keep "stuff" safe, it doesn't always need to turned on and connected to the computer.

[pollock]

but I'm on some pre-historic beast on dial-up

Ouch!

F

[whitenight639]

hey guys i know a bit about computers, one of the best things you can do to avoid bieng an easy hack is turning of uneeded services like remote registry editing and other services hackers can use see http://www.jasonn.com/turning_off_unnecessary_services_on_windows_xp

and i srongle suggest using microsoft security baseline anylser can be downloaded free here

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx

also a firewall is definetly a good idea, i use microsofts standard one and avast anti virus- cos it works and its free and will do a scan on boot up, some dont.
also monzilla firefox is a must IE7 is pants. and with firefox you can get it to erase all private data, cookies history ect everytime you close it.

but dispite all this you will never be 100% safe is a hacker knows what there doing, iv got Net tools and its got an app called hack trapper it will listern to your ports and tell you if people try, and lots do and lots fail!

[basel]

first of all change over your main drive from fat32 to ntfs this can be done without having to reinstall windows (google for file convertors) also check out this program


http://www.snapfiles.com/get/trout.html,

i have found it very usefull in the past, you can zero in some good information but this has got to be the best one:-

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Networking/TcpView.mspx

put this programs both to good use by comparing information and you could even zero right into the hackers ip address (i have even reported that it even give me a email adress)


a must duo to have



basel

[emma royds]

first of all change over your main drive from fat32 to ntfs this can be done without having to reinstall windows (google for file convertors) also check out this program


http://www.snapfiles.com/get/trout.html,

i have found it very usefull in the past, you can zero in some good information but this has got to be the best one:-

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Networking/TcpView.mspx

put this programs both to good use by comparing information and you could even zero right into the hackers ip address (i have even reported that it even give me a email adress)


a must duo to have



basel

Thanks