Category: Geeks r Us
Hello everyone. Yesterday, when I came back from the music school, winamp started playing pareo radio mainstream, which is a reggaeton radio station which I particularly don't like because I don't like reggaeton. Anyways as I was saying, winamp did that, then it opened skype and called random contacts and wrote funny stuff in notepad. I certainly know it's a hacker since it's a friend of my friend. Is there something I can do against it? He also disabled system restore, so I have no idea of what to do.
Oh, he also insulted the folks in mirc, but that is another story haha.
Thanks.
wow, find new friends. hehehehe good luck. shea
first of all, what sort of security do you ahve on your comp? Secondly, it's not that hard to turn on system restore, just turn it back on in system properties. And thirdly, holy cow your friends friend has some serious issues, firewalls are your friend, so is locking your computers.
If Sys Restore has been disabled by a hacker, he won't be able to turn it back on. Do you have a backup? If you do, I recommend reformatting and starting fresh. If not, you can try the firewall. Chanches are, he's already gone too far for a firewall to work.
HE disabled the user interface of system restore, so I can't turn it back on. Ad yeah, I have everything I need to reformat, except the windows xp cd, heh. He's using a script, so maybe some script blocker would work? Where can you get those.
have you updated winamp to 5.35, which addresses a serious security issue.
He's probably using a trojan, get a trojan remover or an anti virus program? Also get a firewall, that might prevent him using some exploits on you.
No, no trojan would do this. You can try going to bit torrent and getting a bootleg copy of XP. I don't know what else to tell you now that it is on there. You can try to go into the registry with a program like registry cleaner to get it out of the registry, only problem is, I don't think the registry cleaner would pick it up.
It was under windows services in startup. It was just a script. It's gone now, a friend helped me with it. I was lucky this time. haha. My computer needs reformating anyway.
Nice. What did he do? Did he go into msconfig?
I suggest you use the windows escalation privillege trick... shh. Well, if my memory isn{t a bit cloudy I cannot post stuff like this here? Perhaps you can send me a private message or something. Anyway, whenever that happens, the best thing is to disconnect from the net as soon as you notice something strange occurring, and for Crhist's shake, that lamer couldn't have anything better to do?
Hey dude that is so nuts! Make asure all of your antivivirus software is up to date. And change your password or when you know you are going to be leaving the house for a while shut down your computer.
heh its not nuts really, its just.. letting somone contorl stuf really. I mean whenever something strange happens it is a good idea to disconnect from the net and check your files to see if anything has changed. It sounds like almost an agreement to do such things like calling contacts on skipe and writing funny stuff in notepad. In either case this has happened or not, disabling the remote desktop if you know you will not be using it and enabling it only when you have to. The fewer connections you make to the net in windows the better you are. I actually don't shut down this box, so if something strange would happen... then oh well, it just hapens. So far nothing has happened and i doubt something will.