Lock please now!

[Danman]

:|

 

[Czar]

Are you sure he was hacked?

just seems like a bad Windows install or a virus

 

[yerkel]

Pray? And get his system files off my hard drive!

 

[Danman]

<< Are you sure he was hacked?

just seems like a bad Windows install or a virus >>



Uh, he pissed off some CS player three days ago and he is pretty sure it was one of these ppl in the clan. They hacked him before just playing around before but it wasn't that bad.

 

[Czar]

Delete windows
Install windows
Install anti virus software
Install firewall
Go play CS
Kill some hackers


thats how I would do it


oh yeah, was he running iis?

 

[Danman]

<< Delete windows
Install windows
Install anti virus software
Install firewall
Go play CS
Kill some hackers


thats how I would do it >>



Yea, I wish but he has a lot of important stuff on it. This clan is in Chicago and there name is WDFA. :|

 

[n0cmonkey]

Steps for a full recovery:
1. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard.
2. Make sure you have recent backups (he does make backups right?)
3. Format
4. Reinstall
5. Recover
6. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard
7. Make sure he stops doing stupid things online with a nice smack to the head
8. Get a good anti-virus program and keep it up to date
9. Get a good firewall and keep it up to date
10. Make sure all security fixes have been applied
11. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard
12. Tell friend to stop playing CS is he is not smart enough to not piss people off and keep his own machine secure.

(this is an expanded version of my Backup, Format, Reinstall, Restore (patent pending, copyrighted, trademarked, and graphitied) process.

 

[Czar]

Best way is to install a new windows on another partition, or take his hd to another computer and sort out the important files.

 

[Descartes]

I find it increasingly humorous how quickly someone will claim they've been hacked. "Hey, my computer is running slower than normal, I've been hacked!" "Hey, GPF, I've been hacked!!"

Somehow I doubt you're able to qualify what constitutes being hacked, and what doesn't. Sorry to tell you, but no one is going to be able to "screw up" any of your memory sticks remotely. Do you think you can have a virus on your video card too?

 

[5489]

put the hard drive in a different computer as a secondary drive
save the files needed
put back hard drive into the regular computer
insert win2k cd
format
install win2k
install drivers
REJOICE!

EDIT: Dangit czar beat me

 

[tweakmm]

<< Steps for a full recovery:
1. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard.
2. Make sure you have recent backups (he does make backups right?)
3. Format
4. Reinstall
5. Recover
6. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard
7. Make sure he stops doing stupid things online with a nice smack to the head
8. Get a good anti-virus program and keep it up to date
9. Get a good firewall and keep it up to date
10. Make sure all security fixes have been applied
11. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard
12. Tell friend to stop playing CS is he is not smart enough to not piss people off and keep his own machine secure.

(this is an expanded version of my Backup, Format, Reinstall, Restore (patent pending, copyrighted, trademarked, and graphitied) process. >>


:Q:Q:Q
you didn't recomend that he install BSD:Q

 

[Danman]

<< Steps for a full recovery:
1. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard.
2. Make sure you have recent backups (he does make backups right?)
3. Format
4. Reinstall
5. Recover
6. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard
7. Make sure he stops doing stupid things online with a nice smack to the head
8. Get a good anti-virus program and keep it up to date
9. Get a good firewall and keep it up to date
10. Make sure all security fixes have been applied
11. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard
12. Tell friend to stop playing CS is he is not smart enough to not piss people off and keep his own machine secure.

(this is an expanded version of my Backup, Format, Reinstall, Restore (patent pending, copyrighted, trademarked, and graphitied) process. >>



Well the thing is he has updated NAV2002 every week and got Windows Updates all the time. :Q

 

[n0cmonkey]

<<

<< Steps for a full recovery:
1. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard.
2. Make sure you have recent backups (he does make backups right?)
3. Format
4. Reinstall
5. Recover
6. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard
7. Make sure he stops doing stupid things online with a nice smack to the head
8. Get a good anti-virus program and keep it up to date
9. Get a good firewall and keep it up to date
10. Make sure all security fixes have been applied
11. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard
12. Tell friend to stop playing CS is he is not smart enough to not piss people off and keep his own machine secure.

(this is an expanded version of my Backup, Format, Reinstall, Restore (patent pending, copyrighted, trademarked, and graphitied) process. >>


:Q:Q:Q
you didn't recomend that he install BSD:Q
>>



If he was intelligent enough to install BSD there is a good chance he wouldnt have been hacked.

 

[Danman]

<< I find it increasingly humorous how quickly someone will claim they've been hacked. "Hey, my computer is running slower than normal, I've been hacked!" "Hey, GPF, I've been hacked!!"

Somehow I doubt you're able to qualify what constitutes being hacked, and what doesn't. Sorry to tell you, but no one is going to be able to "screw up" any of your memory sticks remotely. Do you think you can have a virus on your video card too? >>




Ok, that is why I said does this have any relevance to this? Okay smart guy, if he didn't get hacked, how did it magically disable NAV2002 and deleted Windows critical system files? What, the fairy god-mother did this? I think not, I rest my case. :|

 

[n0cmonkey]

<<

<< Steps for a full recovery:
1. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard.
2. Make sure you have recent backups (he does make backups right?)
3. Format
4. Reinstall
5. Recover
6. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard
7. Make sure he stops doing stupid things online with a nice smack to the head
8. Get a good anti-virus program and keep it up to date
9. Get a good firewall and keep it up to date
10. Make sure all security fixes have been applied
11. Smack friend *REALLY REALLY* hard
12. Tell friend to stop playing CS is he is not smart enough to not piss people off and keep his own machine secure.

(this is an expanded version of my Backup, Format, Reinstall, Restore (patent pending, copyrighted, trademarked, and graphitied) process. >>



Well the thing is he has updated NAV2002 every week and got Windows Updates all the time. :Q >>



Firewall? Netiquette?

 

[ultimatebob]

<< My best friends computer got hacked bad. He lost several Windows files and one of his memory sticks got screwed up, I don't know if that is related to the hacking. Anyways, he copied the system files to your hard drive and turned it on and booted fine. But, Norton Anti-Virus was permanently disabled and could not run it. Plus, his memory is bouncing from 128 to 192. He has 1 stick of 128 and one stick of 64 and his normal is 192. He is also when is computer turns on his he gets a extended memory failure. So his computer just locked up and he had to restart and he lost his windows system files he lost again before! What can I do to help without formatting? Please help ppl! >>



Sounds like he has a bad stick of memory. All this hacking stuff sounds bogus to me, and it's bad hardware that's screwing up your files.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<<

<< I find it increasingly humorous how quickly someone will claim they've been hacked. "Hey, my computer is running slower than normal, I've been hacked!" "Hey, GPF, I've been hacked!!"

Somehow I doubt you're able to qualify what constitutes being hacked, and what doesn't. Sorry to tell you, but no one is going to be able to "screw up" any of your memory sticks remotely. Do you think you can have a virus on your video card too? >>




Ok, that is why I said does this have any relevance to this? Okay smart guy, if he didn't get hacked, how did it magically disable NAV2002 and deleted Windows critical system files? What, the fairy god-mother did this? I think not, I rest my case. :| >>



Bad memory can do quite a bit of damage to a system. So can improper maintenance.

 

[Russ]

Listen to ultimatebob, he knows what he's talking about.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Scarpozzi]

Sounds like a virus and a bad stick of RAM.

 

[Danman]

<<

<< My best friends computer got hacked bad. He lost several Windows files and one of his memory sticks got screwed up, I don't know if that is related to the hacking. Anyways, he copied the system files to your hard drive and turned it on and booted fine. But, Norton Anti-Virus was permanently disabled and could not run it. Plus, his memory is bouncing from 128 to 192. He has 1 stick of 128 and one stick of 64 and his normal is 192. He is also when is computer turns on his he gets a extended memory failure. So his computer just locked up and he had to restart and he lost his windows system files he lost again before! What can I do to help without formatting? Please help ppl! >>



Sounds like he has a bad stick of memory. All this hacking stuff sounds bogus to me, and it's bad hardware that's screwing up your files. >>



Bad memory can delete system files?! Really, well he just took out the stick of 64 that is causing this "problem" and still has the same sh*t but without the extended memory error. So it can't be the memory now.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<<

<<

<< My best friends computer got hacked bad. He lost several Windows files and one of his memory sticks got screwed up, I don't know if that is related to the hacking. Anyways, he copied the system files to your hard drive and turned it on and booted fine. But, Norton Anti-Virus was permanently disabled and could not run it. Plus, his memory is bouncing from 128 to 192. He has 1 stick of 128 and one stick of 64 and his normal is 192. He is also when is computer turns on his he gets a extended memory failure. So his computer just locked up and he had to restart and he lost his windows system files he lost again before! What can I do to help without formatting? Please help ppl! >>



Sounds like he has a bad stick of memory. All this hacking stuff sounds bogus to me, and it's bad hardware that's screwing up your files. >>



Bad memory can delete system files?! Really, well he just took out the stick of 64 that is causing this "problem" and still has the same sh*t but without the extended memory error. So it can't be the memory now. >>



Yes, it can be the memory still. The memory probably screwed up more than just one boot. Backup, format, reinstall, restore.

 

[Danman]

<<

<<

<<

<< My best friends computer got hacked bad. He lost several Windows files and one of his memory sticks got screwed up, I don't know if that is related to the hacking. Anyways, he copied the system files to your hard drive and turned it on and booted fine. But, Norton Anti-Virus was permanently disabled and could not run it. Plus, his memory is bouncing from 128 to 192. He has 1 stick of 128 and one stick of 64 and his normal is 192. He is also when is computer turns on his he gets a extended memory failure. So his computer just locked up and he had to restart and he lost his windows system files he lost again before! What can I do to help without formatting? Please help ppl! >>



Sounds like he has a bad stick of memory. All this hacking stuff sounds bogus to me, and it's bad hardware that's screwing up your files. >>



Bad memory can delete system files?! Really, well he just took out the stick of 64 that is causing this "problem" and still has the same sh*t but without the extended memory error. So it can't be the memory now. >>



Yes, it can be the memory still. The memory probably screwed up more than just one boot. Backup, format, reinstall, restore. >>



So it just like that a memory stick can go bezerk and screw with a hard drive and delete system files?! I really don't buy that man, I never heard that before.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<<

<<

<<

<<

<< My best friends computer got hacked bad. He lost several Windows files and one of his memory sticks got screwed up, I don't know if that is related to the hacking. Anyways, he copied the system files to your hard drive and turned it on and booted fine. But, Norton Anti-Virus was permanently disabled and could not run it. Plus, his memory is bouncing from 128 to 192. He has 1 stick of 128 and one stick of 64 and his normal is 192. He is also when is computer turns on his he gets a extended memory failure. So his computer just locked up and he had to restart and he lost his windows system files he lost again before! What can I do to help without formatting? Please help ppl! >>



Sounds like he has a bad stick of memory. All this hacking stuff sounds bogus to me, and it's bad hardware that's screwing up your files. >>



Bad memory can delete system files?! Really, well he just took out the stick of 64 that is causing this "problem" and still has the same sh*t but without the extended memory error. So it can't be the memory now. >>



Yes, it can be the memory still. The memory probably screwed up more than just one boot. Backup, format, reinstall, restore. >>



So it just like that a memory stick can go bezerk and screw with a hard drive and delete system files?! I really don't buy that man, I never heard that before. >>



Then you dont listen. RAM is an important (Some say necessay but I disagree) part of the computer. Almost all data goes through the ram before and/or after being processed. So something that goes through there, gets corrupted, and then gets put on disk would definitely screw with the system. In my opinion the #1 software problem out there is bad ram

 

[Russ]

cashman,

Every file that is opened, executed or written to disk travels through RAM first. OF COURSE bad memory can wipe or corrupt files.

Russ, NCNE

EDIT: Crap, n0cmonkey, you must have aced typing class.

 

[Danman]

<< cashman,

Every file that is opened, executed or written to disk travels through RAM first. OF COURSE bad memory can wipe or corrupt files.

Russ, NCNE >>



I knew that but I never had that happen to me.........damn cheap ass memory. I apologize if I pissed anyone off.