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!URGENT! I think i'm being hacked!

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Do you have multiple users in your setup and If you do when switching between acounts do you log off or just switch?
 


<< I wonder if he's still online??
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oh he is, I can still see all his files! 😀 😉
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go to one of the files they're supposedly in, right-click and disable file sharing--see what happens
 
Take out your NIC card.. Start backing up important files.. Virus Scan.. Uninstall anything you've recently installed... Don't reboot until you really need to..
-- mrcodedude
 
You know what? I don't think you are being hacked. Those "blue-colored" folders are probably compressed folders (apparently in Windows NT compressed folders are a different color - can't confirm because I'm on FAT32 right now and when I was NTFS I never tried compression).

I'm also guessing that when you go to security properties and it lists the various "rights" all of your local users have for that particular file, you think it's listing users who are currently using that file?

Trust me, if NET FILE and NET SHARE don't show up anything, something else is the problem. Also, you did not indicate whether this behaviour persisted after you unplugged the NIC cable/modem line (get on another computer).
 
Use Linux 😉. Sorry, couldn't resist...

Like others said, install firewall, disconnect from the network, run antivirus, see if you find any trojans. And you only use the admin-user? Create a user for everyday use, and use that. Give the admin more complex password.

In UNIX/Linux, you never EVER use root (administrator in Windows) for everyday use! And that's a good rule to live by, even in Windows.
 
Even if you only have one user in win2k, there are GROUPS of users that exist automaticly called Administrators, Power Users, Users, etc. I doubt you're being hacked.

Yes, I just checked, all of those are the default file permissions for files in win2k. THIS IS NORMAL!! YOU ARE NOT BEING HACKED! Zone alarm isn't detecting anything because there's nothing to detect.

Your windows directory permissions are set so that certain groups (IE Administrator, Power Users, SYSTEM and users) have certain rights. That SYSTEM group is for the operating system's use, so that it can get in and get the files it needs from its own directory. Don't delete these groups or permissions! You could cause a heck of a lot of trouble!
 


<< Pull the plug on your internet connection, stupid.

Viper GTS >>



Harsh.. Did you have to aff the "stupid" part on there?
Having a bad day?
 


<< You know what? I don't think you are being hacked. Those "blue-colored" folders are probably compressed folders (apparently in Windows NT compressed folders are a different color - can't confirm because I'm on FAT32 right now and when I was NTFS I never tried compression).

I'm also guessing that when you go to security properties and it lists the various "rights" all of your local users have for that particular file, you think it's listing users who are currently using that file?

Trust me, if NET FILE and NET SHARE don't show up anything, something else is the problem. Also, you did not indicate whether this behaviour persisted after you unplugged the NIC cable/modem line (get on another computer). >>



Agreed. NT & W2K both offer the option to display compressed files in an alternate color, the default color is blue. Now, if you have one of MS's wonderful scheduled tasks to 'optimize' your computer, you may have a task running on your box that is compressing files that haven't been used in x number of days. That would especially make sense that it's just image & text files that you don't ever touch.
 


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<< You know what? I don't think you are being hacked. Those "blue-colored" folders are probably compressed folders (apparently in Windows NT compressed folders are a different color - can't confirm because I'm on FAT32 right now and when I was NTFS I never tried compression).

I'm also guessing that when you go to security properties and it lists the various "rights" all of your local users have for that particular file, you think it's listing users who are currently using that file?

Trust me, if NET FILE and NET SHARE don't show up anything, something else is the problem. Also, you did not indicate whether this behaviour persisted after you unplugged the NIC cable/modem line (get on another computer). >>



Agreed. NT & W2K both offer the option to display compressed files in an alternate color, the default color is blue. Now, if you have one of MS's wonderful scheduled tasks to 'optimize' your computer, you may have a task running on your box that is compressing files that haven't been used in x number of days. That would especially make sense that it's just image & text files that you don't ever touch. >>



Those are compressed files. If you did any disk cleaning, and selected compress files, it will do that. I have 6 blue(compressed) files in C:\.
 
Yet another manifestation of assimilated media propaganda.

The media speaks of anthrax, suddenly every powdered substance is anthrax, even the white chalk on a chalkboard.

"Hacking" has had quite a bit of media attention over the past year, suddenly every single thing that happens to an end-user results in, "I think I'm being hax0red!!" There have been countless threads of users saying "I've been hax0red!!", when in fact if they used even the slightest bit of common sense, they'd realize that weren't the case.

If you're being hacked, the changing the colors of the icons next to your files would be the last goal on an attacker's mind.
 
It's funny how all these n00B's switch from Win98 to WinXP and never bother learning the first thing about all of the "differences" between the two operating systems. Or perhaps it's MS's fault for not encouraging people to learn.
 
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