WTF happend today?***NEED HELP WITH THIS**

[bonk102]

Ok, i come home, and i come into my room same as usual. My one roomate isn't home. I come to my computer, move my mouse, screen saver goes away. Nothing weird yet. Then i click on my IM away message, and start to read them. This is when all hell breaks loose. My computer freezes, nothing will work, move, anything. So i try Ctrl/alt/delete, no dice. I try turning the computer off with the power button. No dice. I resort to turning power off. I power back on, this is when things are strange. I check my windows account page, and there is a new account created for a "guest", with a diff. picture, and setting have all been changed. ok, whatever. I go to Yahoo to check my baseball teams, i have been logged out of it, (normally i would blame this on my roomate, but she SWEARS she wans't on my 'puter). Anyway, then i get an IM from some girl i've never talked to saying i talked to her this afternoon. She tells me at what time, and i say, nope, sorry, i've b een in class all day and i wasn't even near my computer. She says well someone talked to me at 4pm. Whatever. In addition to this, i have about 6 programs i didn't have before, some installed, some not on my computer. Winamp had been uninstalled, and I have a new media player in it's place, which i can't even find on my programs list.

WTF happened to my computer??????

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Hmm, I may be wrong, but it sounds like somebody fvcked it up.

 

[Soulflare]

I'm no Sherlock Holmes, but my guess is someone else used your computer.

Time to add some password protection (BIOS, Screen Saver, whatever...)

 

[Burnt]

I usually lock my computer to prevent others from messing with it, I.E. Roomate.

 

[b0mbrman]

<< I usually lock my computer to prevent others from messing with it, I.E. Roomate. >>


Just slap him around...he'll get the message

 

[bonk102]

can't slap him around for 2 reasons

1), he's a she

2)she's a LOT bigger than me

 

[bonk102]

oh, and i did have password protection on, on my screen saver at least, but last night when i came home, the password had been changed on me, WTF????

 

[rgwalt]

Sounds like someone is breaking into your computer.

Ryan

 

[Zim Hosein]

bonk102, if you're on a network, make sure your firewall is working properly and updated, just a thought.

 

[bonk102]

is there a way for someone to remotely access my computer? it's connected to the internet 24/7 most of the time, someone please help

 

[Scouzer]

<< is there a way for someone to remotely access my computer? it's connected to the internet 24/7 most of the time, someone please help >>




Trojan Horse.

 

[bonk102]

i'm not on a network and i've been running Norton every day bc i was afraid of that, but woudl'nt it pick it up, all my virus updates have been up to date

 

[yobarman]

get a firewall, Zone Alarm pro is a good free one..
get a virus scan, AVG is a good free one.
get ad-aware, because since we're doing all this scanning, we might as well check what kind of crap all those extra programs installed on your computer.

 

[MournSanity]

Are you running XP? I heard there was this glitch that allowed anyone to access your 'puter by just going on the net...

 

[bonk102]

yeah, i'm running XP, i heard that too, but i can't find the patch link that i had once found

 

[bonk102]

if someone has a link to the patch it'd be greatly appreciated

 

[arod]

It was part of the latest windows updates... if you have all those you should be ok. Although nobody ahs ever gotten in on my firewall anyways so I couldnt tell you its working right

 

[bonk102]

yeah, i have all the windows updates, looks like i'll have to download a firewall for now and see if that helps

 

[bonk102]

just downloaded ad aware and zonealarm, we'll see if that helps, i'll update you guys tomorrow night