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Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 27, 2012 - 02:26pm PT
Not sure how it happened but it did. I am not sending links to anyone so beware. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Death to those f*#king hackers!
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Dec 27, 2012 - 02:31pm PT
Just got one.....deleted.
Jingy

climber
Somewhere out there
Dec 27, 2012 - 02:40pm PT
window?


10b4me

Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
Dec 27, 2012 - 02:43pm PT
Death to those f*#king hackers!

by which method?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 27, 2012 - 02:54pm PT
I'm guessin' Lincoln's Law of Blogs is coming into play.

http://www.linkinlog.com

I dare ya!
zip

Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
Dec 27, 2012 - 02:58pm PT
Yep, got your e mail.
So you can't get me a deal on Viagra?
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Dec 27, 2012 - 03:02pm PT
Fuk, I clicked it without thinking.

It was blocked as a trojan horse. Thank gawd for avast.
Hope there's no more to it......
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 03:05pm PT
So, I have avast. I didn't click on anything that would give this to me.

I have windows XP. Before you go all apple on me, it is a university issued machine.

How does this happen?

And for hackers - death by AR-15 of course!!

Do I need to do anything other than change passwords? Any advice is welcome.
John M

climber
Dec 27, 2012 - 03:08pm PT
So does this mean that you aren't leaving brassnuts and coming to california to be my slave girl?

Dang!!#$@@!


Damn those rat bastard hackers. I even took a bath.
GhoulweJ

Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
Dec 27, 2012 - 03:09pm PT
Feeling left out :(
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 03:12pm PT
Maybe I managed to stop it before it got to GhoulweJ.

I hope I stopped it. Scared to touch anything on this dang machine now.
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Dec 27, 2012 - 03:41pm PT
I feel so left out...
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 27, 2012 - 03:49pm PT
Well I guess not being known from Adam has some benefits. But be thankful it wasn't ZeroAccess rootkit. That's an ugly one there.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/06/06/zeroaccess-rootkit-usermode/


philo

Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
Dec 27, 2012 - 03:49pm PT
Hackers don't deserve death by boobies.
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 27, 2012 - 03:55pm PT
Ahem, are you using protection?

That's a good place to start.


zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 27, 2012 - 03:56pm PT
Have you noticed any symptoms that you can elaborate on?

zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 27, 2012 - 04:00pm PT
OK now for some remediation. Though it is advised by some not to run this unless instructed to by an expert, I would download and run ComboFix.

Do not download it from anyone other than bleepingcomputer and follow the instructions carefully. It can take a while and it can require multiple runs.

Did I say it's free?

This is what eradicated the ugly rootkit mentioned above but it does a nice cleanup job in toto (not the dog).

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 27, 2012 - 04:13pm PT
email hacking, as far as I've read, is usually fairly benign. I've opened a few, but I usually delete them without opening. The ones I've seen are easily identified by having an improbable linkup between the sender and the topic.

Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 04:16pm PT
My machine has malwarebytes and hitman pro. Wrong in earlier stmt about avast. Running malwarebytes in safe mode right now. Maybe my machine is not compromised and only email and facebook were. I do not use the same password on email and other places. Just Wonder how this happens.

Does this just sometimes happen? Or did I likely do something to allow it?
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2012 - 04:16pm PT
Also never saw a weird link. Not sure where it came from.

My keyboard has been a bit possessed but I thought I just needed a new one. I go thru them pretty regularly.
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