Re: OT:Computer hacked


"Conor" <conor.turton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1da88250d1f29ad198ae74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <433E69FF.67F06D21@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Odie Ferrous says...
>> "Dave {ð¿ð}" wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm after advice.
>> >
>> > A colleague of mine has asked me to have a look at her daughters PC,
>> > because she believes that it
>> > has been hacked. She has come to this conclusion because:
>> >
>> > Money has been taken out of her PayPal account
>> > Direct debits have been setup with her online bank
>> > She has observed files and folders on the PC being opened, closed,
>> > moved and deleted
>> > Her desktop has been altered and her screensaver has been changed. The
>> > latest change was the word
>> > "Cun*" appearing on the screensaver.
>> >
>> > Anyway, I think she should get the Police involved, before I try and
>> > sort out her problem by
>> > installing decent anti-virus and anti-spyware programs (Kaspersky
>> > Anti-Virus, F-Prot Antivirus and
>> > XoftSpy Anti-Spy) and scanning her system for nasty things on the hard
>> > drive, because once this is
>> > done any evidence will be removed/deleted. So should she contact the
>> > police before I do this and
>> > more to the point will they be interested and try and find the
>> > offender(s)?
>> >
>> > Any advice would be most welcome, as i've not come across this sort of
>> > thing personally myself.
>> >
>> > Dave
>>
>> I would install a program to try to track the IP address the hacker is
>> using.
>
> Why bother?
>> Might be an internet cafe, but he/she might be dumb enough to be
>> doing this from a traceable computer.
>>
> And of course the ISP is going to be really bothered...
>
>> I would then remove the hard drive and keep it for evidence. Stick a
>> new hard drive in and use a proper router with hardware firewall,
>> possibly a software firewall on top, and an anti-virus package.
>>
> And of course the Police are likely to do anything..
>
>> If you delete / reformat the drive, you have no evidence to help with
>> future proceedings.
>>
> Which are a waste of time. Lets face it, she's paid the price for
> stupidity. In order to get to the state its in SHE has HAD to open an
> attachment from an unsolicited e-mail or respond to a phishing scam
> despite all the warnings.
>
>
> --
> Conor
>
> "You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen
> Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart, Extras.
ah you must perfect being and know everything about everything and never
once made a mistake, if you don't have a constructive thing to say why
bother in just slagging them off it just shows what a caring friendly person
you are NOT


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