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RE: Serious help. Hacked?
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No. Unnecessary hassle
Formatting is not "unnecessary" by any means here and definitely the best idea yet.

This is different from a regular malware infection because there obviously is an individual actively controlling the machine.  Who knows what other backdoors they have set up by now and what else they have installed that the virus/spyware scanners have no clue about.

Although it sounds like this might be the doing of someone Vimto knows (most random "hackers" wouldn't be interested in revealing they have control of the computer) and it is a personal computer, this is a full-blown security compromise and the only true and proven response to that is wipe and format.  She could physically disconnect the computer from the net long enough to back up non-executable data files, but format is the only way to be sure this machine will be trustworthy ever again.
12-10-2008 04:07 AM
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Serious help. Hacked? - by Vimto on 12-08-2008 at 08:57 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Voldemort on 12-08-2008 at 08:59 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Vimto on 12-08-2008 at 09:04 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by prashker on 12-08-2008 at 09:09 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Vimto on 12-08-2008 at 09:11 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Voldemort on 12-08-2008 at 09:13 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Vimto on 12-08-2008 at 09:15 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by vaccination on 12-08-2008 at 09:16 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Vimto on 12-08-2008 at 09:18 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by mezzanine on 12-08-2008 at 09:20 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Quantum on 12-08-2008 at 09:20 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by matty on 12-08-2008 at 09:22 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Menthix on 12-08-2008 at 09:26 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Mike on 12-08-2008 at 09:27 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Jarrod on 12-09-2008 at 03:00 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by TheSteve on 12-09-2008 at 04:35 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Vimto on 12-09-2008 at 08:34 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Mike on 12-09-2008 at 08:43 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Jarrod on 12-09-2008 at 12:17 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by prashker on 12-09-2008 at 12:21 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by alegator on 12-09-2008 at 01:02 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by vaccination on 12-09-2008 at 01:10 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by ShawnZ on 12-10-2008 at 12:27 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Curtis on 12-10-2008 at 12:52 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by albert on 12-10-2008 at 01:39 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Adeptus on 12-10-2008 at 04:07 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by vaccination on 12-10-2008 at 08:15 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Jarrod on 12-10-2008 at 11:39 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Wally on 12-10-2008 at 12:46 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by ShawnZ on 12-10-2008 at 01:14 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by foaly on 12-10-2008 at 01:19 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by matty on 12-10-2008 at 03:19 PM
RE: RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Wally on 12-11-2008 at 06:51 AM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by Vimto on 12-10-2008 at 04:16 PM
RE: Serious help. Hacked? - by wj on 12-11-2008 at 01:07 AM


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