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Heads up: StorageProtector
18 years ago
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Well... it's official, my Desktop got hacked and trojaned last night... and I wasn't even online... only connected to a network at my friends house
Something had started to download itself onto my tower (can't remember the name of it) without me doing anything. I managed to throw my firewall into 'lockdown' before the download finished, but that didn't help with the aftermath of the problem. I saw 3 programs and 1 'service' in MSCONFIG that weren't there before, and every time I unchecked them, one would come back on.
After I started up my computer at around 4 hours ago, 2 icons popped up that I hadn't had before "Windows update" and "Windows help and support". This was already fishy, since:
A: Those are normally control panel items, not desktop.
B: I couldn't delete them (every time I did, they came back).
C: Both of them linked to a website. StorageProtector.com
Also... I kept getting odd error messages.
Yeah... It was spyware.
I didn't look up StorageProtector immediately... since I wanted to get the problem resolved. Disconnected my computer from the network at my house, and installed AVG, Adaware 2007, and ZoneAlarm (I don't like the Nvidia Firewall).
AVG blocked some programs trying to go out (one of them being an updater), as well as Zone alarm, and Adaware picked it all out. In addition... said spyware planted over 3000 temp files onto the root of my drive, and into the 'My documents' folder for every acount (In this case, mine, and the hidden administrator account in safe mode). EasyCleaner fixed that. Been fighting with it for about 3 hours, but it's running fine again from what I can tell.
Looked up StorageProtector afterwards. Has the dead giveaway for spyware (look at the way the title bar is worded).
Feel free to spam their support page with hate mail :).
http://www.storageprotector.com/
~NN
Something had started to download itself onto my tower (can't remember the name of it) without me doing anything. I managed to throw my firewall into 'lockdown' before the download finished, but that didn't help with the aftermath of the problem. I saw 3 programs and 1 'service' in MSCONFIG that weren't there before, and every time I unchecked them, one would come back on.
After I started up my computer at around 4 hours ago, 2 icons popped up that I hadn't had before "Windows update" and "Windows help and support". This was already fishy, since:
A: Those are normally control panel items, not desktop.
B: I couldn't delete them (every time I did, they came back).
C: Both of them linked to a website. StorageProtector.com
Also... I kept getting odd error messages.
Yeah... It was spyware.
I didn't look up StorageProtector immediately... since I wanted to get the problem resolved. Disconnected my computer from the network at my house, and installed AVG, Adaware 2007, and ZoneAlarm (I don't like the Nvidia Firewall).
AVG blocked some programs trying to go out (one of them being an updater), as well as Zone alarm, and Adaware picked it all out. In addition... said spyware planted over 3000 temp files onto the root of my drive, and into the 'My documents' folder for every acount (In this case, mine, and the hidden administrator account in safe mode). EasyCleaner fixed that. Been fighting with it for about 3 hours, but it's running fine again from what I can tell.
Looked up StorageProtector afterwards. Has the dead giveaway for spyware (look at the way the title bar is worded).
Feel free to spam their support page with hate mail :).
http://www.storageprotector.com/
~NN
I put another firewall on it, as well as usual stuff everyone should have (It's not usually connected to the internet). So... yeah...
His brothers complain that all their slowdowns are related to spyware. As the above implies... they are wrong...