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Having issues securing my computer
By Eregion2 on 10/03/2011
I'm absolutely befuddled at this point. If anyone can help shed some light on this I'd be extremely grateful, because the only thing I've got left is that I've become a split schizophrenic.
Last week I picked up some trojans from somewhere (Java:Agent, if that means anything) and several of my e-mail accounts and my World of Warcraft account was compromised. Cleaned everything up, changed passwords and security questions, actually started a new e-mail from scratch and set up most of my stuff there using a second computer.
Everything's fine and dandy until I come home from work today and the password to my World of Warcraft account and the new e-mail I set up were both changed. I recovered both, nothing on my characters has been tampered with, and I cannot find a single virus. Anywhere. I just finished the most thorough reboot scan Avast! can give me and there's nothing there.
What could I be missing? There's got to be a keylogger in that PC somewhere.
PS: Blizzard Authenticator is in the mail.
Last week I picked up some trojans from somewhere (Java:Agent, if that means anything) and several of my e-mail accounts and my World of Warcraft account was compromised. Cleaned everything up, changed passwords and security questions, actually started a new e-mail from scratch and set up most of my stuff there using a second computer.
Everything's fine and dandy until I come home from work today and the password to my World of Warcraft account and the new e-mail I set up were both changed. I recovered both, nothing on my characters has been tampered with, and I cannot find a single virus. Anywhere. I just finished the most thorough reboot scan Avast! can give me and there's nothing there.
What could I be missing? There's got to be a keylogger in that PC somewhere.
PS: Blizzard Authenticator is in the mail.
By JC on 10/03/2011
I'd just reinstall windows Wayne, back up any important files and then just wipe it all, no trojan is going to survive that 
By Eregion2 on 11/03/2011
Sounds tempting, I've always been partial to scorched-earth annihilatory strategies. 
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Just finished the reinstallation and got everything set back up. If I lose it again I guess it means they have the answer to my secret Battlenet Q/A, which'll be a pain in the ass but whatever. I'll handle it if it happens.
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Just finished the reinstallation and got everything set back up. If I lose it again I guess it means they have the answer to my secret Battlenet Q/A, which'll be a pain in the ass but whatever. I'll handle it if it happens.
By Eregion2 on 11/03/2011
It's -still- happening. My battlenet and e-mail passwords were reset sometime this morning -after- I reinstalled my operating system and changed the password to my battlenet account and my password and secret question responses to my e-mail account. I'm starting to think this hacker is a fucking psychic, I can't think of anything else to even try.
By Eregion2 on 12/03/2011
You know, I wish the internet was more like Ghost in the Shell. When I get hacked, I want to be able to fry the fucker's brain. Think everything's good now though, had a few layover trojans hiding in C:\Windows.old\ after the reinstallation that AVG10/Avast! didn't catch, but ESET NOD32 seems to have done the trick.
By Rodney75 on 12/03/2011
| QUOTE: Eregion2 @ March 12, 2011 05:27 am) |
| You know, I wish the internet was more like Ghost in the Shell. When I get hacked, I want to be able to fry the fucker's brain. Think everything's good now though, had a few layover trojans hiding in C:\Windows.old\ after the reinstallation that AVG10/Avast! didn't catch, but ESET NOD32 seems to have done the trick. |
Nod 32 is brilliant. Glad that everything seems fixed man!!
By JC on 12/03/2011
| QUOTE: Eregion2 @ March 12, 2011 11:27 pm) |
| Think everything's good now though, had a few layover trojans hiding in C:\Windows.old\ |
Which is why I said wipe it all, not leave the old windows files sitting there (ie reformat the fucker)
By Eregion2 on 12/03/2011
| QUOTE: JC @ March 12, 2011 04:49 pm) | ||
Which is why I said wipe it all, not leave the old windows files sitting there (ie reformat the fucker)
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Yeah, my bad. I'm a newbie about some of these things.
By Ikahigurashi on 12/03/2011
Try running Malwarebytes in Safe mode.
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