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SIGNS YOUR COMPUTER IS HACKED/OWNED:
1. Hackers disable your Daylight Savings Time
2. The clock on the desktop can be one hour behind or one hour ahead on
occasion.
3. Your Network Places Icon on the desktop disappears.
4. If using a Windows platform, when you start your computer, your
original screen will pop up, but since the hackers need to boot into
their server, the system will quickly re-boot and the original screen
will appear twice instead of only once. Your system may re-boot twice
instead of once when loading some OEM versions.
5. If your computer system occasionally re-boots on it?s own, again,
the hacker may need to update their Hosts and Servers to make the
computer system function properly.
6. If you play Yahoo Games, you may find yourself being kicked out of
the board your playing in. What is worse is if your winning a game and
your the host of the board, the hacker may kick you out and not let you
back in. When a computer system is hacker proof, you will rarely get
booted out of a Yahoo Game. When the computer was hacker proof I went
back to playing games and haven?t been booted yet.
7. A browser you install to filter out or kill file certain individuals
on the internet will not work for a long time. When your computer
system is hacked, you aren?t able to filter out people in your browsers
or email application for more then 1-2 days. A number of computer
owners who?s system was hacked have advised me they had the same
problem. Because hackers are using your illegally installed Hosts and
Servers for posting to the internet, this is why you can?t filter or
kill file them. This information was very apparent to myself and other
ferret owners who?s computer was hacked.
8. When you begin to see Usenet remarks made on behalf of your personal
life which is private information.
9. Some of your personal files are modified years before they were
created, HA-HA-HA! Have seen a number of personal files modified 7-8
years before they were even created.
10. You find a number of files hidden/readable only which hackers seem
to make their files hidden/readable only.
11. When you find a number of added information in your boot.ini file
which relate to a Virtual Private Network . These can be either
software, hardware or device driver oriented. A sample is presented
later in this book.
12. Under Search for Files and Folders, you do a search on any file
modified in the past month and you will see files which just don?t need
to be modified or which you don?t even recognize. For the newbie, you
want to focus on the file you don?t recognize. Unless your skilled and
realize which files need to be present and modified running a Windows
Platform, you won?t know what to look for. To perform the above you
will need to see all hidden files and folders.
13. Select Start, Settings, Control Panel, Network, and if you see one
AOL adapter and have never used AOL. Two AOL adapters, two TCP/IP, two
Dial-Up adapters, one or two Virtual Private Network adapters your
computer could be hacked/owned. A Virtual Private Network is widely
used by malicious hackers because it can host up to 254 users. "This
applies to the average internet user who has one modem, one ISP and
isn?t running any FTP, NNTP, Proxy, SMTP, SQL, Web Server".
14. Select Start, Run, type regedit, select File, Export, in the box
type say 4-12-02.txt and select save. Then open this file with a text
editor or word document and you might be shocked to find what really is
installed on your computer system. Check the bottom of this file,
hackers love to install a bunch of applications, Hosts and Servers files
here. Will admit, when this was performed, I don?t remember if
importing all the hackers registry files on the hard drive is what
showed these results or if the registry was Windows original one.
15. You have to turn your computer off by the power supply on a some
what?s regular basis.
16. Installing a Network Interface Card will cause problems until the
hackers configure this device into the Virtual Private Network they
setup.
17. You find your cd-rom drive open and close without your permission.
18. You could hear an annoying beep coming from your system speakers.
19. Your windows screen goes horizontal or vertical.
20. The screen saver picture changes without your permission.
21. On occasion your mouse is out of your control. This could also be
caused by a corrupt mouse driver.
22. All of a sudden, your speakers decide to play you some music.
23. Installing a hardware or firewall for the first time can cause a
number of different problems for you to set-up and configure.
Considering you didn?t have these installed from the beginning of going
on the internet.
24. Your firewall logs show alerts at 12:00 then 11:22 then 12:16 and
back to 11:59.
25. If using a dial-up connection you see a number of pings, port 0 to
your computer. The reason for these pings is so the hackers can see if
your computer is active/alive. What the hackers actually do is port
scan the Internet Service Provider Block of addresses and find your
computer either with file sharing enabled or a Backdoor/Trojan.
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