Re: searching for hackers by Del
Del
Tue Aug 26 23:48:14 CDT 2003
What is this? News of the Weird, Security Edition?
That's something that could only be written by someone with a mind
like five miles of bad road. Really bad road.
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:26:34 +0400, Tracker
<"snailmail(remove/valid)222000"@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Qal wrote:
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>> Is there a way to tell if my PC has been or is being
>> accessed by a hacker? Is there any FREE (or to buy)
>> software powerful enough to alert me of hackers?
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>SIGNS YOUR COMPUTER IS HACKED/OWNED:
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>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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