Help I think I've been hacked

[Phantom]

on your virus checker it should give a description , a back door trojan allows the hacker to access your pc via a backdoor, let the anti virus remove it

OK will do thanks.

[tintin]

Your'e not alone Steve, this same shopping mail is extremely common at the moment.
I have at least 5 people in my hotmail contacts who have sent me this crap without knowing. Hotmail know about it and i believe there is some "what to do" info on thier website!

Alan

[guysturg1]

i've found that AVAST antivirus is better than AVG, my neighbour had a problem with avg, i uninstalled it and installed avast, first time i ran it it found about 80 infected files!!

[Phantom]

Your'e not alone Steve, this same shopping mail is extremely common at the moment.
I have at least 5 people in my hotmail contacts who have sent me this crap without knowing. Hotmail know about it and i believe there is some "what to do" info on thier website!

Alan

Cheers Alan will take a look.
PS springs went in the post Monday on a 3 - 5 day delivery

[tintin]

PS springs went in the post Monday on a 3 - 5 day delivery

Turned up this morning Steve, huge thanks mate
Start saving for +2 shocks / BJ spacers and adj Panhard rod now!!



Alan

[Diezel Weazel]

i've found that AVAST antivirus is better than AVG, my neighbour had a problem with avg, i uninstalled it and installed avast, first time i ran it it found about 80 infected files!!

Gotta agree with ya Guy ..
Originally I ran AVG but found Avast 2 years ago n found it far superior, it's free n upgrades are available !!

There's always a Payback .. Ya don't know where n ya never know when tho !!

[greecysurf]

Hi mate, i use Mcafee, its not free, but for 80 Dollers a year, you cannot beat it, never had a problem, it updates every time you go online, and you can protect upto 3 computers, to try it, go to www.mcafee.com they have a 30 day free trial, for total internet security, i personally would not change, thats not to say the free ones are no good, but i prefer to know its working every time i switch on.

[Albannach]

Just in case you're wondering; that Trojan almost certainly has nothing to do with the hacked Hotmail account, it's coincidental that it's there.

Free Anti-Virus will never be as good as paid for ones. I also use McAfee, which I get via my Employer's License. If AVG and the likes were the best (and most up-to-date) available, do you think Blue Chip companies would be spending Millions of pounds a year on Licensed programs?

Unfortunately, one only finds out one's Anti-Virus is not as good as one thinks it is, when one's PC has succumbed to attack!

[Bibs]

I have had Mcafee on the laptop (it came with 90 days free) just installed another which I had never heard of but latest addition and hey presto. Picked up all sorts - 3 Trojans included. McAfee saw nothin. Not that I am slating McAfee mind but had AntiVar (I think) on the desktop which picked up what McAfee didnt and that was a free download.

Our card was cloned in August from Paddock spares pay site - fraud section of credit card company picked up on the card number being tried on various sites an phoned us. They cancelled an sent a new one out. We now have one with full internet protection. It's worth getting the best protection you can if you internet shop in my opinion.

[Albannach]

McAfee won't find Trojans or anything else thst isn't classed as a Virus. There are other hardware and software solutions for those.

[GRASSMAN]

I know you're not supposed to, but I run
AVG and Avast together, and not had any
probs, but I think Avast is a bit better than
AVG, 'cause it seems to "react" faster than
AVG, it makes a right row when it detects anything.

Gman.

EDIT: Avast updates it's self 2 or 3 times a night
sometimes, so it can't be that far behind can it?

[Bibs]

McAfee won't find Trojans or anything else thst isn't classed as a Virus. There are other hardware and software solutions for those.

That explains that then. Always thought McAfee did the lot. Obviously not

[Phantom]

Thanks for all the replies and advice people. Have now changed all passwords and security questions for accounts, removed out of date Norton and replaced with AVG on both PCs.
Thanks again.

[Albannach]

EDIT: Avast updates it's self 2 or 3 times a night
sometimes, so it can't be that far behind can it?

Yes, it's merely updating your local database with its database. There's no way of telling how up-to-date its database is.

I have no idea where the free Anti Virus programs get their solutions from. They certainly can't be paying programmers to search for, decipher and create solutions to the latest Viruses...

[greecysurf]

If you look at Mcafees site, they have several differant levels of internet security, i use the total internet security option, this blocks all popups and will not allow access to dodgy sites where you can pick up trojans etc, it also gives you email and file protection, and a damn good firewall, the free 90 days you got were the basic ones only. the 30 day free trial from Mcafee is entry level one, you then update and expand to suit the level of internet use you do. Saying this, the best internet protection you can get is a seperate ispn on a dongle, this hides your computers true ispn, but at present is horrendously expensive, and not readily available.