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   <td>Thread ID: 95805 </td>
   <td>2008-12-17 11:48:00 </td>
   <td>Has my computer been Hijacked?</td>
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   <td>730211 </td>
   <td>2008-12-17 11:48:00 </td>
   <td style ="word-wrap: break-word;" >Basically, I&apos;ve just got off an MSN Messenger chat with a mate up north island NZ. He&apos;s had probs with his webcam and it doesn&apos;t show on his or my MSN GUI for him to click to invite me to view. I don&apos;t have a webcam.<br>
Two days ago he told me that he was cotacted by someone on the net and that person was using/had the same MSN name as his,,sayxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com. can&apos;t be right because best of my knowledge, there cannot be to nics the same on any IM service.<br>
My mate told me the others details and i Googled it; there was no such site.<br>
Mate thinks someone is free-riding his Broadband, ( piggy-backing is it called?)<br>
Jumping back 12 months when  I lived in Oamaru, NZ, I was sharing the iHug internet connection of the woman with whom I lived. There, when I got hooked up with &quot;Incredimail&quot; -using my own MSN Messenger of course on my computer-it all hooked up with her name when I went to use it to send emails via my MSN hotmail. Gave her name@iHug as the sender. I stopped using the Incredimail gadget. When I was in Oamaru again 5 month back, she said that there are people that she doesn&apos;t know popping up on her yahoo or msn as signing in. These are contacts of mine. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling yahoo &amp; msn into her computer but that didn&apos;t fix the prob. Fact is , her 10 year old son was online using my MSN Messenger. Probably because I had used her com to set up an MSN Messenger account for myself and had instructed it to &apos;remember me&apos;, most likely. So I removed it but it made no difference. All came back with a fresh install.<br>
Now when I open up IE7 I&apos;m being addressed as xxxx@iHug.com even though I&apos;m not with iHug. Never have been, officially.<br>
Now after all that blurb, here&apos;s the worrying bit....<br>
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When mate eventually turned on his webcam(which is really never unplugged)and it showed as opening in his little, what&apos;s it? pic view box top right of the MSN GUI screen, I saw adds scrolling across it. Then it opened up with his ugly mug on it. All good. Righto, chat a bit, then he was off again to play virtual millionaires on &apos;Poker Stars&apos;. When I minimised the MSN Messenger screen, there on-screen was the Web page to sign into play &apos;Poker Stars&apos;.<br>
I didn&apos;t open it, my com is not open to allow&apos;Remote Users&quot; or connections. This I do know, well think that I know because I unticked it to be accessible.<br>
I recall that over a year ago while on a IM chat with him, on MSN Live Messenger, the ...um screen backdrop that i had set up was being changed, and so was the ,whats it..avatar of my details in bottom right of screen. I asked him what the hell is he doing, has he got a hold of my com, you know what I mean I assume. He said that he was not doing anything, and I give him the benefit of the doubt. I know that he does not have a direct remote access to my computer. <br>
I reloaded the OS and all twice in the past 12 months.<br>
The question is , Has someone else got a hook in there, somehow: via ISP&apos;s or aliases that I use for ,whatever, you know.......................<br>
And if so, how do I get rid of the snoop????<br>
I&apos;m not at all happy about these things, to put it mildly.<br>
What&apos;s your opinions on this one?? </td>
   <td>gza (13233) </td>
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   <td>730212 </td>
   <td>2008-12-17 12:42:00 </td>
   <td style ="word-wrap: break-word;" >I&apos;ve just got onto my mate and told him what I think has and still is happening, and I will post my thought here for opinion.<br>
Someone that he knows has got a hold of his computer via, say, Remote Access and is using it as a &apos;camera&apos; into his comings and goings. Through this wide open f-stop lens, that individual is hidden but sees all. Not that there&apos;s anything untoward to see from this end. Ha ha, as for my mate ....well....dunno really. ha ha. <br>
Anyway, that is one possibility and to me is a real live one.<br>
Your opinions and  knowledge deeper than mine won&apos;t go amiss here. Thanks </td>
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   <td>730213 </td>
   <td>2008-12-17 12:48:00 </td>
   <td style ="word-wrap: break-word;" >Have you changed your password yet?? </td>
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   <td>730214 </td>
   <td>2008-12-17 13:21:00 </td>
   <td style ="word-wrap: break-word;" >Rob99,  no I haven&apos;t but I will do. I have used the same one for 2-3 years. A change will do for a start. Just to add this about the computer that I have, I did buy 18 months ago from my mate up north, well his mother in fact-he had his own-but since then the computer has gone through at least 5 format/fresh instals of OS etc and besides that, it now has a completely different HDD in it. <br>
But that&apos;s not the issue here. I think your suggestion is a good one and I was just thinking that I may have to create new accounts/ID&apos;s with MSN &amp; Yahoo. Hoping of course that this may stop the &apos;intrusions&apos;. All worth a go and thank you. </td>
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   <td>730215 </td>
   <td>2008-12-17 22:58:00 </td>
   <td style ="word-wrap: break-word;" >Installed and ran &apos;C Cleaner&apos;, it removed 1,091.7MB of junk:XPP&apos;s Disc clean doesn&apos;t free up 1.091.7GB of space.<br>
Asked mate if he&apos;d created new MSN Messenger account, says he hasn&apos;t and can&apos;t see any need too; told him that contact with me is ceased.<br>
I&apos;m about to create the new msn &amp; yahoo messenger accounts on my computer. See what happens after that.<br>
That PokerStars.com I mentioned had installed itself as Home Page into the  Firefox 3.06 Browser I use, Dug around in Add/Remove and rooted it out. Think I&apos;ve removed all traces of it. Google is my home Page.<br>
I don&apos;t store passwords to any of the few sites I visit, however, a keylogger can get them.<br>
To finish this here for now, what I cannot figure is that when my friend in Oamaru is logged into her MSN or yahoo messenger accounts, she is getting those &apos;xxxx has signed in&apos; notifications from people that are not on her contacts list.<br>
Somewhere there&apos;s a ...hmm...ballsup ..some kind of fusing of her and my messenger accounts.<br>
I remember when I accepted the invite/update to get IncrediMail-(this came packed with other programs: Google Updater/ Desktop and a feww others),, first time I opened IncrediMail it informed me that I had new mail and proceeded to download 124 eMails. They were all for her !!??!! When I told her she freaked. She had a look, some she had never opened or seen( up to 8 months old)and had been waiting for /wondering where they&apos;d gone/not turned up. She read them, then I deleted the lot. Never used IncrediMail again. That was when I was using my computer, my MSN Messenger account and connecting to the internet via her phoneline and her iHug user account. Hmmmm<br>
 Now for those new messenger addy&apos;s etc </td>
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   <td>730216 </td>
   <td>2008-12-18 12:02:00 </td>
   <td style ="word-wrap: break-word;" >Get a decent firewall, like Comodo, or configure your routers one for better strength<br>
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Post a HijackThis log here too </td>
   <td>Blam (54) </td>
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   <td>2008-12-18 12:29:00 </td>
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OH and another thought change your password!! </td>
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730211	2008-12-17 11:48:00	Basically, I've just got off an MSN Messenger chat with a mate up north island NZ. He's had probs with his webcam and it doesn't show on his or my MSN GUI for him to click to invite me to view. I don't have a webcam. Two days ago he told me that he was cotacted by someone on the net and that person was using/had the same MSN name as his,,sayxxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com. can't be right because best of my knowledge, there cannot be to nics the same on any IM service. My mate told me the others details and i Googled it; there was no such site. Mate thinks someone is free-riding his Broadband, ( piggy-backing is it called?) Jumping back 12 months when I lived in Oamaru, NZ, I was sharing the iHug internet connection of the woman with whom I lived. There, when I got hooked up with "Incredimail" -using my own MSN Messenger of course on my computer-it all hooked up with her name when I went to use it to send emails via my MSN hotmail. Gave her name@iHug as the sender. I stopped using the Incredimail gadget. When I was in Oamaru again 5 month back, she said that there are people that she doesn't know popping up on her yahoo or msn as signing in. These are contacts of mine. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling yahoo & msn into her computer but that didn't fix the prob. Fact is , her 10 year old son was online using my MSN Messenger. Probably because I had used her com to set up an MSN Messenger account for myself and had instructed it to 'remember me', most likely. So I removed it but it made no difference. All came back with a fresh install. Now when I open up IE7 I'm being addressed as xxxx@iHug.com even though I'm not with iHug. Never have been, officially. Now after all that blurb, here's the worrying bit.... When mate eventually turned on his webcam(which is really never unplugged)and it showed as opening in his little, what's it? pic view box top right of the MSN GUI screen, I saw adds scrolling across it. Then it opened up with his ugly mug on it. All good. Righto, chat a bit, then he was off again to play virtual millionaires on 'Poker Stars'. When I minimised the MSN Messenger screen, there on-screen was the Web page to sign into play 'Poker Stars'. I didn't open it, my com is not open to allow'Remote Users" or connections. This I do know, well think that I know because I unticked it to be accessible. I recall that over a year ago while on a IM chat with him, on MSN Live Messenger, the ...um screen backdrop that i had set up was being changed, and so was the ,whats it..avatar of my details in bottom right of screen. I asked him what the hell is he doing, has he got a hold of my com, you know what I mean I assume. He said that he was not doing anything, and I give him the benefit of the doubt. I know that he does not have a direct remote access to my computer. I reloaded the OS and all twice in the past 12 months. The question is , Has someone else got a hook in there, somehow: via ISP's or aliases that I use for ,whatever, you know....................... And if so, how do I get rid of the snoop???? I'm not at all happy about these things, to put it mildly. What's your opinions on this one??	gza (13233)
730212	2008-12-17 12:42:00	I've just got onto my mate and told him what I think has and still is happening, and I will post my thought here for opinion. Someone that he knows has got a hold of his computer via, say, Remote Access and is using it as a 'camera' into his comings and goings. Through this wide open f-stop lens, that individual is hidden but sees all. Not that there's anything untoward to see from this end. Ha ha, as for my mate ....well....dunno really. ha ha. Anyway, that is one possibility and to me is a real live one. Your opinions and knowledge deeper than mine won't go amiss here. Thanks	gza (13233)
730213	2008-12-17 12:48:00	Have you changed your password yet??	Rob99 (151)
730214	2008-12-17 13:21:00	Rob99, no I haven't but I will do. I have used the same one for 2-3 years. A change will do for a start. Just to add this about the computer that I have, I did buy 18 months ago from my mate up north, well his mother in fact-he had his own-but since then the computer has gone through at least 5 format/fresh instals of OS etc and besides that, it now has a completely different HDD in it. But that's not the issue here. I think your suggestion is a good one and I was just thinking that I may have to create new accounts/ID's with MSN & Yahoo. Hoping of course that this may stop the 'intrusions'. All worth a go and thank you.	gza (13233)
730215	2008-12-17 22:58:00	Installed and ran 'C Cleaner', it removed 1,091.7MB of junk:XPP's Disc clean doesn't free up 1.091.7GB of space. Asked mate if he'd created new MSN Messenger account, says he hasn't and can't see any need too; told him that contact with me is ceased. I'm about to create the new msn & yahoo messenger accounts on my computer. See what happens after that. That PokerStars.com I mentioned had installed itself as Home Page into the Firefox 3.06 Browser I use, Dug around in Add/Remove and rooted it out. Think I've removed all traces of it. Google is my home Page. I don't store passwords to any of the few sites I visit, however, a keylogger can get them. To finish this here for now, what I cannot figure is that when my friend in Oamaru is logged into her MSN or yahoo messenger accounts, she is getting those 'xxxx has signed in' notifications from people that are not on her contacts list. Somewhere there's a ...hmm...ballsup ..some kind of fusing of her and my messenger accounts. I remember when I accepted the invite/update to get IncrediMail-(this came packed with other programs: Google Updater/ Desktop and a feww others),, first time I opened IncrediMail it informed me that I had new mail and proceeded to download 124 eMails. They were all for her !!??!! When I told her she freaked. She had a look, some she had never opened or seen( up to 8 months old)and had been waiting for /wondering where they'd gone/not turned up. She read them, then I deleted the lot. Never used IncrediMail again. That was when I was using my computer, my MSN Messenger account and connecting to the internet via her phoneline and her iHug user account. Hmmmm Now for those new messenger addy's etc	gza (13233)
730216	2008-12-18 12:02:00	Get a decent firewall, like Comodo, or configure your routers one for better strength Post a HijackThis log here too	Blam (54)
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