Had a rather strange occurance the other night.

[kurisu7885]

Ok, so, last night, I was just doing my own thing on the net ,as usual, when a chat window pops up. It had no specifics, it only said Chat, then I right clicked the icon in my tray, it said NPP or something ot that effect.

 

Someone started speaking to me, apparently they knew my internet history, and had siezed control of my system, even locking me out as admin as well as making my icons and taskbars/system trays vanish.

 

I did a system restore, and it's no longer happening, but, I am wondering if anyone here knows what in the actual fuck happened, and how to prevent it in the future

 

[Ark of Truth]

You have a virus by the sounds of it or someone has installed some control software on your PC using malware or a virus.

 

The ONLY way to make sure it gone is to completely reformat your machine.

 

What antivirus you using?

[kurisu7885]

You have a virus by the sounds of it or someone has installed some control software on your PC using malware or a virus.

 

The ONLY way to make sure it gone is to completely reformat your machine.

 

What antivirus you using?

 

Numerous. Security Essential, Spybot, Malware bytes, Adaware, AVG anti virus....

[D_ManXX2]

Try checking if remote access is on ?? normally when you fully install a clean windows, this option is on, by disabling it there is no way they can manually take control of your pc.

 

Also make sure to use good firewall. not the crappy windows one.

[kurisu7885]

Try checking if remote access is on ?? normally when you fully install a clean windows, this option is on, by disabling it there is no way they can manually take control of your pc.

 

Also make sure to use good firewall. not the crappy windows one.

 

That damn option WAS on and is now off.

[kingkong]

this is more like a troyen   it is something you have downloaded or an e-mail recieved and opened.     there is a possibilitie to have a remote access with activ x and java (but i do not know how it works)  as it is a open door.    More often you can have a lot of problemes if you are running win xp and downloading from media share and 4share (i blame directly ) .

 

to prevent it you need to put attention to what you download and from where, and have the last win 7/8, java, active x software with the last update a must.    you alway have the need of an antyivirus no exeption.

[kurisu7885]

I have Windows 7, and it's up to date as is Java, it was liekyl soemthing I downloaded. Seems they did no real damage.

[deathparade]

Java is a serious cancer
There never goes a day by that there isn't about 10 Java 0-days

Java is just a huge exploit turn it off in your browser unless you actually need it

Are you running adblock? i suggest you do if not

[formel]

As for a Java I recomend to use NoScript ( I think it is available for almost every browser). With it you can easly controll which websites are alloud to execute javascripts.

[kurisu7885]

@Deathparade

 

Yes, I am running adblock, I like nothing having those retarded ads

 

@formel

 

Eh, kind of iffy un running noscript, but I may just do that now.

[kurisu7885]

There is a Jave exploit that has been plaguing E-Mails of late (supposedly the latest update fixes it). also going online to seek computer/software support you really have to watch "who" your actually getting in touch with, especially those "claiming" to be support for brand names. Any place wanting you to give control of your computer to them "hangup" 99.99% of the time it is a scam. any kind of unannounced popup chat that isn't associated with your current browser (like google chat, AIM etc.) is a phishing scam.

 

Roger that, hard lesson learned.