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I was Hijacked

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Name: Dr. Murdock
Date: January 13, 2005 at 05:35:49 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Pro
CPU/Ram: AMD 2400mhz/1gig
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Hello everyone, im new to this forum. Last night, my computer was compromised. While using it, the mouse began moving around as if it were being moved by someone using remote access. I disconnected from the net immediatley. I then went to Trend Micro and scanned my pc, and sure enough it found the Trojan named "TROJ RANKY.AS" and it gave me the infected file. I started up in safe mode and deleted the infected file. I than ran trend micro online scan, norton, panda, and trojan hunter, and all showed up clean. I got the newest version of Zonealarm firewall as well. Do you think i am safe now, and how can i be 100% sure that the trojan is out of my system and wont be compromised again because of it. Sorry for seeming a bit paranoid, but i am like this because my cmputer was actually hijacked. Thank you.



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Name: ranchhand
Date: January 13, 2005 at 06:56:46 Pacific
Reply:

You did very well! Man, you were the 'landing at Normandy' with this trojan, and I think you nailed it.

If Trend Micro spotted it, it's gone.


Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime;
Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.


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Response Number 2
Name: smifff
Date: January 13, 2005 at 11:43:07 Pacific
Reply:

Glad to know you got rid of it and installed a firewall, but
rather than just relying on an on-line virus scan why not install an antivirus program like AVG as well,
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

It's FREE


If any advice helps, please post back as it might help others.


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Response Number 3
Name: White Hat
Date: January 14, 2005 at 11:21:26 Pacific
Reply:

Trojans are fun tools especially the take control of their mouse command, they are very well troubleshooting tools when working on comps from a diffrent place

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