Re: Over 4 million highjacked PC's

My little broadband icon in the system tray sometimes sometimes lights up
with activity even though I'm not on-line - my wireless router is always on
with my PC by the way. I've read that way over 4 million PC's have been
highjacked. My question is: how can one tell if one has been highjacked and
how can we stop them doing it again? Thanks - Andy

Do you have a firewall either hard or software? besides windows firewall,
which is inadquate in my opinion.
Do you have Antivirus application installed, if so what is it?
do you have antimalware installed, if so what is it?

"Andrew" wrote:

> My little broadband icon in the system tray sometimes sometimes lights up
> with activity even though I'm not on-line - my wireless router is always on
> with my PC by the way. I've read that way over 4 million PC's have been
> highjacked. My question is: how can one tell if one has been highjacked and
> how can we stop them doing it again? Thanks - Andy

Thanks and Yeah - AVG Free 8, Ad-Aware Pro 08, Spybot S & D 1.6
Is this enough? -Andy

"sgopus" wrote:

> Do you have a firewall either hard or software? besides windows firewall,
> which is inadquate in my opinion.
> Do you have Antivirus application installed, if so what is it?
> do you have antimalware installed, if so what is it?
>
> "Andrew" wrote:
>
> > My little broadband icon in the system tray sometimes sometimes lights up
> > with activity even though I'm not on-line - my wireless router is always on
> > with my PC by the way. I've read that way over 4 million PC's have been
> > highjacked. My question is: how can one tell if one has been highjacked and
> > how can we stop them doing it again? Thanks - Andy

"Andrew" <Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My little broadband icon in the system tray sometimes sometimes lights up
> with activity even though I'm not on-line - my wireless router is always
> on
> with my PC by the way. I've read that way over 4 million PC's have been
> highjacked. My question is: how can one tell if one has been highjacked
> and
> how can we stop them doing it again? Thanks - Andy


Two good utilities..

NetMeter..
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network...NetMeter.shtml

This will give you a visual on incoming and outgoing stuff. It can also
report daily, weekly and monthly totals, useful if your usage is capped by
the ISP

Also WinPatrol..
http://www.winpatrol.com/

This utility allows you to mess with a few things, but its best use is to
report anything trying to install itself in Startup without you knowing..


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On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:28:00 -0700, Andrew wrote:

> Thanks and Yeah - AVG Free 8, Ad-Aware Pro 08, Spybot S & D 1.6
> Is this enough? -Andy

Firewall?
OS upgraded to SP3 and patched/updated?
AV/A-S Software updated prior scanning?
Know how to interpret scan results?
Scanned with HJT and got log examined by an expert?
Practise safe-hex?