Unauthorised access to my PC

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I updated my PC yesterday with a new hard drive and had to re-install Windows
XP onto the new hard drive. Well, as soon as it finished installing and
booted back up with just the basic security features and security updates
installed, someone gained access to my entire system and they continue to do
so at thier will even though I have tried to stop them. I installed all the
security updates from Windows Update and made sure the firewall is turned on
and it didnt even slow them down. Then I got the Microsoft Management Console
up and running and its recorded so many security breaches that it makes me
sick. Most of them say that they are coming FROM MICROSOFT. Can someone
please help me stop them from raping my PC at will......I'm starting to feel
pretty violated. Is this illegal for anyone to do? Cause my next step is
going to the law.
 
Violated said:
I updated my PC yesterday with a new hard drive and had to re-install
Windows
XP onto the new hard drive. Well, as soon as it finished installing and
booted back up with just the basic security features and security updates
installed, someone gained access to my entire system and they continue to
do
so at thier will even though I have tried to stop them. I installed all
the
security updates from Windows Update and made sure the firewall is turned
on
and it didnt even slow them down. Then I got the Microsoft Management
Console
up and running and its recorded so many security breaches that it makes me
sick. Most of them say that they are coming FROM MICROSOFT. Can someone
please help me stop them from raping my PC at will......I'm starting to
feel
pretty violated. Is this illegal for anyone to do? Cause my next step is
going to the law.
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What version of XP did you install? If it was pre-SP2 and you were hooked up
to the internet while installing then it is likely you were infected with a
worm. Once the worm was on your computer you were wide open for hackers. If
you don't have a Windows install CD with SP2 on it you must install XP
either not connected to the internet or connected through a router. If you
don't have a router then you must upgrade to SP2 or install a firewall
before connecting to the internet. As you have recently done a clean install
your quickest course of action now may be to re-install while not connected
to the internet. Your only other option is to clean the computer with
antivirus and antispyware programs. Depending on how severe the infection is
this may or may not be an easy task.

If you have Automatic Updates installed that may be the connection to
Microsoft. It could also be your clock trying to synchronize with
time.Microsoft.com This is normal.

Kerry
 
Violated said:
I updated my PC yesterday with a new hard drive and had to re-install
Windows XP onto the new hard drive. Well, as soon as it finished
installing and booted back up with just the basic security features
and security updates installed, someone gained access to my entire
system and they continue to do so at thier will even though I have
tried to stop them. I installed all the security updates from Windows
Update and made sure the firewall is turned on and it didnt even slow
them down.
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Well gee, I hope you didn't have that machine physically connected to
the internet while you reinstalled the OS? Bad move, it could have
easily been compromised during the time of your first boot, till you
got SP2 installed.
Then I got the Microsoft Management Console up and running
and its recorded so many security breaches that it makes me sick.
Most of them say that they are coming FROM MICROSOFT. Can someone
please help me stop them from raping my PC at will......I'm starting
to feel pretty violated. Is this illegal for anyone to do? Cause my
next step is going to the law.
Click to expand...

I suspect you are misinterpreting what you call "security breaches".
You might want to elaborate a bit more in regard to what you're seeing.
 
Since you just reinstalled Windows, then do it again. Takes under an hour
only. Only this time, do not leave your PC connected online till you are
done.

:-)

SKS
 
Violated said:
I updated my PC yesterday with a new hard drive and had to re-install Windows
XP onto the new hard drive. Well, as soon as it finished installing and
booted back up with just the basic security features and security updates
installed, someone gained access to my entire system and they continue to do
so at thier will even though I have tried to stop them. I installed all the
security updates from Windows Update and made sure the firewall is turned on
and it didnt even slow them down. Then I got the Microsoft Management Console
up and running and its recorded so many security breaches that it makes me
sick. Most of them say that they are coming FROM MICROSOFT. Can someone
please help me stop them from raping my PC at will......I'm starting to feel
pretty violated. Is this illegal for anyone to do? Cause my next step is
going to the law.
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How did you manage to connect to the internet if you had a new disk without
an operating system installed on it? You suggest you were infected when you
rebooted after installation. Or was it while you were updating security from
MS's website that your new disk became infected?
 
Frank Booth Snr wrote:

How did you manage to connect to the internet if you had a new disk
without an operating system installed on it? You suggest you were
infected when you rebooted after installation. Or was it while you
were updating security from MS's website that your new disk became
infected?
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Or maybe s/he is installing something or copying over some data that is
infected. I had a client who was screaming that she was hacked, she had
clean installed numerous times, etc. etc. Come to find out that after
every single clean install, she then installed some "drivers" an
instant messaging "friend" had given her which were a backdoor trojan.
No duh.

Malke
 
Malke said:
Frank Booth Snr wrote:



Or maybe s/he is installing something or copying over some data that is
infected. I had a client who was screaming that she was hacked, she had
clean installed numerous times, etc. etc. Come to find out that after
every single clean install, she then installed some "drivers" an
instant messaging "friend" had given her which were a backdoor trojan.
No duh.
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Yes. That's possible. But the way the OP worded his 'infection problem', it
seems that he did an install onto a new disk, and suggests he got infected
after copying system files from his XP CD, since he rebooted after
installation and found the HDD to be infected by then. No mention made of
driver files acquired from a 'strange' source. But like you suggest, I
expect there's some 'little detail' missed out here.
 
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