Can someone get access to your computer

Reptile Guy said:
that's a lot of help.
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you asked how to stop them and I told you.

other than that I would suggest formatting or as I and probably most do, have an image of your OS drive

I have learned from past mistakes that once you have a virus / been hacked / have bad spyware its much easier re-installing your OS drive then trying to remove the problem

...and some viruses are (or at least have been in the past) known to physically destroy hard drives - so yes, turn off / pull network cable is favourable

Personally I used Windows 7 backup and restore to create a ~60gb OS image on another drive and have a Windows startup CD to boot and load the image. It takes me ~5mins to backup and another 5 to restore. Much easier than arsing around with xyz virus scanner / malware / spyware removal / hotfixes etc. - and its also free. Programs like Acronis are good but cost money. Win7 built in backup/restore is easier to use and works fine
 
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Typical culprits...

Logmein
Team viewer
Vnc

Download hijackthis, run it and paste the log file on here.


None of the above are considered a virus or malware, they're just remote control programs. That can be used for dubious tasks
 
It sounds like a RAT, so if you don't know what this is you should read up in order to understand the potential seriousness of the situation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_administration_software

If you are RATted you could have got this from practically anywhere (people with physical access to your PC/Network, Internet via web pages, Software installations, etc.). The advice to unplug the Internet was very good advice, as this usually stops the Master controlling you as a Slave/Zombie, and stealing evrything you have on your PC and watching everything you do (web cam, live desktop view, keylogging, data up/download etc.).

If your machine has anything on which you want to protect, stop using it until you know better how to deal with it. Use another PC to research while you're working out the options.

HTH good luck :)

ETA.....

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18490172

How did you get on with the removal of this virus?
Are you on a Network, or is it just a standalone PC?
 
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