Have I been hacked

delpy8 · 2 Mar 2018 at 08:23

Hi Guys

Yesterday I was at home due to the weather and noticed an email come through my aol account on my phone for G2A for a £79.99 purchase of a gift card then it vanished( they obviously deleted the email to my deleted folder), About ten minutes later I went upstairs and noticed a few web pages open one for G2A and one for Steamcarddelivery.com,

Someone had been one my PC and tried to make a purchase it also showed on my PayPal account as that looked like it was accessed to. SO what can I do to stop this again is a full reinstall an option as Ive ran various software and did find a hack tool for kvm (windows office), Ive changed my passwords and un-linked my bank card from my papal account

Any Ideas and help appreciated

MrRockliffe · 2 Mar 2018 at 08:27

First you want to disconnect the pc from the internet, then change all your passwords from a different machine

Iron-man · 2 Mar 2018 at 08:29

as per advice above disconnect and change passwords, Then full wipe and new install and start again

delpy8 · 2 Mar 2018 at 08:29

MrRockliffe said:
First you want to disconnect the pc from the internet, then change all your passwords from a different machine

Hi MrRockliffe thanks for that I did that yesterday from my laptop bleeding swines Im very conscious of security so gods knows how this happened

delpy8 · 2 Mar 2018 at 08:45

Any recommendations on av software

Destination · 2 Mar 2018 at 10:33

Have you attempted to run Malwarebytes on the affected PC, I would do that first, including a rootkit scanner, just to see if it picks anything up.

delpy8 · 2 Mar 2018 at 10:37

Destination said:
Have you attempted to run Malwarebytes on the affected PC, I would do that first, including a rootkit scanner, just to see if it picks anything up.

Hi yip ran Malwarebytes yesterday and cleaned a few things, I have a paid version of superantispyware and its run every day so dont know how it happened

delpy8 · 2 Mar 2018 at 10:38

I will run the malwarebytes/rootkit now on my other two laptops as Ive just done a fresh install on the mail pc

jpaul · 2 Mar 2018 at 10:43

can't see it now, but there was an extensive thread on similar problem, someone remotely controlling computer/creating windows, was it an illicit install of teamviewer ?

delpy8 · 2 Mar 2018 at 10:49

Did not have teamviewer installed, I had just bought some screen wash on my laptop using paypal when it happened on main computer so don't know whats happened thank god payapl rejected the transaction

something daft already!! · 2 Mar 2018 at 10:51

Complete wipe and dont install TV

wedrum · 2 Mar 2018 at 10:54

Similar thing happened to me

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/just-caught-someone-hacking-my-computer.18801776/

Semple · 2 Mar 2018 at 10:57

something daft already!! said:
Complete wipe and dont install TV

That's a bit heavy handed.

I for one use TV as it's a great piece of kit.

If you are using TV though make sure you're using the 2FA.

something daft already!! · 2 Mar 2018 at 11:31

Semple said:
That's a bit heavy handed.

I for one use TV as it's a great piece of kit.

If you are using TV though make sure you're using the 2FA.

I too was connected to without explicit permission a couple of years ago. I just run TV when I need to connect to someone. I don't leave it running as I do not trust their security.

Orcvader · 2 Mar 2018 at 14:08

I've been using Chrome Remote Desktop as a TV replacement. Not as powerful as TV but it does the job for my needs.

bledd · 2 Mar 2018 at 20:41

AOL?

It's not 1995 mate, ditch AOL.

C-Roy · 3 Mar 2018 at 15:54

I've some old AOL mail accounts I still use. Obviously don't use their software they used to have though.