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Sorry! What I ment to type was; do not do what he sugguested. Thank goodness you didn’t do that. I should be more carefull when editing my posts as of not to delete any words by actident…
Anyway, now back to the problem. If you have forgotten the trojans you had, you can access your AV log. Many times it automaticlly saves your log. I do not know what anti-virus program you have, but it usually explains how to do retrieve it in the help file.
Changing (edit: renewing) your IP would be a good idea, as well as changing your e-mail and AIM screen name. All this would prevent this person from hijacking you again. Once someone knows your IP, it is easy from them to infect your computer again. Thus, changing it would prevent this. I also reccommend that you try reinstalling ZoneAlarm. After you download it, go offline and then install it (so you won’t be unprotected for even a secound)Your firewall should be catching all these trojans, so it may have gotten crupted due to viruses. Reinstalling might fix it, but I do not know for sure.
As for reinstalling your OS or hardrive… It is really up to you. If you have important documents on your hardrive and are worried that they will be stolen, you may want to consider this. But I can not make this decision for you.
If your anti-virus program was unable to remove the trojans, try going into safe mode (safe mode without networking) and running a scan.
If none of this helps, feel free to request more help.
By the way, I am not a professional. Anyone feel free to correct me if I have explained anything wrong. This is off of my studies and understanding. I won’t be insulted if you do… And nscopex, I never said you were wrong. Your (from what I see so far) as good with this as anyone around here. I’m just trying to help based off of my understanding.
Dragon31 wrote:Yeah… It must be freaky to have someone log on all of a sudden. You know that message that says “You are logged in from 2 locations”? Sometimes I get that as a connection glitch and it scares the heck outta me!I change my password when that happens.
Well I to reformatt my Hard Drive since I was getting a bit too frustrated about my Anti-Virus ( AVG ) and all of those damn trojans.
But so far, everything seems to be ok 😀Thanks so much all your help Dragon31 🙂
*gives a friendly hug*Oh and is Norton a better anti-virus than Mcafee that you know of? o.o
Thanks again for everything 🙂
No prob. In my opinion, no anti-virus service is better or worse (although there are some are just plain crap, lol). Each have it’s advantages and disadvantages, so I can not really suggest which one is better. Both (in my opinion) are good.
Anyway, I am glad to hear the problem is solved. But before signing back on using AIM, I really do suggest you create a new account and (if you know how to) renew your IP address. If you don’t, you are very much at risk at getting hijacked again. You can also save your buddylist if you use AIM, so getting all your buddies back shouldn’t be too hard.
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