Please help- urgent- Someone controlling my PC

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Hey Alleycat
Have you tried Kaspersky. How did you like it, did you have any problems while using it?

Kron:

Yes I did along time ago found it usefull but not what I was looking for in the long run.

Buddha : Ty but still along way to go before it goes public – thats just the HTML form to get the groundwork down.

The key is tht u shuldnt receive any file, be it picture file, be it a software, whatever, from any strangers, not even from friends ( who knows some one else might have hacked their ids and using their id to send u the trojan). If u want to accept any file, double check the file( its extension name). Some people say, hey, u wanna see my pic? and then they either send u a file which looks like this “mypic.jpg.exe” or “mypic.jpg.scr” or simply “mypic.exe” or “mypic.scr”. So be sure to check the extensions. .pif is another type of extension which u shuldnt download from any one.
Second step is to scan it with an UPDATED antivirus. I said “updated” in caps because, almost every one has some kind of antivirus, but in 90% cases, they are NOT updated. As a result those trojans dont get detected. So its always nice to hv an updated anti virus.
Third thing if possible, get a nice firewall, like ZoneAlarm. It prompts u if your computer is trying to send log report if its hacked and even during installation also.
Fourthly, I have this software, Webroot Spysweeper which I have been using for last 5 months and it has been awesome. I havent seen any trojan getting past through it yet. Yes, Norton Antivirus 2004 (updated )fails to detect tons of viruses and trojans, but not Webroot Spysweeper.
You can either download the Webroot Spysweeper from its website or from my website, here.

There is another trick to know if your computer is still infected or not. I dont know if its 100% foolproof or not, but atleast it has worked for me many times.
Right click on taskbar, and go to “Task Manager” and then “Processes”. There would be like around 50 processes. Sometimes what I do, is I go to google.com and type in all the “Image Names” one by one to know what they are and whether they are some kind of virus tools or not. If u find out that something suspicious is running, right click on it and click “End Process” (but be sure that its a virus not any kind of helpful program). Sometimes what happen is that some, virus files relaunch everytime u try to “end process” them. So what u can do is go to C:WINDOWSsystem32 folder and look for that process. In many computers ( perhaps all ) windows/ system 32 folder is write protected. So u cant delete any file from there. All u can do is to rename that file. For example, if the file name is, trojan.exe, just rename it to trojan1.exe and click ok. I m sure that wuld stop it from being executed againn again.
If any one else has any other ideas, let us know.

I would suggest a hijack this check also atleast once in a week. I dont trust nortan. But then you have to remember it is a anti virus not a trojan hunter.
Personally I use spy catcher and I like it a LOT.
Lastly it is IMPOSSIBLE to be a 100% safe software will always have bugs and there will always be people who can use these bugs. It is just good to get the maximum security that you can get

=) Uhm, everything seems covered here, hihi, no more to add except to Blahblah is whether your Norton Firewall asked you about letting some unknown program access the Internet? If not, or you prevented that, probably your important data is safe and the hacker DO NOT have access to your files. Next time be more careful and put your important data in another partition and encrypt it.