My machine was hacked by a professional. Fortunately, for me and I thank my lucky stars above and God above they fell into my trap. The bad person or people hacked through XP Professional using Mini 2.5 Keylogger to steal my passwords. The joke is on them however because I was testing XP Professional SP2 and I proved to Microsoft my point about the weakness of security in XP SP 2. Anyway, first the hacker(s) interupted my Cox cable signal and then I reset my router. Immediately, the intruder accessed the router with the passwords admin and admin and proceeded to change the date and locked me out with their own password. Okay, defense number 1 gone and that is why I feel all LinkSys Wired Routers need to have a special default password for each one. The router was a good $80. Okay, next step was for the hacker to hack through EZARMOR. No problem for this person with this level of sophistication. Somehow, they overran the buffer and shut down first the software firewall and then the antivirus program of EZARMOR. The intruder then viewed the few text files, history of websites and whatever else they wanted to and then ended up flooding XP with useless and extra junk that totally bogged it down. A call to Microsoft had me and the software technician working in the registry but it was too far gone and thus my point and Chris Cquirkes, MVP's point is proven that XP SP2 is indeed based upon the Not There code as compared to the New Technology code.
Here is the website of the keylogger that was forced upon my machine -- I did not buy it or download a test version --- my Sun Belt CounterSpy alerted me to the danger
http://www.invisiblekeylogger.com/64k-mini-hardware-keylogger.html
Here is the website of Chris Cquirke and his ideas for a maintenance operating system. I will go even farther than that to suggest an entirely new source code based upon ____________ sorry Microsoft property and confidential information. Have a nice day!
http://cquirke.mvps.org/whatmos.htm
Yikes. :-X
Assuming no one in your house purchased this keylogger and intentionally installed it onto your computer, this is the only way for you to get it via e-mail:
Quote[NEW REMOTE KEYLOGGER]: SMART KEYLOGGER - REMOTE INSTALLER
(The Remote Keylogger) released. The new version to Invisible Keylogger - (Smart Keylogger) can be installed remotely via email.
So, in the future, don't open Flash Greeting Cards, or e-mails containing .exe files, especially from people you don't know. ::)
ouch :o
Oh noes!!
Maybe it was someone browing the microsoft message board-thingy (MVP?) looking for people who were concious about security? Tbh i'd just flip out if it ever happened to me and pull the power on my PC and stuff.
Hmmm, that whole flash greeting card thing makes sense. Some computer-hacker associates of mine once did something similar to disable a small network of computers (won't go into the reasons as to why!) He did have his own, unique invisible key-logger program though but got it into the system via a similar method.
Beware innocent computer users, hackers really do know what they are doing and it pays to be vigilante! ;D
Thanks for the words of encouragement everyone. It looks like the hacker took advantage of the inherent weakness of the NT (New Technology aka Not There according to Microsofts own engineers) by exploiting a patch that had not installed properly according to the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 1.2. This hacker exploited the buffer and caused a buffer overload which allowed the installation of the Mini 2.5 Keylogger. The hacker then read the machine, proceeded to overload it with stuff to make it unworkable and then started deleting stuff. I must have really pi__ed off the hacker community with all my dire reports on the bad security infastructire of technology as a whole. Remember, with Blaster XP PRO. was affected but 98SE was not affected.
Quote from: Drunken Chinchilla on April 10, 2005, 03:14:09 PM
Oh noes!!
Maybe it was someone browing the microsoft message board-thingy (MVP?) looking for people who were concious about security? Tbh i'd just flip out if it ever happened to me and pull the power on my PC and stuff.
I noticed after posting in the Microsoft newsgroup recently that hits that were blocked by Zone Alarm Pro. went up so I think this was the reason.