Computer hacked. Very serious

bratShone

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u should try to download Malwarebytes and give it a try

 

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Ethanh100

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If your data is backed up, or you dont mind loosing everything on that installation, I would suggest going with a fresh install, do so by booting into the recovery partition. You can try to use antivirus programs, malwarebytes as suggested above, but it may not get you far. Just dont connect to the internet for now as personal security can be severely harmed at this point. If you need to install programs, just download it on another computer and put it on a flash drive to then install it on the infected machine.

 

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luunnn

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bratShone :

u should try to download Malwarebytes and give it a try

I tried it, but it didn't find anything.

 

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luunnn

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Also, reinstalling the software is not an option here, sadly. I have files that are worth a lot of money and if I lose them I might be in big trouble. I also think that it might be a RAT infection.

 

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turkey3_scratch

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luunnn :

Also, reinstalling the software is not an option here, sadly. I have files that are worth a lot of money and if I lose them I might be in big trouble. I also think that it might be a RAT infection.

And you didn't backup your files?

 

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sizzling

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Your only safe option is format the HDD and reinstall.

 

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USAFRet

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1. Go back to an earlier Restore Point
(edit: I did not notice that you were on a Mac)

2. Go back to the drive image you made 2 days ago

3. Embrace the pain and reinstall

 

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Barty1884

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luunnn :

Also, reinstalling the software is not an option here, sadly. I have files that are worth a lot of money and if I lose them I might be in big trouble. I also think that it might be a RAT infection.

Unfortunately if you have files worth a lot of money and no backup of them, this is likely to be an expensive lesson for you to learn. Important/valuable files = files that should be backed up.

Did you have any anti-virus/anti-malware programs installed & running at the time? It seems odd you had to download Kaspersky to deal with this, you weren't protected all along? That's likely lesson #2 - you really should be running some form of antivirus/malware at all times (at least while connected to the internet)

 

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luunnn

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Barty1884 :

luunnn :

Also, reinstalling the software is not an option here, sadly. I have files that are worth a lot of money and if I lose them I might be in big trouble. I also think that it might be a RAT infection.

Unfortunately if you have files worth a lot of money and no backup of them, this is likely to be an expensive lesson for you to learn. Important/valuable files = files that should be backed up.

Did you have any anti-virus/anti-malware programs installed & running at the time? It seems odd you had to download Kaspersky to deal with this, you weren't protected all along? That's likely lesson #2 - you really should be running some form of antivirus/malware at all times (at least while connected to the internet)

Thanks for the reply.
My question is, can I still put all the files on a separate disk?
Also, do I have to hurry up with the OS reinstall, is my hardware at risk? Can my computer just die?

 

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ccampy

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Probably believes like apple marketing suggests Macs don't get virus

And you could backup the files but they may be infected so you would just reinfect your PC after the reinstall

 

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mjslakeridge

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Back up your files to a completely new source (DVD's, HDD, flash drive, etc). They may be infected so you want to keep them isolated. Reinstall your OS, let it do the updates, and make an image (clone) of your OS drive. Reintroduce the files from wherever you backed them up to and hope for the best. If the virus re-introduces itself, restore the OS image you made earlier and re-introduce your backed up files in small batches to see which one(s) may have the virus in them.

If it is a RAT, then that may be an entirely different matter, as I understand they can corrupt your BIOS also. I am not an expert in this area, read a thread on Tom's about it a while back and it sounded nasty.

 

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Barty1884

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luunnn :

Thanks for the reply.
My question is, can I still put all the files on a separate disk?
Also, do I have to hurry up with the OS reinstall, is my hardware at risk? Can my computer just die?

mjslakerigde has covered off what you need to do. To have a chance of recovering your files, back them up now (not a whole system image, just the files you can't do without). Then format your drive & reinstall the OS and, as has been covered off, make an image at that point - before you reintroduce the potentially infected files.

I don't claim to be an expert here, so I can't confirm 100% your hardware is not at risk, but it's usually a software level problem - depending on the scope of the virus/hacker. A format and reinstall should solve the main problem, the files may or may not be infected, only time will tell.

 

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Jugeum

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I would also suggest going on a different computer and changing all your passwords, I noticed no one has mentioned this, and when panicked, you don't always remember this step.

 

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Kathy_14

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https/blog.malwarebytes.org/threat-analysis/2012/06/you-dirty-rat-part-1-darkcomet/

 

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Paul Wagenseil

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Let me ask a couple of questions:

-- Is everything you're seeing things that you typed into the Mac during or around the time of the Runescape argument?

-- Do you use Apple's Time Machine software?

It sounds to me that your Runescape adversary somehow got a keyboard script onto your Mac that's set up to repeat things you've already typed in. It may not actually be that serious. I don't know how to remove it, but more Mac-savvy users might.

Regarding Time Machine, if you do have that running, you could dial back to just before you started interacting with this guy on Runescape.

Good luck....

 

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