Just a quick line....

Approx September time started getting attacked by a hacker and have been under daily attack since, it's been seriously BAD. Normally, a virus/keylogger is easily dealt with, well, this tosser managed to get a backdoor into my system (a bit of software he could also control via his mobile!) and uploaded shitloads of Trojans, worms and keyloggers. Right, okay bad, but easily dealt with right , maybe you lose some files in the process but such is life FORMAT disk and start afresh, right?

...WRONG! he messed with the registry so the usual FDISK, FORMAT etc didn't work (he also disabled all security, notifications of security being down, any help files relating to fixing the problem, and any files that could have been of the slightest help in diagnosing or fixing the problem in any way whatsoever - it was total)

So, okay, not a problem, right? Just use an MSDOS based soft, something like NUKE or KILL DISK to erase everything an overwrite, right?
WRONG! After erasing and installing a new, clean system, the system appeared clean but wasn't it had some old passwords from the previous set-up and some system files, I don't know how but he was circumventing my fresh install with data he was inserting.

Alright, go into safe mode and download some rootkit removers and other viral soft and remove this SOB, WRONG! any viral scanners were immediately circumvented so their UPDATES would appear to be updating but weren't actually updating and all viral definition files were corrupted allowing his crap to go undetected.

Right, fuck it, PC's are cheap and I wanted to upgrade anyway to the more secure vista. The new PC arrived and life was looking like it would be resuming - it lasted 2 days before it was corrupted and nothing could be done, couldn't even log into my accounts! Fresh reinstall, NO! it didn't recognise the hardware and so refused to re-install!!

Right, well fuck!!! I am stressed to fuck , short tempered and not getting anymore than a couple of hours sleep a night and behind on uni work as I cannot access the online tutorials and all other data. I found out that uni had a cheap in-house repair service for virus and stuff got vista back and a new hard drive installed as the old one was too small, and guess what, it doesn't recognise the hardware and won't install at all (OEM Windows from manufacturer's so set to certain drives). My original PC is in now and was meant to pick it up yesterday, a week after dropping it off (repairs take max 2 days) but it wasn't ready, they are still working on it, my guess is they are monitoring the idiot who has been the cause of this to track him or get more background info (DISK has been wiped)
Oh, BIOS was re-installed by me and yes, it was also corrupt, he was the main system admin!

Anyway, late, got to go am on LINUX at the moment driven by cd so each session is fresh, each and every time. Don't know how long problems will go on, just wanted to provide explanation as has been so long. It's been a bitch, I swear, man, a total nightmare

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Damn, sorry to hear! Hope everything sorts out! I have dual boot vista/ Ubuntu and works wonders for me

Good fucking God that sucks man, sorry to hear it. I would be rather infuriated with said hacker, assuming its someone mounting such a strong attack on you for some reason.

Quite possibly to the point of trying to set up a honey pot filled full of anything to reverse engineer any attacks, and find something on him...

Indeed, I don't even understand why someone would go to so much trouble over an individual's personal computer unless you were some really important person for some reason. If it was me and someone caused me that much trouble I would do whatever possible to track down this asshole's physical location and then procede to literally kill them.

Jesus.

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Or, seeing as how this is LT, prepare a solution of capsaicin in DMSO and douse the motherfucker.

nah VX agents motherfucker!

I wouldn't know personally, but having every pain sensing nerve in your body fire continuously seems a heck of a lot worse of ACh toxicity. While not a WMD, for the purposes of vengeance (or information extraction, leaves no marks), Capsaicin and DMSO look like the best option.

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My thought's exactly, to the letter. I haven't pissed anyone off enough to warrant such a persistent and unrelenting attack; however, it didn't turn 'nasty' (or obvious) until I'd located the keyloggers and general privacy invaders right at the start (...or so I believe - I had plenty of protection - 2 Firewalls (one router-based), Paid for Norton Internet Security (Anti-virus, Spyware, etc) as part of ISP package, the most excellent A2 (which is meant to compliment your anti-virus), Spyware Terminator - Also very good and a couple of other bits and pieces. It was, or seemed quite secure (also tried Zone-Alarm - Excellent, Ad-Aware, Kaspersky, AVG, Avira, Avira anti-rootkit, Virtual Environments - Seemed to help but he still managed to lock my system so i couldn't then log in and had to re-install but the re-install wouldn't work, first try and thereafter, it no longer recognised the system (Vista), Loads of others at one time or another. a2 did shine through as an amazing bit of free software detecting risks and actual problems where many others didn't. But whenever installed, I could never actually get the definitions in the end.

Have been seriously thinking of paying someone to track him down or posting my experience on the ethical hackers forum. It was very surprising at how easily he 'seemed to get in' and once in could never get rid of him, sure I'd find trojans and keyloggers eventually but for every one removed 5 were put back.

Strange experience and am sure its not over, I'm on Linux as mentioned and that has helped massively. It could be Big Bro snooping as British powers have changed massively in recent months with even local councils legally allowed to read your emails, monitor your PC traffic! (Under anti-terroism laws yet it has been found to have been used for such small crimes as dog fowling and non payment of local taxes!!! The UK government has been the worst and most facist of recent years, total cunts, worryingly so)

So yeah, been hardgoing of late, and sooo frustrating as you can't kick the crap out of the person responsible - a very cowardly attack, IMHO.

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