Greysand
Member
I've been really upset for the past few day. I've changed the numbers on all my credit & bank cards, I've called the credit bureau's and put out fruad alarts, I've changed most of my passwords and I've given thought to changing my phone numbers.
And I'll tell you why. I've recently moved. And I changed banks. So I wen't online and updated all my information with my bank, eBay, Auto & Home Insurance, Paypal, Gunbroker, and probibly a few others. And I noticed afterwards that my desktop was acting kinda strange. The internet was really slow, and Zonealarm (my current hero) was pulling up requests for strange programs wanting to access the internet. (I denied all of them)
So I looked into it a little deeper and was horrified to discover that I had somehow picked up the Smitfraud-C trojan and that it had downloaded a few other things onto my system. (I blame outlook, But I really don't know how it got in)
Now the really nasty part about this and the reason that I'm posting this here is that one of the things it downloaded was a keystroke monitor. Now how bad could that be you ask? Well the answer is really bad. After I dug around in the windows system32 directory a bit i found a log file that had almost ALL my personal information in it.
Full name. First, Middle, Last
New Address. And Old, and a few others I had entered as searches.
Phone number(s)
(luckly the SS# area of the file was blank)
Email address's and Passwords for said emails (a couple of mine and a few of my friends)
Credit card Numbers. (two of mine, and one that I don't know, might be a program serial#)
Where I work.
Websites I visit, & time spent. Average times I am online (When I am home & gone)
All my search queries via google, eBay, Gunbroker, and everything else.
Major interest = "Firearms"
I'm lucky that I found it. Really lucky. I haven't had a charge on any of my CC's yet. And I think (hope and pray) that Zonealarm kept it from sending any of the information out. The Log on my machine was stored under C:/windows/system32/drv32dta/pstore_010107_010107.txt
So the reason I'm posting - I just wanted to remind everyone that these computer things are really not as secure as we think and hope that they are. And the amount of info that they can collect on us (with & without our knowlage) is really scarry. So please take a look for that directory on your own machine & run a scan.. I'd hate for anyone else to go through what I've had to deal with for the past few days.
Not to mention the possibilty of being robbed. It makes me sick to think that someone - somewhere out there might have a really good profile on who to rob next.
Be Safe out there guys. Keep that virtual powder dry.
Ps, MOD's please move this if the general forum isn't the right place for it. & everyone else, please excuse the lack of a spell checker. I still don't fully trust the desktop and I'm writing this on a vintage 1997 laptop. Win 95 & no spellchecker to be found.
And I'll tell you why. I've recently moved. And I changed banks. So I wen't online and updated all my information with my bank, eBay, Auto & Home Insurance, Paypal, Gunbroker, and probibly a few others. And I noticed afterwards that my desktop was acting kinda strange. The internet was really slow, and Zonealarm (my current hero) was pulling up requests for strange programs wanting to access the internet. (I denied all of them)
So I looked into it a little deeper and was horrified to discover that I had somehow picked up the Smitfraud-C trojan and that it had downloaded a few other things onto my system. (I blame outlook, But I really don't know how it got in)
Now the really nasty part about this and the reason that I'm posting this here is that one of the things it downloaded was a keystroke monitor. Now how bad could that be you ask? Well the answer is really bad. After I dug around in the windows system32 directory a bit i found a log file that had almost ALL my personal information in it.
Full name. First, Middle, Last
New Address. And Old, and a few others I had entered as searches.
Phone number(s)
(luckly the SS# area of the file was blank)
Email address's and Passwords for said emails (a couple of mine and a few of my friends)
Credit card Numbers. (two of mine, and one that I don't know, might be a program serial#)
Where I work.
Websites I visit, & time spent. Average times I am online (When I am home & gone)
All my search queries via google, eBay, Gunbroker, and everything else.
Major interest = "Firearms"
I'm lucky that I found it. Really lucky. I haven't had a charge on any of my CC's yet. And I think (hope and pray) that Zonealarm kept it from sending any of the information out. The Log on my machine was stored under C:/windows/system32/drv32dta/pstore_010107_010107.txt
So the reason I'm posting - I just wanted to remind everyone that these computer things are really not as secure as we think and hope that they are. And the amount of info that they can collect on us (with & without our knowlage) is really scarry. So please take a look for that directory on your own machine & run a scan.. I'd hate for anyone else to go through what I've had to deal with for the past few days.
Not to mention the possibilty of being robbed. It makes me sick to think that someone - somewhere out there might have a really good profile on who to rob next.
Be Safe out there guys. Keep that virtual powder dry.
Ps, MOD's please move this if the general forum isn't the right place for it. & everyone else, please excuse the lack of a spell checker. I still don't fully trust the desktop and I'm writing this on a vintage 1997 laptop. Win 95 & no spellchecker to be found.