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wasabi
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<font color=blue>NAT should have made your IP address unavailable to a random hacker. Add to that you were running Norton - which has its own firewall and Antivirus (which should have had Auto-Protect going to protect you from trojans via e-mail & such), and I'm really interested as to how someone "hacked" in. Something just doesn't smell right here...</font color=blue>
My thoughts exactly, but the indications are that it happened. ....low virtual memory warnings.....changed admin privledges and huge, temporary "unknown" internet file sizes....I'll know more once I get it back up and running, but my guess at this point is that some sort of trojan was already resident on the computer (pre-DSL) and was only recently activated. If so, all had to avoid detection by flying under the collective security radar...
Could someone have gone into my office and physically altered settings?....perhaps, but I think unlikely...we do have several teenagers, but they all know the house rules....NO one uses my terminal but me....but then, with teenagers anything is possible.....no one else has had opportunity for access.
Will check router settings as you suggest. Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep you posted as to what I find out.
My thoughts exactly, but the indications are that it happened. ....low virtual memory warnings.....changed admin privledges and huge, temporary "unknown" internet file sizes....I'll know more once I get it back up and running, but my guess at this point is that some sort of trojan was already resident on the computer (pre-DSL) and was only recently activated. If so, all had to avoid detection by flying under the collective security radar...
Could someone have gone into my office and physically altered settings?....perhaps, but I think unlikely...we do have several teenagers, but they all know the house rules....NO one uses my terminal but me....but then, with teenagers anything is possible.....no one else has had opportunity for access.
Will check router settings as you suggest. Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep you posted as to what I find out.