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Author Topic: Help! Some Amsterdam dude is hacking me! (previously virus scanner thread)  (Read 5002 times)

nenjin

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Re: Help! Some Amsterdam dude is hacking me! (previously virus scanner thread)
« Reply #60 on: January 19, 2012, 06:14:10 pm »
Most people reformat their machine when they know it's truly, truly infected. What's going on in this thread is effectively a man with gangrene on his limb asking how he can keep it.
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Re: Help! Some Amsterdam dude is hacking me! (previously virus scanner thread)
« Reply #61 on: January 19, 2012, 06:25:05 pm »
Quote from: nenjin on January 19, 2012, 06:14:10 pm
Most people reformat their machine when they know it's truly, truly infected. What's going on in this thread is effectively a man with gangrene on his limb asking how he can keep it.
There's no point in formatting the moment something goes wrong. The viruses are gone and it was never truly, truly infected.
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Re: Help! Some Amsterdam dude is hacking me! (previously virus scanner thread)
« Reply #62 on: January 19, 2012, 06:46:48 pm »
A few hours of your time isn't worth the knowledge your computer is actually clean, rather than "probably" clean?
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Re: Help! Some Amsterdam dude is hacking me! (previously virus scanner thread)
« Reply #63 on: January 19, 2012, 08:47:06 pm »
Are you sure it's not partly the AV software complaining about loading users avatar images from IP's that are on a blacklist? that would cause connections outside of bay12's domain.
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Re: Help! Some Amsterdam dude is hacking me! (previously virus scanner thread)
« Reply #64 on: January 19, 2012, 10:51:49 pm »
Quote from: kaenneth on January 19, 2012, 08:47:06 pm
Are you sure it's not partly the AV software complaining about loading users avatar images from IP's that are on a blacklist? that would cause connections outside of bay12's domain.
It most likely was. It would explain the red x avatars. Ever since I installed Nod32, I've had no IP warnings from those sites.
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Re: Help! Some Amsterdam dude is hacking me! (previously virus scanner thread)
« Reply #65 on: January 24, 2012, 04:40:42 pm »
Looking at the IP addresses:

The 91.211.116.0 - 91.211.119.255

are registered to:

person:         Zharkov Nikolay
address:        Ukraine, Kyiv, Entuziastov str. 29, of. 42
phone:          +38-044 587-83-16
nic-hdl:        ZN210-RIPE
mnt-by:         ONIK-MNT
changed:        support@netassist.kiev.ua 20081211
source:         RIPE

The address resolves to an image hosting service called Piccy.info

Most likely whatever overly paranoid "anti-malware" application was blocking it and throwing up it's paranoia inducing messages, because some people have their avatars hosted on Piccy.info.

There were some allegations of SPAM botnets being run from the servers in that range, most likely he got piccy.info got infected, and malwarebytes blacklisted it, and didn't remove it from their blacklist.


Good choice with NOD32, it's the only pay AV I recommend.
« Last Edit: January 24, 2012, 04:54:13 pm by white_darkness »
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Re: Help! Some Amsterdam dude is hacking me! (previously virus scanner thread)
« Reply #66 on: January 24, 2012, 05:15:29 pm »
Yeah, NOD32 if you are willing to pay for antivirus is the best one to choose.
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