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Keyloggers and virus

It truly has reached to point where is difficult to know when your computer is being attacked or why. My website began to receive over 300 emails a day, for a small family oriented site, that is rather an unusually situation. I ran into sites that had my domain name listed with other peoples names on the email addressing. This bothered me a great deal My webhost assured me there was nothing that could be done to stop it. Checking through my site files I found people pulling up a perl script in my cgi-bin. Of course I could not see the beast when I looked at the site with ftp. I made a mistake of downloading the cgi-bin to my computer thinking I could find and clean the beast out. Guess what.... What ever the thing is truly a beast. The script was called kontiki.pl and it landed into the computer with a thud, took over. I daily cleaned the computer with 6 different keylogger search programs, ran three different virus programs 24-7. Bullguard was the only program that keep the beast from sending out data. I could no longer go online for more than a few moments before the beast raised its ugly little head and starting trying to send out data.
End results, total fdisk, format, new windows, 24-7 virus watch and the search programs waiting. The web site has been frozen down, all email from the website auto deleted, not one comes into this computer. I will probably dump the site and just maintain the Domain name. Keep it off the web for several years and then with a big maybe she said put it back online. Whatever it is, it does go to the bootdisk, and it uses dos. And it cannot be found. I spent 6 weeks looking through the register, I would delete and it would re-install.

Posted by: mare_z   Posted on: 07/01/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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