Hi Experts,
Well I don't know to which language the above patteren of words belong. But they look dangerous.
Well I was experiencing some downfall in my internet's performance. And also some mischieves with my computer.
These included disabling of javascript from IE. Icons of C drive and Control Panel becoming invisible. IE becoming too slow, Unable to open any of the big name antivirus site like Symantec Trennd pc cillin for virus scan. B4 I try to solve this problem I met with another problem. My computer got infected with redlof.a virus. I was unnable to clean that virus with the help of norton AV. Also I was unable to get updates from Norton or scan online from PC-cillin. So I looked for an alternative. I got that in form of Ez-antivirus. It cleaned the system. But I had to remove norton from my system. Notable is I scanned my computer b4 removing Norton 2002 and found no viruses. It was last updated last month.
The things were moving with ease after that but then again i start getting problems like diabling of JS and icons of C drive and control panels becoming invisible. ANd to add to those this time the MY COmputer and all zip files lost their icons and looked like iconless files. I was able to open them. So then I decided to start diagonosing my computer seriously. Running windoctor from systemworks(norton 2002) helped me get back my icons. After that I tried to look for suspecting files. And there was only one file that i didn't knew b4. And its name was TCPMODOS.exe. I checked its version and it said it belongs to Microsoft. So i left it.
But today again the probelm was at its peek. My IE became too slow (It started to take 30-40 sec to change b/w 1 window and another.). So I thought may be my IE was corrupted and I decied to post a Q here to know the method of repiring default IE of ME that is ver 5.5. But then something happened that confirmed me that I was being hacked. My CD drive opened. Now I have seen read and infact used tools like subseven or netobserver to get the same effect. So i Decided to move the TCPMODOS.exe file from its location to some else. Then I went to google and search with its name and there were just 2 results. One containing word Hacken and other cracken. So I was obviously being hacked. And also after removing the file my PC is now running better.
Now all I want to know is more information about that tool. Plus if I need to take more precautions or location of any log file it would have made on my system. And IF POSSIBLE, how can I know the identity of the hacker and hit BACK.
All the help is going to be appericiated as ever.
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