My wife and I came home from a nice weekend to find our PC had a nasty "overlay screen" on the desktop warning me that my files were exposed and I needed to click the link provided on the overlay to save my files.
I knew immediately something was wrong. (I did not click the link provided, but we are pretty sure the surfer did).
We soon learned that that our PC had been used without our permission and at 1AM Sunday morning and the unathorized surfer had managed to get us a virus (a trojan) and a lot of data miners and a new "overlay" for lack of a better word. I could see and use my normal desktop but there was also a screen telling me to click to remove. I suspected it wanted me to open a conection so that the virus might send out the data it was supposed to get from our PC.
Well to make this short. I looked at my AVG and saw that it had recorded a virus at 1:35PM and a lot of attemted hijackings.
I also ran ADAWARE6 and removed over 100 data miners.
I finally was able to remove the "overlay" from my desktop and got all the nasties quarantined.
Now for my question.. I can't get IE to connect automatically using the dialer. I can go to the start menu, and use the "connect to" button that opens a dialer, make the connection to my provider and then open IE.
That works, but how do I get IE to dial automatically?
Thanks for any help.
There was not telling what the data miners sent out. So we have been to the bank this morning changing all our accounts. Start on credit cards next.
But that won't help us with ID theft if anyone got our Soc Sec and Drivers Lic.
Tom
I knew immediately something was wrong. (I did not click the link provided, but we are pretty sure the surfer did).
We soon learned that that our PC had been used without our permission and at 1AM Sunday morning and the unathorized surfer had managed to get us a virus (a trojan) and a lot of data miners and a new "overlay" for lack of a better word. I could see and use my normal desktop but there was also a screen telling me to click to remove. I suspected it wanted me to open a conection so that the virus might send out the data it was supposed to get from our PC.
Well to make this short. I looked at my AVG and saw that it had recorded a virus at 1:35PM and a lot of attemted hijackings.
I also ran ADAWARE6 and removed over 100 data miners.
I finally was able to remove the "overlay" from my desktop and got all the nasties quarantined.
Now for my question.. I can't get IE to connect automatically using the dialer. I can go to the start menu, and use the "connect to" button that opens a dialer, make the connection to my provider and then open IE.
That works, but how do I get IE to dial automatically?
Thanks for any help.
There was not telling what the data miners sent out. So we have been to the bank this morning changing all our accounts. Start on credit cards next.
But that won't help us with ID theft if anyone got our Soc Sec and Drivers Lic.
Tom

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