Guest Daan Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 Saturday I was browsing through the mp3's on my computer. I had just bought a new soundsytem, and the sound was better then ever, the room was filled with dubby beats and I was stoned and content. Then I saw the albums on my hard disc disappear one by one. As if something was deleting them. Before I realized what was going on, 20 gigs of music was gone. Some hacker had been deleting them as I was watching... It sucks! Badly. Most of that music is not for sale, or is no longer for sale. And I need those mp3's to decide on what I want... I recovered about half, but still. Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kiph T. Elephant Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 Did you find a text file on your comp that said "EP wuz h3r3". ;-) Seriously though... getting your comp hacked sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kiph T. Elephant Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 Do you have a firewall? If you don't you should get one. There are some free software ones like ZoneAlarm. Also you should be careful what kind of files you download as they might have trojans that make your comp easier to hack. Keep your antivirus prog up-to-date as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daan Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 Thanks for the advice, Kiph. To be honest, the mp3's were not secured at all. The hacker wasn't really much of a hacker, he just walked in through an open door and started deleting. :-( But I'll get a firewall now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zer0-mantra Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 I bet that it's the RIAA who's doing this. Those morons aren't ashamed of anything, as long as it will keep their wallets thick and stuffed. And I've red on the net that they have actually been planning to perform such nasty hacks against people. And sometimes anti-virus programs and firewalls aren't enough. You might need this program too against spyware programs and other stuff: Spybot - Search and sestroy> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ned Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 u better use symantec products such as : norton personal firewall norton antivirus norton internet security and keep ur operation system up to dated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest :-D a a n Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 I don't think it's the RIAA. That would not be very clever for an organisation that pretends to protect rights and have the law on it's side... Thanks for the advice, zer0-mantra and ned. somebody adviced me a free firewall, kerio firewall. any good, you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kiph T. Elephant Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 I use zonealarm myself. It's good and simple. Never heard of kerio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SourMilk Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 your songs are probably still there in your Hard Drive, since when you delete you just remove the reference from the FAT table. Go and search a good proggy to recover deleted files....although Im not really familiar with the boundaries of this kind of software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bahamut Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 I simply use the firewall from Windows XP and regularly update.. and I have disabled a lot of unneeded and possibly dangerous Windows XP Services! -> www.grc.com shields up test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PositroneDrink Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 I strongly recommend NOT to use Symantec (Norton) software 'cause it really sucks. Example: Year after year the famous norton antivirus got heavier (more memory and cpu resources needed) and it does exactly the same work of some free antivirus program that are much lighter (check AVG antivirus at www.grisoft.com, look for the free version). And it costs a lot too, every year. Unless you want to use those 'crack' programs but keep in mind that it could compromise your pc, as well as being not very fair. In years of using the pc i found that it's a lot better to use free software than to crack commercial one. And.. do any of you ever tried to uninstall Symantec software? the only method to get rid of every nasty stuff it always leaves on your pc is to format and reinstall! About firewalls, the also famous Zone Alarm is pretty like a toy, maybe easy to use but generates a lot of false alerts and maybe it's not strong enough in case of a true alert. There are quite a few free personal firewalls for windows out there, but the fact is that: a not well configured firewall is worse than not having a firewall at all. because it gives you a false sense of security and you may do stupid or dangerous thing you wouldn't have done without it. But well-configuring a firewall is not a simple task, you have to read quite a few stuff. You can find it all on the net, only requires some patience. About the RIAA, Daan, do you live in the USA? Anyway, next time unplug the network cable before losing 20 gigs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kiph T. Elephant Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 A lot of false alerts? You mean the pop-ups? You can change the settings so that it doesn't notify you every time something small happens (ie. it doesn't notify you every time it blocks something). And if you get false alerts it's just because your settings are wrong. You can change the settings so that it will remember which progs are allowed to access the internet (or to act as a server) and so it won't ask many times for the same prog (unless you want to). I hardly even notice it's there. I guess you think it's a toy because it's simple, but actually it has gotten some very good reviews. Of course you might not get as many options for customizing as some other progs, but as far as the blocking goes it works and that's all you really need. If you're setting up a firewall for a server or a network you might need some more customizing (and then a hardware solution would probably be best), but for a single computer ZoneAlarm is just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PositroneDrink Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 Well, actually i haven't been using it for quite a while, maybe it's better now. I used to read an IT security newsgroup and it was always full of newbies asking help on ZA alerts and it always turned out that they were just pings by their isp or something like that :-P About what SourMilk said: Yes, Daan probably still has the chance to recover his files, using software like Easy Recovery Pro (OnTrack) or Active Undelete. Good luck man! Anyway, me too i red some news about the RIAA claiming the right to sneak into people's pc to delete illegally owned copyrighted material. But they don't care a lot about psytrance music and other independent/underground music because they don't have their hands on it. Anyway, more infos here: http://www.boycott-riaa.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daan Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 PositroneDrink: I live in Holland. SourMilk and PositroneDrink: I used R-studio to recover the deleted stuff. I downloaded it onto the disc with the lost files and also installed it there. My harddisc was packed before the hacker attack, and files were fragmented, so writing to that disc did a lot of dammage. If I had realized in advance the extent of the damage caused by writing to that disc, I would have taken more trouble to recover from elsewhere on my little home network. Only 5 out of 20 gigs could be recovered... I use the Norton Firewall now. Not all firewalls would do in my situation, as my PC is the internet gateway for a small homenetwork. Yesterday, the firewall intercepted an attempt to get a Trojan onto my PC. The attempt originated from Washington, USA. Where does the RIAA have it's offices? ;-) "me too i red some news about the RIAA claiming the right to sneak into people's pc to delete illegally owned copyrighted material" The RIAA can't possibly tell wheter the mp3's on somebody's PC are legal or not. You're allowed a copy of a CD you own, right? Thanks all for your advice. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FF* Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 If you're serious about protecting your data, you need serious toys to protect it too. Don't use a software based firewall on the client you are working at. These are if missconfigured easy manipulated, and imo quite annoying with their warnings, logbuilds and other lame stuff. Plus it sucks out resources too. Check D-Link sortiment for example. They have brilliant, small firewalls that handles the work well, are easily configured and comes rather cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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