Re: OT - Maybe? RE: Hacking

Second most likely cause is it may as well be a virus/trojan that was 
planted on his computer by an email or download.
First most likely cause is it just crashing on him due to standard issues; 
some software he installed, MS doing what it knows best (i.e. asking for a 
full OS reinstall every 6 months),...

Hard to believe some cracker with the knowledge to go past system security 
measures would take any interest on your friend's computer. Have him update 
his virus definitions and run a scan.

Best Regards,
Mario Figueiredo

At 12:25 16/09/2002 -1000, David Jones wrote:
>Have him check around for local computer security
>firms.
>
>His computer may have been hacked while online, and
>whatever an intruder did to it is still in effect, even when
>offline. Not going to try to guess what he means by a
>"dump and reload" - simply shutting down and rebooting
>won't necessarily clear out whatever an attacker might
>have done.
>
>David
>dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

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