computer completely messedup

[Icehawk]

hi guys i need some help :-( as you know i got hacked. so what i did was uninstalled avg and zone alarm and got the rogers yahoo security suite instead :/ and everything seems normal but when im playing games my fps is like 10-30 instead of the usal 40-60 !?! :o ugg i neeed helpp

[Anogar]

Did you wipe your hard drive and reinstall everything after you got 'hacked'?

[evildrummer]

Sometimes Anti-Virus's affect speed as it takes up RAM that would normally be used for games. And sometimes it effectes it even more online because it checks some stuff when playing to make sure no-one is hacking your comp. Go into ctrl + alt +del = taskmanager, go into proceses (I cant spell) and find the yahoo thingy and post here how much memory it uses and how much CPU, best do it after minimising a game and then close the game and do, see if it goes higher when playing (meaning it doesnt trust the game and is scanning it all)

[chrisclick]

hehe... My virus has reached another victim!!!

Did you do what Anogar said?? to wipe your HDD and reinstall? You should before the virus speads worse and onto you motherboard

Edit: That aint my virus... :evil:

[Icehawk]

hell no i didnt wipe my hdd dude i would never do that it would take hours for me to get everything back on it. last time i wiped it out it took me 3 days just to update every game and im on a t1 connection lol.
okay here is my process list yeah i think maybe thats the problem cuz b4 i only had like 30 processes can u guys help me as in suggest low proess firewall/virusscanner. as well as getting rid of some of these i dont need
cuz i was playing wow and it said it was using 500,000k memory usage and cpu usasge around 40%
so plz helpppp
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8539/proec9.gif

[Anogar]

If you get a virus or you get "hacked", a smart computer user will wipe their drive and start clean. The fact that you would "never do that" shows that you're awfully lacking in computer experience.

That's enough system processes to choke a horse, that's ridiculous. I would strongly reccommend wiping and reinstalling. :-/

[Icehawk]

noo i know to reformat after being hacked its jsut im soo lazy :-( i mean i have so many hugeee games that take ages to update -> world of warcraft 7gig download, css 2gig download and a million other things to install.

okay ill wipe my hdd is there any online programs/websutes to backup some stuff like pictures,mp3s,game mods?
what a pain i hate hackers, and they have no life get bent hackers lol
um also whats a good but low process usage firewall and virus scanner

[chrisclick]

I haven wiped my hardrive past year and I have a virus... oops

edit: Dont store your files online... No way. Use a CD-ROM, USB memory stick or an external hardrive

[Anogar]

Heh. If you're just lazy, you don't get to complain about poor performance. :lol: Anyhow. I use Avast. It's a good one.

[t0mm0]

Nod32 is real good, and i got a hardware firewall. oh and i wipe my computer at least once a month

[evildrummer]

A way of putting off some is go, start > Run > 'msconfig' click ok, then go to startup and choose what you want to start up at beggining or not. You cant erase anything in system memory.

[Icehawk]

okay im gonna use avast but does anyone have firewall program ideas or is my router good enough?
also im gonna format this peice of junk and while i do it i figured i would read the book hacking 101 lol so maybe i can protect my self from these bored people

[bwh2]

you should just wipe, reinstall, then ghost that hd. that way you always have a copy and you can ghost from.

[Icehawk]

how do u do this "ghosting" what programs or what i would love to have that :O

[Anogar]

http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10

[hl]

Too much pr0n eh?

[Icehawk]

wtf that has nothing to do with this read the topic b4 u post my friend :) and is there any free ghosting programs

[hl]

I did read the thread :P You got a virus (that doesn't mean you were hacked by the way). It was a bit of a side comment, but it was on topic!

[Icehawk]

i did get hacked lol zone alarm was like
blocked hacking attempt or what ever it says and then it said it again 5 minutes later then boom lol dam hachkers

o well im getting better and better at this reformatting crap lol :O im already done ^_^

[signifer123]

wtf that has nothing to do with this read the topic b4 u post my friend :) and is there any free ghosting programs

I personally don't know of any for windows, maybe colinux, or that linux virtual machine, and use g4u(ghost 4 unix)


ICE mirror is a backup supporting incremental, never used it, its backup, but doesn't save in one file like acronis, or ghost.
http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEMirror/IndexE.html

Theres http://www.back4win.com/ which has a free version i havn't used either.

I was looking into making one of these using 7zip on linux, but 7zip doesn't store permissions, so it only good for windows. If anyone wants to make the frontend for a windows one in flash, i wouldn't mind writing the code for handling the archives.