[Pc_Support] Intruder in my machine --- someplace

[Phil Barnett]

On Monday 28 November 2005 07:35 pm, Homer Whittaker wrote:
> Last week someone apparently got into my machine, picked up my Credit
> Card number and ordered a bunch of porno from various sites.
>
> I noticed something wrong (do not know what made me notice the problem)
> but I reported it to Pay Pal and my Credit Card company.
>
> Sure enough some one had hit some various companies on the net, so they
> cancelled my then current credit card.  They reissued a new one but I am
> super cautious about using it on the net untill I know absolutely that
> he has been cleaned off my machine.
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can get rid of him for sure?  This may have
> happened when I reported all the smeeeering of my screens last week.
> I am running Debian as my main machine, a Windows XP print server and
> working on installing a new AMD64 on another, and my wife's machine has
> Mandrake 9.0 on it.

Did you ever use that credit card at a restaurant? That's by far the #1 place 
that your credit card number will be lifted.

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"In communism, man exploits man. In capitalism, it's the other way around."