[Pc_Support] Intruder in my machine --- someplace

[Homer Whittaker]

Phil Barnett wrote:
> 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.

Of course.  However, the Fraud Department of my Credit Card company 
picked it up and the charges all seem to be from one identifiable use on 
my machine.

Are you saying that it is doubtfull that someone is lurking on my 
machine?  If so that surely makes my day :)
Homer Whittaker


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