- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Last night I believe my computer was hacked into. All of a sudden I was flooded with pop-ups, telling me files on my computer were being corrupted. It started responding EXTREMELY slow.
Then all of a sudden I get a pop up telling me that certain files or folders that windows needed to run have been replaced by incompatible files or some damm -blam!- like that.
It told me to insert my XP cd and that I needed to re-install windows and some other crap.
from there I powered my computer of right away, but as I did a whole bucnh of windows and programs poped up that I had no idea what there function was, or why they were opening like that by themselves. So I powered off anyway.
No that I have got back on I can still use windows and get online and everything, but certain programs and software will not respons. i.e. Windows media player will not funciton anymore, it tells me some crap about it being corrupted or something.
Does this sound like my computer was hacked?? How could it have just out of no where started doing all that stuff if it wasnt being hacked? Its never had any probs before!
how can I protect my computer from these scum?, Im not very cluey on computers and the like. How can I know if I was hacked, and how can I know WHEN im being hacked? what can I do to make sure this sort of thing doesnt happen again?
Thanks.