Recently We had 2 computers Hacked and was wondering what the best free solutions for making it harder for hackers to enter our system. We have done various things for eg I have basically deleted most email accounts and Facebook and twitter on mine. The other we put peer block on one which has Vista. Contacts we deleted One is now Linux.

I have Open DNS and was wondering what the best solution would be. Open DNS has features to control what goes through router as well. Should we do from Router or individual computers with Open DNS?

What is available software wise to block or disquise IP address that is free?



TY for your Time....

Hello Tom and welcome back to the forums

Just a few questions so I can understand the situation a bit better

What firewall do you have on these computers?
What do you mean when you say 'hacked'? It's a very overused term nowadays and can suggest a range of things.
Are these PCs on a company network?
How do you know the PC was hacked?

Tom

OK We were shown from Microsoft remotely that my computer was controlling other computers..... Also 2 computers on my network were comprimised through email. 2 email accounts were sending emails from our computers with links to other websites we never sent.

we have microsoft firewall for the PC's but one computer is Linux... I will look later for the Linux solutions
Its on a home network.

What e-mail program are you using?

hotmail and good to see you once again ilikefree. I know I should have stated the email program.

Yeah thanks mate, I will have to leave this bit for someone else as I don't use hotmail
I use G-Mail and they have a second security option that if any other computer tries to access your mail you get a code txt to your phone
Maybe hotmail has something like that you could use.
I would use the free MalwareBytes to clean your system and if you are under attack think about using a two way firewall like comodo to start with.
Sorry I am unable to offer anything more to try at the moment.

np mate. I also have gmail now. I will look into comodo. I think its for linux too. Im not so worried about my machine for now cause its better protected, but others on network are more at risk. I know when I build my computer soon.. it will be better protected. and locked up tight...

Okay, again, you weren't hacked. You were infected/comprimised by poor websurfing or bad luck.

Being "Hacked" means someone specifically targeted your computers and went through processes that got you.

MOST IMPORTANTLY..........

Who from microsoft told you? I'm alittle worried you just fell for the MS phone scam going on, where someone calls you, pertending to be MS, and tells you garbage, has you let themn in remotely, then ****s you in the ass.

If you were/are really infected it came from poor surfing/bad luck. This is were you click a link on a website, email or msger. It then steals your email info, fb info and starts spaming everyone.

Your *nix computers fine, while there are virus/infections for *nix, no one uses them.

Please please for all things holy, you didnt fall for the scam.

Paton We called Microsoft about the hotmail issue,,, I looked on microsoft website and got the number. It wasnt a SCAM I fell for. They are the ones who showed us, they showed me the multiple crss what evers .exe and I googled about it. I never go to unreputable sites. MICROSOFT DIDN'T CALL ME. I am not that DUMB. IN FACT I AM VERY WARY OF SCAMS LIKE THAT.

In anycase, I would like to get hold of free anti hack and anti malware spyware, or a good security suite that will be good for a home network. We have Vista windows 7 and Linux. I would like to find it for the other 2 computers.

I know that my Linux system isnt infected and is fine. I installed it after the infection on my system But we just had to restore the laptop to factory settings yesterday. So I was wanting to find out what the best security suite that is free..

You don't have to go to unrepitable sites... Any site can be infected by malware, Even Amazon has been hit like this.

There are no 'Anti-Hack" programs. Hacking is an activity.

Just get MSE, or AVGfree, or Avast. Despite what you think, someone got your system infected by visiting a infected site, could have been any site comprimised by hackers. Any real-time scanner can help stop this, to a certain extent.

The biggest thing is that hotmail sent out things not your computer. Your email and password was stolen, and no firewall or program can stop that. Switching out your password is pretty much only solution.

As for your "controlling" computer, without knowing what you are infected with, Or what else got put in once access was gained via a drive by/bad click, just wipe it out and re install. Once you have a quality AV and Malware detector, Windefender type thing, its just smart surfing... It'll stop 99% of issues. the 1% comes from hacked legit sites that get yha.

As for a individual computer firewall, other than the simple MS one, I used zonealarm loing time back, it was both great and a royal pain.

Linux really doesn't have anything.. With under 4% of market shares, nobody cares about them enough to put forth the effort.

There are no real ways to hide your ip, evenb the so called changer/hiders don't really do it. You could surf through a TOR connection, but that won't stop drive bys. Though It might be a good idea to call your ISP and have them switch up your ip, if in fact you were zombied.

In my opinion, you are over blowing the situation. Get an ip change, clean your systems, and find out who clicked a bad link and educate them.