were any of your bank / credit card compromised ?

Somebody should gather all these information, collect them together and send them to the Microsoft Office (and I meant the pun ). They ought to be ashamed of the security holes that their OS has. It's serious business because of all the online credit card business these days and they cannot produce an OS that people can rely on and they have the nerve to call their OS more secure because their source is 'closed.' Reading threads like these make me mad against all that Microsoft stand for and I can really understand why people have such strong feelings about them.

And the makers of such viruses and trojans deserve life imprisonment or worse because they have the ability to do so much damage to people and their lives by wrecking their bank balance and credit...

A similar thing happened to my dad`s PC 2 years ago, the first thing he knew about it was when he got his credit card bill which had all sorts of things on for porn sites in the far east, luckily his credit card company waived these charges.
Try this link which has a very good selection of programs which may be able to help.... the problem being of course ur lack of being able to connect using the pc in question...but hopefully u can d/l to floppy or cd from another os...then install and update when possible... good luck :-) http://www.diamondcs.com.au/

A good root kit package
http://www.rkhunter.org/

Yes. What you'll need to realize, is that without a 0-fill, the virus could stay resident on the drive, even after reinstallation of the OS. Also, lets use this model:
This is the usual schematic of a properly working internect conenction
but, in order for a proxy to be eccecient, it must insert itself where you see the carat (^) so it can properly resolve DNS and feed that information to ie. Hence, the data was put through the proxy BEFORE being encrypted.
The encryption is only good when someone with a packet sniffer is on the line - see the | - then the information is useless.

correct me if im wrong... but isnt rkhunter a *nix root kit hunter !?

Yes it is, but he mentioned he thought his Linux system might have a root kit and I thought he might want to check.

nope... i said ive been using my linux system to access the internet, as its clean..
it was windows that i suspected as beeing rooted.

anyways.... ive given up.
i dont have time to re-install windows,

i run a virus scanner every day, and every day there are a new 15 or so virii / trojans.

im pretty sure my windows machine is a battle ground for several script kiddies, all battleing for sole control, all calling themselves, "crash override" "zero cool" "acif burn" and "cerial killer".

"cerial killer.., asin fruit loops... but he does know stuff"

and listeinging to prodigy's Voodoo people... (great song)

hackers... great film...

script kiddies..... idiots !


i will format windows and re-install over the christmall holidays.. (yipee)

My bad musta got lost in the jargon...
I deal with the same kinda problems with my dual boot system. It's just a shame all that intelligence goes to waste on viri. Good luck with your system.