Last Saturday I had a bit of a security breach. I came home from bowling and there were 10 firefox windows open and a help windows open. The firefox windows were all Live mesh help and firefox has been updated, and the help screen was about windows file and printer sharing.
I had no idea what was going on and I really didn’t know what to do other than Disable my wireless access card and run my Virus scan. Then I cracked open my laptop and went to leo’s chats and well no one was there and then I went to GRC but I really wanted an answer then. So I went to Chris Prillos chat and asked my question and they said to restore to back up and if it still seems weird to wipe it out. In the end that is what I ended up doing.
I had to wipe my computer clean mostly cause I wanted to be sure and I wanted what ever I had to be gone. I just could never trust that computer again. The longest thing about all this was reinstalling all of the updates after Vista SP1 because my router kept Disconnecting and I would have to run to the other end of the house every 5 minutes. Finding all my apps took awhile too and subscribing to all my pod casts took a wile.
At this point I got everything back the way it was. I Changed all my passwords words on all my computers so it seems secure again. After all this happened I thought about what was the last thing I downloaded and I think it was a torent file. Its the last thing I downloaded before I went the bed. There are 2 people I would like to thank and that is Chris Prillo for his community he has and Leo Laporte for saying over and over to back up your data and if not for that this all would have been sooooooo much worst.
-Mike
