MSN Messenger hacked

[unlovedwarrior]

ok

[chriscool9]

If im honest i dont think this is a P.C matter. I think that that you should talk to your friend and try and get to the bottom of it....
Maybe its just me, but thats what its looking like....


Chris

[Michael232]

i checked my friend's saved message history and there is nothng of the sort.

so, you think your msn conversation was hacked because of?

Remember that your friend's saved message history isn't more than an xml file which you can access, read, add, modify and delete information very easy with any xml editing progran, also with no editing programs of xml such as Notepad or Word.

[patio]

If im honest i dont think this is a P.C matter. I think that that you should talk to your friend and try and get to the bottom of it....
Maybe its just me, but thats what its looking like....


Chris

Very good point Chris...i agree.

[lucille]

SOLVED!

Hello everyone. I wanted to let you know that the mystery was finally solved. My ex-boyfriend came over today and confessed everything. Months ago he sent me (over email) a file that he said contained pictures. It did, but it also contained a program that collected messenger info and emailed it to him once a week. When he emailed it to me he said to change the .ese after the name, to .exe. Dummy that I am , I trusted him and opened it. I saw the pictures and I figured that was all it contained.

Unlovedwarrior, I want to thank you because your suggestion of downloading spybot did the trick. Apparently, it was the coolwwwsearch.svcinit. I installed the hacker program again just to see, and then ran spybot again, and sure enough, it found it once more. So, thank you. Even though he confessed today, your suggestion of dl spybot bought me some days of privacy. Plus, now I am much better protected should this happen to me again.

My love life may leave something to be desired, but my computer is finally safe again! Thank you all for your help and creative and prompt suggestions.

[unlovedwarrior]

im glad i could help.. i figured it was something along thoses lines cuz i didnt for my computer to see what my brothers where viewing

[Raptor]

And our noble unloved warrior saves another damsel in distress...

Run the kill, unloved!

[unlovedwarrior]

lol....

[JPH]

I hate to rain on the parade here but... :-/

CoolWebSearch is spyware/adware, more accurately it is a browser hijacker. It is custom malware that only serves the agenda of the scumbags at CoolWebSearch and their partners. Meaning it is NOT a program like your ex described that would collect messenger info and email it to him like a keylogger (see SpyBuddy and Actual Spy for example). I'm willing to bet that the CWS entries that Spybot is detecting is a totally different issue altogether. CWS.Svcint was the 12th CoolWWWSearch variant recorded in the wild (there are well over 50 variants) and there are at least 4 or 5 variants of CWS.Svcint itself. None of them, I repeat NONE of them collect messenger info and send that info to your ex's email. In other words, chances are whatever monitoring software your ex is using to monitor your conversations is NOT CoolWebSearch and is most likely still on your computer.

At the very least you should download CWShredder and run a scan to make sure that Spybot completely removed all traces of CWS. It can be very difficult to completely eradicate and has the ability to restore itself if all traces aren't removed.

Also if you want to be certain that your ex isn't still monitoring you, download HiJackThis do a scan and post the generated logfile here so that we can analyze it and make sure that nothing nasty is still running on your computer.

Just my 2 cents...

- JPH

[unlovedwarrior]

or just bust out your shiny ms cd and reformat...

[Raptor]

or just bust out your shiny ms cd and reformat...

He's picking up on Fed's sarcasm!

[unlovedwarrior]

it tends to happen when you here alot lol

[unlovedwarrior]

did she ever post a hjt log for us??

[JPH]

did she ever post a hjt log for us??

Nope. She thinks her problem is completely...

SOLVED!

[Fed]

I hope Lucille comes back, she could be sending her keystrokes to her X for years to come.