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Re: Hacked Posted by JerseySaab [Email] (#666) [Profile/Gallery] (more from JerseySaab) on Mon, 22 Jul 2013 04:38:46 In Reply to: Hacked, Landjet [Profile/Gallery] , Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:45:06 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
You might additionally scan with programs such as Malwarebytes and/or Spybot Search and Destroy. You can use TDSSKILLER from Kaspersky to check for certain types of root kits. Combofix is very good at rooting bad stuff out but is an industrial-strength tool and you need to be prepared to deal with the chance your system will be left in a problematical state.
There are also rescue discs which you can boot from to scan your hard drive from an operating system that is known to be (or at least presumed to be) clean. Kaspersky has one you can download, as does Bitdefender.
It's also possible that the site itself was cracked into and your PC was not involved. Passwords tend to be pretty insecure to begin with, both because of the way people tend to select them and the weak encryption used by most web sites to protect them.
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