Hacked PC; You have opened an attachment from your e-mail and your computer has started to crawls. It's not just that, but it starts to happen a lot of strange things. Your bank has invited you to say that there was some strange activity in your account and your ISP does not seem to provide your computer with your internet because they claim to be a botnet's slave.
If your computer is infected and infected with a virus, you need to take action immediately. You'll probably want to keep your files and prevent intruders from using your computer to attack other computers. Below are 10 basic steps to follow immediately.
1. Isolate your computer
Διακόψτε τη σύνδεση, είναι ένα εργαλείο στα χέρια του hacker που κινεί να νήματα. θα πρέπει να απομονώσετε το σύστημα σας με τέτοιον τρόπο ούτως ώστε να μην μπορεί να επικοινωνήσει με το network. Η απομόνωση θα γλυτώσει τους άλλους σας υπολογιστές και θα κλειδώσει έξω τον hacker. Απλά, τραβήξτε το cable network from your computer and turn off the Wi-Fi connection. If you have a laptop, there is a switch that turns off Wi-Fi. Don't do it with some software, as the hacker's malware may have predicted it.
2. Turn off the pc, remove the hard drive and connect it to another computer as a non-bootable disk
Stop your computer and remove the affected hard drive. Connect the disc to another computer as a secondary non-bootable disk. Make sure the other computer has up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware. Download a free rootkit scanner from a trusted source, such as Sophos.
If you do not want to remove your hard drive or you do not have a backup computer, go directly to the infected computer to a reputable PC repair shop.
3. Scan your disc
Use the other computer anti-virus, anti-spyware, and rootkits scanner to locate and remove any infections from your hard drive.
4. Back up your important files
Take your personal data and only those. Copy your photos, documents, videos, or whatever on a DVD or some other clean hard drive.
5. Remove your hard drive from your computer
After the backups, you can move your disk back to your old computer and prepare for the next part of the recovery process.
6. Completely delete your old hard disk (Format and new Partition)
Even if the virus or spyware is gone with the scan, you should still not trust your computer. The only way to make sure the drive is completely clean is to format and restartinstallation of your operating system.
After you have backed up all your data and put the hard drive back on your computer, use one safe disk erase tool to wipe the hard drive. There are many free and commercial disk erasure utilities. Disk wipe utilities can take several hours to completely wipe the disk because they overwrite every sector of the hard disk, even the empty ones, and often make several passes to ensure you don't lose anything. There are disk erasing applications that perform several "passes" to ensure that each sector is completely erased. The process may be time-consuming, but it will ensure that you have eliminated the threat.
7. Relive your operating system from trusted media and install the updates
Use the original disk of your operating system that you purchased or that came with your computer, do not use something that has been copied from somewhere else or is of unknown origin.
Make sure you download all updates and patches to your operating system before installing anything else.
8. New installation of anti-virus, anti-spyware or other security software before any other programs
Before installing all your other applications, you must install the security software of your choice. It should be ensured that the anti-virus is up-to-date before installing other applications. Some of these may have caused you the problem.
9. Scan backups from your other computer
Even if you are pretty sure everything is clean, scan the data again before re-inserting it back into your system.
10. Make a full backup of your system
When your computer is new and contains all the programs you use, usually make a full backup, so if it does never happen again, do not need the whole procedure above. Using a backup tool that creates a bootable hard disk image will ensure and save you a lot of your time.
