ok befire i post this thread i would like to state that it is not in anyway intended to start rumours/flame any1 etc, its merely one asking for advice and to potentially warn the people involved about their files =X
ok a week ago, i decided to get my dad onto pwnage (he hasnt played a mir2 server for about 5 years) jus to proove it could be just as good as mir3. i downloaded and installed OS client then downloaded and overwrote all files associated with pwnage server so that he would have everything he needed to play.
we went online for a bit until the server went off and decided to call it a night. he didnt go on his pc again until today when i went down due to work commitments etc and we turned the pc on and took the dogs out for a walk (it was sunny spur of the moment thing)
came back and the pc was having a bit of a tantrum, cpu usage was on about 99% and there was a program open that looked like a virus scanner (although it wasnt any of the actualy scanners that he uses) and the filenames it was going through at the time were his msn details. we thought it looked odd so closed it down, had to do it via CTRL, ALT & DEL.
the moment it closed down the pc froze, which was again a bit odd.
the pc was restarted and the first sign that something was wrong was instead of just one account (Dad) there was a second which had not been there before (Administrator), we logged in the first and the background had changed, and there was a number of virus alerts from the protection programs. the programs indicated that there were 8 trojans, a worm and something else i cant quite remember all located in the mir2 folder. these were deleted straight off (at least we think) by the programs but when we tried to check we found there was no C drive... again thats a little odd. on the start menu there was no control panel... if we tried accessing the internet all pages were http errors. its a sata harddrive, nothing would autoplay (cd's for reformat etc) command prompt wouldnt load etc even my dads friend who works for BT couldnt do anything to it.
iv installed the same set of files beforehand and the only problem i have experienced is with my internet. i randomly get http errors or a message saying "ww.soren.co.uk does not exist please contact dataforce" this is mainly when on lomcn though :S. the weirdest message so far has been one on google when i have searched for case law, its come up with a message saying the page cannot load due to my pc attempting an illegal request?!?!?
im really stuck for answers because im not really an expert, one thing i would like to say though is that maybe the owners of the files (OS and Pwnage) could check that the site they have hosted them on hasnt attached anything nasty etc
my pc uses a mix of AVG and some Netgear wireless firewall thing
my dads uses a mix of Avast, AVG and ZoneAlarm.
any ideas/comments please?
-Jay
ok a week ago, i decided to get my dad onto pwnage (he hasnt played a mir2 server for about 5 years) jus to proove it could be just as good as mir3. i downloaded and installed OS client then downloaded and overwrote all files associated with pwnage server so that he would have everything he needed to play.
we went online for a bit until the server went off and decided to call it a night. he didnt go on his pc again until today when i went down due to work commitments etc and we turned the pc on and took the dogs out for a walk (it was sunny spur of the moment thing)
came back and the pc was having a bit of a tantrum, cpu usage was on about 99% and there was a program open that looked like a virus scanner (although it wasnt any of the actualy scanners that he uses) and the filenames it was going through at the time were his msn details. we thought it looked odd so closed it down, had to do it via CTRL, ALT & DEL.
the moment it closed down the pc froze, which was again a bit odd.
the pc was restarted and the first sign that something was wrong was instead of just one account (Dad) there was a second which had not been there before (Administrator), we logged in the first and the background had changed, and there was a number of virus alerts from the protection programs. the programs indicated that there were 8 trojans, a worm and something else i cant quite remember all located in the mir2 folder. these were deleted straight off (at least we think) by the programs but when we tried to check we found there was no C drive... again thats a little odd. on the start menu there was no control panel... if we tried accessing the internet all pages were http errors. its a sata harddrive, nothing would autoplay (cd's for reformat etc) command prompt wouldnt load etc even my dads friend who works for BT couldnt do anything to it.
iv installed the same set of files beforehand and the only problem i have experienced is with my internet. i randomly get http errors or a message saying "ww.soren.co.uk does not exist please contact dataforce" this is mainly when on lomcn though :S. the weirdest message so far has been one on google when i have searched for case law, its come up with a message saying the page cannot load due to my pc attempting an illegal request?!?!?
im really stuck for answers because im not really an expert, one thing i would like to say though is that maybe the owners of the files (OS and Pwnage) could check that the site they have hosted them on hasnt attached anything nasty etc
my pc uses a mix of AVG and some Netgear wireless firewall thing
my dads uses a mix of Avast, AVG and ZoneAlarm.
any ideas/comments please?
-Jay
