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I think I've been hacked!
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<blockquote data-quote="artistpaul" data-source="post: 643667" data-attributes="member: 53188"><p><strong>I've been hacked!</strong></p><p></p><p>recently (to cut a long story short), on a long net surf, after a lot of downloading and a restart I noticed a change. I'd lost the ability to download, and I realised it was specific in some ways - I can't now download software unless it's through the Mac Software Update for example. I've tracked the problem to the firewall, but whenever I try to access it I'm told that there is a 3rd party firewall app installed and that I must remove that first. But, I've not installed any firewall software, not deliberately anyway (meaning this is some sort of trojan). Whenever I scan with an antivirus app (that I bought After the problem occured) I get the all clear. I examined my firewall settings through my System Profiler utility and all of my connections except 'Network Time' and Blizzard downloaders are 'Denied', filesharing and everything else is blocked. Can someone help me get my firewall back? </p><p>iBook G4 1.2Ghz, 1.28Gb RAM, OS X10.4.11</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="artistpaul, post: 643667, member: 53188"] [b]I've been hacked![/b] recently (to cut a long story short), on a long net surf, after a lot of downloading and a restart I noticed a change. I'd lost the ability to download, and I realised it was specific in some ways - I can't now download software unless it's through the Mac Software Update for example. I've tracked the problem to the firewall, but whenever I try to access it I'm told that there is a 3rd party firewall app installed and that I must remove that first. But, I've not installed any firewall software, not deliberately anyway (meaning this is some sort of trojan). Whenever I scan with an antivirus app (that I bought After the problem occured) I get the all clear. I examined my firewall settings through my System Profiler utility and all of my connections except 'Network Time' and Blizzard downloaders are 'Denied', filesharing and everything else is blocked. Can someone help me get my firewall back? iBook G4 1.2Ghz, 1.28Gb RAM, OS X10.4.11 [/QUOTE]
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