Porn merchant hackers

Ytown Tribe fan · 07-11-2003, 06:27 PM

I thought it was a virus. It was worse. I would be working on my PC, which is hooked up to the Internet full-time via a cable modem, and suddenly Internet Explorer would be hooking me up to a German banner-ad site called top-banner.com or top-exchange.com, and a bunch of porn sites.

Turns out I'd been hacked, as this NYT story reveals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/11/te...partner=GOOGLE

What was worse, jpg's on websites I was visiting were all replaced with some very graphic porn photos. Karen walked into the room and asked what the Hell I thought I was looking at, and I replied that I THOUGHT I was looking at the Cleveland NEXRAD RADAR from the NWS website. In fact, I was looking at a hard-core porn photo.

What was even worse was that, after a while, the PC would be accessing the websites every 5-10 seconds and I was unable to do any real work on it or (GASP!) even visit my favorite forum. That was too much, so I reformatted the hard-drive and reloaded Windows, losing a lot of documents in the process.

I also switched to Norton firewall/virus protection and dumped McAfee, after firing off a nasty e-mail to them.

gyb13 · 07-13-2003, 09:29 PM

so how did you first find out?

Ytown Tribe fan · 07-14-2003, 08:21 AM

Well, when the PC first started acting up, I thought the ads were pop-ups. But when they started popping up ALL the time, I thought that the firewall was defective and someone was hacking into the system. After reviewing the log though, I realized that it was MY PC accessing those sites on its own, not the other way around -- then I knew it was too late and I had been cracked and corrupted.

The next day, after formatting the H/D and reloading Windows, I happened to be reading rotten.com news and saw the article. I contacted the author's website and told him how my PC had been affected and what sites it was trying to access. Turns out that the two German banner sites were being used as well, as part of a site ring tha the original hackers were using to escape detection.

We will probably never know who started it.

Anyway, I informed McAfee about it and switched to Norton anti-virus and firewall that day.

TGwynn19 · 07-15-2003, 05:29 PM

YTown, isn't that a long way to go to cover up the fact your wife caught you looking at internet porn

Ytown Tribe fan · 07-15-2003, 10:47 PM

BUSTED! Not!

I can always blame my 14-year-old son.

07-11-2003, 06:27 PM	#1
Ytown Tribe fan Guest Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scrappers territory Posts: 2,515	Porn merchant hackers I thought it was a virus. It was worse. I would be working on my PC, which is hooked up to the Internet full-time via a cable modem, and suddenly Internet Explorer would be hooking me up to a German banner-ad site called top-banner.com or top-exchange.com, and a bunch of porn sites. Turns out I'd been hacked, as this NYT story reveals. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/11/te...partner=GOOGLE What was worse, jpg's on websites I was visiting were all replaced with some very graphic porn photos. Karen walked into the room and asked what the Hell I thought I was looking at, and I replied that I THOUGHT I was looking at the Cleveland NEXRAD RADAR from the NWS website. In fact, I was looking at a hard-core porn photo. What was even worse was that, after a while, the PC would be accessing the websites every 5-10 seconds and I was unable to do any real work on it or (GASP!) even visit my favorite forum. That was too much, so I reformatted the hard-drive and reloaded Windows, losing a lot of documents in the process. I also switched to Norton firewall/virus protection and dumped McAfee, after firing off a nasty e-mail to them.

07-13-2003, 09:29 PM	#2
gyb13 NS Omnipresent Brasilian Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Crazy George's playground Posts: 10,903	so how did you first find out? __________________ Gustavo NDF Moderator Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

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07-14-2003, 08:21 AM	#3
Ytown Tribe fan Guest Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scrappers territory Posts: 2,515	Well, when the PC first started acting up, I thought the ads were pop-ups. But when they started popping up ALL the time, I thought that the firewall was defective and someone was hacking into the system. After reviewing the log though, I realized that it was MY PC accessing those sites on its own, not the other way around -- then I knew it was too late and I had been cracked and corrupted. The next day, after formatting the H/D and reloading Windows, I happened to be reading rotten.com news and saw the article. I contacted the author's website and told him how my PC had been affected and what sites it was trying to access. Turns out that the two German banner sites were being used as well, as part of a site ring tha the original hackers were using to escape detection. We will probably never know who started it. Anyway, I informed McAfee about it and switched to Norton anti-virus and firewall that day.

07-15-2003, 05:29 PM	#4
TGwynn19 Guest Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Naples, FL Posts: 2,087	YTown, isn't that a long way to go to cover up the fact your wife caught you looking at internet porn

07-15-2003, 10:47 PM	#5
Ytown Tribe fan Guest Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scrappers territory Posts: 2,515	BUSTED! Not! I can always blame my 14-year-old son.

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