Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Possible virus on Jaywalker

Jaywalker computer started acting weird yesterday.  I may have clicked a link in an email and gotten a virus that way.  Symptoms:
Won't shutdown - shutdown screen just hangs
Devices and Printers screen is blank
Control panel screen is blank
runs slow
would not print from notepad

Found a guide for how to remove viruses on wikiHOW and it said to boot into safemode with networking and then to download Malwarebytes.  I did that and did a scan with Malwarebytes (all the time still in safemode with networking) and it did not detect any problems.  But after that everything seemed to work.  So I don't know what happened.  Once I was in safemode, I was able to bring up control panel and devices and printers screen; maybe that somehow "fixed" it.

Friday, February 1, 2013

bighornmemphis hacked!!

On 30-Jan-2013 I noticed that bighornmemphis.com had no pictures on home page and when I clicked on the Cotton Plant Shops link to see if pictures were on that page it took me to a weird spanish-language surfing school site!!!  Logged into fatcow control panel and created a help desk ticket and waited 2 days but got no response so I called fatcow today.  Guy who aswered was very helpful and fixed the problem by editing the .htaccess file in the bighornmemphis directory on the fatcow server.  He said that some one had probably hacked into the .htaccess file.

I had to hit CTRL-F5 several times to get foxfire to stop showing me the old cached version and show me the new (fixed!) version of the big horn site.