I Hate Hackers!

[RavenTrunks]

OK i Hate Hackers.... My new $1,700 Computer gothacked. They got rid of the Bios on my motherboard! Why! :cry:

Well Im gonna try to send the computer back saying it wasa defective board.

Anyone have any "Been hacked" stories?

 

[Jesus]

ive never heard of someone being able to delete someone elses bios :|

also, you should be able to install the bios from one of the driver disks your pc should have come with.

 

[Tassadar]

Got rid fo the bios on your motherboard? Last time I checked that wasn't possible. Unless they physicly went onto your computer and installed some corrupted firmware/bios update. There is no virus that I know of that can destroy your BIOS unless you do it, at your desk, with a floppy. Make you have to format, yeah, but never have I seen BIOS being deleted. If you think something is wrong with them, you might want to try flashing them, if something is wrong, it could fix it.

 

[RavenTrunks]

if yoou flash your bios with a hack or if something else fdlashes your bios, you dump your old bios. and nothing new is put in And a True bios was not installed.

my friend can do it, hes been working on computers since 1978.

And i know the bios is gone because, the monitor/keyboard/mouse/anyother plugins, doesnt get a signal to activate. This is things your bios does. Its possible for hackers to go and take it out. How could i flash it if nothing gets signal. I dont have enough Operation to flash it.

Bios Stands for: Basic Input output system, btw in case noone knew. (dont want a "i know what it means")

 

[FreeDoM]

Couple questions, what happens on the monitor when you turn the pc on? Do you get power? Does Bios come up? Do you see a blank screen with a blinking undermark? Is your pc making any noises? (Like for instance, beeps and explain what type of beep it's making)
You could try:
Checking the battery, look for burn marks on your motherboard, make sure your ram is in tight and correctly. Make sure the power supply is powering your cpu fan and motherboard. Any unfamilar sounds?

Edit: If that's the case, make sure everything is off, remove your battery for 5 minutes?, then put it back in and try.

 

[RavenTrunks]

read the above post. I do not get any Feed what so ever. I am not getting any Keyboard, mouse, floppy, CD-rom, monitor operations. only thing it could be wong is the motherboard if not bios. its not getting feed what so ever.

To make it simple: All it is, is a lamp now... (the pretty lights in the fans and stuff seen though the glass door)

Edit: I removed the batery and reset BIOS with the pins as well, no luck...

 

[FreeDoM]

Should be a warranty on your new pc
I was going to say your power supply went bad but you're getting power to ALL your fans right? You checked your motherboard for anything? Scratches, anything that's bent, burn marks? Oh... and how did this happen anyways? Were you screwing around with bios/updating bios? Or did you download something you shouldn't have and your system went "bye-bye" when you rebooted?

If none of that helps, ask Cucumba.

 

[RavenTrunks]

No, i Was letting somone download a game from me, Takes long time to transfter half a gig se we left the computers on, i went to a friends house. (like an idiot no firewall) and since im already sending sinal to 3rd party, its easily hackable. so when i come back few hours later. my monitor is blacked like its "alseep" but nothing respoded, i pressed restaret, power and nothing responded, i switched poweer off and back, and the computer turns on by itself when it gets the acess though power....

I have no idea if my friend was also hacked, i hope not..

I beleive i do have a warranty, so im sending it back and telling them it was defected, im not gonna say i was hacked...

 

[Phatslugga]

Hrm, that sucks, I guess your best bet is to utilize that warranty and play dumb. Next time, make sure to have a firewall is all I can say.

 

[FreeDoM]

Is this someone you know well? I don't see someone targeting you out of the billions of people using file transfer. Especially if you kept up on your windows updates. What program did you use to send him files? It really sounds like something fried. Like i said, check over your motherboard thoroughly for anything abnormal.

Edit: Did you buy this system instore or online?

 

[RavenTrunks]

i bout it online at www.tigerdirect.com, and ive known this guy for like 2 years.and used MSN Messanger for the transfer.

 

[Bolteh2]

i got hacked once... i couldnt play any opengl games... i opened my case and saw that my brand new gefroce4 was missing;.


fcking hackers

 

[Enix]

Yea, dont you hate when those damn hackers open
a worm hole and snatch up ur components. Damn hackers.....

^_^

Well, errr....i think you just fried your motherboared somehow.
even if your bios where deleted you should still be able to
see something on the screen, did you try resetingyour bios?
like physicially reset them?

 

[SoulStriker]

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I've never seen anyone that got hacked before and had something bad happen to their system, since hacking isn't for "bad" purposes. Quite the oppisite.

Hacking is getting inside a system to help to protect it (I.e hack into a system and then implement some sort of protection to prevent that method of entry).

You got cracked which is entering a system for "bad" purposes, I.e to damage the system. Just wanted to point out the difference of terms. Hacking is a widely mis-used term.

 

[Rayos]

did you recently open your computer? sometimes memory sticks pop and the computer won't start...i know that probably ain't it but most of the time it is basics that cause problems

 

[Fire Phoenix]

I know this is going to sound really stupid. But have you checked and made sure everything is plugged in? ⌐.⌐ that was the basis of my problem once. my computer wouldnt start, so i was like wtf, nothing worked. i opened up my computer made sure everything was in place, nothing was wrong. i even took it apart then put it back together, it still didnt work. i realized... it wan't plugged in -.-

 

[KarrdeKNR]

More than anything to me, this sounds like a mobo burnout or something along those lines. Probably a defective or damaged mobo or bios chip than a hack. Considering it was brand new, the hardware prolly survive the stress tests from the manufacturer, but fried early on from mismanufacturing or a part that wasn't up to par. This would explain why it happened to a brand new computer.

-Karrde-

 

[Kurt`]

Heh.

If your bios was ****ed, resetting it via jumpers on the mobo would have fixed the problem.

Therefore, the problem is not with your bios. So you can rule that out.

When you turn on your computer, does it "beep" at all? If not, can you do things like, eject your cd-rom/dvd drive ? (If not, your power supply may have **** a brick).

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As for the other random bull**** in this thread:

Windows Updates don't DIRECTLY affect MSN Messenger, they patch native vulnerabilities in Windows itself. Maybe if said program was exporting functions from a system DLL file, and that code was patched to prevent exploits, then that would be a valid statement, but that is most likely not the case.

Cracking is a commonly misused term. The "media definition" (what they like to call people who "hack" websites, since "hacker" has lost its oomph in the modern 1337 age) is what SoulStriker said. It really means to reverse engineer software/components of a system to circumvent copy protections and other nonsense. A cracker generally edits programs in assembly/hexadecimal. ( I know, because I am one =p )

http://anime-overload.com/images/omgh4x.jpg <-- common tools

http://anime-overload.com/images/cracker.jpg <-- t-shirt, for the win