Etaria
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First of all, forgive me if I have posted this in wrong place... I am new here- and once again great to meet you all!
Anyway...
I found a program called Protected Storage Passview and I never downloaded it. Upon opened the .txt documents it generated it contains all my passwords to like my outlook email, and various other places.
It looks to have been "created" Nov. 15 and I remember my norton antivirus catching something that day which it hasn't found anything in months. Now I looked up this company/software/freeware on google and it looks to be a legit program (not something malicious)- but I never installed it or downloaded it.
Here is the site I found on info on the exact thing I found on my computer:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/pspv.html
and it shows info about norton finding this as a trojan but it isn't.. so that is a relief I do not really have a virus/trojan. But my question is.. if this is legit company.. and I did not download this on my computer- how did it get there?
Now I have no idea how these things work or how one would be able to get this on their without being in my house (incidently no one here that would have downloaded it)... could this have been somehow put on my computer from elsewhere? I know i did recently go through a breakup and he is kind of computer savvy- and would like to know how to prevent someone from accessing my computer or putting these things on it...
Anyway I may be way off base but I know i did not download anything or click any funky links.. same things i have always done for the past 5 months or so. Any help or knowledge would be greatly appreciated!
PS... I am new here- and i see many thread with "hijack" in them- what exactly does this word mean in your lingo here?
Oh any my computer stats are
XP Pro
40 gig seagate barracude HD
1 gig 400 DDR ram
1.8 mhz AMD athlon
Geforce 5900 vid card
no soundcard/speakers
have yet to find out exact name of my mobo
Anyway...
I found a program called Protected Storage Passview and I never downloaded it. Upon opened the .txt documents it generated it contains all my passwords to like my outlook email, and various other places.
It looks to have been "created" Nov. 15 and I remember my norton antivirus catching something that day which it hasn't found anything in months. Now I looked up this company/software/freeware on google and it looks to be a legit program (not something malicious)- but I never installed it or downloaded it.
Here is the site I found on info on the exact thing I found on my computer:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/pspv.html
and it shows info about norton finding this as a trojan but it isn't.. so that is a relief I do not really have a virus/trojan. But my question is.. if this is legit company.. and I did not download this on my computer- how did it get there?
Now I have no idea how these things work or how one would be able to get this on their without being in my house (incidently no one here that would have downloaded it)... could this have been somehow put on my computer from elsewhere? I know i did recently go through a breakup and he is kind of computer savvy- and would like to know how to prevent someone from accessing my computer or putting these things on it...
Anyway I may be way off base but I know i did not download anything or click any funky links.. same things i have always done for the past 5 months or so. Any help or knowledge would be greatly appreciated!
PS... I am new here- and i see many thread with "hijack" in them- what exactly does this word mean in your lingo here?
Oh any my computer stats are
XP Pro
40 gig seagate barracude HD
1 gig 400 DDR ram
1.8 mhz AMD athlon
Geforce 5900 vid card
no soundcard/speakers
have yet to find out exact name of my mobo