i seem to remember something about a joker program that did pretty much this same thing (opening cd doors, printing to the printer) from a LONG time ago... i don't recall anything about it making threats, tho...
sounds like it could possibly be an irc hack - does she have chat software on her machine? > HI, > > My "day job" is at our local Police Department. I was just there and > one of our Officers approached me with a computer question. > > He had taken a complaint from a female who was online, cable modem > with a firewall (unknown which one at this time) and only one computer > in the house so no wireless network in place. > > A window appeared in the upper right corner of her screen that said > "chat" and apparently was quite a different kind of chat window than > she had ever seen before. Message on this window changed to read > something to the order of "I'm a hacker and I'm in your computer. > Watch me turn your computer off." The screen went black, I forgot > to ask if the computer itself truly turned off or if the screen just went > to black as in hibernate or screen saver type mode. Then the message > said "I can open your cd rom drive." Her cd rom drive proceeded to > open. The message changed to other things, and I can't remember them > all, one had to do with telling her to watch her printer and the printer > printing out a message stating that this hacker coming > to get her that night and that he'd be driving a green car. Nothing happened > other than scaring the living you know what out of this woman, she is safe and > sound at this time. At least nothing happened to her as of yet. > > Has anyone ever heard of something like this happening? It was suggested by > another person that perhaps this was a virus, but it seems awfully involved > to be a virus. At least from what I know of virus' which I admit isn't a > tremendous lot. I personally thought that perhaps it was some joke program > that someone had installed on her computer and some keystroke activated > it and that she wasn't aware that this had been installed. I have no idea how > many people live in the house that would have access to the computer or if > she lives alone. > > I told the Officer to check the logs in the firewall program as there might > be some kind of information there that could be used if in fact this was a > true hacking activity. > > Can anyone shed any light on this? I know, it's far out and off the wall > and probably something really stupid and not a hacking incident, but I told > the Officer that I would ask around for input as he does have to investigate. > > Any input appreciated, thanks! > > Deb ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
