Hacker attack! Recovery steps?

[Guest]

I had a definite hacker attack while playing an online
game (delta force black hawk down) - not really so
suprising - it took out my Nortons antivirus (autoprotect
wouln't restart), microsoft IPv6 firewall stuff, crashed
the game and was making microsoft explorer(!) keep
wanting to shut down, but not quite. I could tell
something was afoot because the only program attached to
the net had crashed but there was still something
accesing the web at a ferocious pace. I was using google
search just prior, and it had a nasty message too, come
to think of it... but the SYSDUMP.TXT file told me "This
program has caused an access violation exception at
004e7e63h Attempting to read from 00000000h"

What caused this and what was it?
I have had this type of thing happen before so i
performed a system restore, deleted the entire game from
existence and even changed my user name on this system.
I ran antivirus over and over and it NEVER found a
problem...

At the moment it seems fine, I am worried that it could
occur again (oh it has happened before - a new hard
drive, and a complete loss of info. later)
WHAT can i do to make sure it is out so i dont have a
zombie computer on my hands, or lose crucial data again.

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

I had a definite hacker attack while playing an online
game (delta force black hawk down) - ...

What caused this and what was it?

Most vulnerabilities are either Windows OS or Internet Explorer related,
but you were playing a game with IE closed? If you are up-to-date on
Windows critical updates, then it is most likely a vulnerability in the
game itself. If other players can send you files, then you should
disable that feature. Check the vendor web site for more information, if
available.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Kent!
i will check there, or at least ask - perhaps i need to
update the game again, well i will need to any way, since
i deleted it all just to be safe !!