Hacking advice?

[shadow13]

Hi -

I was hacked about a week ago, and my registry was
exported and some icons were moved around. I looked at the
service logs and saw that there is a registry checker
starting up. Here is the message that is in the
log: "Application popup: : Machine Check: Regs." I was
thinking that the hacker somehow has control of my
registry. I also changed my workgroup and my box says that
it is still a part of the old workgroup: "The workgroup is
not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource. Contact the administrator of this server
to find out if you have access permissions. The list of
servers for this workgroup is not currently available."
The same thing happened when I got locked out of my
router's root account. (I now have a firewall on it. I'm
sharing it out with NAT in Linux) Any ideas would be
greatly appreciated.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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| Hi -
|
| I was hacked about a week ago, and my registry was
| exported and some icons were moved around. I looked at the
| service logs and saw that there is a registry checker
| starting up. Here is the message that is in the
| log: "Application popup: : Machine Check: Regs." I was
| thinking that the hacker somehow has control of my
| registry. I also changed my workgroup and my box says that
| it is still a part of the old workgroup: "The workgroup is
| not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
| network resource. Contact the administrator of this server
| to find out if you have access permissions. The list of
| servers for this workgroup is not currently available."
| The same thing happened when I got locked out of my
| router's root account. (I now have a firewall on it. I'm
| sharing it out with NAT in Linux) Any ideas would be
| greatly appreciated.