random nobody

so not sure what happened but hoping it is either taken care of or will be soon

I learned from experience that the first thing you want to make sure happens is that there is no ports open on your router that do not need to be open. One of them that I opened was the remote desktop port, and what I did was leave that open. It was obscure, but somebody found it, and the next thing I know, when I log back in, my computer is all locked and I am getting asked to “pay $10,000” to release my data.

I learned from experience that the first thing you want to make sure happens is that there are no ports open on your router that do not need to be open. One of them that I opened was the remote desktop port, and what I did was leave that open. It was obscure, but somebody found it, and the next thing I know, when I log back in, my computer is all locked and I am getting asked to “pay $10,000“ to release my data.

i’ve been hacked a couple times, so I try not to open any ports that I do not need open. If you do not have any ports open that you do not need, then you might have picked up some thing via malware that you were unaware of, I would scan your computer with malware bites or a suitable program to do the same thing, and then run any fixes that it recommends. I hope that you were able to return, because being hacked sucks.

Brian