Almost finished getting back one of my site after being hacked. All files have been deleted, all database have been lost. I have contacted the support of the site where one of my site was hosted and immediately they have responded and re-gain back my hosting account and my cpanel information. Unfortunately, my hosting provider don’t have a back-up of the files and database. And what I have left was a previous back-up way back last november 2007.

The pain at my end, oh well. And now checking in the possibility of how do they know the necessary information that even one of my yahoo account got compromised? Yes, one of my yahoo account got compromised too, and I cannot do anything about it and tried emailing yahoo support but they can’t help. They keep on asking me about the security question but what if the attacker changed all the information on the mail settings? Anyway, we leave it that way.

Then installed another anti-virus program and find a hacker/trojan that is residing on the system volume information on my drive C. Unfortunately, C:\\System Volume Information is hidden to the users (being used by the OS for changes). In order for me to remove the and start a new system we need to turn off the system restore option. Restart. Turn it ON again and then restart.

For my readers information, just in case it also happens to you, you find the system restore option on your windows machine. Control Panel -> System -> System Restore -> Turn -Off System Restore. Click Apply. OK, then restart you PC. Turn System Restore again, then restart. So you will have then a fresh start.

It also speeds up again my PC. Careless? I believe so, my daughter used to click everything she finds on my laptop, messing everything up! Lesson learned - Keep out of the reach of Children! lol.