Computer being remotely viewed right now (Urgent)

[Britton30]

Are you on a wireless router?

 

[yk7]

I am connected to the internet with a usb receiver that gets a signal from towers.

 

[barton]

mobile broadband is pretty secure. Ask him to change your desktop wallpaper to prove his l33t skillz

 

[yk7]

From what it seems, he can only view my desktop and not control it. But then he did say things about stealing my passwords and looking in my folders.. not sure he that was a joke or not.

 

[Britton30]

If I were you I'd change passwords on everything right anyway. If you have none on the connection, add one.

 

[yk7]

Not sure what you mean by "if you have none on the connection, add one".

 

[codekiddy]

Since you said you don't know what firewall you use and how to create rules, I'll try to help u understand how to setup a firewall and block unwanted connections.

In addition to changing passwords of every online account, here are short instructions to configure (and backup) your firewall...

First to back up firewall policy just in case you screw it up:
Control Panel\\Windows Firewall\Advanced settings link and right click on Windows firewall with advanced security on local computer(left pane)

Now secondly block all inbound and outbound connections by default:
right click on Windows firewall with advanced security on local computer and select properties,
now on every tab select in dropdown menu "block" do it for "domain" "public" and "private" tab.

Now that networking is blocked you create rules for your apps, to allow internet access to those applications whom you trust:

Here is an example for internet explorer (so that you can browse the web):
right click on outbound rules > create new rule, now it asks you "what kind of rule would you like to create?"

click on custom then next and follow these steps for each input:

This program path > C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe click NEXT
protocol type = TCP remote port = 80, 443, 21 click NEXT 2 times
select allow connection and click NEXT 2 times
name your new rule: "Internet explorer" and click finish.

This firewall rule will let you browse the web with internet explorer.

To allow any other application like steam or google chrome just create a rule.
you don't have to specify ports just select any protocol type when asked.

 

[Britton30]

Not sure what you mean by "if you have none on the connection, add one".

A password.

 

[yk7]

Not sure what you mean by "if you have none on the connection, add one".

A password.

I don't think I can with this.

 

[yk7]

Since you said you don't know what firewall you use and how to create rules, I'll try to help u understand how to setup a firewall and block unwanted connections.

In addition to changing passwords of every online account, here are short instructions to configure (and backup) your firewall...

First to back up firewall policy just in case you screw it up:
Control Panel\\Windows Firewall\Advanced settings link and right click on Windows firewall with advanced security on local computer(left pane)

Now secondly block all inbound and outbound connections by default:
right click on Windows firewall with advanced security on local computer and select properties,
now on every tab select in dropdown menu "block" do it for "domain" "public" and "private" tab.

Now that networking is blocked you create rules for your apps, to allow internet access to those applications whom you trust:

Here is an example for internet explorer (so that you can browse the web):
right click on outbound rules > create new rule, now it asks you "what kind of rule would you like to create?"

click on custom then next and follow these steps for each input:

This program path > C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe click NEXT
protocol type = TCP remote port = 80, 443, 21 click NEXT 2 times
select allow connection and click NEXT 2 times
name your new rule: "Internet explorer" and click finish.

This firewall rule will let you browse the web with internet explorer.

To allow any other application like steam or google chrome just create a rule.
you don't have to specify ports just select any protocol type when asked.

Everything worked fine with Google Chrome until after a few pages, it started showing "Error 103 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_ABORTED): Unknown error." .

 

[codekiddy]

Just to make sure your rule for google chrome is correct do this:

Control panel > Windows firewall and click on the link "Allow program of feature trough windows firewall"
click on "allow another program" button and select google chrome from the list then complete the setup and try again.

The same way you can allow any other program..

 

[yk7]

It says chrome is already on the list of exceptions and it's checked.

 

[codekiddy]

Ok, if you already backed up your original rules and saved them just in case(if not the do a backup please), here you can download View attachment WindowsFirewallRules.zip my rules and apply them to your firewall.
(steam and chrome rules are included)

to apply them download a zip file, unpack it and do this:

control panel > windows firewall > advanced settings link and right click on Windows firewall with advanced security then select "import policy" and navigate to unzipped file "WindowsFirewallRules.wfw"

Please post your results about chrome etc...
Please not you can always import your backed up policy back.

 

[yk7]

Just imported that and realized that may be a bad idea with all the rules I already have for my programs and games. Could you tell me what you did for Chrome and Steam?

 

[codekiddy]

Could you tell me what you did for Chrome and Steam?

chrome.exe
outbound TCP 80, 443, 21 allow

steam.exe
outbound TCP 80, 443, 27014-27050 allow
outbound UDP 27015-27030, 3478, 3479, 4380 allow
inbound TCP 27015 allow
inbound UDP 4380, 27000-27015 allow

 

[yk7]

The "Error 103 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_ABORTED): Unknown error." error still shows. Usually when refreshing pages. I can't get the whole site to respond after that.

 

[codekiddy]

Please export your current firewall policy, zip it and upload it into this thread.

if you're unsure how to upload see this help link

 

[yk7]

I've made one rule before so my IRC client only allows a connection through my VPN. This is the tutorial I followed. http://wiki.hidemyass.com/Tutorials...wall_for_blocking_non-VPN_traffic_(IP_binding)

Edit: Removed attachment.

 

[codekiddy]

I wasn't able to import your policy
got some error message code 87 ...
never mind.... let's just skip that

I would like to recommend you to learn about windows firewall on TechNet website:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781330(v=ws.10).aspx

To help you out with windows firewall and creating rules you may be interested in reading following collected articles:

http://www.outpostfirewall.com/forum/showthread.php?15515-uTorrent-rules
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8571-GLVN-8711
http://www.beaglesoft.com/clwaxpfirewall.htm
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758295(v=ws.10).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730690(v=ws.10).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730951(v=ws.10).aspx
https://forums.comodo.com/guides-cis/firewall-tutorial-for-utorrent-with-comodo-internet-security-t15677.0.html;wap2=
https://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=66471

If you have any additional question just ask.

..............

Sorry mods but I couldn't create short links to websites using IE (don't know how).

 

[yk7]

I really don't have any issues with creating rules other than that one with Chrome and that isn't covered in the links you provided.