Found a Trojan, and the worst part is.

TadleyBaggie

How do think a neighbour planted a trojan on your system? Do you let them access it?

Fosterdog

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

AV scan found it.

I haven't upgraded to Win 10.

I would firstly suggest you change your AV, preferably to one that stops Trojans getting installed in the first place rather than one that just tells you you have already been infected.

A neighbour is almost certainly not behind it all, it takes a lot of skill to hack a network and they'd most likely go for an unlimited network than a mobile broadband one.

The virus itself has probably used your data if it's not updates downloading.

[Deleted User]

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

How do think a neighbour planted a trojan on your system? Do you let them access it?

More likely an email (I've been getting a lot of "invoice" and "bill" type ones lately), and the trojan's title ended "eml".

paddyrg

OK, so 'Trojan' has a very specific meaning of a piece of software that masqueraded as something else. It's almost certainly nothing to do with accessing your mifi directly.

If someone has accessed your mifi, change the connection password and reboot now, the problem ends. Those mifi units have pathetic range though, so the person must be almost in the same room as you - check the connections log and make sure you understand it before going next door ;-)

My hunch is that this trojan or some other activity (eg W10 download which is 3GB) has used your data.

zax47

I'm in the "it's Win10" camp too - especially given that size, too much of a co-incidence. I "reserved" it way back when and then got a huge 3GB hit last week when it finally (silently!) downloaded. Not installed it yet though - almost certainly gonna be issues, so let the "early adopters" & fashion-followers deal with them.....

Bob, do you have the white Windows icon down on the right of your task-bar, near volume & stuff? If so then you've reserved Win10 and it's downloaded in the background.

System

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

AV scan found it.

I haven't upgraded to Win 10.

You may not have upgraded but it has probably downloaded the 3GB of files needed to do the upgrade already.

I got caught out like that.

[Deleted User]

paddyrg wrote: »

If someone has accessed your mifi, change the connection password and reboot now

Already done.

Those mifi units have pathetic range though, so the person must be almost in the same room as you

Actually, from personal experience, not true.

I can easily access from my garden.

[Deleted User]

zax47 wrote: »

Bob, do you have the white Windows icon down on the right of your task-bar, near volume & stuff? If so then you've reserved Win10 and it's downloaded in the background.

I have got the 4 pane window icon, but I haven't reserved anything.

Indeed, I've been clicking the X, every time the nag screen pops up.

ljonski

what's he doing in your garden. Is he living in the shed?

[Deleted User]

ljonski wrote: »

what's he doing in your garden. Is he living in the shed?

It's me that can access my MiFi modem, from the garden.