Porn and Other stuff on My Computer

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First, I go to log into to two other message boards I post on. I get the message one day saying I have been banned from using the site. Yet, I can log onto the site from other computers no problem. From talking to the admins of the sites, apparently it was a ban on my IP address, not my account.
Second, I was surfing the web earlier tonight. I go to start to type in an address. I have the "auto-fill" feature enabled. As I start to type the address I want to go to, I get a suggestion for a site already visited on my computer. Its for a porn site. I go through my history and cookies, and there is a lot, and I mean a ton of stuff for porn sites.
Now, I have NEVER visited a site like that since my college days a long time ago, and it was on a a completely different computer. Never on this one. My wife is the only other one who uses this computer. And I know for a fact, she has never looked up porn online. Besides, she rarely uses this computer and when she does, I'm home too.
So, given these two things, is it possible that someone was able to get onto my computer remotely and use my computer to surf the web or do things?
I have a firewall, a router, the latest anti-virus, spyware programs, etc.
No viruses have been found and no spyware has been found either.
Any ideas?

 

Have any friend who could do this?And yes, i do believe it's possible to hack into someones computer remotely (correct me if i'm wrong, i'm just a low, carbon-based lifeform, not computer-guru).Perhaps it's virus your anti-virus programs can't recognise? (highly unprobable, as you have latest programs, but anything's possible)

 

Autofill works only on addresses typed into the address box or added to Bookmarks/Favourites. Maybe a script has added that porn site to your Favourites? If someone had been using your computer remotely, he wouldn't have been connecting through your browser, anyway. If the browser is inactive, it can't register your connections -- browsers do this (this is why if you, for example, have Firefox and Internet Explorer, you have a separate history and autofill for each).

If you're absolutely sure that no one has ever been looking for porn from your computer, then maybe the site popped up as a separate window when you were browsing something. Maybe someone has been looking for warez or music? Maybe someone mistyped an address? Maybe a legitimate site displayed a porn ad?

History and cookies are a bit tougher, however. Technically, you can forge someone's history or cookies but who would do that? I haven't seen it in practice. It really looks much more like someone using your computer without your knowledge. On the other hand, viruses and worms do weird things nowadays, so I wouldn't be surprised if one did that, given it's technically doable.

 

Since you have a firewall, I doubt it is a trojan -you would know the moment it would try to connect to Internet. Perhaps the handyman came to "visit" during you were away and... Hmm, hope your wife wasn't all alone when he did. The plot thickens.

[ June 13, 2005, 16:03: Message edited by: Wirhe ]

 

The autofill option registers about every site from what the browser has downloaded stuff. As most sites use 3rd-party ads and cookies, some of them could possibly lead to sites with questionable contents.

But as you said, if there are entries in the history about them, then someone else has visited the sites.

 

You aren't in denyal are you Elios? Have to questioned your wify if she, or anyone else she knows had access to your computer?

If you don't want to ask, try this one. Create a user account for you and a seperate account for her...both with different passwords. Then you can see the cookies of the sites that were visited unfer her login name.

My old g/f said she thought porn was gross and that if she ever caught me looking at any kind of it, she would dump me.
Well, I was over at her parent's house back when we used to date, when I hoped on her computer to check my email. Being a snoop, I took a quick look into her hard drive when she stepped out of the room. All it took was a quick click to see all the hidden files, and then a hidden folder suddenly apeared in her "My Documents" folder. Needless to say, her secret porn collection was quite extensive.

Anyway...porn just doesn't hop on to your computer, someone has to put it there...and virus makers aren't nice enough to make a porn distrubting virus...

Maybe your wife just needs a little snuggle time.

 

Collecting porn is like collecting ice hockey card -you will never have enough and even if you played in the league itself, you would still want to collect them.

By the way, I also have several sites mentioned in my PC's registry even though I have never visited in such sites, so my guess is that they have come there either by a) Firefox blocking their images and storing sources there, or b) one of the installed softwares has a "forgotten" cache authors favorite sites (like in the case of that one B-16 game).

 

It's not worth anyone's time to hack your computer to remotely acess porn, unless it was illegal stuff and they don't want to get caught. If that's the case, then go to the police, because if you don't they'll assume it was you. Otherwise... someone's been looking at pr0n.