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I think my computer was hacked
Posted by: Aman Shah
Date: November 28, 2011 05:10AM

Hi,

I am really a new person using MySQL. We are working on a project using MySQL and Visual Basic and writing code to make GUI in Excel using Visual Basic and getting data from connecting to MySQL.

We were also sharing the files in which we had written the code. The file had all the information relating to connecting to MySQL database. i.e. Password etc.

Few minutes later I saw that my mouse suddenly moved without me moving it and some websites also got automatically opened.

What could have happened?
1) Could someone has hacked into my computer using MySQL if they know my password and IP address?

2) Can there be any malicious code written in macro in excel?

3) Can anyone access my desktop and play with it (like remote login) through MySQL, if they know my password and IP address?

4) Is there a way to know if someone logged into my computer via. MySQL?

I really do not know anything about servers and other stuff.
Any help will be highly appreciated?

Please let me know what could have happened and how can I prevent it in future.

Thanks

Aman

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