somone hacked into my ubuntu 9.10.

are u on the same net as your friend? he could just cheat u and use remote control or something. otherway its NOT possible

well....I am sitting in Pakistan and he is in Dubai. And we are not on the same network. Even He told me the emails that were opened in my browser. I am totally confused what happened and how it happened. I think Ubuntu is secure and he could not be doing this. one thing more, my PC does not have any public IP. I have a DSL router installed that gives private IP to my PC. and my PC goes to internet using that router. So still I am confused how it happened

By any chance were you video chatting?

Sorry, I didn't mean to post that as an answer... :)

I dont have any webcam. But i was doing voice chatting for only using skype.

one thing I want to add is that the guy has done CCIE and he know everything about my internet service provided as well. But still, as I said, My PC does not have a public IP. So how was he able to see all my desktop???

Hi

It is a 'bit' worrying! Have you given him access to "Remote desktop" you?

Applications - Internet - "Remote Desktop"

How about changing your password?

System - Administration - "Users & Groups"

Also can you install and run "clamtk" to see if there is any malware somehow on your system. It seems unlikely but someday there will be something that can affect linux systems.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Err, this link might help you navigate to Wikipedia articles?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

I gathered that my friend sent me this link
www.oneprivatelimited.com/index.html

I opened it. Can this be some cause of my problem? I mean this might be some fake website and it might created some connection from my PC to his own and showed my whole desktop to him?? can anyone analyse it??

Hi

Given the troubles you have had recently i would be very careful with that! Perhaps in a virtual machine with Firefox in safe mode?

I don't know how to analyse things like that. Did you give your normal user password or enable "virtual private networking" (=vpn) or anything like that?

Have you been able to change your passwords since your buddy was able to read your desktop? Is ubuntu installed inside Windows? or a proper dual-boot? When booting up into Ubuntu do you get just 1 choice for booting into Ubuntu or do you get a few different choices & also "memtest" and stuff? If it's only 1 choice then you have installed it inside Windows which would make it vulnerable to Windows problems.

Regards from
Tom :)

just a comment i went and looked at the web site you listed ]]www.oneprivatelimited.com/index.html [[[[[
 and i would stay away from it delete it block it and possible reinstall if needed .. disable remote access : and what ever it takes to get ride of it .

Thanks Tom, that solved my question.

Brilliant, nicely done :))
I owe a lot of thanks to greg for risking checking that site! Usually i find that even when people miss out on earning karma points in here they tend to get lucky with them later.
Thanks, good luck and regards from
Tom :)