I noticed that my camera was on (I have a light on the camera) And I had installed a few programs recently. I panicked and plugged out my computer before whoever was RATing me remotely opened a shock site on my computer.
I am typing this on my iPad, please help me. I have no anti-virus program.
1. Let's assume it is a rat that's not
FUD. Download a good antivirus and run a scan.
2. Let's assume it's not a rat. Some programs may be accessing your webcam, such as Manycam, Skype, Facebook, etc...
3. Disable or remove any applications that may access the webcam. If it still happens then it may be a rat.
If you scan for a rat, and find nothing there may or may not be a rat. Some newer rats are
FUD, which means they are not detectable yet. You can look in your firewall or router to see if there is anything going on in your connection. If you still believe you have a rat you can either wait for it to not be fud, or find a way to remove it yourself. Rats tend to hide themselves as a windows process, explorer.exe, svchost.exe, etc...
Look to see if anything was changed, windows firewall, random ports opened in upnp, etc...
If the rat has opened ports via upnp you can disable it to try to stop access. I also suggest disabling all connections to the Internet while trying to discover what's causing it.
If all else fails, reformat. Completely. And check for LAN spread, assuming the rats supports it. Some do.
I knew a few hackers that ratted, they had servers and everything for it. So disconnecting your computer from the internet externally is your best bet if dealing with a rat. Also, check your host file, the virus might of added records to it to stop any antivirus updates/downloads.
