Virus or Network admin?

Turtle27

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Hey guys, first time in the forums but i have used this forum to solve plenty of issues and thought it was about time i register. Anyway, i am having an issue. I work for my community college as a part time helpdesk technician and am using Windows 8 which for the most part is a pretty fun operating system. But my issue started 2 days ago, i was in the middle of working on an excel spread sheet with all my work open (tickets and email accounts) and all of a sudden a purple bar comes to the foreground of my screen saying "You have been kicked off!" and below that it said "FAIL! You have been hacked! You will be restarted shortly!" At first i thought it was a joke from one of my supervisors and proceeded to work but about 10 seconds after i closed the obnoxious message my machine restarted. when i was rebooted and logged in i continued to work and the issue happened again after about 30 minutes of working! This issue continued for 2 days, today is day 3 and i have yet to run into the issue. I asked my supervisors about the issue and they know nothing of the issue and think it may be a virus but i have never seen a virus like this before.

Any thoughts guys? Thanks in advance for all your help!
 

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    Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Your Excel Spreadsheet may be infected with some form of Macro.
Here is info about Macro in Excel: About macros in Excel - Excel - Office.com
There's an option to disable Macro in the spreadsheet, try that to see if it fix the problem.
 

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  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
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    Firefox
I checked the Macros as you suggested. They are disabled by default. I haven't had the issue yet today but i also have not been working on the excel document today either. I think you're on the right track suspecting the excel document but I am not sure how the two would be related.
 

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    Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Macros can be inserted into Excel spreadsheet through back door (ie. some executable software can open it, insert the code then exit) and attached to the spread sheet as Visual Basic Code and depending on how the code is instructed what to do then anything can happen.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
How would i find any malicious code attached to the document? Scan it with Defender?
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Yes, for the start...make sure you update the database definition first. You might even have to use a third party anti virus software.
In addition, turn off autorun feature.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
Run full system scan and if still get that bar then install any other AV program, may be your AV program is unable to detect the problem and also.
 

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  • OS
    xp
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