Virus or Hacker?

Recently,my computer has been messing up.My mother also has been seeing 'messages' at the bottom of the screen.
Another thing i'd like to discuss is something called dumprep.
The other day when i was on listal pop-up windows kept popping up and it would say "WARNING!DUMPREP"
When i ended the internet explorer process using taskmanager i saw processes called 'dumprep.exe'.
Can anyone tell me if this is most likely a virus or a hacker?

I have no idea I need more information to figure out if it's a virus or a hacker. The information you gave us pertains to both virus and hacker.

It sounds like a virus considering it was running from your computer, of course that doesn't mean it's not a hacker, lol

Not enough information, but I'm leaning torwards Virus,

try a few Virus Scans, just in case, turn on your Fire Wall(and max the settings if you can) and hopefully that will work

I just searched 'DUMPREP' in Google. There appears to be a number of interesting links available from there. Could be spyware or a virus.

Do you have AVG or Norton or anything? Those are the main virus prevention programs.

Do you have AVG or Norton or anything? Those are the main virus prevention programs.

i have norton and i used to have AVG

I've heard of housecall before.I've also tried it today but DUMPREP kept popping up

ok thanx for the link

idk, sounds a bit like a virus. but that wouldn't really explain the messages on the screen. but i guess tht if your getting a virus protector, your good on that. but as for the idea of a hacker, well, it would be a bit more than that. you might have documents missing, or pictures moved around. so, if any of these things happen, you may have a hacker and should try to restore a link with the person while you think they are on at the same time as you.

my speaker/sound file was deleted...

Still could be a virus, but now it's sorta sounding like it could have been a hacker,

but if they hacked you I don't see why they'd just delete the sound file...

So it still sounds more like a virus

For clairfication, hackers rarely, if ever, target a single computer. It isn't worth their time. For further clarification, ad-aware and spybot are the exact same type of software. They both stop and detect spyware, adware, trojans and the like. However, its never a bad a idea to use both of the programs on the same machine. Just one at a time. It sounds like you got a bad piece of malware possibly masking itself as dumprep

Also, one more thing, if you're using the trial version of an antivirus that came with your system, eventually its going to stop updating, so either buy a real antivirus program or get a free one. AVG is good. Personally, I use avast antivirus.

your specialist has the right idea. Even though they serve the same function , they do it in different ways. Which is why its a good idea to have both. Early on ad-aware used to detect spybot as malware. Antispyware is cutthroat shit, I tell ya.

Unlike antivirus software, antispyware software from different companies can work together nicely.

If you want to be protected on the internet use:

one antivirus program. Only one.

atleast one antispyware program

atleast one fire wall program. Lots of routers these days act as a firewall already, and windows XP SP 2 and above also have built-in firewalls, but if you're paranoid adding another software firewall will work too. Ofcourse for simplicities sake lots of people can't be arsed to add and configure yet another firewall just so they can reach the internet.