It is my boyfriends pc. It was given to him two years ago by a coworker. The reason I think this is . First the pc was running really slow. Then I fixed that . Then the mouse courser moves by Itself . Then I had to open my gmail on his pc it sent me a warning stating my email was being intercepted so I went through that password change and bla bla bla. So I searched the pc and I saw the person who gave him the pc is a addmin on it .So I have been working on this all day and im drained.
I do not no what im doing so it is really hard to truly figure this out.
I truly think he did configure it that way but I can not prove it.
What md2000 said will sort you out for Windows 7 - right click computer, properties, go to the remote tab then uncheck “Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer” and click apply, sorted.
Make sure you’ve got a good firewall going on if you’re really worried, there’s a list of free ones here as well as info on default Windows settings. Don’t have more than one firewall active at a time, they aren’t designed to be run with others.
Slow computers and other unusualness can be any number of things, make sure your compy is free of viruses/malware which is more likely than a hacker; there’s a number of good suggestions here - malwarebytes in particular is a good one. Again, don’t use more than one anti-virus, they don’t play well together. The suggestions in the linked thread are all pretty good.
When I saw the OP title (and attached username) I honestly thought it was going to be something to this effect.
Know shit.
No doubt it is. Possibly one of those ID 10 t errors.
Hopefully not in the Biblical sense.
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Anyway, to the OP: Why don’t you just do a full install of your OS and delete the old one and any other partitions? That’s usually the easiest thing for people not very computer savvy.
Dude you posting in wrong site .Even still if you find good message board for computers only and malware experts get you run some malware scans like malwarebytes , Norton and look at hijackthis log and it comes back clean you still not 100% sure . Only after clean install are you 100% sure there no malware.:o
Any person who has computer should one those programs 2 or 3 times month and do clean install every 2 or 3 years . If you going to bad sites run those programs 2 or 3 times week and do clean install every year.
No malware program is going to be 100% at finding or removing malware.
And if you must go bad sites than put Linux on.
A good router has built in firewall and most good software like Norton or Kaspersky have built in blocking . That more than enough for firewall.
Everyone must have malwarebytes and some good anti-malware software.
Has for best router most are junk so really look around.
Only problem with those is $$$, I’m assuming OP wants to secure the PC for free - which is entirely possible with the right tools.
Back up everything you don’t want to lose and do a factory reset.
Thankyou . That worked.
A router can be a very effective firewall against incoming attacks due to NAT. Essentially all an attacker is going to see is just the router itself, not the network behind the router. Assuming that there are no services like FTP running on the router, this is analogous like hitting a brick wall, there’s no way in.
But the router can not do shit when the connections originate from inside the network, such as when remote access software is used.
In the case of the OP, since the computer has passed through so many hands, the best option is to format it and do a clean install.
Inside the network? What about from inside the house? :eek: