[goodnesswins]

OK....so....I turn my computer OFF and they can still turn it back on, even though my power source is off, but plugged into the wall???

[miliantnutcase]

Only if you have wake on lan enabled in the bios. What probably happened was her PC was compromised when it was running and they used a tool to enable it from Windows.

[Hotlanta Mike]

OK....so....I turn my computer OFF and they can still turn it back on, even though my power source is off, but plugged into the wall???

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The Smart Grid...

[central_va]

Depending on the manufacturer 1) First I went into the BIOS and power management setting and made sure remote WOL was turned on and low power setting turned off. Setting on monitor to S1 rahter than S5 2) Made sure after the computer was powered up than the NIC setting were set not to aloow the computer to turn off power to the NIC in standby mode and in advanced setting that WOL from LAN was enabled. Have to do this onsite unless you have New Intel VPro cards that lets you control at the root level Once this is done you can turn on remotely. ONE CAVEAT to this....you have to have another LMI computer powered up on the same network. If they are all off...it's a no go!!

I found this on the interwebs

[Boogieman]

Yes, depending on the settings they can. Most computers have a feature called “Wake On LAN” which can be used to power them up remotely through a network connection. I think the setting is usually disabled by default, but if you have been hacked, they can just turn it on themselves.