Posted on 04/09/2020 9:55:16 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
thanks
now let me list my end
i have no remote no remote on anything. i dont click on anything i dont recognize
..i do not connect one pc to another.. but i am aware there are active waves of wifi in the house.. what i dont know is..hiw those crooks have cooked up ways to outsmart the efforts to stop them.
few years ago, my grandson who has a natural tech brain, could find passwords...he is an honest guy..so he doesnt use it that way.. he used cad cam program to draw.. but the crooks outsmart our efforts.
interesting... i have 2 tablets. they were in one of them....
amd i have 3 hand drives.. i transfer between computers with these ...seagate is one.. 2 T.. and i back up on these
do you bank.. pay bills. on line?.. question to everyone...
and is my android phone ... can they get in it?
Ah . . . pad and pencil?
Webroot Secure Anywhere works great for me.
No.
Not really, which is to say very rarely.
It passed as True Stealth on every test. Nice.
The only thing I'm running is...Linux Mint. I gave up on Microsoft many years ago.
im ready to can microsoft
But for years I have used Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File - MVPS
After installation I get permissions on the file (see take ownership reg. file) which goes in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc) and edit it to allow certain ads needed for shopping, or add some entries. Free.
I went to Mac a few years ago as did all my friend sportswriters. It’s the easiest solution.
In addition you only pay for your office software ONCE.
After using it, I don’t like windows one bit. Pay and enjoy.
Real life anti-virus rankings:
https://www.av-comparatives.org/comparison/
Beware false positives (orange line). They can be more of a pain in the ass than a real virus.
Me? I’ve had excellent success with Eset. It is in the rankings and is one of the best. Windows Defender also.
Can the folders be deleted in safe mode? That's always worked for me.
I’ve been using linux (now mint) for a long, long time and have no problems that I am aware of. Shields up is also a great site.
My password spreadsheet is an encrypted file on a thumb drive along with my financial spreadsheets. I back it up regularly.
Change the password on your router. Or switch the router off when not in use and then see which of your neighbors complain.
Do you ever have neighbors in your house? If your router is like mine, the password is probably printed on it somewhere. Someone could have copied it (or photographed it with a cellphone). If someone is stealing your wifi, they are within a half block or so of you. I can see 9 wifis from my neighbors on this machine (I think just 8 neighbors - as I recall, one has a couple of routers one of which he uses for guests so he doesn’t have to give out his main password to visitors). From the other end of the house, I lose a couple of these and pick up 2 or 3 new ones.
I've used online bill pay since the bank sent out a stack of 3.5 inch unfloppy disks to load into the computer and I used a dialup connection.
The problem of the phone is retaining possession. If you lose it, how secure is your password for it. Because once the thief is in, they have access to the apps. I don't do anything on my phone that requires security.
sounds like you clicked on a malware link and got a worm. Find a clean computer. download norton power eraser. Run it on your infected computer. While your on the clean computer make a bootable power eraser usb stick as well.
you’ll likely need to know your norton login info and your norton serial number. Malwarebytes and superantispyware. use both. Also have you enabled the extensions for all of the browsers you use? Also you may want to look at your hosts file.
http://liveupdate.symantec.com/upgrade/NPE/1033/NPE.exe
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/hosts-file-in-windows.
Lastly never use team viewer unless you know the person your letting in.
One thing to do. go to the task manager and turn off all non microsoft startups after you have downloaded and everything. you might want to disable wifi as well as your running the utilites. and run everything untill nothing is found.
lastly if you remember when it started happening try rolling back your system to a week or more from the last restore point before the infection.
If you are not very tech savey, and can at least be trusted not to open email attachments that white list antivirus program might be the one to try, besides its like $5/yr. I’m spacing on the name, but you should be able to use both types at the same time.
“my router is my own and not pleased with it but trying to make it do what its supposed to.”
I was not speaking for or against Comcast except to say that the Comcast router is acting as a gateway with the built-in, hardware fiorewall. The thrust of my post was that I have my own router with the built-in, hardware firewall, software firewalls on the computers and anti-virus, etc.
However, my main point was that you or someone in your family clicked on something evil, went to a criminal site or answered a suspicious email.
Your router, out of the box, was configured to stop all nonsense. You should not have had to do anything to the software in the router for it to stop intrusions. The only ‘configuring’ in the router would have been to allow things in, not keep things out.
I use Brave as my browser. With shields up, it stops many different kinds of intrusive cross site trackers, intrusive cookies from web sites and much more.
It’s free. I have no connection to Brave. Just like it.
Windows Defender and other programs are also necessary, but blocking intruders at the source is a good starting point.
KB
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