[[Sleep mode is evil. Turn all your energystar crap off. Cycling the power like sleep mode does is worse for product longevity than leaving it powered 24/7.]]
But if I leave it on how am I going to know when something nefarious is happening? The fans are always running when on- but when sleeping, the fans shouldn’t be running- so when they do-
I know something is wrong :)
Yeah I’m not worried about the energy saving- I used sleep more for turning off the computer and not allowing internet activity (I’m not sure that is correct- but I thought it was) than anything else- The only other thing I worry about is the computer overheating during night due to fan failure if I leave it on-
The best you can hope for in todays tech world is to have the best virus scanners on board and running.
Tha NSA’s Crays will blow by them at will because you OS is backdoored and they have been since about Win 95 if not earlier. ut virus checkers catch most/all bots. It sucks but thats just how it is. Look at it this way. You have a problem now with the method you used failing you. It will fail you again.