HOW TO KNOW THAT YOUR COMPUTER IS BEING HACKED When hackers are trying to attack a computer, they will go to great lengths to hide what they’re up to. That means that you can’t always easily determine when something is wrong. I do have an article, “ How can I tell if my computer is being hacked?” which might give you a good start. There are a couple of things that might give you an indication that something has happened. An abnormal increase in internet or network activity. That often manifests as slow downloads or just slow internet access when you know that you’re not doing anything particularly big via your internet connection. In this scenario, hackers might be accessing your machine remotely. The problem is that you have to watch and know what’s normal and what’s not. An increase in internet or network activity – which typically looks like nothing more than a slow internet connection – might also be related to other things, like your ISP, your internet connection, the site that you’re visiting, or the internet in general. That’s what makes it so difficult to determine if it’s a hacker at work or legitimate activity. Unexpected disk activity. This is a similar scenario where a hacker is accessing files or programs on your computer. Again, you have to know what’s normal and what’s not. Even when you’re not using the computer, programs like the indexing service are running in the background and accessing the disk. Those are sometimes clues but they’re not very good ones. The best thing that you can do to make sure that your computer isn’t getting hacked is to follow all of the guidelines that I have outlined in the article, “Internet Safety: The steps you need to take to keep your computer safe on the internet .” That’s the usual litany of things that you probably already know: get behind a firewall, use anti-malware software, watch the links that you click on, and more. Review that article to prevent this from ever happening in the first place. Like I said, if it does happen, it’s very difficult for the average computer user to telL LIKE THIS PAGE FOR MORE
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:26:15 +0000
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