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Recently using windows 10 I observed that the screen flashed every 5 minutes or so, using firefox without javascript, and the same happen in Edge. I used two a
by hopelesslytaken 9y ago
Recently using windows 10 I observed that the screen flashed every 5 minutes or so, using firefox without javascript, and the same happen in Edge. I used two antivirus: Defender and Karspersky, a full scan doesn't find anything bad, but I think my computer is being controlled. Last time I used my computer for transfering money a strange messaged appeared: The platform is iniciating, I aborted the operation and I am not longer using this computer for accesing to my bank account. I think that my router and my computer can be compromised, so now I only use my mobile phone and avoid using wireless since that could introduce new trojans while updating the phone. I could try to find if there is MITM attack, redireccion of urls in the ip tables, and so on, but I am lazy and if my computer is compromised I think that the hackers can avoid and restore any backdoor. Can you give my any advice about how to proceed?
Perhaps there should be a service able to reboot your computer remotely and scan any hardware device, bios configuration, iptables, init programs and much more, applying machine learning or other tools to detect hidden agents waiting to attack.
- hopelesslytaken 9y agoCare to elaborate why am I being downvoted?
- gvb 9y agoFor the readers here, your comment added no value to the article in question. Your comment was all about your suspicion of being hacked that read pretty tinfoil hat - "my screen blinks so I think someone hacked my computer and router but I cannot find any hard evidence that that is the case." Fred Wilson's post discussed how he was hacked, how he knew he was hacked, and what actions should be taken to avoid being hacked. FWIW, not a downvoter.
- hopelesslytaken 9y agoThanks for you comment. As someone using computers for more than 30 years I can tell when my screen is being monitorized (I think a snapshot is being taken every 5 minutes or so). Anyway I don't have a formal proof and I see that my comment can be read as a tinfold guy.
- MrQuincle 9y agoNot to start an OS war, but there might be serious reasons to do banking with another OS. + How easy is it to see all the processes running on your machine? + Is it easy for you to limit the permissions of your browser? + Is it easy to monitor weird network activity? + Do you have some idea about the security standards of the software you use? This does not say that it needs to be open source, there might be other ways. + Do you have the right setup to receive security updates. + Do you restrict yourself to non-mainstream software to reduce the chance to be a target? + Do you consider read-only media at the time you do your banking? There is a lot you can do without opening up your computer to a remote scan.
- hopelesslytaken 9y agoI will take your advice and use another os and computer for banking, but the problem is that perhaps the router is pwned and so there is no secure wire to operate.
- hopelesslytaken 9y agoCompletely off topic, I saw your 150 days old link: Why does unsupervised deep learning work? (arxiv.org), I wonder if you have more links, it seems interesting. Also the Diaconis article you link to is one of my prefered one. I wonder if group theory can help to illustrate why deep learning works.
- mythrwy 9y agoYou can use iptables with Windows10?