How can I tell if my computer has been hacked
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How can I tell if my computer has been hacked
02-09-2012 2:57 PM
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Now according to all my security protocols nothing has changed on my system. Yet today I have noticed that in the top right hand corner of Google Chrome I have a head, which when clicked brings up the picture below. Last night this was not there, and the account Footy have no idea on...
Any suggestions as to how I can find out where/how this has appeared?
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02-09-2012 3:06 PM
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The reality is that it looks to me like your browser has done an automatic update and installed it when you closed it down and restarted it. Quite common, not much to worry about. Notice how it refers to you by your email address and says its a default profile? - Thats all the signs of a new feature that has been created and installed.
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02-09-2012 3:19 PM
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As for the film part I did come across a bit of software few years back which could work out a persons password, it only took 18 days to work mine out!!!
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02-09-2012 3:37 PM
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02-09-2012 7:00 PM
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Google has kindly installed two Task Schedules and two Services that are always running without anyone knowing about them, just for a "simple" update process.
As you can probably tell I've had enough of Google's invasive tactics and have mostly dropped Google for most things. For searches I've switched to DuckDuckGo and it's good to have simple (old Google) search results back again.
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02-09-2012 11:07 PM
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@Zedingrove I use Seamonkey, it's a sister product to firefox but its much better at memory management. Granted you don't get all the same fancy features that firefox has but its a lot better than most other browsers on the web.
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03-09-2012 3:23 PM
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Regards
Mike
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
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06-09-2012 9:48 PM
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06-09-2012 10:26 PM
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It would make sense that they'd allow batches of chrome browsers to update so that their servers don't get overwhelmed.
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07-09-2012 6:50 AM
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