Punch This Hacker, Please...

JonSR77

JonSR77

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Well, I have been online since the mid 90s. Since that time I have experienced endless hacking. Endless. Plenty of threats, including death threats.

Call spoofing, all sorts of things.

I could make a few phone calls and find some kid hacker to hack these people back.

But I don't do that.

I have religious commitments. I don't break laws. Hacking is a criminal violation, even if courts won't prosecute the lower level stuff (or even the death threats without proof.) And how do you get proof? Hire a computer expert for $250 per hour? I don't have the money for that.

One thing the gremlins are doing now, is blocking me, entirely, from accessing different websites. And, you know, this one could likely be next.

Any thoughts on how to prevent some of their activity? Again, I can't hire a hacker or hack myself, not part of my belief system.

Working on a Chromebook. No .exe files here at all. I think they must be attaching my IP address or something to some software, which then prevents my access. I once saw an error message pop through which seemed to have some code that would limit my posts or something to three...and after that, the hacking would engage?

Note, my wife had open heart surgery in 2019. We really don't need the stress in this house. In the past, they created plenty of havoc and gave her plenty of stress. It goes that way now, they literally could cause her to go into cardiac arrest. I even told Verizon that directly, and still they have done nothing to help.

I remember back in the 90s, working with a former rape victim, trying to get help from Verizon. And back then, they also refused to do a single thing to help. Even a rape victim!

And I do happen to know, that if they wanted to shut it all down...they could...and easily. They just don't want to take the time to do it. Or, you know, pay one of their IT people the 20 minutes it would take to stop it.

And I have serious stress. PTSD from being a violent crime victim. I really, really, really don't need this juvenile spit balling in my life. And I don't have the cognitive ability now, to, you know, go back to school and learn a few years of computer science.

I would really like for this abuse of our lives to stop...fully.
 

I don't have any of your problems with hacking. Maybe its because I keep far away from all social media (unless you call this one site, social media). I used to be on Facebook but left it about 2 years ago. Reason: I got so tired of photos of dogs driving cars and kitties going around in washing machines or dryers.

However, my late wife loved Facebook as it connected her with many people she knew from Cornwall, USA and New Zealand. She lived in Canada. So, it worked for her and it works for many people but for me, NADA! Dogs driving cars and cats being washed in a Maytag really never was "my thing."
 

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I don't know what "options" Chromebook has for protecting users, but Windows has numerous programs that can stop this kind of nonsense....Malwarebytes, SpyBot, etc. etc. Here's some of the better ones......

filehippo.com/windows/security-vpn/anti-malware/

Keeping your software updated, running a good anti-virus, and Never opening any suspicious e-mails, etc., are the best ways to avoid troubles.
 

JonSR77 said:
Well, I have been online since the mid 90s. Since that time I have experienced endless hacking. Endless. Plenty of threats, including death threats.

Call spoofing, all sorts of things.

I could make a few phone calls and find some kid hacker to hack these people back.

But I don't do that.

I have religious commitments. I don't break laws. Hacking is a criminal violation, even if courts won't prosecute the lower level stuff (or even the death threats without proof.) And how do you get proof? Hire a computer expert for $250 per hour? I don't have the money for that.

One thing the gremlins are doing now, is blocking me, entirely, from accessing different websites. And, you know, this one could likely be next.

Any thoughts on how to prevent some of their activity? Again, I can't hire a hacker or hack myself, not part of my belief system.

Working on a Chromebook. No .exe files here at all. I think they must be attaching my IP address or something to some software, which then prevents my access. I once saw an error message pop through which seemed to have some code that would limit my posts or something to three...and after that, the hacking would engage?

Note, my wife had open heart surgery in 2019. We really don't need the stress in this house. In the past, they created plenty of havoc and gave her plenty of stress. It goes that way now, they literally could cause her to go into cardiac arrest. I even told Verizon that directly, and still they have done nothing to help.

I remember back in the 90s, working with a former rape victim, trying to get help from Verizon. And back then, they also refused to do a single thing to help. Even a rape victim!

And I do happen to know, that if they wanted to shut it all down...they could...and easily. They just don't want to take the time to do it. Or, you know, pay one of their IT people the 20 minutes it would take to stop it.

And I have serious stress. PTSD from being a violent crime victim. I really, really, really don't need this juvenile spit balling in my life. And I don't have the cognitive ability now, to, you know, go back to school and learn a few years of computer science.

I would really like for this abuse of our lives to stop...fully.
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Get another internet provider.
 
Check out Malwarebytes: https://www.malwarebytes.com/

Bleachbit: https://www.bleachbit.org/ (runs on Linux or Windows)

You may want to change to a Linux operating system if you don't use one already.

You can also use a VPN, after researching which is the best one for your needs.

You can get encrypted email. I use protonmail.com. https://protonmail.com/

And you can use encrypted data storage, like pCloud Crypto: https://www.pcloud.com/help/general...elp/general-help-center/what-is-pcloud-crypto
 
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Stay off of sketchy sites and watch what you say if you must satisfy your curiosity on them. No site is interesting enough to attract the kind of trouble you're talking about.
 
I wish I could help you. A few times someone not only hacked into my Facebook account but they also hacked into the email that I used only for Facebook, changed the password and banned certain people from my Facebook
It's a good thing that the only time I use that email account is for facebook.
 
@JonSR77

I belong to a few other forums one of which offers free computer help. If you think your computer is infected and or compromised you can get help there under "Virus & Other Malware Removal" Keep in mind that the helpers are volunteers and you need to wait until someone can help you. There are some highly skilled people there.
Try https://forums.techguy.org/
 
And don't click on links in sketchy emails, even to "unsubscribe" — you may be taken to bogus websites, and will be verifying your email address to spammers.
 
WheatenLover said:
Check out Malwarebytes: https://www.malwarebytes.com/

Bleachbit: https://www.bleachbit.org/ (runs on Linux or Windows)

You may want to change to a Linux operating system if you don't use one already.

You can also use a VPN, after researching which is the best one for your needs.

You can get encrypted email. I use protonmail.com. https://protonmail.com/

And you can use encrypted data storage, like pCloud Crypto: https://www.pcloud.com/help/general...elp/general-help-center/what-is-pcloud-crypto
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Thank you very much. It is greatly appreciated. I have cut and pasted this into a file.

I am aware of many of these things. But it is still good to review them again and in more detail.

And some I am not aware of.

Again, I appreciate you taking the time to try and help.
 
Judycat said:
Stay off of sketchy sites and watch what you say if you must satisfy your curiosity on them. No site is interesting enough to attract the kind of trouble you're talking about.
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I am already aware of that. I appreciate you trying to help. As far as my interest in websites being the problem or a problem...nothing like that is going on.

It is far more complicated than that.
 
Gardenlover said:
A good VPN is Private Internet Access.
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Thanks. I have tried that. But I have not been able to get that to work in a way that has changed anything.

I assume the hackers have the ability to breach that in some way.

Or, at least, the ones I have tried.
 
Devi said:
And don't click on links in sketchy emails, even to "unsubscribe" — you may be taken to bogus websites, and will be verifying your email address to spammers.
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Thanks, appreciated. No, I don't do any of that. The basic things I am already aware of.
 
GoneFishin said:
@JonSR77

I belong to a few other forums one of which offers free computer help. If you think your computer is infected and or compromised you can get help there under "Virus & Other Malware Removal" Keep in mind that the helpers are volunteers and you need to wait until someone can help you. There are some highly skilled people there.
Try https://forums.techguy.org/
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Thanks. I have cut and pasted this info into a file. I have tried some of these sites before, but not that one.

In my experience with these sites, the actual trolls, definitely join these sites and use these sites to further harass people. And, on the site, are actual computer experts who do indeed try to help.

I have had problems trying to figure out who is who.
 
Respectfully, my original question still has not been answered.

How is it that they can block me from accessing a webpage?

What is the computer work that is done, in order to accomplish that?? I assume that includes stalking an IP address.

How is that done? And, of course, how can that be stopped??

I had some discussion of that with my internet provider. They do rotate the IP Address, but I guess not enough.

There was discussion of VPN.

I had endless discussions with my internet provider. I know now that they can prevent all this stuff. And I know now, that they absolutely refuse to do so. I assume, you know, they don't want to admit what they allow...because that would open them to endless lawsuits...because they are, literally allowing many criminals to do many criminal things through the internet. And they could prevent every single last bit of it.


But still, I want to understand the tech part of what is going on.

I have cognitive problems, from carbon monoxide poisoning, but I was also a math major and got into an Ivy League school. Sometimes I am very sharp and sometimes very dull.

I can look into the tech stuff for those hours of the day when I am clearer.
 
JonSR77 said:
Thanks. I have cut and pasted this info into a file. I have tried some of these sites before, but not that one.

In my experience with these sites, the actual trolls, definitely join these sites and use these sites to further harass people. And, on the site, are actual computer experts who do indeed try to help.

I have had problems trying to figure out who is who.
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No trolls there.
 
If I had money to spend on this, I could solve all this myself, buy buying more advanced equipment, by paying experts to fix problems. I don't have that kind of money to spend on this.
 
I once brought these issues to the office of a United States Senator. An aide to that Senator confirmed to me the extent of these problems.
 
JonSR77 said:
Please don't tell me to "calm down." You are reading online text. You can't glean my emotional state from that.

And saying so is extremely condescending.
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I know it was condescending, probably not extremely condescending but if you say so... I'd say I was sorry but it wouldn't be worth much. I'll just do it again.
 
JonSR77 said:
there are very very few places on the internet without trolls. And I am sure the vast majority of those are private sites, not open to the public.
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Post in the Virus & Other Malware Removal forum. The only ones allowed to answer a post in there are the experts. I'm a member there and I can't answer any post in there. Been a member for quite a few years.
 

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