I use a Web browser with a WhatsApp extension, chatting with her she sent me a link to a website to see if I can see the website, she said “I cannot see it, please help me” I did it and the site was visible for me and I notified to her. I think that was the way she used to hack me, I don’t know.

Starting from that day she started to tell me indirects about the info I saw in the sites I visited, I always suspected that she hacked me and she monitored my Web activity, besides that I’m almost sure she recorded all of our videocalls through WhatsApp to show videos of me speaking about others, I lost one friendship because of that.

I formated my pc several times and even with that she could hacked me again and again, this person is toxic is pure envy and gossiping and I want to leave her behind. She asked me how many hard drives I have on my pc and kept telling me indirects about my Web activity, that scared me a lot.

So I stopped speaking to her and today I’m going to change my phone number.

Regarding the hacking I did this and I want to ask for advice to see what else can I do:

  1. My pc is connected through ethernet cable to a router me and flatmates use, I changed the router password.

  2. I formated again my pc I reinstalled all my programs and installed the free versions of avira and avast.

  3. Today I’m going to use the Internet data of my phone to change all my passwords.

  4. I will run a full scan of my hard drives using avast and avira.

  5. Probably I will pay one year of norton antivirus plus.

Is everything OK,? What else can I do? What if I disassemble the pc and format it again this time with only one hard disk while scanning the other hard disk in another pc?

  • NeferkareShabaka@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Because the top comment here isn’t really helping (Placebo Effect? What?) and you seem very worried OP I’ll say that you are on the right track (especially using your phone data to do some of your browsing for now to change your passwords. I assume this post was written on your cellphone? Or at least on your computer with internet access disabled and then transfered to your phone). I am wondering if she has a remote access software on your computer and rather than using it for that purpose she’s using it to mainly monitor what you’re doing. Aside from the norton antivirus for a year part (Windows Defender is actually good enough on that front. Add Malwarebytes to that and you’re good) I think you’ll be fine. Maybe don’t get a new number yet/cut her off until a few weeks after you’ve done all of this to “test” and see if she still brings up sites that you’re going to. Then when you get some confirmation that she can’t/isn’t get a new number and block her without any warning. Also, yes, if it makes you feel better remove all of your hard drives and format them one at a time. If you have a hard drive with a lot of info close your internet connection, go through that harddrive file-by-file (to see if there are suspicious software in any folder) and then transfer it to one of the reformatted harddrives and then reformat that previous one (would be great if you have an External hard drive). You can always download and create a windows usb from the microsoft website. Good luck