As the title says, i had left my laptop on hibernate during the night and when i opened it back up the next morning, my wallpaper suddenly changed into a picture of an anime character? There was even a shortcut to the characters Wikipedia and the picture that was used for the wallpaper on my home screen. Am i being hacked? I live with nobody that would pull this type of prank on me. Nobody touched my laptop since last night, what is happening???

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    1 year ago

    I used to do this to my friends and siblings but it was meat spin and Google chrome opened up directly to meat spin as well

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    1 year ago

    The good news…you weren’t hacked. But you were most certainly whacked…off on (probably the mouse and keyboard).

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    1 year ago

    If you have multiple windows systems with the same Microsoft login I’ve had it change when I switched backgrounds on other machine.

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    1 year ago

    Download malwarebytes and run a full scan and search for any kind of remote acces software.

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      1 year ago

      Run a windows defender scan, no need to install such pointless software like malwarebytes

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        1 year ago

        MalwareBytes and Windows Defender should not be treated as a binary. Neither one completely supplants the other.

        Defender is fantastic for real-time monitoring and will stop the majority of threats that target your machine. It is, however, not infallible. It can and will miss things and let some threats through, which a MalwareBytes scan will pick up and remove.

        I can’t take anyone seriously who insists that you ONLY need Defender or that you ONLY need MalwareBytes. You don’t technically NEED either, but together they form a much more complete protection system than either one alone.

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    1 year ago

    Sounds like a rat on your system, malwarebytes and scan it.

    You could find in the registry the hkeys for run, hkey (forget which) current Microsoft Windows run (certain it’s that) and it’ll show things set to run with boot, check for something suspicious on that too.