I got a laptop last year and it’s a HP with intel core i5 7th gen and it’s always been slow, but lately it’s been getting even slower and I had some people look at it and they said they couldn’t find anything wrong with it. Plus I just now went and closed my chrome browser and there were bing searches for Belize that I didn’t make because I don’t use bing. I’ve never used the laptop for anything but homework and the only person who had more access is a guy from a computer shop who set up the system for me because I’m not Tech savvy. I’m not sure if he did it though because he set it up a couple years ago. And non of my classmates use it because I keep it in my bag at all times and it’s password protected. The CPU or Disk will also randomly jump to 100% and I don’t know why(which is probably the reason it’s slow) Also I’m sorry if I used the wrong flair but I have no idea what they mean. Thanks for any help on my issue.
It’s unlikely you’ve been hacked. Given the age of your computer, I wouldn’t be surprised if the only storage onboard the machine is a 3gbps SATA HDD. I would strongly recommend upgrading to a more current laptop, and preferably an upgradeable type like those from Framework, as the ability to easily and quickly replace individual parts as they fail for cheap by yourself will doubtless prove invaluable.