n 19/12/19 10:48 am, Piers Rowan via luv-beginners wrote:
>
> On 19/12/19 9:43 am, Piers Rowan wrote:
>>
>>> Very likely they are and have been.I have strong evidence of this
>>> such as the following -
>>>
>>> - computer slow during startup,shutdown and general operation
>>> compared to just after a fresh install
>>>
>>> ,I can tell because the fastest computer I normally use is a dual
>>> core and have found these run quicker than hacked
>>>
>>> quad and 6 core computers for many /most applications when dual core
>>> not hacked.
>>
>>
>> How old it the computer? If you have dust in CPU fan then it will
>> overheat and throttle the CPU so it doesn't overheat. (I just
>> re-lifed a PC yesterdau for this reason).
>>
My computers are 10-20 years old and not overheating except for maybe 1
or 2 out of 20-30 computers.
>>
>>>
>>> - After visiting dodgy websites that create dozens of connections to
>>> residential computers with Firefox,
>>
>>
>> Multiple connections are standard fare for advert laden sites.
>>
>>>
>>> software updates no longer work and a change of password stops linux
>>> Mint from starting up at all.
>>
>>
>> That is strange.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> A check shows almost every file has had its permissions changed.
>>>
>>> - When apparently hacked ,some of my data (such as old important
>>> looking photos) has mysteriously gone missing.
>>>
>>> - Firefox stops working with many websites when apparently hacked
>>> and slows down dramatically.
>>>
>>> - excessive hard drive activity after I visit some websites,like a
>>> search is going on.
>>>
>>>
>>> - Once I found the "find" command running on one of my computers
>>> using the command htop.It was taking a large chunk of CPU usage.I
>>> never started the "find" command and it was running constantly.
>>>
>>>
>> OK I'm guessing the HDD could be the issue - bad sectors would cause
>> this behavior.
>>
>> Is it an old disk or a new SSD?
>>
>> I'm getting mostly the same thing on multiple computers (more than
>> 10),they do have old hard (disk) drives.(5-15 years old) The above
>> trouble has 90% gone after using my custom software to "stop the
>> hacking".It's an interesting suggestion and although I very much
>> doubt it is the cause, I can't definitively say that it's not.So I'll
>> make a point of checking my hard drives.
Thanks.
> Thanks
>
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