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J_T_Richter
Copper Contributor
Jun 16, 2022

Who is my hacker: Microsoft or a real, dastardly-type human?

All of the services and platform via which any PC (or most devices of any kind for that matter) can be accessed, manipulated, and controlled without an end point user's consent make it hard to know if I am being tormented by a real hacker or just by some automated Windows server that's trying to force me to do what Microsoft wants.

 

I am reasonably confident that the assailants are really horrible human beings and not really horrible computers, but I know just enough about this to be completely wrong or right and to fight back enough to cripple this laptop and have to start over with a clean install nearly everyday, unless I just stop caring for a while and let everything on this PC be up for grabs.

 

The current tactic is to DCOM into my system even if it takes dozens of tries, and then force me into Windows PE and take over the entire computer.  Before it was similar but via WMI.  The best part is that there are SO MANY ways to gain remote access to any Windows PC that are pre-built in to the OS, that this might never end, literally if permanent WMI scripts are run through Powershell.  I really don't believe this is a glitch, but is a planned effort to be the harvester of info and the authoritarian arm of control.  And every time I learn a new way to stop this vis command prompt or powershell or a hidden feature that should not be default set to "come on in boys!!", the perpetrators move on to a new means of doing the same thing or they reinforce my lack of capabilities and set more parameters in the feature/service they have been working through that make my brain hurt even worse.

 

Today's discovery:  My processors: Intel Celeron N4000 (x2) are now suddenly named "Intel ... N4020" which is a GPU not a CPU.  So the driver is showing an error and I can't fix it I can't auto-search for the correct driver because I get back graphics drivers.  But I don't know how this laptop is functioning with that being the case.  ???

 

I am at my wits end as this has been going on for literally weeks and extends to my life outside of PC land.  SO at least now I know I can't just disable the services being used as Windows will freak the hell out.  And I also can't quit the PE session in command prompt admin because my PC here will immediately power down as well.

 

I'm venting here but this is really one of the most absurd and Kafka-esque situations I have ever experienced.  If anyone has a real solution, I'll be shocked!!  And without one soon I might just throw this **bleep** thing in the dumpster out back!!

 

Have a great day everyone!!  And HAPPY COMPUTING on your PERSONAL COMPUTERS!!  šŸ˜„ šŸ˜„ šŸ˜„

 

 

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    Jun 16, 2022

    J_T_Richter 

    After all, you can sell a computer to another person and buy an Android tablet why don't you?
    Windows10 jast currently the most stable system compared to earlier versions -> works great
    Delete the apps one by one and see which one is causing the problems!

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      J_T_Richter
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 16, 2022

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      Yes you are of course level headed and havenā€™t gone into total cynicism. I must admit I was altogether curmudgeonly in my ranting. But itā€™s still so frustrating to me to be made to be put in these positions when I own this device and it is for private use (no enterprise situation here). But I canā€™t seem to get the configurations just right to stop these intrusions and to give legit apps and services the latitude to do their thing. Plus Iā€™m just sick of battling whoever this is daily!  Today on the more personal front it was one of my credit cards involved in an info leak and I have a good idea who did this. But canā€™t figure out how to fully identify the culprit so I can press charges. Itā€™s not cool. AT ALL.