Q&A for How to Detect a Remote Access to My Computer

Check the address that the email is coming from. If it's actually from a company you can trust, like Netflix or Yahoo, typically the email will be something like no-reply at their-domain-name.com. Phishing websites, on the other hand, will often have long, complicated email addresses.

Is your wireless network open? Secure it with a password to prevent unwanted people joining your network.

Remove your computer from modem, router, WiFi, Ethernet or mobile broadband. Disconnect as fast as you can with all that you're connected to and stay offline! The remote person could have opened up ports, made fraudulent certificates giving them Admin rights, put in keyloggers, may have all of your passwords, may have made many registry modifications including remote registry entry. They may have changed your firewall and router settings, the list goes on and on. Find a trustworthy, very knowledgeable computer repair person to re-format to a DOD level shredding and re-install your operating system. It may cost around $100 to $150. Learn how to protect your PC in all areas.

Do not remove the information. Do not reformat. Go, with your computer, directly to your local FBI field office. First time offenders are not treated lightly.

Download Malwarebytes or Mbar. They scan for any malicious folders in your computer. Once that is done, change all of your passwords and restart your computer.

Click End Task in the task manager or turn off your WiFi, since remote control is based on your internet connection. Contact your IT department by phone immediately and alert your supervisor, as other computers may need to be shut down immediately too.

Yes, it can remain in a passive/active state and receive only send call for a very extended length of time.

Yes, absolutely.

You might have used a dodgy program that somebody has hacked into. Shut it down before worse things happen.

Yes, they do, unless you use an anonymous proxy.

If you wipe all the data, then yes. If you keep your files, there's a chance that among them are files infected with the virus, although scanning all the files reduces the chances of that. In most cases it isn't necessary to reset your computer. If you need to, see How to Reset Your Computer .

Press the Windows key, and search "Uninstall". Click the first result and scroll down until you find TeamViewer. Once you find it, press uninstall.

This is called ransomware, and is designed to hold your computer hostage to con you out of money. In most cases, if you can pull the hard drive out of the laptop and hook it up to a clean, running PC, you may be able to remove the ransomware with a good anti-malware program. In extreme cases, the ransomware will change the file extensions so no programs can open or recover them. In these cases, you will have to cut your losses and do a wipe and reload of the OS to make sure it is completely removed.

You may have to enable it in the BIOS. You may have to install the correct drivers for you specific card. Worst case scenario, your PC doesn't support wireless and you'll need to buy a Wireless Adapter.

Format your storage device and reinstall your OS. Make sure you install an anti-virus/firewall after it's reimaged.

Immediately disconnect the internet and format your storage device. Reinstall your OS and install system protection (Anti-Virus/Firewall).

Windows 10 comes with Windows Defender for free, and you can use Malwarebytes to support your main ant-virus software.

You can't do anything to your computer if someone's controlling your computer, especially if they have control of the mouse. So, there isn't much you can do in the way of protecting your computer. Be sure you trust anyone you give remote access to, and keep safeguards in place to protect against unauthorized remote access.

Yes, there are many other ways a person can attack your computer other than through remote access. However, it is wise to turn off remote access anyway, regardless of how effective it is at blocking attacks.

Usually, if you pop the notifications bar, the one that says the time, power, and keyboard. If you see something that says that you are being connected via Remote Assistance, stop the connection immediately by clicking the STOP button. Most of the time, you need a Chrome App or Extension to make a connection like this so go through your extension lists for something like Chrome Remote Desktop of TeamViewer which are popular ChromeOS connection tools or something that seems like MyFilter which is a filtering tool that can be used for the same purposes as TeamViewer.