IS YOUR COMPUTER BEING MONITORED? (Here's how to check)

Is your computer being monitored? How would you even know? We’ll show you a few simple tricks to see if someone (or something) is watching you from across the web.
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[@rinlyri5034]

No explanation whatsoever 9n the TCView part. How do you know you being remotely monitored on that software? What does it show on that tap? You just said "look for something out of place" .. how tf we supposed to know something is put of place in that remote port tab. What does is say? "Remote" or ?.. you just went past as if we supposed to know what's out of place? 🙄

[@smilerandrews1130]

This was an amazingly useful video I was worried about this exact problem on my second hand laptop now I know how to stop it from happening thank you so much

[@Online-Tech-Tips]

You're very welcome :)

[@Nietabs]

i have a question on the tcpview part, the "state" section has "listening" on half of the apps i dont know what does that mean. does that mean some third party is monitoring me?

[@Z0niC101]

Thank you, so much because I think someone is watching me...

[@Online-Tech-Tips]

You're welcome. Hope you got the answers you were looking for.

[@johnmcafee9663]

i have this problem where every day at 4 AM my computer makes a sound of something disconnecting or connecting to the machine, then 6 am same thing every 24 hours and if im playing a game at this time and i leave the game after 6 am ill get another disconnecting sound when leaving the game, ive ran malware bytes as i do occasionally and as usual it tells me things are all clear ???? im paranoid about this one, cant find anything online about it ? how can i find the source of this connecting disconnecting weirdness ?

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Is the Win 11 Defender good enough for protection?

[@duaneyoutbe]

Here is the question for the content creator of this channel; Can the controller of the computer listen using the target pc’s microphone in on the controlled pc from another location?

[@turkumies7799]

Is there a way without relying on softwares or downloadable files? I am extremely careful(even paranoid) about these kinds of things.

[@chuuita]

no bc i stg i was just doing my homework and all of a sudden i heard music and clicking noises coming from my pc wtf does that mean

[@anarcho-monarchistgaming2094]

Thank you, very good video

[@Online-Tech-Tips]

Thanks. Glad you liked it!

[@Phant0m0110]

Ok so I was downloading something and it took me to a shady website, click off of it and turns out when my friend did it he got a virus. Even though he got a virus, I have no signs of one. I went to get a drink and I came back to me being able to hear myself through my own headphones. I turned off all my input and it was still there. Do you know if this is a sign of being spied on, somebody who knows please respond

[@goldenpoppy2352]

what to do if someone knows my device id in windows 10

[@murphybrown32216]

what works on a Mac

[@blackopal3138]

I downloaded TCPView, and I can see open ports in device manager, but how do I know what belongs and what doesn't?? ty

[@mrsir5876]

you have to see waht suspicious like things that are running when you arent playing any games or end with exe

[@slynthrax5067]

I remember a couple years back I was playing a game of Minecraft and I paused my game and all of a sudden Italian music started playing through my pc and the music was incredibly loud and scared me half to death this was at the height of the Herobrine creepy pasta so I was already on edge while playing so I donwloaded one of those programs you mentioned and it said it detected a breach and I have been paranoid ever since and im willing to bet whoever had hacked into my pc had a very good laugh at my reaction

[@beyond_5dtemp]

Oh wow reading through theses comments music being played by theses attackers seems to be a very common thing, it happened to me one time a couple years back and it was the song "Baby" by Justin Bieber.

[@iwascooked]

Thank

[@emerygrose816]

I know this video is a bit old, but I have a question. So I’m on my PC and I’m trying to play video games, and all of a sudden my screen goes black, and at the top there is rainbow glitching. And after that, it lags and crashes. It also sometimes plays these really weird sounds and sometimes overheats really fast (probably because it’s on my bed when I’m on it) and this is especially hard for me because I’m really paranoid and I think someone’s going to break in to the house and hurt me and my family. I haven’t watched the full thing, but I don’t know what I should do.

[@emerygrose816]

@zeroh I downloaded one of the antivirus stuff and deleted a bunch of the stuff, and it hasn’t been doing anything…

[@emerygrose816]

@zeroh it said there was one threat and it needed to restart to get rid of it. I don’t think it was, it might have been glitching because I accidentally spilled something and I got an ant infestation on my desk, but I think I got rid of it! I’ll try to tell my parents what has been going on but I’m a little scared they’ll get mad at me for not telling them sooner. Thank you for the advice.

[@emerygrose816]

@zeroh idk my parents just like to lecture me over this stuff

[@leenananzeh]

@@emerygrose816 hey there I hope you are safe

[@emerygrose816]

@@leenananzeh thanks! It hasn’t happened a lot but I’m gonna assume that it was because I had spilled liquid on it accidentally. But it’s been months now and nothing has happened so I think im okay. You too!

[@jessy7785]

My old manager was not only watching my every move live on her computer (screen mirroring) but she was also listening to everything I said through my speakers without me knowing. Is that illegal?

[@kockarot6362]

That would depend on where this was taking place, if you were using thier internet connection and if you singed a contract that clearly stated they had the right to do so.

[@changeoffocus1074]

That’s creepy !!!

[@dian8412]

I'm very scared when my cursor move on its own and play video by itself. It's like "damn you're scarier than my techer!!!". I wonder what makes it so, because in that time my network is unsafe (campus network:v) and the other one is iso file in my computer which contain a lot of virus when i scan it with antivirus and it is very difficult to remove

[@uradwerpnoob9696]

I caught the person who is monitoring my computer! I tracked his/her device and the person lives near me. I wanna block his/her device. I want to meet that stupid mouse who's viewing my screen. Its annoying right? When your working or playing and someone is watching your screen oh gosh.

[@kimd8873]

HOW DO WE GET TO TCP VIEW??????

[@Alyssa-if7xj]

Thank you for this I was going to Spotify and I saw someone's face pop up

[@Online-Tech-Tips]

Oh wow! Were you able to get it sorted?

[@gangryongma8485]

Im gonna need help.

[@pingu2481]

I immediately search this because I was just watching Yt videos then suddenly I heard someone speaking through the speakers

[@Online-Tech-Tips]

Creepy! Glad we could help.

[@Jade-vl2pi]

That sounds horrifying

[@followmearound123]

what? Did you find out what was going on?

[@Avezedia]

I actually heard someone heavy breathing, it was very scary ngl

[@emerygrose816]

that happened to me to… do you know what the cause is..

[@garrysherlock494]

I’m not sure what to do but I was playing my game then this guy joined and he said I was using my iPad I thought he was joking but then he said I was looking at picture in my iPad. ( I like to practice drawing ) I’m kinda scared because I’m not sure if he has access to all of my electronics.

[@jodineutz4296]

What happened?

[@Saturn-Matrix]

My pc gets Hella slow and it says my connection is not secure. Can't look up anything even through I'm connected and it only works with VPN. Proof I'm being targeted and it slows my internet down

[@daphneybrown6385]

You were going a bit too fast when mentioning the various anti-spyware. I was able to pause/ rewind. Maybe you could slow down for the people in the back in the future. (LOL) So I have a couple of questions. First, which of these programs do you recommend? Could my Wifi be hacked too, because I am having issues with all of my devices? Thank you in advance.

[@BackupPlans]

Malwarebytes

[@BossModeGod]

Apparently it can

[@gilliet1]

hackers can hack into banks with encrypted algoritme that changes password every sec , this means allot of calculation needs to be going on to hack it or predict the next password, it took a normal hacker with 3 to 4 computers to hack a bank in 3 days with insane encrypted algoritme and password change every second, most pple have 7 letter password on there computer; it would take the hacker max 8 sec to do this, plz correct me if am wrong

[@wojtiz19]

thank you very much! i removed my 3804 viruses!

[@40597]

I wouldn't know

[@Detriot4]

Tnx i found a laptop in the middle of the forest i wanted.to bring ir home but i was scared there was a tracker and i dont wanna be stalked😮 its scary to find a dirty small childs jacket and a nag whith a heavy laptop😅

[@markushoffsten]

100 ... / Sweden!

[@valdanowill]

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF A DEMONSTRATION?

[@timpenfield5]

How about this OTT. When I have a conversation about something, anything. Trips, the weather, dentists, gambling etc... An ad for that pops up on my yahoo page, I did not search, just had a conversation about it, or I may open a magazine, sometimes, it's as if I just think about something, and suddenly , I get email, or ads on yahoo for that specific thing, Was in Vegas a while back, Stood near a slot machine at Hooters casino. Left my phone in the car, but when I returned to LA, That same slot machine was advertised on my yahoo page, I did not stay at the casino, just visited. and I do not gamble. MY POINT, To many coincidences to be coincidences, I believe we will discover a mind reading AI tech is being used on us by somebody, China? us gov, ?

[@WhitePerson-]

thats cookies lmao , its A.I ifor advertising and its not controllable

[@TheTacticalcheez]

yeah that's a thing all computers do unfortunately

[@zuowang5185]

now do a Mac version

[@Gypsyalchemy333]

usless if you have a mac

[@earthbricks]

Now explain it like I’m 5

[@spiritualwarriorhealer6154]

no help at all

[@rhondamarshall3574]

Can the police illegally see what's on your computer if they want to? My problem is my computer blinks very lightly and especially at night and my cursor move and jumps by itself.

[@kockarot6362]

They can do all sorts of illegal spying. But like you say it is "illegal", "unless" they have a court order/ "Warrant". And they do spy on millions of people without this permission provided by the court. They have devices that hijack wireless connections / WIFI that actually make you use their connection which allows them to see almost everything. Those are very illegal but they avoid talking about there use. It is now well known that virtuall every police station has these devices and are using them illegally. I dont mean to scare you or anybody for that matter. So act accordingly and if you have nothing to hide and are not doing anything illegal then dont worry.

[@sol2835]

I doubt it’s the police but someone could possibly now know your bank info

[@Saturn-Matrix]

YES THEY HAVE A DEVICE THAT VIOLATES DUE PROCRESS THAT THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT. But it was on the local news anyways.

[@Followjbands_86]

Get a VPN service and find service where a bug can travel back to the spying person.

[@jodineutz4296]

@@Saturn-Matrix Recently in congress it was found the fbi has illegally accessed the data of over 200,000 people. The director said that it was accidents.

[@CatololOSU]

Linus

[@Online-Tech-Tips]

Where? XD

[@CatololOSU]

@@Online-Tech-Tips you

[@Online-Tech-Tips]

@@CatololOSU Thanks :)

[@blubbertoe9774]

im scawd sasdsdas

[@chadwickmcfaggins9734]

I'm probably not getting watched, I'm just schizophrenic.

[@CalmaxFilm]

Lol