Re: how to PHYSICALLY disable computers from any networking

["Jorge L. Vazquez" <jlvazquez825 () gmail com>]

Scott Lutz wrote:
> Is it 1 April?
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Cricket's Courage
> <cricketscourage () gmail com> wrote:
>   
> > I have been consulting with someone who has been stalked for some
> > years by someone hacking into her computer.  She has been through 4
> > different computers, multiple ISPs, but he always finds her within a
> > half hour.  She has even registered the computer with a fake name and
> > location, but somehow he knows her so well, he is able to recognize
> > something or other and things are shot again.
> >
> > She has now gotten Vista Home and so it is possible to see deeply into
> > what is going on, but try as we do, he keeps figuring out ways ahead
> > and she can now never ever be the administrator (or even "an
> > administrator") or "Owner" (when she does that, "Trusted Installer"
> > shows up in user accounts.   So multiple services are cut off from her
> > in increasing numbers as she tries to keep him out).
> >
> > When she goes into safe mode limited services, he has already added
> > networking services and if she closes the tools he is using to watch,
> > and control, he uses Remote Procedure Call to reboot her computer.
> >
> > This past year, she had fast internet for the first time (always lived
> > in the sticks before) and in the past 10 months, she has had access
> > for at least reasonable periods for only a handful of months.   She
> > has now had 2 solid months of zero internet and had to cancel vonage
> > as she could get no phone calls.
> >
> > This happens even when the verizon modem is disconnected physically.
> > It happens even when it is turned off (using neighbor's service), but
> > she can no longer even SEE his or neighbor's connections.   At least
> > for the past 10 months, she could see that see was on his "network"
> > with his network showing up as between her and the internet, with a
> > big X between him and the internet unless he chose to give her access.
> >
> > Right now she is waiting for her Verizon service service to be
> > cancelled in early November --- but then she still has the neighbors
> > and businesses all around her apartment.   He has been able to cut her
> > off from the internet since the very beginning many years ago, so
> > dial-up won't help either at this point.
> >
> > HOW can she totally PHYSICALLY disable internet (networking)
> > capabability from her computer and future computers?   Every time she
> > reinstalls, more and more restrictions are already in place from the
> > very beginning.   She even is totally blocked from looking at or
> > changing many areas in the registry where she used to try to block
> > him out.
> > '
> > HELP?????
> >
> > Cricket
> >
> >     
>
>   
if all she wants is to be isolated from the internet, no big deal, just
unplug the ethernet cable from the nic card, but if that is too
complicated just have her go into device manager--> network adapter-->
right click --> and chose uninstall, that way the next time she starts
the computer the network card won't auto install...

also there's another alternative, this one a bit more technical, she
could wipe clean her machine do a clean install, install every program
she wants [all this without activating internet connection(no network
connection)], install your antivirus(again no network connection), and
take an image of your computer with your preferred imaging program that
way you have something that you know has not been compromise, and you
could go back to that clean image in a couple of minutes if you think
you got hacked, you could also revert to that image at the end of the
day.... well you get the idea...of course that is if you are not using
some sofware that has some sort of vulnerability if that is the case it
doesn't matter b/c as soon you go online your machine would get compromise.

or you could use vmware and use the same method even easier to go back
to clean install


Jorge
MCSE,CCNA
www.pctechtips.org