Landster

Hello all!

I am curious, anyone know a way to see if your internet connection or your computer is being monitor by your internet providers? Is there a way to see if the internet provider or even hackers spying on your computer?

And if you find out your internet provider is trying to get into your computer, what would you do about your internet provider?

Also, can they get into your computer using WIRELESS connection?

Well, we all know they can monitor while you are surfing the web but can they get into your Hard Drive and get information from you such as credit info and banking info? There are a lot of articles on the web about internet providers are monitoring every website you visit and there's a lot of legal issues about what they are doing.

Is there a way to block them and can you even send them a nasty virus back? HA HA HA

Our internet providers are watching all of us as we speak right now. ;-)

tsaw7

Probably not being monitored at all times, but where I work, they keep an eye on the usage, and if you dl, or ul alot, they will contact you. We had a case where someones comp got a virus and was sending out thousands of email, and they shut their internet off til they got it fixed. But yeah, we have had several cases where they have contacted people because of too much traffic.

aviation_man

Yes, they can monitor everything you do. However, it would be against some of their terms of privacy. Each company has it's own different privacy policy. If you use up a massive amount of bandwidth each month, then they might put you on their 'suspicious list' to watch, then they would have cause of monitoring you. But for people who use a normal amount of bandwidth they would care less, they're too busy monitoring the other people who use those massive amounts of bandwidth..
It would be illegal to send them a virus.
And no, there really isn't a way to block them without some serious work put into your home network, and even then...Why would you need to block them? The only reason they would be monitoring you, is only if you were doing a lot of uploading/downloading...
Yes, they can access your hard drive, but that would be illegal for them to do.
Now it's different with companies. Most companies monitor their employee's computers, and it would be legal for them to do so because you work for them.

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Landster

Below are some links I found about Internet Providers monitoring your every move:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news0...onitoring.html

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/isp-data-monitoring/


I am talking more of a Home environment rather than a Work environment. When you are at work, for sure they will monitor your every move. But what about when you are at your own home?


There's a lot more info on this but you get the message. ;-)

tsaw7

Like AM said above...most are too busy to care about the people who are using normal amount of bandwidth.

Landster

Well, I don't think it's going to stop employees from stealing your personal information such as credit card and banking information within your Hard Drive.

Someone need to come out with a good software or hardware product to stop it from happening to good people. Life is full of traps!

If one of you can come up with a way to stop people getting into your computer, you will be the next richest person on this planet.

I am sure every person who own a computer will love to own one.

aviation_man

Like I said before, those employees are monitored, so they would be fired (If not more) if caught doing such things - that really isn't something to worry about.

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Damorian

Unless you have some sort of virus or software that allows other people to access your computer, they should have no way of knowing what's on your hard drive (except what they see transferred from the internet). Also, generally anything related to important info (like financial stuff) is going to be transferred with some sort of encryption like TSL or SSL so they won't be able to decipher that.

Stopping people from accessing your computer is what every computer/network security related company is trying to do. There will always be holes, but most of them are patched or not known about and there's not very many "hackers" that would be able to access your machine without having to spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to do so. Keep your machine updated and have some security software and you should be fine.

I've had my fair share of Backtrack use. It's something you should never have to worry about.

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aviation_man

Not necessarily true, all you really need is someones IP address and go on from there (Which, obviously your ISP gives you your IP). Although, like you said, you would need to spend a massive amount of time doing it.

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