Hi, in the last 6 months, I’ve been targeted, stealing my data, passwords, social media accounts, and they stole my Facebook which I am still not able to recover, and yesterday the same hacker from Brazil stole my credit card details, good thing my bank stopped the $200 transaction and notified me, they canceled it until I get a new one.
He is the same hacker, still on my back for 6 months straight.
I’ve been told it’s a mistake not to use any VPN, and that it would be more safe and secured.
Does anyone know if HMA! (Hide my as$) VPN good? On G2A website, there is a good offer, $20 for two years.
I download music and torrents daily, should I go ahead and buy it?
I am sorry to hear about your challange with the hacker. Based on what you say it looks like you have malware on your device still.
- I would disconnect the machine from Internet
- I would do a full and clean install.
- All backed up data would be initially checked in a vm.
- Get yourself 1password or Lastpass
- Move to Firefox and reset all ur password and save them in ur choice of password manager
- Use Firefox or something equal
- Apply “betterfox”
- Use always vpn. And I agree Mullvad is both fast and very secure.
- Get urself Seedbox. Download all torrents to Seedbox and transfer over tls or ssh to your PC.
Privacy and security is what you need to apply here.
I would never use anything but ProtonVPN or mullvad. Maybe some other. If the prices for those are too high for you I have no recommendations. See what offers you can get on Proton. Mullvad do not have any offers. Strict fee for however many months you want.
Just curious, how do you determine the data leak comes from the VPN?
I would suggest u to use a good AV alongside a good vpn. Use dns and browsers which are privacy respecting too
AirVPN is vastly underrated and very inexpensive with fast speeds and unlimited data caps. They don’t have dedicated IPs but you don’t actually want that and zero logging
use a vpn that has diskless servers
Sorry for your problems, but this does not sound like “hacking” that would be prevented by simply having a VPN. Your online behavior was careless - you clicked on something you shouldn’t have - and you don’t have any anti-malware installed. A VPN would not have prevented this.
Start by doing a clean install, and pony up for the paid version of Malwarebytes. Change all your passwords, close whatever accounts you need to, etc. Then be more careful.
A VPN will provide privacy so you don’t get busted downloading things you shouldn’t, but it won’t prevent malware infection on your PC. A VPN is not a substitute for anti-malware software and good online practices.
Sorry to hear that.
I’ve been using HMA for my enterprise (telesales) and it’s good as much as others.
Internet browsing is very good, and I haven’t found it to be slow or limited. I use it on phones and Macs. But it’s also available for Windows.
I bought mine for unlimited devices (renoval every year)
If you’re interested I can give you the contact. Found it cheaper than other places
I can’t locate the split tunneling feature. Are they misrepresenting their services?
HMA should never be an option. Ask Cody Andrew Kretsinger if he recommends them.
seems to me, common sense also. remember in any security infrastructure, humans are the weakest link.
Good advice, except I wouldn’t recommend lastpass, for obvious reasons, imo of course.
Consider good VPN solutions. I use mullvad and imho they have been amazing. I get a good through output as I am on 1gig connection.
Never use ur local ip for torrent. Also if u want to download your torrent from Seedbox do it over tls or ssh. I been told ssh is bit slower, yet make sure you are always connected to your vpn.
For browsing I am sure there is safer solutions, but I use Firefox with betterfox.
If anyone wants to they can hack you again but you just make their life much harder.
I download music and movies, but I don’t steal someone’s credit card and social accounts.
AirVpn is exactly similar to Mullvad
Are you kidding. They lied about logging and have given up logging information that led to an arrest of an environmentalist activist. They have the worst VPN in the industry.
Neither Protonvpn or mullvsd have split tunnel on macos.
Split tunnel is super important for many peoples work flows.
PIA have by far the best split tunnel in the business. And macOS support. I go with them. The FUD about Kape is nothing but FUD if you actually look into it, but most people are too lazy to look into it.
I have no idea, I formatted my laptop yesterday and installed Windows again, VPN is just in case the hacker was able to steal my data from some shady websites. I rarely used VPN before, and I had the antivirus turned off for more than 2 years, I was stupid.
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