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Answer» I have a question...Me and my brother both have our own pc's...Mine runs almost 24/7 but I have Norton and firewalls...His doesn't use firewall or security...We use dsl so the internet is on 24/7...His pc got hacked while it was off and mine did not...Does turing a pc off while having 24/7 internet and no security prevent someone from pinging and or hacking you?..Its late here and I need to go, thanks for any info. Quote ...His pc got hacked while it was off and mine did not...Does turing a pc off while have 24/7 internet and no security prevent someone from pinging and or hacking you?..Its late here and I need to go, thanks for any info. If the machine is physically shut down with no power to it, yes it will prevent someone from "hacking" you or anyting else along those lines that involves root access or running code on your machine. May I ASK how he was "hacked"? The particulars I mean. I hear many people say that they are hacked when in fact they just got a hijacker or a program that puts adds/porn on there DESKTOP, usually spyware adds as well. What he is telling me now is when he turned on his pc it said he was HIJACKED...He said he is having problems now running yet mine is unaffected...From what Bellsouth dsl said, you will be pinged all the time so keep a firewall up....i'm confused Quote What he is telling me now is when he turned on his pc it said he was hijacked.. What is it exactly that said he was hijacked? Something on his desktop? A popup? Antivirus program? Quote ..From what Bellsouth dsl said, you will be pinged all the time so keep a firewall up....i'm confused Pinging is not necessarily a harmful process. A MALICIOUS ping attack is, but that doesn't seem to correlate with this hijacking situation. Your brother was probably infected the LAST time he was connected, re-booting just allows things to activate. People using unprotected computers on the net should be tracked down & banned.Thanks for the info

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I have a question...Me and my brother both have our own pc's...Mine runs almost 24/7 but I have Norton and firewalls...His doesn't use firewall or security...We use dsl so the internet is on 24/7...His pc got hacked while it was off and mine did not...Does turing a pc off while having 24/7 internet and no security prevent someone from pinging and or hacking you?..Its late here and I need to go, thanks for any info. Quote

...His pc got hacked while it was off and mine did not...Does turing a pc off while have 24/7 internet and no security prevent someone from pinging and or hacking you?..Its late here and I need to go, thanks for any info.

If the machine is physically shut down with no power to it, yes it will prevent someone from "hacking" you or anyting else along those lines that involves root access or running code on your machine.

May I ASK how he was "hacked"? The particulars I mean. I hear many people say that they are hacked when in fact they just got a hijacker or a program that puts adds/porn on there DESKTOP, usually spyware adds as well.
What he is telling me now is when he turned on his pc it said he was HIJACKED...He said he is having problems now running yet mine is unaffected...From what Bellsouth dsl said, you will be pinged all the time so keep a firewall up....i'm confused Quote

What he is telling me now is when he turned on his pc it said he was hijacked..

What is it exactly that said he was hijacked? Something on his desktop? A popup? Antivirus program?

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..From what Bellsouth dsl said, you will be pinged all the time so keep a firewall up....i'm confused

Pinging is not necessarily a harmful process. A MALICIOUS ping attack is, but that doesn't seem to correlate with this hijacking situation.
Your brother was probably infected the LAST time he was connected, re-booting just allows things to activate.
People using unprotected computers on the net should be tracked down & banned.Thanks for the info

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