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I recently started a new job.  Over the past few weeks, a former employee whose presence we do not desire has been remotely accessing their old desktop in the office.  The computer has an antivirus and has been scanned with both Malwarebytes and Super Anti Spyware, so I am posting this here and not in the malware-related forums.  This person appears to be using legitimate software to access the PC.

Here's how it goes.  Someone will be using the computer, when all of a sudden the cursor starts moving around the screen and clicking on things by itself.  This happens intermittently, probably once every few days.  I took a look at the computer and noticed that remote access was allowed, so I disabled it.  It has had no effect.  Just this morning, it happened again, so I disconnected the internet cable from the computer.  For a brief moment, a Windows pop-up appeared in the lower right corner which said something to the effect of "(name) has disconnected".  Unfortunately, the PC was still connected to our 5G network so the intrusion continued.  Bear in mind that just this one PC is being remotely accessed as far as I know, and not any other computers on the network.

Clearly, the former employee has some means by which they are accessing the PC legitimately.  I just can't figure out how.  I took a look through the program list, and didn't see anything that was obviously for remote use (although I'm not the most tech-savvy person, so maybe I just missed something).  Having disabled the remote access function on Windows, how is this guy still getting in?

Hi,

I have a VPN program called Private Internet Access. It is really designed to run from an Administrator account. When I log onto my Administrator account on the computer, the VPN starts automatically and connects me to the VPN service. If I log on to my User account (which is what I usually use) the VPN does not start. However, if I right-click the Private Internet Access icon and select "Run as Administrator" then the VPN will start and connect me to the VPN service.

The reason that I almost always operate the computer as a User is that this provides much better security when surfing the internet, as compared to operating as an Administrator. But if I am running the VPN as an Administrator does this make me just as vulnerable to internet threats as if I were actually logged on as an Administrator, or do the Administrator rights only extend to the Private Internet Access program?

Thanks in advance.

Dear Utopians,

as I've seen in some channel, there is a number of websites created inside the Utopia and also this forum appeared recently.

It's been a long time I planned to create my forum, but I want it to be anonymous. So here is the best place, I guess.

So the question is how can I do that? I'm sure here are the people who can help with that.

Thanks!