Recent content by jonquil.linnette

VPN and a security suite with an app locker that secures the system settings along with commonly used apps immediately after you do a system restore. Also don't connect your cell phone to your WiFi - 4G only, and only turn your 4G on when you're actually using it.

You might want to give Avira Antivir a shot. All the components are modules that can be uninstalled to reduce resource usage.

No. Sorry moderator but you're wrong. I lost my ProBook to a malicious BIOS update myself. It was done via network sniffing and remote desktop sharing. You need a GOOD router with SECURE network settings to even have a shot at fighting this. What kind of router do you have now? The only reason...

Since you can get in safe mode, go over to majorgeeks.com and get a rootkit scanning utility like the one Kapersky makes and try scanning with that. Then follow up with their regular virus scanner also in safe mode. It should find the malware. See if you can't do a full system recovery after that.

Are you afraid of taking your laptop apart? Because next steps would be 1. reinstalling OS and 2. detaching and reattaching the connection to the camera. If those don't work, I would permanently detach it. As a side note, it's better you know it's turned on than for it to be on without you...