How can I tell if I've been hacked?
Just curious if there are any tell tale signs of whether or not I've been hacked? One thing that concerns me is that my CD Drive is missing and I cannot use it. I do have a firewall and anti-virus, but I am wondering if maybe a keylogger was placed on my compluter prior to getting the firewall (although I now run two spyware programs that both come up clean)? I have a friend whose computer was hacked and the hacker took info from her computer, generated an email using an email address almost identical to mine and attached a virus, then sent it out to members of a forum we all frequent. This is why I feel I am at risk. Sorry if this is a simple question, but, really, I'm not too sure how all this stuff works. Today alone, my firewall has blocked 26 Backdoor/SubSeven Trojan horse attempts mostly from different IP's so I feel like someone is trying to get in.....maybe through other people's computers (???) Also, how can I find out through tracing exactly who is doing this? Thank you very much.