I have a hp pavilion g7.1321 nr notebook pc 64 bit with windows 7 operating system. I use my cell phone as a hotspot to get on the internet. I recently moved into a new apartment complex. I have had sooooo many computer problems that I had to purchase a new computer and problems have been continuing. I am not real computer literate and it took me a while to figure out - it more occurred accidentally - to set up the connection to require a password. The problems stopped for a while. I changed internet securities hoping that would help and it did not.
I have had serious problems with a few of the neighbors and had to file a police report because one who is chums with the neighbor I am suspecting is causing these problems was caught getting into my apartment when it was locked. I have been dealing with months of petty theivery. The chum to the neighbor who got into my apartment when it was locked with a dead bolt had offered when I first moved in to get internet through the company he has his tv reception with to "help" me get affordable internet since my phone has limited usage. I did not take his offer for obvious reasons. He plays very obviously over done dump regarding many things to make it look like he is not the quilty party - the guy is seriously pathetic. He had been trying to get me to let him use my phone to video tape something and I was refusing. Then there were some issues where what he was goig to video tape might be useful to me legally. The computer problems began again.
I am disabled - in an electric wheelchair - and not well and very over tired much of the time - I was seeing, simply not clearly and concisely, these time factor connections. More incidences with this person and I have a much clearer idea of what I suspected except had not sufficient evidence to completely convince myself has been occurring.
So I decided to change the password (which was what he was after to get borrowing my phone - and the help he offered was a con and useless - I did not have the password set on hide password because I typically do not ever let anyone borrow my phone and then not unless it is in my presence for short calls.
The problem now is that what has been occurring when I connect to the internet for some time is that my computer automatically connects to two different internet connections when I turn on the computer with the portable hotspot on my phone turned on. I know from experience that my phone has only allowed my computer to connect to the internet through it when it is also tehered through usb connection and yet will allow someone else's computer to connect with out usb tethering.
In addition, since I started using the password on my computer for the internet connection device (my phone), my computer automatically connects to two different networks, one being identified as my phone and one as a network "number" which sometimes keeps adding the next number like it is a new network.
I changed the network password on my phone, a samsung SCH-R680, and now my computer will not connect to it nor does it ask for the password to facilitate the connection as it did when I initially started using a password - which took several times trying to get it to work. I can connect to the internet through my phone as a hotspot using the usb connection - before I did not need the usb connection, only turn on the hotspot on my phone and if did not use the usb connection, had one internet connection. The problem is that using the usb connection is not enabling the password secured connection.
I turned off the file and everything I could sharing on the "homenetwork" -except I do not think that prevents someone getting to my operating system nor interceding with my internet connections. I have had soooo many problems with these o a brand new computer worse than on any of my other computers. The internet securities I have tried - several of them - are not preventing the problems and I have contacted some of them via tech support and they act like they know nothing of hackers or how to prevent.
My data usage was used at a very high rate one month - that was what got me to keep trying for the security access. Plus, in generally - this person and his cohorts are behaving essentially like stalkers and harrassers - we are talking tampering with electric wheelchairs coinciding timeliness with their other actions which has caused life threatening situations - I was almost in several life threatening accidents in my electric wheelchair while using it to go to a store not far from my apartment because of the tampering. One wheelchair is now in operable and that was one I had to purchase used out of pocket because of having so many problems with the wheelchair insurance covered and they were questioning the problems (because they are not normal because the wheelchair has been tampered with).
This individual is very intent on causing me problems. He can see my front door from his apartment window. My apartement has been entered at night while I sleep, while I have been bathing, i found a milk crate upside down outside my gate that someone could use to attempt to climb over my fence. My landlord changed the locks, except my spare key was missing in less than a month later for several days. This individual is at my door trying to pull his manipulative cons routinely and obsessively. Completely skitzo mellow drama idiot people. I have not been keeping much on my computer, except since I have had these problems I have had to factory reinstall several times and cannot get my external drive to connect to my computer - the device driver does not work. The problem is not with the external drive, because it connects to the computer that has some kind of virus on it where I can not access files (it constantly scrolls down to the last file) - I have managed to learn tricks to use it minimally - it was what I had to replace this computer with.
These are people simply trying to cause some one else distress and difficulties and they are obsessive in their attempts. I want them off my computer and to be able to fix my computer so that I can get the data off of my external drive and work on projects that I have been wanting to work on.
Need to know how to get my portable hotspot secuirity enabled and where I can access it and then how to fix the driver problem - the computer keeps saying it is not on the computer or the computer can not find it - it is connected to the device and automatically loads onto the computer when it is connected through the usb port. Prior, the device drivers loaded one time and then the device connected - that occurs o the old computer that does not function properly in many ways and not on the new one that is functioning more technically in many ways or the ways the old one is not and the old one is functioning in ways the new one is not.
I thought internet security was supposed to prevent hackers - what is with this?