Its very complex matter to trace the hacker....there are hundreds of steps involved to trace the culprite and yet you might not have all the tools. This job belongs to cyber slueths who are powered with law enforcement and have subpena power to interogate various people and so on. This a reason the government agencies like FBI and others are involved to trace the culprite.

Even strong indicators are not necessarily determinate. Reduced performance may be indicative of hacking, the hacker utilizing your computer's resources to process their own computations thus reducing the capacity available for your own. There have been estimates that as many as a third of the personal computers in the USA have been hacked and are used in this manner by Organized Crime. There are, however, a lot of other possible causes that may reduce the performance of your computer from when you first purchased it.

Answered by Sharad Singh , an ibibo Master, at 7:20 PM on August 22, 2008

Well Deepak , The first knowledge you may have is the sudden reduction of your financial accounts from a healthy balance to a nasty deficit. Not the most pleasant of surprises. Something I would presume we would all like to avoid.

Even relatively amateur hackers, if given the opening, can intrude into the inner workings of your computer. Computer, network and Internet security would not be the big business it is if this was not the case.

Protection through security is not, however, the basis of this article. For your Internet security you need a firewall, a real-time anti-virus, a registry/system file monitor and at least one anti-spyware application as a minimum. If you do not have effective versions of these, you are lost before you start. Please do not consider it remiss of me to not go into further details on these in this article. There are many worthy articles regarding computer security available here at Helium, I've written a few of them myself.

The primary concern of this article is endeavoring to determine if your computer has been hacked, presumably in the hope that you can mitigate the effects thereof before they're too detrimental. There are telltale signs that possibly indicate certain types of hacking, but please be aware that it is best to defend from hacking proactively rather than try to compensate for the negative impacts of hacking reactively.

Even strong indicators are not necessarily determinate. Reduced performance may be indicative of hacking, the hacker utilizing your computer's resources to process their own computations thus reducing the capacity available for your own. There have been estimates that as many as a third of the personal computers in the USA have been hacked and are used in this manner by Organized Crime. There are, however, a lot of other possible causes that may reduce the performance of your computer from when you first purchased it.

The strongest indicator that a reduction in performance is due to hacking is its rapidity. Most "legitimate" performance degradation will occur slowly, particularly if related to a Windows operating system or hard-disk fragmentation. A recent infiltration by a hacker, who then utilizes your computer for his or her own purposes, will show as a rapid reduction in your computers performance.

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Answered by Alok Gupta , an ibibo Guru, at 2:32 PM on August 22, 2008

Computer forensics after a break in is much harder to do than what you asked in your previous question. Stopping an intruder is a matter of installing and configuring the right software. To track a cracker (the correct term is crack, NOT hack) you have to be able to interpret system logs and know that most likely the intruder has cracked your system from another cracked system. Add to this that there are dozens of different ways to crack a computer (especially a home users computer), unless someone who knows what to look for has full access to your computer (and network) then there is really no way to tell you what to look for with any certainty.

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Answered by Ashish Yadav , an ibibo Wizard, at 3:31 PM on August 18, 2008

well, Computer forensics after a break in is much harder to do than what you asked in your previous question. Stopping an intruder is a matter of installing and configuring the right software. To track a cracker (the correct term is crack, NOT hack) you have to be able to interpret system logs and know that most likely the intruder has cracked your system from another cracked system. Add to this that there are dozens of different ways to crack a computer (especially a home users computer), unless someone who knows what to look for has full access to your computer (and network) then there is really no way to tell you what to look for with any certainty.

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Answered by Rocky , an ibibo Master, at 6:04 PM on July 30, 2008

well, Computer forensics after a break in is much harder to do than what you asked in your previous question. Stopping an intruder is a matter of installing and configuring the right software. To track a cracker (the correct term is crack, NOT hack) you have to be able to interpret system logs and know that most likely the intruder has cracked your system from another cracked system. Add to this that there are dozens of different ways to crack a computer (especially a home users computer), unless someone who knows what to look for has full access to your computer (and network) then there is really no way to tell you what to look for with any certainty.

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Answered by R.P. Singh , an ibibo Master, at 11:46 AM on July 30, 2008

Computer forensics after a break in is much harder to do than what you asked in your previous question. Stopping an intruder is a matter of installing and configuring the right software. To track a cracker (the correct term is crack, NOT hack) you have to be able to interpret system logs and know that most likely the intruder has cracked your system from another cracked system. Add to this that there are dozens of different ways to crack a computer (especially a home users computer), unless someone who knows what to look for has full access to your computer (and network) then there is really no way to tell you what to look for with any certainty.

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Answered by Shobhit , an ibibo Master, at 6:56 PM on July 28, 2008

Hi deepak singh, Computer forensics after a break in is much harder to do than what you asked in your previous question. Stopping an intruder is a matter of installing and configuring the right software. To track a cracker (the correct term is crack, NOT hack) you have to be able to interpret system logs and know that most likely the intruder has cracked your system from another cracked system. Add to this that there are dozens of different ways to crack a computer (especially a home users computer), unless someone who knows what to look for has full access to your computer (and network) then there is really no way to tell you what to look for with any certainty.

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Answered by Hemant Singh , an ibibo Master, at 1:46 PM on July 28, 2008

Hi deepak singh, Computer forensics after a break in is much harder to do than what you asked in your previous question. Stopping an intruder is a matter of installing and configuring the right software. To track a cracker (the correct term is crack, NOT hack) you have to be able to interpret system logs and know that most likely the intruder has cracked your system from another cracked system. Add to this that there are dozens of different ways to crack a computer (especially a home users computer), unless someone who knows what to look for has full access to your computer (and network) then there is really no way to tell you what to look for with any certainty.

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Answered by Debashis , an ibibo Master, at 8:35 AM on July 25, 2008

well, Computer forensics after a break in is much harder to do than what you asked in your previous question. Stopping an intruder is a matter of installing and configuring the right software. To track a cracker (the correct term is crack, NOT hack) you have to be able to interpret system logs and know that most likely the intruder has cracked your system from another cracked system. Add to this that there are dozens of different ways to crack a computer (especially a home users computer), unless someone who knows what to look for has full access to your computer (and network) then there is really no way to tell you what to look for with any certainty.

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Answered by Romi , an ibibo Master, at 9:04 PM on July 24, 2008

Its very complex matter to trace the hacker....there are hundreds of steps involved to trace the culprite and yet you might not have all the tools. This job belongs to cyber slueths who are powered with law enforcement and have subpena power to interogate various people and so on. This a reason the government agencies like FBI and others are involved to trace the culprite.

Answered by keshto , an ibibo Master, at 6:44 PM on July 24, 2008