getting hacked again with new hardware

I didn't have any security measures on my previous notebook there was just deepfreeze. It is possible someone was monitoring my activities.

Now i have a new notebook.I dont want to change my cable internet provider but I plan to use a new modem with this notebook.So I have a new pc and modem but old ISP. if someone hacked me before can this person find and hack me again? If so how can I protect myself?

 

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To answer your question, the only way anyone is going to hack into that machine, is if they get physical access to it, have you download a Trojan or Rootkit, that allows them to gain access to it.

Just going from one machine to another, does not automatically grant someone access, unless you brought over the image of the old machine, of your user profile and any files in it, to the new machine. Then you would have possibly infected the new one.

 

if they knew my IP they could find me again.I will change my ip but isn't there any other adresses or sth they can use to find me again?

 

First off a person cannot just find you due to your IP changed. The only way that they can gain access to your system, is if you let them. That means not using a password on the machine, opening up attachments in emails from people you do not now, or even if they are from people you know (the attachment has say "openme.pdf.exe", bu you only see "openme.pdf".

The other way is a person using a e-card that plants a rootkit or Trojan, that allows them to access your system. Then there is the stuff like VNC, Teamviewer, Windows Remote Desktop, logmein, by you using the same password all of the time, not changing it at least every thirty days, using a good router with a good firewall, also using a good anti-virus/malware software.

It is all about your user habits, not someone finding what IP your machine uses on your router, or the outside IP that your ISP assigns to your connection, that your Router uses to communicate with the outside world.

Really I find these subjects more of a beat my head against the desk, because in this day and age, there is always more to the story, as to how and why someone would want to gain access to a system, or why someone would allow it.

In the 36 years that I have had a computer in my household, not once has anyone gained access to the system, unless I allowed it. Even when I wrote a software for CP/M systems, that allowed a remote user full access to the system, which was used for a training exercise, or when I ran a BBS on a Dos 5.0 or Dos 6.0 system, never once did anyone gain root access into the Operating System, unless I allowed them to, and then I would change the password after we were done, and deny that username root access to get past the barriers in place.