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I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by Ugaboy: 8:52am On Apr 19, 2023
I started noticing this floating cone-shaped icon for each input or type I make, also for new input it stays hovered on the new input, moving away from the previous input.

Note: it doesn't pop up on the address or search bar.

Despite running a virus scan that revealed no threats, I feel uneasy about the icon's presence since I am unaware of its purpose.


Modify: This experience was on my PC, not my phone, I had to snap and post it. This float icon pop up on any PC application that require input value or text including browsers.

I modified because of the guy below because the guy that comment below

Cc: Seun , myd44, pls help I need people opinion.

Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by truthCoder: 9:35am On Apr 19, 2023
You are using Infinix.

That crap-phone comes with enough bloatware outta the box that it will make any data harvester jealous.

If you are concerned about your privacy, get a used iPhone if you cannot afford a new one.

If you want to stick to android, do your research and get a brand that doesn’t ship with bloatware (don’t mention xiaomi, tecno, oppo or itel).

Finally, don’t use your main browser to watch porn or download movies or visit suspicious sites. Have a separate browser that is not signed in to anything for that.

Your main browser has cookies and jwts from the main sites you visit (google, facebook, twitter etc). When you visit bad sites, they try to redirect you to automated links with the main goal of using these stored tokens.

Finally, download cloudflare wrap and enable permanently.
Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by Ugaboy: 10:49am On Apr 19, 2023
truthCoder:
You are using Infinix.

That crap-phone comes with enough bloatware outta the box that it will make any data harvester jealous.

If you are concerned about your privacy, get a used iPhone if you cannot afford a new one.

If you want to stick to android, do your research and get a brand that doesn’t ship with bloatware (don’t mention xiaomi, tecno, oppo or itel).

Finally, don’t use your main browser to watch porn or download movies or visit suspicious sites. Have a separate browser that is not signed in to anything for that.

Your main browser has cookies and jwts from the main sites you visit (google, facebook, twitter etc). When you visit bad sites, they try to redirect you to automated links with the main goal of using these stored tokens.

Finally, download cloudflare wrap and enable permanently.

Thanks; You have made a good point, I think I will start using incognito.

Finally, don’t use your main browser to watch porn or download movies or visit suspicious sites. Have a separate browser that is not signed in to anything for that.

Not because you access porn site often and you have experienced the activities, therefore means everyone has the time for porn sites.


If you are concerned about your privacy, get a used iPhone if you cannot afford a new one.

The issue is on my PC not phone.

Look at the picture properly
Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by truthCoder: 12:05pm On Apr 19, 2023
Ugaboy:


Thanks; You have made a good point, I think I will start using incognito.



Not because you access porn site often and you have experienced the activities, therefore means everyone has the time for porn sites.





The issue is on my PC not phone.

Look at the picture properly

You are the one infected with possible trojans and malwares yet you are the one ‘forming holy’ here. What is my own if you watch or don’t watch porn?

You were not explicit on the device with issues and you included your infinix screenshots.

There is no way a trojan or malware will enter any air-gapped device except the owner allows access. You allow access based on the sites you visit and the softwares you download.

One of the easiest ways to introduce rubbish into your system is when you visit malicious sites. Porn remains one of the highest sources of malicious codes, followed by free downloads.

98% of Nigerians are religious (according to the 2018 report on international religious freedom) yet we are corrupt, drink the highest volume of alcohol on the continent and our prisons are filled.

Who is fooling who.
Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by davien(m): 1:16pm On Apr 19, 2023
truthCoder:


You are the one infected with possible trojans and malwares yet you are the one ‘forming holy’ here. What is my own if you watch or don’t watch porn?

You were not explicit on the device with issues and you included your infinix screenshots.

There is no way a trojan or malware will enter any air-gapped device except the owner allows access. You allow access based on the sites you visit and the softwares you download.

One of the easiest ways to introduce rubbish into your system is when you visit malicious sites. Porn remains one of the highest sources of malicious codes, followed by free downloads.

98% of Nigerians are religious (according to the 2018 report on international religious freedom) yet we are corrupt, drink the highest volume of alcohol on the continent and our prisons are filled.

Who is fooling who.
He'd rather have his bank account emptied than be caught watching or admitting to watching porn.

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Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by Nobody: 6:16pm On Apr 19, 2023
Ugaboy:
I started noticing this floating cone-shaped icon for each input or type I make, also for new input it stays hovered on the new input, moving away from the previous input.

Note: it doesn't pop up on the address or search bar.

Despite running a virus scan that revealed no threats, I feel uneasy about the icon's presence since I am unaware of its purpose.




Cc: Seun , myd44, pls help I need people opinion.

Ask yourself why any reasonable hacker would want to waste their time hacking you or tracking you.

I'm sure you're not worth 50$ as we speak.


Since you don't want to take the advice of those above.


I believe it's better you smash that your PC or throw it away and get a new one to be on your safer side
Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by Nobody: 6:22pm On Apr 19, 2023
truthCoder:
You are using Infinix.

That crap-phone comes with enough bloatware outta the box that it will make any data harvester jealous.

If you are concerned about your privacy, get a used iPhone if you cannot afford a new one.

If you want to stick to android, do your research and get a brand that doesn’t ship with bloatware (don’t mention xiaomi, tecno, oppo or itel).

Finally, don’t use your main browser to watch porn or download movies or visit suspicious sites. Have a separate browser that is not signed in to anything for that.

Your main browser has cookies and jwts from the main sites you visit (google, facebook, twitter etc). When you visit bad sites, they try to redirect you to automated links with the main goal of using these stored tokens.

Finally, download cloudflare wrap and enable permanently.

TF the fact you mention iPhone as secure day off me laikdais

iPhone way day get vulns like mad just sec peeps choose to keep most of them secret



Been using Moto G7 with Sail fish OS installed since 2019


It's so secure not even the NSA can get into my device.
Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by Nobody: 6:25pm On Apr 19, 2023
Failure2019:


TF the fact you mention iPhone as secure day off me laikdais

iPhone way day get vulns like mad just sec peeps choose to keep most of them secret



Been using Moto G7 with Sail fish OS installed since 2019


It's so secure not even the NSA can get into my device.



Why would any serious person want to get into your device in the first place

No be only Sail fish

Na snake fish

Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by Nobody: 6:31pm On Apr 19, 2023
GREATIGBOMAN:




Why would any serious person want to get into your device in the first place

No be only Sail fish

Na snake fish





Every hackers dream is hack someone like McAfee .

Apple fanboy spotted.
Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by Ugaboy: 6:34pm On Apr 19, 2023
GREATIGBOMAN:


Ask yourself why any reasonable hacker would want to waste their time hacking you or tracking you.

I'm sure you're not worth 50$ as we speak.

M
Since you don't want to take the advice of those above.

I believe it's better you smash that your PC or throw it away and get a new one to be on your safer side,?

Sometimes most you hide behind keyboards typing garbage. This same guy will crucify politicians attacking their self instead of stating their manifestos.

I'm sure you're not worth 50$ as we speak.
I don't even have up to $10 in my account, how can a broke asp like me be thinking of to watch porn on system when my mate are making money with it.

.I believe it's better you smash that your PC or throw it away and get a new one to be on your safer side
$50 can't afford a new system.

This is how poor u think, advising one you are sure doesn't have $50 get a new system.
Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by Nobody: 6:40pm On Apr 19, 2023
Failure2019:



Every hackers dream is hack someone like McAfee .

Apple fanboy spotted.

Thank God you know.

They won't waste time trying to hack your TECNO Q500
Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by Nobody: 6:45pm On Apr 19, 2023
Ugaboy:


Sometimes most you hide behind keyboards typing garbage. This same guy will crucify politicians attacking their self instead of stating their manifestos.


I don't even have up to $10 in my account, how can a broke asp like me be thinking of to watch porn on system when my mate are making money with it.

$50 can't afford a new system.

This is how poor u think, advising one you are sure doesn't have $50 get a new system.


You really have time quoting every reply paragraph by paragraph... simple YouTube video search would have shown you how to scan your laptop for viruses and delete any ones found.

Better still the time you've spent replying comments and bolding out the ones with slightly derisive remarks you would have used to Reset your pc to the last point it was functioning Ok.

There's a thing like "Moderate Reset"

You can reset your windows laptop to how it was 2weeks ago assuming it was functioning normally as at then.
Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by Ugaboy: 6:45pm On Apr 19, 2023
truthCoder:


You are the one infected with possible trojans and malwares yet you are the one ‘forming holy’ here. What is my own if you watch or don’t watch porn?

You were not explicit on the device with issues and you included your Infinix screenshots.

There is no way a trojan or malware will enter any air-gapped device except if the owner allows access. You allow access based on the sites you visit and the software you download.

One of the easiest ways to introduce rubbish into your system is when you visit malicious sites. Porn remains one of the highest sources of malicious codes, followed by free downloads.

98% of Nigerians are religious (according to the 2018 report on international religious freedom) yet we are corrupt, drink the highest volume of alcohol on the continent, and our prisons are filled.

Who is fooling who?

Yeah, I might indeed visit a malicious site. No doubt but I'm clearing the notion that not everyone visits the first site that came to our mind. It fallacy, you are just quick to help to generalize.
I remember I tried cracking some software.

But I'm only here to get to a solution on how I can take that off.; ;
Re: I'm Disturbed, Is My Typing Input Being Tracked? by truthCoder: 7:30pm On Apr 19, 2023
Ugaboy:


Yeah, I might indeed visit a malicious site. No doubt but I'm clearing the notion that not everyone visits the first site that came to our mind. It fallacy, you are just quick to help to generalize.
I remember I tried cracking some software.

But I'm only here to get to a solution on how I can take that off.; ;

Relax. You are too defensive about porn.

If you can copy your important files to an external storage then reinstall to start afresh.

If you are using a laptop that came with genuine windows, then dont use computer village windows software for the reinstall. Download the clean iso and it should activate.

Then dont visit the malicious sites again.

Cracked windows is worse than ebola. At least with ebola, everyone will see your problem.

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