Hi Fever, Have not been here in a long time. It's best that I sign in as a guest - my apologies. For the past three years I have had an internet "following" (not stalking) problem. In the early days, I discovered chat rooms (as we all did) w/o any regard for security. I found one where I believe hackers would frequent. It took me a long time to figure that out. My remote address (random) was apparent. Of course, I left and after much education, I tried to bring uptodate security measures to our home PC as well as learning how to set computer settings properly.
Well, since then I have found forums (good ones) that I like to participate in, but whenever I engage in an interactive situation, this guy appears as a member (here also) and identifies himself as the name I recall from the initial experience or writes "Is that you, __?" with my nick initials.
My questions, how does he do this? Does he know when I log on? Did he set something on my computer before the firewall, etc.? My files are clean. Is he *****ing me on the internet and if so how? Spyware? Do I need something like the anonymizer? Honestly, my spouse and I are thinking of sledgehammering the drive and getting rid of the rest and starting over. Please help me if you can. Regards, NB2