Question What to do if someone is controlling my PC? What can I do

[Jesusfuentes151]

.HELP PLEASE. Someone is controlling my pc by clicking arrow keys, by opening up tabs and typing. Making any gaming experience unplayable and unpleasant every time I turn on my pc. It’s almost like harassment and it’s been going on for weeks now. All over some toxic chitchat in a game. (Seige) I can post my whole task manager in a reply if that would help but I’m not really good with tech. Please I’m in desperate need If anyone has any ideas how to get this rat out. I have my pc Ethernet cable disconnected and the wifi disconnected on my pc and he can still type and mess with me while playing offline game. Not sure how that works.

 

[Lutfij]

I have my pc Ethernet cable disconnected and the wifi disconnected on my pc and he can still type and mess with me while playing offline game. Not sure how that works.
Then that means it's not remote access..?

Run malwarebytes and see if anything comes up. Can you recall what you installed or click yes on after the chitchat argument you went through?

 

[Jesusfuentes151]

Run malwarebytes and see if anything comes up. Can you recall what you installed or click yes on after the chitchat argument you went through?
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I’m not good with tech how can I run malware bytes and I remember after that game I opened up gmod another game and I was trying to join an online server and it had me go through a downloading sequence and it looked like allot and I cancelled it midway through. Sometimes when I click on games it’ll give a prompt message where I click yes on allowing to make changes. Like on Ubisoft or steam games.

 

[Gam3r01]

If it still happens when you are offline, that means its not remote access, and more likely just a script.
Go here: https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download
Download the program (if for some reason you cant, download it on a different PC with a flash drive then install it on your infected PC).
Run a full scan (under custom scans), see what it comes back with.

Its highly unlikely whoever you were arguing with online somehow managed to do this to your PC without you helping, either by opening something you shouldnt have, or downloading something you shouldnt have. Most likely, that GMOD server had custom files you needed to download to join, one of which is a virus.

If malwarebytes cant find anything, its likely going to be quicker to just wipe your harddrive and reinstall windows. The time spent troubleshooting is much longer than just starting clean.

 

[Ralston18]

Seconding @Gam3r01

And will add the suggestion to take a close look at everything that is running via Task Manager, Resource Monitor, and Process Explorer.

Note - Process Explorer (Microsoft, free).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Anything unexpected or unrecognized can be investigated further.

No disagreement with it possibly being malware. However, it appears to me that it could also simply be some poorly designed, buggy, or corrupted program. Keyboard drivers perhaps.

Discover what all is running, what it is, and what it may (or may not be doing). Keep a few notes on what you find.

If that does not find some culprit or a potential culprit then wipe the drive as suggested and reinstall windows.

FYI:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/windows-10-clean-install-tutorial.3170366

Then as you restore games etc. continue checking Task Manager, Resource Monitor, and Process Explorer. Allow time between restorations, Objective being to ensure that any thing previously found amiss does not return. Or if that happens then you know what was done just before it returned.

 

[Jesusfuentes151]

So if I could just reinstall windows would that for sure get rid of him also I seriously appreciate the quickness of your answers and solutions . Another thing is I’ve had my task manager open while he’s pressing buttons and trying to close the tab out and yet I couldn’t see anything that stood out I tried to disable anything suspicious and obviously that didn’t work. If I found the script in the task manager what would I look for because I’m not really technical with my pc like that.

 

[Gam3r01]

I would start with a full scan with malwarebytes, might fix it for you.
Reinstalling windows would almost certainly solve your issue as well.

Its also not likely this is some person actively doing it to you, its operating on its own.

 

[Jesusfuentes151]

Its also not likely this is some person actively doing it to you, its operating on its own.
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It’s not operating on it’s on. We have had live conversations typing back and fourth in the search bar of google and yt Spotify and even in games I play he typed in the chat and I got reported for the vulgar language.

 

[Gam3r01]

You said earlier this is happening even when the system is disconnected from all networks, which wouldnt be possible.
Unless you didnt actually disconnect the PC from the internet.