So basically I think I got majorly hacked, can someone help?

Question

Someone got my IPv4 even though I have the latest version of McAfee and a VPN, can someone tell me what else I can do?

Answer 1

Ok so basically you’re hacked

Answer 2

Privacy Badger is a Chrome extension, so it doesn't handle other browsers. Second, people can directly locate an ISP and then people's IPv4 using a few simple tools available for free on the Internet.

First, change your router's username and password. Make sure they are secure (at least a combination of 8 to 16 letters, numbers, capitalized letters, and characters). Third, McAfee does an OK job of protecting computers, but some software it completely misses. I recommend you to download Microsoft Security Essentials and run that on your computer as well. It is lightweight and will catch some keylogging software that McAfee doesn't. If both of those antivirus software programs come up clean, then you can be fairly certain that with a change of all of your computer's usernames and passwords you are fairly clean.

Answer 3

Honestly, any email you send will tell the recipient your IPv4 if they know where to look, (It noramally is the in the header information). So just having that address is useless! Your local router/firewall SHOULD keep them from getting into your system. If you are behind a router your computer is still not using that public address directly, it uses a private IP with the local lan! So just having your IP is not hacking nor does it mean you have been hacked! Use a good antivirus/malware program and a good firewall.. you are safe from anyone getting into your computer from a public IP! PS - tell your router to not respond to PINGS or other outside requests! Then run "Shields UP" to see what someone might see if they tried to get into your computer. https://www.grc.com/su-firewalls.htm Also any website you visit has to know your VPN's IP and that VPN has to know YOUR IP to get any traffic back to you. Connect without the VPN your public IP has to be known period. SO it isn't an issue.

Answer 4

Install Privacy Badger and make sure "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address" is checked in Options. No other settings need to be made.

Answer 5

That's not what it means to be hacked! Everybody can see your public IP address, there's no way to hide it, nor is there any security concerns if someone knows it, because two computers can't connect if they don't know each other's IP addresses. McAfee won't protect it, nor is there any reason to. A VPN will somewhat hide it, by replacing it with an alternative IP address, but that alternative IP address is also publicly visible.



The public IP address belongs to your ISP, not to you. So any geographical identifying information is about your ISP, not you. No one can directly locate you with your IP address. At best they might be able to tell which city you're located in, and that's about it. If you use a VPN, then the IP address will show the location of your VPN servers, but you could choose a VPN server located anywhere else in the world that you like.



So if someone has gotten your IP address, did they get your public IP address from your ISP, or your public VPN IP address? If they got your ISP address, then it's likely that you were sending your mail or whatever when you weren't using your VPN.

Answer 6

For the record they got the public version of my IPv4