Help Needed, Hacker Problem

It's easy to generate a video/audio signal containing whatever you want and inject into coax cable --- if you can physically access the cable near the target TV. ============ "I also received a seperate message that talc powder was good to use while spinning wool and mohair, and that was on a Dodge screen that smushed up the picture at the bottom. ============ Isn't much of a description ("smushed"?). Was there audio? Was it like a windows message box? Was it another image interlaced with the original? How many other viewers received it? The first thing I would do is get a cheap video camera or vcr and tape it because the first thing a lot of people are going to think is that she's insane ---is she? It will also be much easier to persuade others that there is something worth investigating if there is video evidence of it. If there's a cheap wfm audio bug in the bathroom, you'll hear it with an FM radio (even a cheap one will work for part of the spectra). Slowly tune around the dial while the bathroom door is closed, you're outside, and the water in the bathroom is running so you can hear it. To scan for a signal over more than the FM band (88 - 102 mhz) try a scanner. Of course, a sophisticated device will easily escape this detection method, but you'd be surprised at how unsophisticated so many of these stalker types are.

Yes have her set up a VCR on record continiously. If she can produce a tape with a suspect message you could ask the cable co to investigate. Don't give them the only tape make a copy.

Check if her ex still has a key to the house or did she move. Consider setting up a video camera on a motion detector - if her ex is getting in while she is out you might catch him on tape.

Scan her computer for spyware and key loggers. Microsoft have a new program for this. It's on beta release but it seems to work well and it's stable. Check for a hardware key logger in the cable from her keyboard to the PC.

When I fall asleep in front of the TV, I dream, too.

-- Then there's duct tape ... (Garrison Keillor)

So that's what you use the duct tape for! ;)

Getting text on a TV while viewing cable would be a neat trick but one I have never heard of. That part of the story sounds dubious. Could someone be controlling it from a remote from outside a window.

However, if snippets of private conversations and information related to interet activity are coming up, It does sound like some kind of stalking. Tell your friend to seed the conversations with false information and see if it comes back later. this bait may reviel the source. It is not problem for the determined person to hack a PC or bug a house.

It may also be a coincidence along with some digital interference with the cable signal. Does the TV have picture in picture.