Security - August 2006

i was sitting on my pc when an im appeared on my screen from someone i don't know,i haven't been in any chat rooms,this stresses me out as i am married and if my husband saw that he might become suspicous,how do i keep that from ever happening again
dori

2006-08-17 14:21:50 · 11 answers · asked by dorothy l 1

Please only tell me about ones you've used. Should I just buy something or will the free one work? Thanks.

2006-08-17 14:10:59 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

im constantly getting prank calls on my cellphone i have no idea whos doing it.

2006-08-17 13:16:33 · 12 answers · asked by spicywannaknow 1

My lap top "logs out" of windows when my computer is inactive for a while.

How do I set it so that I only have to enter a password when booting up the computer?

2006-08-17 12:33:25 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-17 12:28:24 · 6 answers · asked by cookies2coke 1

If it is possible to break in a non OS operated routernetwork. How do they do it and how do I secure myself with it?

(note: with latest patches, Windows XP operated systems, Firmware updated, Firewall (updated), Antivirus (updated)) No forward routing on router enabled.

Thanks a lot,

dishwasher

2006-08-17 11:03:56 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-17 11:01:03 · 3 answers · asked by Bob M 1

A friend has asked for help - AVG picked this up on virus scan: Trojan Horse Generic.zvx It won't heal or delete and can't be transferred to the virus vault.

I've done a google-search which comes up with nothing. I want to try to keep things simple as my friend's not too good with technology and I've not got access to his pc.

I've told him to unplug from the Internet and do a scan with Adaware which he has already got installed on his pc.

Anyone else heard of this Trojan or can suggest anything else I can do?

2006-08-17 10:31:19 · 12 answers · asked by oldcodgeman 2

2006-08-17 10:05:03 · 7 answers · asked by tc.slide 1

I think I have some weird stuff going on but Mcaffee says no viruses found. When I click to go to different sites I hear a clicking sound every time. Also, what is the best settings for the exceptions tab in the firewall?

2006-08-17 09:41:25 · 5 answers · asked by debzonfire 2

i had adware and i got rid of it but i was wondering if it mite have came from limewire or filecroc or any of the p2p sharing programs i have

2006-08-17 09:23:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

should admins know their user's passwords, because they can log into as the user and the user would be held accountable for what is done, and not the admin.

2006-08-17 09:20:37 · 6 answers · asked by Chris W 1

someone in my neighbor has a sniffer and is watching all that is going on on my network. I know I could secure it but I let alot of the local college kids use it and with them coming and going I didn't want to have to issue passwords. This person actually told me he is watch all the activity on my network with his sniffer and high powered antenna.
He is not actually using my Net, but using his sniffer to watch and track what everyone else is doing on my network. If he was just using internet access I could care less. He say it is not illegal unless I security and he break the security. How can I stop this.

2006-08-17 08:36:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

when i virus scan or use adaware to scan my computer. It usually gets stuck scanning C:/FOUND.003. I was asked to download some crap from zango.com. i dunno how i got there.. Then mcafee told me about some suspicious zango scripts, that i stopped.Then it told me to virus scan. ANd i did. but it always gets stuck there at found.003

2006-08-17 08:29:04 · 4 answers · asked by kid 2

i already have mcafee...but dont really like it.....

2006-08-17 08:07:57 · 24 answers · asked by justme 3

I would like some sites that I can get onto where a virus would attack my computer.

2006-08-17 07:58:22 · 6 answers · asked by Jennifer 2

...no browser is open (and no one's using the computer at that moment)? When I tried to open it from Temporary Internet Files, it looked like a page full of HTML code.

How about cookies -- can those automatically download even though the browser isn't open?

2006-08-17 07:19:36 · 5 answers · asked by ? 2

my husband had heard something about needing to download a patch for them.Does anyone know if this is so.

2006-08-17 07:07:42 · 8 answers · asked by Julie 5

Just wanted to add a website.So you can check on that yourselves.

hoaxbusters.com.

2006-08-17 06:21:37 · 5 answers · asked by ? 3

PLEASE INFORM EVERYONE!!!!

Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and the moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and you will not
be able to fix it!

If you get an email along the lines of "Osama Bin Laden Captured" or "Osama Hanged" don't open the attachment.

This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe, but mainly in the US and Israel.

You should be alert during the next days:
Do not open any message with an attached filed called "Invitation" regardless of who sent it.

It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which "burns" the whole hard disc C of your computer.

If you receive a mail called "invitation", though sent by a friend, do not open it and shut down your computer immediately.

This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.

This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus.

This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.*

2006-08-17 06:17:45 · 7 answers · asked by ? 3

2006-08-17 05:43:17 · 2 answers · asked by strongshaman 1

I've recently been told that my girlfriend is cheating on me. If this is true, I'm positive there'd be proof in her yahoo email account as she has a couple of friends she tells everything to. I know her address (obviously) and she has told me her password in the past. So it wouldn't be me 'hacking' or anything. But I'm not about to do anything illegal. So am I correct in assuming that checking her emails would be illegal, even if she's told me her password?

2006-08-17 05:33:29 · 15 answers · asked by thrillhouse 1

I want to convert the files to any unprotected format: mov, rm, vob, wmv, mpg, avi, mp2, mp4, m4v even, just get them unprotected! I have a legal right to put my videos on DVD, but i don't know how. Screen recorders make it too choppy. Tunebite Video mutilated the quality. Burning to DVD only makes them as data files, so they won't play! What do i do?

2006-08-17 05:26:51 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-17 04:24:55 · 5 answers · asked by dmo12002 1

I just installed ewido and ad-aware se(though it seems they serve the ame purpose).I had to install this because I caught a virus yesterday that AVG could remove.But ewido did the job.My question is what is the resident shield?I am no computer expert and after my 30 day trial it will remove the resident shield and automatic updates.Does the removal of the resident shield just mean that they wil not alert me when I get malware and I have to scan periodicaly?It seems that the automatic updates are not that imperative to the security of my comp, but I am not too sure.This is just a conjecture.Is there free software that I can download that works just as well as ewido?If so, can you recomend it to me?I have 29 days left before trial ends for ewido.Thank You!

2006-08-17 03:19:55 · 2 answers · asked by Mitchell B 4

Has anyone else said thank you for taking the time to answer our questions for beginner computer users? I am!!!!

2006-08-17 02:54:54 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

My brand new computer I waited over ten years to get got a bug yesterday, computer was froze in a sense, the phone technician at dell went through step by step to rectify the problem, we restored it to an earlier date, and microsoft melicious software remover kicked in, it is now working fine but I am very nervous to look up anything now, and download anything!

2006-08-17 02:38:55 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Lately our router or something like it was acting up pretty bad so we had to do without it with our only protection from things on the net being Zone Alarm. But just a matter of minutes ago I opened up the window, checked what was going on in general with it, and then it said "not responding" at the top. I tried exiting out of it and the window wouldn't close, then when it finally closed it disappeared from those small icons at the bottom right hand of my screen right next to the time. So what happened?? I know Answers is safe to use because it never said that any access attempts had been blocked while I was on here but when I wasn't on the net there would be several access attempts blocked, even some that were highly rated according to ZA. I tried searching for it on my computer but it came up with NOTHING.

2006-08-17 02:31:49 · 1 answers · asked by I want my *old* MTV 6

2006-08-17 02:30:22 · 5 answers · asked by music_king 3

I need to know because they are charging my checking acc. and i want it stopped and i want my money back

2006-08-17 01:26:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous