Security - October 2006

Friends ask for me to delete the addresses when sending but when you click forward on yahoo you can not do that.

2006-10-15 13:48:24 · 3 answers · asked by Marsha C 1

whether you have kids or not, this is a good read, and good FYI that should be shared with others. the validity of it may be questioned, but that's not really the question at hand. it really makes you think, and that alone is reason that it should be passed along. . .





A Must Read for All who have children or grandchildren

EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ ALL OF THIS and HAVE YOUR CHILDREN READ IT TOO!


After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and get on-line . She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:

ByAngel213:
Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following me home today. It was really weird!

GoTo123:
LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?

ByAngel213:
Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I didn't ! see
Anybody when I looked out.

GoTo123:
Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that have you?

ByAngel213:
Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.

GoTo123:
Did you have a softball game after school today?

ByAngel213:
Yes and we won!!

GoTo123:
That's great! Who did you play?

ByAngel213:
We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! They look like bees. LOL

GoTo123:
What is your team called?

ByAngel213:
We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms. They are really cool.

GoTo123:
Did you pitch?

ByAngel213:
No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be done before my parents get home.
I don't want them mad at me. Bye!

GoTo123:
Catch ! you later. Bye

Meanwhile.GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far.

Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985
Age: 13
State where she lived: North Carolina

Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall. Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just told him
He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on her jersey. He knew she was in the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School. She had told him all this in the conversations they had on- line. He had enough information to find her now.

Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home from the ballpark that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an
only child. Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so overprotective.

By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her.

Her game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It was then that the memory came back. She glanced up from her second base position to see a man watching her closely.

He was leaning against the fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the sudden fear she had felt.

After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had found her.

Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly returned to the park to get his car.

Now he had to wait. He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make his move.

Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the living room.

"Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.

"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a most interesting story about you."

Shannon sat back. How could he tell her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!

"Do you know who I am, Shannon?" the man asked.

"No," Shannon answered.

"I am a police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."

Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age! He's 14. And he lives in Michigan!"

The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true. You see, Shannon, there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was one of them. But while others do it to injure kids and hurt them, I belong to a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators. I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find you. You named the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made finding you a breeze."

Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in Michigan?"

He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh. It made you feel safe to think I was so far away, didn't it?"

She nodded.

"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a little here and there on-line. Before you know it, you have told them enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again. Tell others about this so they will be safe too?"

"It's a promise!"

That night Shannon and her Dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.

*****NOW*****


Please send this to as many people as you can to teach them not to give any information about them
selves. This world we live in today is too dangerous to even give out your age, let alone anything else.

EVEN FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS SO THEY CAN SEND IT TO FRIENDS THAT DO HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN.

2006-10-15 12:58:12 · 8 answers · asked by Sangy . 4

Dear Tech Community,
My laptop is completely overriden with viruses, spy and adware. I hardly can go online anymore as the dozens of popups come flying at me and for some reason wikipedia searches no longer work. I currently own Norton, S and D, and Adaware. Please help me to clear away winfixer and the like as fast as possible before I lose my comp!

2006-10-15 12:42:55 · 7 answers · asked by deeganfan09 2

can anybody help me please?
why did my homepage changed
do i have to change any setting in my ie?

2006-10-15 12:25:31 · 5 answers · asked by Dengcheng J 1

I can't use 360Share Pro downloading music program cause i can't find router password and i can't change settings for firewall and filtering. I try to reset Linksys and that didn't work. I try default ID and password, also didn't work. I need a help, if anyone knows what should i do, pls answer me soon. Thanks

2006-10-15 11:12:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-15 10:57:30 · 6 answers · asked by Nice 2

I use Norton Antivirus 2005 and i placed the settings for LiveUpdate to update automatically without notifying me. For some reason my McAfee Personal Firewall Express keeps asking me to block or grant access from "LiveUpdate Engine COM Module" even though I've already granted access in the past. Everyday this notice comes up and its driving me crazy!!! How do you fix this?

2006-10-15 10:48:15 · 2 answers · asked by AnonymousQuestionerAnswerer 3

The only way I can help identify it my computer says"Cannot run ibm00001.exe" whenever I start it.

2006-10-15 10:47:37 · 14 answers · asked by Chief Slapaho 2

Hello an individual I do not know obtained personal information about me and posted it on a fantasy football message board. The information includes a phone number as well as my dads name. Could someone help me figure out a way to scare this guy into taking it down?

2006-10-15 10:41:03 · 4 answers · asked by Financial Guru 1

its some kind of trojan i guess its in my bottom tool bar and it keeps telling me my computer is infected with trojan,or critical error,then it changed my home page to one that has alot of security sites on it ,sometimes it displays nude sites. i got it from myspace.com

2006-10-15 10:32:12 · 13 answers · asked by joe 1

I paid sum of money to GAMETESTERGUIDE.COM through paypal offering a job for testing video games and you will be paid for it. After I paid them, I never heard from them. I lost my money, I got no job as they offered and I lost my trust to Internet offers.

2006-10-15 09:58:15 · 9 answers · asked by Vher 1

a few moments ago , i was working on it and it abruptly switched of like a television when light goes off !! then i restarted and now its fine
but my unsaved data is now vanished in thin air !! what do i do
is it a virus or is it hacked ???

2006-10-15 09:40:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-15 09:35:18 · 3 answers · asked by beenalovesall 1

Does anybody know anything about Zango.com because I downloaded it and it tried to blackmail me into buying a disk cleanup program, not only could I not get rid of it but it kept putting popups saying that I have embarrasing porn on my c drive (true) and no matter what I done it would not erase, I got rid eventually by deleting all internet files and using system restore. these people are just another cancer cell. Be warned.

2006-10-15 09:32:19 · 8 answers · asked by mr bump 3

i keep seeing in my list of 'running programmes' when i press alt ctrl del usually about the time my pc starts messing up ie acting weird what is it whats opening it ? sometimes theres just one sometimes many i close em when i see em ... often punch the reset bttn too for good measure.

2006-10-15 08:51:13 · 6 answers · asked by asdfgh 2

Yesterday deleted temporary files, offline content, settings, cookies, history. Deleted both autocomplete settings. From my computer, did disk cleanup. Identified & deleted 2 extra useless icons from desktop. Finally, emptied all these old files out of recycle bin. Believed everything was eradicated.

But theoretical question persists. If I did a system restore to date 3 days ago, would all the stuff return? This would mean the system has a deeper level of storage that most people don't know about.

Please sign me Just Wondering. And thank you for any light you might shed.

2006-10-15 07:35:42 · 8 answers · asked by strath 3

My niece was chatting on MSN to someone and she doesn't know who it is? Can I trace the email address back to someone without using the police?

2006-10-15 07:23:26 · 11 answers · asked by ? 3

2006-10-15 07:11:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

atleast tell me how to open the computer menu....
i believe that the pasword is stored in a word document in the desktop...

2006-10-15 06:26:58 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-15 05:29:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anthony A 1

I've always used Norton, but I'm told more than one security system bogs down the DSL. Is there any way to check to see exactly what security is on this machine?

2006-10-15 05:28:45 · 5 answers · asked by Brrrbob's blog 1

Everytime I start my computer, I get a warning messege saying that a duplicate name server exist. What does that mean?? Is it a fatal error? If yes, then how to fix this?

2006-10-15 04:56:11 · 3 answers · asked by davinci_neo_leo 3

i and other three roommates share a broadband router, can my roommate use sniffer or ethereal on his computer to get my ip packets? why?

2006-10-15 03:05:09 · 8 answers · asked by samurai 1

2006-10-15 02:03:32 · 10 answers · asked by Uthman A 5

2006-10-15 01:25:44 · 6 answers · asked by Bruce D 3

Asked a question on here about watching TV shows and was given some bit torrent site to download things off of - ever since - major problems with my computer so I found all those files that I could and removed them - still problems.

Read on CNET Trojan Hunter & Hijack this are safe but are they? I don't want to download more problems.

My Norton has been telling me to wait for it to scan files like - sap.dat, waol.exe, excel.cab, normal.dot, winword.exe and I got a Dr Watson Post Mortem message. With Dr. Watson - there seems to be some people who say it comes with the computer to protect the computer and some say it is a virus - The other file names seem normal but Norton scans them and they come up over and over again - uninfected but there is some kind of problem. All virus scans are clean - Spybot, Defender, Norton, The Cleaner(for trojans) and my Trojan Remover program expired - but something is wrong - computer is acting strange and things are changing, etc. :) Pls help

2006-10-15 01:18:59 · 9 answers · asked by shane 2

2006-10-15 00:30:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

My current situation :
- Lost the password to logon to windows
- no other admin account. but have a guest acc tho (which cant view My Documents)
- there are important files in My Documents which i MUST retrieve(but my guest account cant view them). Other than that, i can afford to lose.

I know its my fault for losing the password but this is vry important to me and my family...so dun be an asshole abt it. Thanks for whtever ideas u have.

2006-10-14 21:16:05 · 4 answers · asked by Mr F 1

2006-10-14 20:20:36 · 3 answers · asked by ameen 1

2006-10-14 19:55:39 · 8 answers · asked by wilkinson_1979 2