Security - March 2007

A friend of mine died and his widow cannot find his password and there are many Family photos etc. on the computer please help

2007-03-13 22:40:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I share this computer with others and have a problem because someone is stopping me viewing all the tools in Administative Tools. There is more then one Administrator account and this can't be changed but is there a way that i can hide these programs so no-one can access them and changed them. I have just reformated to gain access again so want to set computer up to stop people editing regedit and other system folders.

2007-03-13 22:11:49 · 4 answers · asked by blondy 2

2007-03-13 21:43:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Malware include viruses trojans and lots of things we spend money on to protect ourselfs from. But why? I understand spyware to make money but viruses? viruses don't make you any money and ruin alot of peoples work. WHY? Why would someone do that? They get no money and face jail. What turns someone to want to ruin hundreds of peoples homecomputers (not macs) it's not nice and people need to pay for anti virus software that works and then a new virus just comes alon. Why do people do this?

2007-03-13 21:18:12 · 8 answers · asked by UnP0ssible 3

will discuss on address

2007-03-13 20:13:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-13 20:13:36 · 4 answers · asked by freestreams 2

so i have a blocked site i want to go to. dont worry nothing bad. its just like a chat room thing. so the website is blocked from the main computer. how do i unblock it on this computer (not the main computer)? so how?

2007-03-13 20:01:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

When I try to sign to my Yahoo email account I get this message "The browser you re using refuses to sign in. (cookies rejected), How can I enable ny browser to accept cookies?

2007-03-13 19:54:50 · 3 answers · asked by david 2

2007-03-13 19:53:14 · 6 answers · asked by yamito 1

I use AVG, Ewido, and Ad Aware to keep the bad stuff away. When I run these scans, do they go into system restore and clean those files out? Or do the bad guys hide in there? Can I do something to open up the gates of system restore so I can do a "real" scan? If so, how?

2007-03-13 19:32:38 · 5 answers · asked by Mid-Island- Marc 2

I was sent a suspicious looking e-mail from paypal inc. Not paypal, but paypal inc. Saying that they wanted me to contact them because there was some suspicious activity on my paypal inc. account.

2007-03-13 19:29:47 · 5 answers · asked by ♥IndomลbleƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 6

2007-03-13 19:02:51 · 6 answers · asked by Untouchable 3

There are those adds on the internet claiming to give away free iPods or Playstation 3, or X-box 360s, or whatever. What do those crazy links actualy do?
There is also this " http://www.getitfree.net/ipod/ " site, and it will send you advertising so it seems plausable they could draw to have random participants win.....but these claims are never taken seriously by me. What is the truth behind them? What other info or stuff comes up with these?

2007-03-13 18:25:11 · 4 answers · asked by AdventGrEd 2

2007-03-13 18:00:11 · 5 answers · asked by naseer n 1

2007-03-13 17:44:13 · 5 answers · asked by yamito 1

I just set a password for my one and only username for XP. The only feature I wanted out of this was to be able to lock up the PC hitting Win+L. Now, when I boot up up it asks for the password needed to log in. Perfectly normal. BUT.. Lets say I booted my PC up knowing I wasn't going to log in right away.. Now.. With the computer on the logon screen waiting for me to type in my password.. Are there any running processes running in the background as well? Is the internet connected also?(On cable modem). Could it be possibly a security issue by leaving it on the logon screen without being fully booted and your security apps 100% up and running?

Or does all this really not matter because the OS is not UP yet nor connected to the internet?


Sounds like a stupid question, but i'm just so curious.

Thanks in advance,

Dominick

2007-03-13 17:31:42 · 3 answers · asked by Nick N 3

Yesterday I downloaded a free program from the web,(it did'nt work anyway) and I started getting pop ups for Winantivirus,vortal.com ,search-and-see.com. Also little gray boxes with warnings.
I deleted temp and internet temp folders, recycle bin, and clearing internet history, cookies, and temp files. Still getting pop-ups.

Thanks in advance for your help.

2007-03-13 17:07:43 · 6 answers · asked by Tomato 3

2007-03-13 16:55:41 · 4 answers · asked by silversparkle_13 1

track a email & call the person it was sent to? I emailed somebody that is out of school & they tracked it & called his office. Is that an invasion of privacy? The email was about a superbowl party by the way. Someone help please. Answers within the next hour or so would be great. Thanks.

2007-03-13 15:27:03 · 7 answers · asked by ElizabethKay™ 2

Help, I saw someone ask about viruses and an answer about AVG software. I ran it bc I knew my computer was in bad shape. So far (it's still scanning after 2.5 hrs) it has found 64 Trojan Horses. I don't want to reformat. I've done it before and these things keep coming back. Also, today I received a "return" email that kind of showed that my computer was being used to send out spam. What do I do???? Is reformatting my best option and what software would be good to install? I've used Ghostsurf in the past, but it doesn't even seem to work now.

2007-03-13 15:12:44 · 6 answers · asked by cwcewo 1

as in "dont forget to call karen" etc?

2007-03-13 15:12:16 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

imma noob

2007-03-13 14:43:22 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have tryed to download AVG the free edition and it asks for a registration code. Then I have had a few pple say that I have downloaded the wrong one and that the one that is free does not ask for the code. I have tryed a few pples links but every time I try to download it, it still asks me for the code. Can you give me the steps to take or something to help? Thank you!

2007-03-13 14:42:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

But I don't know how
How can I keep them from doing that?
I havn't added them
Its set to private
and Iv changed my password before
so how are they checking it?

2007-03-13 14:34:07 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-13 13:50:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm using Microsoft Windows MCE/Professional, and would like to know if there was a way to edit the registry or Local Security Console, MMC, etc. or a third-party FREEWARE application that can allow me to selectively force any given program to have only one instance of its process running at a time. Thanks!

2007-03-13 13:40:02 · 1 answers · asked by arvarnau 2

I noticed that I got this spyware ( AnyPBookmark ) when I down loaded a game from iWin.com . and can't get rid of it when go to remove it with norton nothing !
does anyone else have the same problem?

2007-03-13 13:39:43 · 10 answers · asked by cal2eddie 1

does a firewall slow down your computer? not just internet, but files, programs, MSN...etc? if so, is it better just to turn it off?

2007-03-13 13:32:53 · 5 answers · asked by tmlfan 4

Can you help?

2007-03-13 13:00:14 · 6 answers · asked by Jester 5

2007-03-13 12:35:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous