Well I was careful to watch what my system was doing and it went out and chatted with this ip 4.72.79.30 .... all I can discover is that it's a dial-up. from there I am lost. can anybody help...

I am registered with several web forums and recently one of them got hacked. Since I normally use the same email, user and password combo for many of these sites, should I reregister with the other...

This seems to be a new spyware with no record over the Internet. My son has installed it from Kazza today. The browser seems to send information as it browses the Internet, with url information...

I understand the point of using URLs as a reference to a certain subject being discussed, but using a signature with (many)URLs in_every_post, isn't it some kind of advertising (spam)? Thanks Nick

I just sent an email to someone with the sig you see below. The second URL, www.darfurgenocide.org, is banned by AOL. My first reaction was that there was something political involved. But it is...

The launch of my site in the hope of gathering people to fight adware and spyware on a pro-active basis seems to have really ticked off a few folks. The attempts to penetrate my firewall have greatly...

Software piracy! Cracked serial numbers! Thousands of commercial products are posted on the warez sites and become available to all every day! Companies lose millions of dollars every year to...

My box is open for the weekend. SuSE 7.0 Rules: 1. Try to get root. 2. Box will be open for 48 hours after this post. 3. No attacks on other machines.

When I get a Phishing email about a bypothetical PayPal or Ebay account, I usually return some random data, with an invented witty but offensive password of the day, to the offending web page in the...

Hi all- This is probably an easy question to answer, but I'm pretty concerned, so here goes. On my home computer I am running XP SP2, Zonealarm Pro, NAV 2003, Firefox, Agent, DCPP...just...

WTF! I use ZoneAlarm, the free version, and I just got a message box telling me about the new 'free' spyware scanner, would I like to try it, and I don't have the option to say NO. My options are...

Hello, i have a laptop on which i am unable to access the administrator account becuase i havent got the password. Is there an easy way of finding/bypassing this? ta jo

Hi All, I'm setting up a dual-ISP setup at home (cable modem and ADSL) and am shopping around a dual-ISP-capable firewall box. Ideally, I'd like the box to be able to handle: 1) DMZ (at least one...

Hi all I have some data and programmes on a USB flash memory device and this is encrypted on the device. Is there anyway of preventing a keyboard logger from seeing the password that I am typing to...

Now I have everything working great with encrypting my external harddisks with DriveCrypt Plus Pack, but of course I'm as anxious as anyone about something going wrong and losing my precious...

Hi again- I Know I'm new to the group, been lurking and reading the 8000 or so posts my server has for the past few days. Hoped to ask a second question. Any opinions on Securstar's new Secursurf?...

A black-hat computer programmer in Argentina with a grudge against Faronics, Emiliano Scavuzzo, has written a program to thaw Deep Freeze without knowing the password. It works on almost ALL versions...

On my XP Pro system I sign on with Administrator privileges. Others users have User privilieges. For some reason the other Users (even new User accounts) can not do simple operations like delete...

Hi As there are over 65000 ports in the TCP/IP stack, which ones are the most necessary ports for a homeuser and how to close the rest of the ports? My PC is connected to internet via a router and a...

(Yes, there *are* security/integrity implications - that's how I found out about this...) A smidgen of history to start with: computer room being rearranged, 'bout time I tidied the backup servers,...