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Old December 11th, 2004, 08:41 PM     #21 (permalink)
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Everytime my kids do something to piss me off I change the password on the compture before I go to work. However, they always seem to hack it or figure it out. There is no way they could be just guessing it. They have to be using some back door to XP Pro. To top it off, they leave a note pad with the password written on it by the PC just to let me know they got by it. If they were using the Ctrl+Alt+Del they still wouldn't know what the accual password was. What can I do, short of beating them?

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How about a Kanguru Encryptor?

Remove the key and the hardware encryptor locks the hard drive down. No access without the key
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Old July 15th, 2005, 04:18 PM     #22 (permalink)
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Great site for reviews and general information on free antivirus software for Windows and Linux. It's always nice to have all the options in one place.

http://www.free-antivirus.ca

They also have a list of online virus scanners available on the internet...

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Old July 24th, 2005, 08:10 AM     #23 (permalink)
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Everytime my kids do something to piss me off I change the password on the compture before I go to work. However, they always seem to hack it or figure it out. There is no way they could be just guessing it. They have to be using some back door to XP Pro. To top it off, they leave a note pad with the password written on it by the PC just to let me know they got by it. If they were using the Ctrl+Alt+Del they still wouldn't know what the accual password was. What can I do, short of beating them?

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I wonder if they have a key logger program on your PC?

What I do to my bro to get his passwords is the following.

-I get into safe mode.

-Enter via administrator account. He does not know that exists and by default it's not locked.

-Go to control panel and create my new profile.

-Restart and install the key logger in this new profile.

-Go into the registry and hide the program from add/remove so you can't see it and make a change in the registry to not show my newly created profile.

In short, run a spyware check and see if there is a Key logger installed.

Yes there are programs that can crack the windows passwords but it requires time.

I have a program to show me instantly what the passwords are but never seemed to work.

BTW: Check behind your computer for a device connected to the keyboard. If you find a cylindrical thing , this too is a key logger.

I don't know how old your kids are or how smart, but they seem to know more then you. Maybe a friend of theres is a accomplice.

If they do have a key logger installed you can use this against them. Read everything they type for example. That is if they didn't password protect the log.

In this case install your own key logger.

Sense this was about security and privacy links. Heres a link .LOL


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Old February 13th, 2006, 08:01 PM     #24 (permalink)
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http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_cleaner.html

just released i think. a free app from avast.........

looks to be similar to macafee's stinger (nice tool)
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Old August 30th, 2006, 02:24 PM     #25 (permalink)
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Some Windows-based Rootkit scanners:

SysInternals Rootkit Revealer
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...tRevealer.html

Sophos Antirootkit Scanner
http://internetsecuritysuites.blogsp...i-rootkit.html

F-Secure Blacklight
http://www.f-secure.com/blacklight

Use them all since like AV and Spyware scanners, certain tools can be fooled by certain rootkits.
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Old May 5th, 2007, 10:59 AM     #28 (permalink)
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Everytime my kids do something to piss me off I change the password on the compture before I go to work. However, they always seem to hack it or figure it out. There is no way they could be just guessing it. They have to be using some back door to XP Pro. To top it off, they leave a note pad with the password written on it by the PC just to let me know they got by it. If they were using the Ctrl+Alt+Del they still wouldn't know what the accual password was. What can I do, short of beating them?

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This must be a terrible blow to your parental authority ego.
Undoubtedly you cannot allow this to continue. I would handcuff the kids to a water pipe in the basement.
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Old May 26th, 2007, 01:09 PM     #29 (permalink)
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www.proxy.org provides a ton of proxies for anonymous web surfing, and since using proxies while surfing for pr0n (hey I'm only human!) I haven't had any problems with malware.

heh.

well back to websurfing!

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Old August 3rd, 2007, 10:02 PM     #30 (permalink)
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