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October 28th, 2004 18:00
Auto-Complete and security
I've got a friend who I allow to borrow my computer time to time. I guess he wants to screw around with stuff on my good ol' comp without me knowing, because he's apparently disabled some stuff.
First of all.. I absolutely adore Auto-Complete. I love not having to type in everything. He apparently disabled it. Anyone know how I can turn it back on? And is there a way to keep him from being able to turn it back off.
Also.. I want to know exactly what he's doing on it. Is there any way to be the Big Brother of my computer and know what sites were visited, what was done there, and such? Last thing I want is for the Feds to take my comp because he did something illegal or something. Not that he would. But I'm still paranoid.
I really don't want to do the different user accounts, because good lord knows what could happen from there. Any suggestions?
Flooby wrote:
Guest users should have access only to the Guest account, with Limited privileges. The Administrator account should be password protected, with access limited to you, and only you.
i agree implicitly with what flooby suggested . . . definitely you, as the owner, needs to protect your investment . . . and your character. "user_account" status is the best way to accomplish this.make surre you keep your windows sp2 and virii definitions up-to-date . . . also download yourself a copy of both ad-aware, spy-bot and spyware_blaster . . . and keep those definitions up-to-date as well. as long as your friend has license to "surf the web" . . . we wanna' make sure we lessen the possibility of him accidentally "infecting" your computer with malware.regardin' administrator password . . . make it a "boot" type password . . . that way the person cannot manipulate the computer into booting to a program he has on floppy.one last thing . . . dell created these computers with commerce in mind. at the back of the computer is a place where one can attach a lock . . . use it. if not, your friend can always borrow the hard-drive . . . and get your data in this way."friends" are only to be trusted . . . as far as you can throw a rock.
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Posted October 28th, 2004 18:00