I don't usually, but... 10057
Kier
I was out of state this past weekend attending a ceremony. We were over some relatives and my brother-in-law asked me to take a quick look at his computer (XP-Home) because he had a problem with "pop-ups" invading his system.
Sure enough, he had a bunch of crap-malware on there that I removed. Similar to how I removed crap 6 months ago when we were last over there.
I'll do the easy one first.. the "don't respect the ACL stuff in Windows." It's not up to the application to respect the ACL (access control list). The ACL is something that the...
He has a firewall-router and his XP automatic updates are enabled so I was a bit curious how he got all this stuff. One problem is that he has teenagers (younger teenagers) who download a lot of crap from the web. The other problem is that somewhere along the way somebody downloaded and installed a very suspicous Active-X control.
I changed the "user permission" for his kids to only be "Users" and not Admins which should solve the kid side of the problem. I suspect that the Active-X control was some sort of crap that allowed the control to automatically download and install apps from certain web-sites. I deleted this control which will solve the problem... for now at least.
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 01:24:57 +0000, Rich Bell And? He ran X with it. Did you miss the part about his being busy? My brother has a full-time job and an active...
The problem with most users is that they don't keep current with updates and patches. They get something, install it and then buttume that they are permanently done.
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