Re: Need advice about hacking and security

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Date: 10/28/02 

Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:34:42 +0000 (UTC)

wow- is your computer wide open to abuse or what .........

I use a number of FREE applications that protect me (I hope) from the abuse
that you are suffering.

Zone Alarm is a personal firewall
Mailwasher helps to stop SPAM
AVG is an antivirus application from Grisoft
Ad-Aware from Lavasoft removes all the spyware from your system.

You can find all the download locations by entering the application names
into www.google.com

If you want to get a little more complex, you can create or edit your
'hosts' files in Windows to stop advertising and other pop-ups.

"darlene" <dlor60@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:83724cbc.0210280109.db1dc12@posting.google.com...
> If anyone can please give me some insight about some computer issues,
> I would appreciate it.
>
> Since I've had my used computer for about 2 years, I've had my privacy
> violated to the extreme. All of my email accounts - Hotmail, Yahoo,
> my Outlook, my personal files have been tampered with. The sites
> where I frequent, some sock puppet apparently take personal info from
> personal emails and post them in their messages. I receive offensive
> purported porno 'opt-in' emails that I did not subscribe to - even
> within a few hours of creating a brand new email account. I also get
> taunted by a psycho cyberstalker who puts her name in the 'subject' or
> email address of porno junkmail to make it appear to be unsolicited
> spam.
>
> I frequently get these prompts "...computer shut down by the remote
> computer," "Password or access denied by the remote computer" or if
> I'm using a program I'll get kicked out accompanied by the message
> that says something to the effect of it "being used by 'another
> user'."
>
> What can I do about all of this? I have 3 suspicions as to who is
> behind this crap and all have their motives, but I would like to know
> what are the legal ramifications? 

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