Re: COMPUTER PRIVACY

From: alfranze (alfranze_at_horizon.com.br)
Date: 09/20/05 

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:19:11 -0300

many things happen in our computer without our known ...
if you go to command line and do <netstat -a> you will see some ports in
LISTENING, namely, someone can connect to your computer because your
firewall authorized it.
this, donīt mean that is for do bad things, but, can be for bad things.
if you have a worm (virus) that have email incorporated it can easely send
email from your computer, with attach, without your known.

alf

"RPHFROMUT" <RPHFROMUT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B92B305D-25EC-4FB2-9D53-25735B02B625@microsoft.com...
> IS IT POSSIBLE FOR SOMEBODY TO RECEIVE A LIST OF ALL SITES VISITED
> ON MY COMPUTER FROM THEIR COMPUTER WITHOUT ME KNOWING ABOUT IT? I KNOW
> THERE IS ACCOUNTABLILITY SOFTWEAR BUT COULD THE PERSON THAT SET UP MY
> COMPUTER HAVE PUT SOMETHING ON WITHOUT ME KNOWING. WHERE WOULD I LOOK ON
MY
> COMPUTER>
>

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