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Hi all. Think I've done a boo boo with my computer. I answered an e.mail that was in my spam box, and thinking about it, could it have been someone trying to hack into my pc???? Total nerd on this I'm afraid. Just to be on safe side, I have deleted all my contacts in e.mail box. I don't use credit cards via the internet or anything.
Probably getting in a tiz over nothing, but should I be doing anything else? If computer crashes, do I just buy a virus thing. Tut Tut I know, but I don't have an anti virus on mine. (don't shout at me Bubblegum, I can hear you from here, hehe)
Hi Anna, thankyou for that. I have just downloaded AVG. I am in the process of trying to find out how to change my e.mail password. I used to do this years ago, but my brain seems totally vacant these days 
Hope you're having a good day. Has your daughter finished for the holidays yet?
Hi alisoncam, I hope AVG is good for you! Have you managed to change your password now?
My daughter breaks up tomorrow! Yay! (Ugh such a bad phrase, 'yay', I picked it up from my girl and can't seem to shake it!)Today is sports day, she is in the 100m and relay and really looking forward to it.
She usually comes 2nd in the 100m, but she is ok about that as she says the girl that beats her is really good!
Does C break up on Friday?
Very sporty your daughter. She is brilliant to come 2nd. Do parents go to watch, or is this just for younger kids? C's First school don't do sports day at all which is a shame. Don't really know if this is the norm. He finishes tomorrow at 3, so I'm really counting the hours now, so I agree Yah, hehe.
I know some of the members children have finished school already. How about others? When do yours finish?
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My boy finished ages ago, after his exams.
Re Sports day, at primary school my boys and their classmates used to be divided into teams where there was someone from each year group in each team, ie 30 -odd teams. Their theory was that they didn't want anyone to feel bad if they were not good at sports. I disagreed with that. Schools seem quite happy for individuals to shine academically so why can't children with sporting ability get the same chance? Plus. teaching children that the world is not competitive is unrealistic.
alisoncam
Download the free version of this... Malewarebytes, let it update and then run it on a full scan, it may take some time and your PC may be a bit slugish while it chugs away, but it's good : )
And after that change the passwords on important sites like email or paypal and stuff like that : )
I fix lots of peoples computers and that has gotten rid of everything up to date and its FREE!
Thankyou for that Bubblegum. At last, I've even managed to change my e.mail password.
When do your children finish school. or have they already? When are you off visiting your friend and pitching the tent?
x
The kids finished last Friday.. and they have been playing Lego Star Wars almost constantly since, literally from the time they get up till the time they go to bed which is when ever during non school times. All I can hear in my head going round and round is various Star Wars tunes.
I have to coerce them out of the house by various devious means to go shoping and stuff.
We are though going camping this weekend at someone's house for a birthday, they have a pool too which is just giving me sleepless nights imagining the worst so I expect I'll just be sat at the side of the pool the entire time with a glass of wine making sure they don't fall in : )
I used to hang out at said friends house a lot when I was a kid and it was traditional that you got thrown in at least once a day when you least expected it.. Imagine doing that now in this day and age and you'd be ruining hundreds of pounds of electrical items with phones and cameras and ipods and what ever.
Oh blimey, I can imagine what you're putting up with. Earplugs maybe???
I would be just like you, worrying over the swimming pool. It'll be great for the kids though. Can they swim? Even if they can, it's still constantly a worry. Try and enjoy it, chill out with a glass or two of the vino, or perhaps more hehe. It's great that you're still in touch with your friend years later. I keep in touch with just one of my friends from school days. We're not in regular contact, but if either of us need the other, then we both know we are at the end of a phone.
Have a fab weekend. Hope not too many creepycrawlies make their way into the tent. I've been camping once, and that was enough for me. We did have a great laugh, but traipsing back and forth to the loo wasn't much fun, though we did scare a few campers in the middle of the night with our torches.
Hope you and the children have a fab time, Bubblegum. I am with alisoncam on the creepy-crawly front. Mind you, I have always fancied a trip in one of those motor homes although the idea of the chemical toilets puts me off (having to empty them I mean, yuk) I would feel the same about the pool, what is it with we parents?
Thanks for the anti virus details, I have never seen that one before but will have a nosey at it, I like that it is free!
When I was a kid we lived in caravans in a field for about three years, my dad was building a house, a field he names Rivendell, so all our post was addressed to Rivendell, which was cool though back then nobody had heard of Lord of the Rings, but anyway, we had chemical loos in all the caravans and I had to do my own. I had to lug it across a field in all weather to 'the pit' and empty it, clean it and refill it. The trick was to not let it get too full as then it was quite prone to slop over the edge and run down your leg, not nice : )
I rest my case!
I'm with Louise on this one!!
I almost bought a touring caravan when we were homeless though, as I figured we could use it in the future. I couldn't face B&B with four children. We were blessed though, and it didn't come to that.
Hi alisoncam
I find the whole sports day thing bizarre, they stopped it in juniors at my daughters school when she was about 9. Such a shame, I am with Louise, they need to learn the competitive side of life and it does give others a chance to shine.
bubblegum, do you know of AVG? Do you have an opinion on whether it is good or not? Does it do what Malewarebytes does? Not that I am trying to get professional advice for free or anything!
I think Avast is better, it's lighter, the best 'pay for' one is NOD32. Stay away from Norton, Symantec or Mcafee or anything that comes 'free' with your computer or PCWorld tries to sell you, in fact anything that asks for money. All those companies make you think you have to have them installed or the world will end. Get a free one, the world still may end but at least you won't have wasted any money trying to stop it.
If you run Firefox and the noscript extension, Adblock plus is a good idea too and then that's half the battle.
Here is an explination : )
I use avast on my pc's that run windows, for piece of mind, but I've never had a virus only once in the late 80's on an Amiga 500.
I'll probably get one now.
I use Malwarebytes to disinfect peoples infected computers as it's about the best at doing that and the free version will do it, to have it running and watching all the time costs money. I then install avast for them.
All malicious software involves you having to click on something, basically. The trick is to learn what not to click on.
:D
I'm fairly advanced on the computer for my age and I want to be like those guys on TV who are total computer geniuses. The ones who can hack into alarm systems and into networks. Get into locked system files like Alex Rider does in some of his books. Be able to create programs. Be able to set up like something like Riley did in the movie National Treasure Book of Secret.
I dunno just be able to hack into things. Maybe even things like make my own system code to tweak my iPod touch or MacBook. Like making my own jailbreak code.
How should I go about doing this? Is there any jobs that I could use this knowledge in? Is there a degree? Is this even real or is it just movie stuff?
And I wouldn't like, hack into the White House or anything. Just something cool to know how to do and show to my friends
Hello maha
I honestly don't know how you would go about getting this sort of expertise, it sounds pretty advanced stuff to me, and much of it not legal. It would be good to learn about computers in general and the place to start is your local college.
By the way, I have noticed on your posts that you keep adding website links, I have deleted these as they are against the Forum rules.
Most of what you see people doing in films bears little resemblance to the actual reality we all exist in, this applies to when they use computers too : )
Here you go..
The other thing that is vastly different in films is driving. Even when they are going down a very straight road, most actors will slightly turn the steering wheel from side to side. When my boys were little, we took the car to an empty space and I did the hand actions of those drivers and we went in zigzags. Not to be recommended on a road!
And playing the piano! Actors always sit very still and have their hands really low as if they are drumming their fingers on a table instead of raised enough to exert different pressures on different notes and moving their body with the flow of the music.I can always tell whether they are really playing it just by how they hold their hands.
What about Gerard Depardieu in Green Card?
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What about him? Haven't seen that one!! Does he try to play the piano? 
Also some people can throw a punch and completely knock someone out in one blow and some people take ages to go down!! 
Or.... some people can throw a punch, miss, and the person they were aiming at and missed still go down 
I like when people are driving and making eye contact while having a conversation with the person sat in the passenger seat, it makes me nervous just to watch.
Mind you having said that most of you here are women so you probably don't see the problem in that.
:D
...don't hit me.
Thats like when I was younger at a club and there would be people slow dancing or snogging and one of them would be scanning the room!! ha ha
No one is going to hit you bubblegum, this is a violence free website!
Funny how this topic has gone from computer hackers into observations!
The first girl I ever 'snogged' when I was fourteen kept her eyes open, both of them. That and she kept banging her teeth on mine.
:)
EEeuuugghhhh, gross thought! Ha ha! I guess you had your eyes open too, to know hers were open!! Tee hee!
Hi alisoncam
I had someone hack into my hotmail account and send a random email to all my contacts, the advice I received was to change my password to something more secure using numbers and letters, it hasn't happened again.
As for replying to spam, you may just find that you get loads of random emails, but I am not a whizz at these things.
At home I downloaded free antivirus and antispyware security software from AVG, it seems to be working well, I think it is a good idea to have some sort of protection on your home computer.
Hopefully bubblegum will be along to give you proper computer information as I said I am not all that great on these kind of things!