Busy Day
Sorry about the light posting today. I've been trying to undo the damage my kids did to one of the computers around the Crabitat. It has been a day of colorful language and disappearing children around here. All those "fun" little programs they like aren't at all fun to deal with.
Uncategorized | Gaius Monday, 19 February , 2007
By Quilly Mammoth, Monday, 19 February , 2007 @ 9:26 pm
These days the five scariest words a child can tell its parents are:
“I downloaded a new game!”
By Gaius, Monday, 19 February , 2007 @ 11:33 pm
Those “free” games exact a high price. I had a hell of a time killing some of the adware…..
By Sylvia, Tuesday, 20 February , 2007 @ 10:31 am
Our 14yo’s school provides every child with a laptop. The school tried to set up rigorous firewalls and protections, but then the kids couldn’t log on to the school’s server, let alone check web-based email. Now she can log on to nearly anything and is having to exercise her own judgment, which is pretty good, but sometimes it’s like living in a bad part of town — the things she’s seen in that moment before she can close the window! Yikes.
Good luck with the adware mess.
By Gaius, Tuesday, 20 February , 2007 @ 12:15 pm
Yeah, there appears to be a rootkit installed that I will have to try to deal with or I’ll have to wipe the drive.