The first good suggestion would be having the girl get a new ICQ#
(permanently delete the other from your ICQ database) as chances are that
is how the hacker knows when she is online to do any damage.... a second
suggestion maybe a good firewall.. tends to keep most "hacker" types out
when it is properly configured... a third suggestion would be visiting
http://split.netset.com/hackfix and reading up on the recent internet
invasion of trojans that once installed can allow another to view
files/activities (usually for passwords/secure documents) on an innocent
users computer and at times do some major damage from renaming/deleting
files to rebooting and formatting a system... if you have any questions
concerning the above page feel free to email me privately and ill gladly
try to help
Christy Duncan
At 08:19 AM 6/2/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Good Morning,
> I have a reader with the following problem...
>
><<<I am very concerned about a problem we have. My daughter gave
>this boy her icq# at school, not realizing he was very strange
>and now somehow he has hacked into our computer and reads all her
>personal talk and who knows whatelse. We are new at the computer
>and really don't know how to stop him from doing this. She has
>tried to block him, but he still hacks. Any help?>>>
>
> How does a computer novice stop someone from breaking into their
>computer in this manner?
>
>
> Elizabeth Boston
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