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Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle
What a ****** misskitty! Hope you manage to get it sorted quickly.
By coincidence I was just looking at the Windows updates websites and noticed cyberdefender, an internet security suite. I presume I don't need another internet suite with having Nortons?
These keyloggers sound worrying  How serious are they to a normal home user? To avoid being caught out by these keylogger things is it better to have websites 'remember' your passwords so you don't have to type it out?
Rootkit? Whats those all about then? Should the home user have one?
I know security is paramount on the pc but when you hear of someone getting hacked, unfortunately this time misskitty, it sort of sends you into a panic. |
I'm not a fan of Norton as mentioned before. Have you paid for a subscription Tinks? IIRC teh norton that comes on laptops is only a demo version?????
There are security issues with having sites remember your passwords. its stored somewhere on your PC (usually in a known location so trojans etc don't even have to wait for you to type it, they can just get them all from your hard disk without you knowing its been done
Rootkit is something you REALLY don't want. its basically a virus that installs itself into required system files such that you can't even tell they are installed. VERY serious stuff.