My daughter has set up a web page on "My Space". Is it prone to virus attacks?
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No, you can't catch a virus from a well designed web site like MySpace. You obviously should talk to your daughter about not giving out her phone number or address on MySpace unless she is really sure the other person is who s/he claims to be.\nMyself being a parent of a young daughter, and an information security professional, I do not share the negative views that people have on MySpace. I think this site is a wonderful thing. Just like all means of communciation, it takes the right street smarts to make sure you don't get hurt. But in that respect MySpace is not different from the places we used to hang out at as kids.
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have you ran any computer scans to find and possibly remove small viruses?
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Nope...at least not one that will last more than two days. Actually if you add a tracker it will hurt your site and possibly your computer.\n\nMyspace has a block and they run scans all the time. The don't want another site making money off of them. \n\nBut alot of Virus handy geeky jackass's are using people's curiosity to set up new viruses to attack computers. Be careful!
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I will say this once again, Porn sites, free music download sites, online gaming sites, gambling sites, so called free software sites, etc. are almost ALWAYS guaranteed to at least be infected with adware and spyware, not to mention the possibilities of trojans, hijackers, and malware! I dont use anti virus software at all. No need for it if you are intelligent enough to understand these basics. If I want my mp3 music I go buy a cd and and rip it to mp3. I vary rarely get infected! Been on the net for 15 years and believe me, I learned it the hard way! I repair computers for a living and most of the money I make is cleaning peoples systems out. Some of the people I service have the most sophisticated virus protection you can pay for and they still get infected! People think they are protected, they aint got a clue. E mail is another subject, Get yourself two e-mail accounts. A primary account solely for family and friends, and a secondary for all the websites that ask you for an e-mail addy. Dont open attachments in the primary unless its family pics, that funny joke someone sent you isnt worth the 75 bucks your gonna pay to clean your system. Simply use it for communications. Let your secondary account get the spam! It will take care of itself. Remember, a good portion of viruses comes through your e-mail directly from unknowing friends. \n\nP.S. Anyone who tells you that limewire, bearshare, kazaa, etc aint infected is an absolute boob! I will GUARANTEE that they are all infested with adware, not to mention malicous software incorporated into the tunes you download! Either learn to clean your system or pay out the bum to have someone else do it!
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If they have My Spaces you might be able to tell from there. Or you can check if they have Yahoo 360 Profile. These sites usually keep track of recently visited websites. You might also want to ask this in computers or internet. Kids these days know alot more about the computers than we parents do.There probably is some way to get it off your harddrive but I'm not familiar enough with that to talk you through it. Sorry,hope you get some decent answers that will resolve this for you. Also I suggest setting parental controls on your computer too. This prevents them from accessing sites that you don't want them to have access to.  Only you would know the password to reset it.  Zoya
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Three issues.\n\n1) Your browser (either Google or Yahoo, etc)  must have some filter or equivalent security feature.  Make sure that is turned on and set to medium. \n\n2)  Your 8 year old should have his own screenname with parental controls appropriate for an 8 yr old.  So she should not have been using your screenname.\n\n3)  You might have some spyware or virus that allows a site to hijack the computer.  You need to do a antivirus and spyware sweep.\n\nIt's good that you are monitoring what your child does online.  I'd hate to guess what kids might be doing at sites such as myspace.com without adult supervision.\n\nGood luck.
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This is pretty good: www.blogger.com\n\nBut please read these links on safety below and keep some important stuff in mind:\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidblog.mspx\nhttp://www.wiredsafety.org/internet101/blogs.html
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Good enough. And here you have some more good and free options:\nhttp://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/security.htm
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Might want to do a virus scan
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yes, but beware of viruses
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virus' of all types are sneeky they get into your pc some sites have it set up that if you accidently right click on a website you are automatically getting a virus. If you find you are getting a lot of virus' you might want to stay away from certain types of websites such as porn, booter, hacker sites etc these are usually very dangerous if you dont know what you are doing or dont have the correct program to stop this. Also get a good popup stopper
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No Problems. A place to get a virus free crack or serial or keygen is...\n\nCrackTeam.ws
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iTunes is very reputable.  No site is 100% secure, but I haven't heard of any problems related to that one.  Are you running an anti-virus program?  Do you run regular scans (and/or realtime scans) with it?  Do you run anti-spyware programs on a regular basis?  (Pick at least 2... AdAware, SpyBot, etc, both are free).
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is this some kind of virus site???
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Try shareaza, you can link into many other p2p sites. I've used it for years and I've never had any trouble or viruses.
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use it, it's less prone to viruses and pop ups
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No, I recommend Symantec Firewall/Anti-Virus, Ad Aware SE, System Mechanic and maybe Spy Doctor.  Some catch most, but all it takes is one bad virus or malware etc....