Kyle
We believe that some bad trojan? or whatever it is has been taken on by our entire houseful of regular pc's and laptops. It's Windows XP and 7. One of them got so irritated when I discovered it, that locked up all ways to access the internet, and froze up all programs. Then another pc gave me my first locked up blue screen, which I've never had since using XP, for 10+years. On two computers, I got them to work, after lots of trial and error, but they're definetly not the same.
So, it sounds funny, but in this world, I guess anything is possible, is a Apple Mac safe from either government, military, or browser spying (such as Yahoo, via employees)?
I guess it's not called Yahoo, "browser"., but just called "Yahoo".
Answer
Yours is a 2 part Q:
1) Privacy
2) Security
Both are hard to attain and equally hard to maintain.
1) Since all devices that interconnect using the Internet use the same 'mechanisms' (TCP/IP); and browsers come with liberal settings (to give users "that rich Internet experience"), it's been determined by very smart people other than yourself what you should be seeing and doing over those mechanisms; and they have figured out ways to monitor where you go and what you do when you get there, plus influence your future behavior.
Unless you modify your browser(s) automatic behavior, they will always have this influence over you.**
2) Your computer symptoms indicate an infection by one of the 'rogue' malware items that plague Windows users, but Apple has been lately getting the same garbage.
Giving us a name of the malware that's shut you out would allow more specific removal instructions.
I use Linux and never get this crap, but I've seen thousands of PC users here on Yahoo in the same boat as you.
** Does the Government monitor what everyone is doing?
You decide:
Jul 30, 2012 https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/260035/defcon_20_roundup_lessons_in_security.html
"A former NSA official...William Binney...[accused] NSA Director...Alexander [of] playing a âword gameâ and that the NSA was...collecting e-mails, Twitter writings, internet searches and other data...and indexing [them].
He said the NSA began building its data collection system...prior to 9/11, and then used the terrorist attacks...as the excuse to launch the data collection project. ... Binney was contradicting statements made...by Alexander, who told the crowd...that his agency âabsolutelyâ does not maintain files on Americans.
But ACLU staff attorney Alex Abdo...noted that a gaping loophole in the law...allows the agency to do dragnet surveillance...and hold onto that data.
New Justice Department Documents Show Huge Increase in Warrant-less Electronic Surveillance http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=30619
Yours is a 2 part Q:
1) Privacy
2) Security
Both are hard to attain and equally hard to maintain.
1) Since all devices that interconnect using the Internet use the same 'mechanisms' (TCP/IP); and browsers come with liberal settings (to give users "that rich Internet experience"), it's been determined by very smart people other than yourself what you should be seeing and doing over those mechanisms; and they have figured out ways to monitor where you go and what you do when you get there, plus influence your future behavior.
Unless you modify your browser(s) automatic behavior, they will always have this influence over you.**
2) Your computer symptoms indicate an infection by one of the 'rogue' malware items that plague Windows users, but Apple has been lately getting the same garbage.
Giving us a name of the malware that's shut you out would allow more specific removal instructions.
I use Linux and never get this crap, but I've seen thousands of PC users here on Yahoo in the same boat as you.
** Does the Government monitor what everyone is doing?
You decide:
Jul 30, 2012 https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/260035/defcon_20_roundup_lessons_in_security.html
"A former NSA official...William Binney...[accused] NSA Director...Alexander [of] playing a âword gameâ and that the NSA was...collecting e-mails, Twitter writings, internet searches and other data...and indexing [them].
He said the NSA began building its data collection system...prior to 9/11, and then used the terrorist attacks...as the excuse to launch the data collection project. ... Binney was contradicting statements made...by Alexander, who told the crowd...that his agency âabsolutelyâ does not maintain files on Americans.
But ACLU staff attorney Alex Abdo...noted that a gaping loophole in the law...allows the agency to do dragnet surveillance...and hold onto that data.
New Justice Department Documents Show Huge Increase in Warrant-less Electronic Surveillance http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=30619
Do you space out at work?
cantrellma
If so, for how long?
Answer
hmm
well, I show up anywhere from 15 - 45 minutes late. everyone assumes i was up late working each night and feels this is acceptable.
once i get to work, i get a cup of coffee and stare out the window for about 30 minutes. i've arranged my office so that there's a monitor between me and the window, it looks as if i'm working.
then the mail comes and i open everything i bought from amazon that arrived that day. once opened, i archive the receipts for use as tax deductions and play with the stuff i bought for a while. once done playing, it's lunch time.
i get an hour for lunch however, i take 90 minutes - 2 hours depending. if we go out to lunch, it can take as long as 3 hours.
when i get back from lunch, i get a cup of tea and check my personal email. once i'm done with this, i call my mother. my mother and i tease each other for a while, sometimes as long as an hour.
at that point, i go to the yahoo games thing and do the daily soduku, word roundup and crossword puzzle. although i complete the soduko and word roundup alone, i make the yahoo crossword puzzle autosolve itself because the hints for the puzzles are so terrible.
once I'm done with that, i shop online for a while or go to Starbucks. sometimes i sneak out and return home, sometimes i go see a movie. most often, i walk around the building and gossip with my coworkers.
once the gossiping is done, I return to my office and build my own VW Beetle on the VW website. Sometimes I do this two or three times and sometimes I build my own C-Class Mercedes instead.
By this time, it's about 4pm. I finally pop open my work email and spend about an hour doing actual work before leaving 30 minutes early.
Interestingly enough, my company believes I am unforgivably busy and am an exceptionally productive employee.
other things I do to pass the time typically involve misuse, abuse or simply toying with office supplies
hmm
well, I show up anywhere from 15 - 45 minutes late. everyone assumes i was up late working each night and feels this is acceptable.
once i get to work, i get a cup of coffee and stare out the window for about 30 minutes. i've arranged my office so that there's a monitor between me and the window, it looks as if i'm working.
then the mail comes and i open everything i bought from amazon that arrived that day. once opened, i archive the receipts for use as tax deductions and play with the stuff i bought for a while. once done playing, it's lunch time.
i get an hour for lunch however, i take 90 minutes - 2 hours depending. if we go out to lunch, it can take as long as 3 hours.
when i get back from lunch, i get a cup of tea and check my personal email. once i'm done with this, i call my mother. my mother and i tease each other for a while, sometimes as long as an hour.
at that point, i go to the yahoo games thing and do the daily soduku, word roundup and crossword puzzle. although i complete the soduko and word roundup alone, i make the yahoo crossword puzzle autosolve itself because the hints for the puzzles are so terrible.
once I'm done with that, i shop online for a while or go to Starbucks. sometimes i sneak out and return home, sometimes i go see a movie. most often, i walk around the building and gossip with my coworkers.
once the gossiping is done, I return to my office and build my own VW Beetle on the VW website. Sometimes I do this two or three times and sometimes I build my own C-Class Mercedes instead.
By this time, it's about 4pm. I finally pop open my work email and spend about an hour doing actual work before leaving 30 minutes early.
Interestingly enough, my company believes I am unforgivably busy and am an exceptionally productive employee.
other things I do to pass the time typically involve misuse, abuse or simply toying with office supplies
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