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I have a problem with 2 computers and its kind of a large. Hard to know where to start so I'll keep it short, but I think it may concern even Microsoft, because it involves the use of what I believe to be false "terms of service" or small print and I knew even where the source of this problem is, but I really need help! Myself and others use laptops we bought together. We live in a family, but laptops, a TOSHIBA and a HP/COMPAQ F700 satellite, as well as what I call a wireless router belong to the USA! We are connected through this wireless device, a PRISM which is perhaps a bit older, but of course seems to work, it is plugged into a modem cable motorola belonging to someone else in the House. To make things moving along, he came to our attention that A: our systems periodically change without our permission, by that I mean that the toshiba that was purchased at walmart brand new, came with an Intel Celeron, and I think THAT the wireless card IS an atheros brand. I KNOW that was the case with the Compaq regarding the wireless adapter, and Compaq was bought at a rent to own store and came with a 1 GB ram AMD processor. For some reason, we are under some form of control Admin, and our system is changing periodically on BOTH computers to say his family chipset intel and our wireless adapters will go to realtek USB 2.0, once again on BOTH computers. When this happens, our user accounts admin, that we had as an administrator user accounts AND I have unlocked the hidden via the cmd prompt and hold SHIFT + ENTER thing, will be signed in some way limit our ability to do things. LAST FEW DETAILS, I promise you: the so-called matrix memory of intel as magically appeared with software RAID of surveillance and we saw our event logs, which we prob didn't know existed, being transferred by a remote user, and we have never consulted the remote adjustment, except in order to turn them off, as well as file sharing options. However they continue to change when this happens. Yesterday, to finish that, I found strange things after doing a thing of complete system repair, not for the first time, this time on the compaq. After the repair, which seemed fine at first, I was embarrassed to find a few shortcuts readme present in the recently amended on the start menu folder. I followed them to the folder locations that led me to the prog. files, THE SIMS 2, and various subfolders with S.W.R. claiming to be from MICROSOFT and don't mention any particular O.S. except with reference to .NET and some virtualization programs that we noticed the menu running task. OH, I shouldn't forget that with the processor changes in both pc, THEY BOTH now say that they ar x 86 client or PC workstation and a recent attempt on the repair of the system or pressing f8 on the toshiba somehow led me to a weird command prompt which began with X : ?? I'm prob a few things set aside even if it is really long, but the SIMS 2 folder is very disturbing because a person who lives here once gave us a CD on an old computer that has not been used for at least 3 years and we have certainly not installed this game WE NEITHER of these new computers. I SUSPECT SOME things but don't know what to do. I TRIED to get our product off the coast of the TOSHIBA key but was said previously by a repairman it seems to have BEEN DELETED! The records in question, according to me, are always on both pc and we executed the software suggested, including microsoft security databases, s.s.and destroy, and the malewarebytes thing, as well as to have a repair shop gives us some tips. They said several things, like the toshiba tried to boot from the drive cd/DVD, then boot pxe or something and someone had changed the wake on lan option, and maybe other things I do not remember. OK SORRY FOR ALL this THAT REALLY, but I wanted to make sure that I gave as much information as possible because we never wanted our PC clone, virtualized, or something like that, whatever realtek usb 2.0 is, it's another icon of the wireless connection in the tray on the lower right AND THE COMPAQ is REMAINED CONNECTED WITH the off switch wireless? Help!
Thank you for your gracious reply. It certainly sounds to me like your computers are compromised. As I said, the only way to fix now is to restore as long as the plant once more after you back up your data and then set them up by the suggestions below. It costs you nothing but time. I'll also give you my general information on the configuration of the network wireless safely. Unfortunately, you must have control of the wireless router to do this. If you do not, then consider doing your own Internet connection and wireless router. Addition to the steps of General safety below, make sure that file/printer sharing is DISABLED.
The result of all this is to keep on the front of your mind is that security, physical access to a machine trumps all. If you do not trust the people with whom you live and/or people who visit them, you have to keep the computer with you or in a locked environment that no one else can enter. And of course the locks can be chosen. Or find the best people to live with. I understand that this is not possible in your real world, but I'm telling you all the options.
Computer security - any computer running an operating system is accessible by a person with 1) physical access; (2) time; (3) jurisdiction; (4) tools of. There are a few things you can do to make it a little more difficult but:
1. define a password in the BIOS that must be entered before starting the operating system. Also to set the supervisor password in the BIOS so the BIOS configuration cannot be entered without it.
2. starting at the BIOS, change the order of boot to hard drive first.
3. set strong passwords on all accounts, including the built-in XP administrator account (it is disabled by default in Vista).
4. If you leave your own account connected, use Windows key + L to lock the computer (or set the screen/power economy saver) when you step away from the computer and require a password to use.
5. do the other accounts of users limited in XP Home, regular user accounts in XP Pro. All users must be on a Standard account in Vista with an administrator account (called something like 'Tech' or 'CompAdmin') only used for purposes of elevation.
6. If more than one person uses the computer user set permissions/restrictions:
If you have XP/Vista/Windows 7 Home, you don't have the built-in ability to create fine-grained limits. In XP and Vista, you can use the Security Console or MVP Doug Knox or the program MS SteadyState to set restrictions as you wish. SteadyState now supports Vista but not Windows 7. Mr. Knox security console may still work in Win7.
http://www.dougknox.com
http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/products/winfamily/SharedAccess/default.mspx
Information about SteadyState - http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=27570
SteadyState support - http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/windowssteadystate/threads/
SteadyState How - to (not supported in Windows 7 still) - http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/6520/windows-steadystate/
Please understand that these are technical answers to what is essentially a technical problem and there are ways around these precautions. It is a problem of family / interpersonal which cannot be solved by technical means.
Establishing a safe wireless router - have a computer connected to the router with an ethernet cable. Examples given are for a Linksys router. See the manual of your router or the router mftr's Web site. for the parameters by default if you don't have a Linksys. Open a browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox and in the address bar type:
http://192.168.1.1 [Enter] (it is default IP address of the router, which varies from router to router then check your manual)
This will bring you to the login screen of the router. The default username is blank and the Linksys default password is "admin" without the quotes. Enter this information. You are now in the configuration of the router utility. Your configuration utility may be slightly different from mine. The first thing to do is to change the password by default because everyone knows the default passwords for different routers.
Click the Administration link at the top of the page. Enter your new password. MAKE A NOTE SOMEWHERE THAT YOU WILL NOT LOSE. Re-enter the password to confirm it, and then click Save settings at the bottom of the page. The router will reboot and show you the box of connection again. Do not fill in the user name and put it in your new password to enter the configuration utility.
Now, click on the link wireless at the top of the page. Change the network name (SSID) wireless by default to something, you'll recognize. I suggest that my clients not use their surname as the SSID. For example, you might want to name your network wireless network "CastleAnthrax" or similar. ;-)
Click on save settings and when you get the prompt that your changes were successful, click the wireless security link which is just beside the Basic Wireless Settings link (where you changed your SSID). Most computers purchased during the last 4 years have the wireless hardware that will support WPA2-Personal (also known as WPA2-PSK). This is the desired encryption level. If your wireless hardware is older, use WPA. Don't use WEP, because who is easily broken within minutes. So go ahead and set the Security Mode WPA2-Personal. Do this and enter a password. For example, you could use the password ' here be dragons, beware you scurvy dogs! The password is what you enter on all computers that are allowed to connect to the wireless network. MAKE A NOTE SOMEWHERE THAT YOU WILL NOT LOSE.
At this point, your router is set up and if the computer that you use to configure the router will normally connect wireless, disconnect the ethernet cable and wireless of the computer should see your new network. Enter the password that you have created (exactly as you wrote it with all capital letters and punctuation) to join the network and start surfing.
If you want to develop me on this or have any other questions, feel free to ask. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!
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