It's quiet. Too quiet...
Oct. 25th, 2009 10:19 amSo here I sit, awaiting the arrival of the brother-in-law so that we can get the heat tape installed on the trailer. Given that he did a 14 hour overtime shift at his job yesterday, I have -no- idea what time he'll show up. This should be the last of the outdoor projects for the season; with the onset of fall temperatures I'm not able to get much done before I have to come back in and warm up.
The nephew has pulled another little stunt, possibly two. The definite one is that he managed to unblock his phone and download over $100 worth of games. The potential one is that the parental controls I'd set up on his account have been turned off somewhere along the line... which means someone guessed either mom or dad's password and went hunting for it. Having logged in remotely, I discover that it's been pretty badly hacked. SOMEBODY has been visiting porn sites and picked up some nasty virtual STDs. Hopefully SpyBot can dig things out, as I do NOT want to have to reinstall that machine again. *makes a quick phonecall* Okay, so the only one home is the bro-in-law, and he's heading out to my place now. Everyone else is at church and will be coming here after, so I've got some time to try and disinfect 'Beasty'. And yes, I really did name the computer 'Beasty'.
Hrm. Definitely hacked. Key loggers and other fun stuff. I've sent a warning to my sister to keep everyone off of it. *sigh* I know who's responsible for this. And I know who let it happen. Tempting to just let it corkscrew itself to death and be done with it, but I know that's not an acceptable answer. My niece there has her laptop back, so I know she's not using the Vista comp. Bro-in-law uses the other machine and never touches the Vista machine. That only leaves two, sister and nephew.
I must've been a lawyer or something in a prior life. This has to be karmic payback.
EDIT: Brother-in-law is bringing Beasty to me, so I can work on it here AND keep anyone else from getting their passwords rooked. I've moved IM duties back to Mansion for the moment; I have to shut down the G4 or there's not enough juice to run Beasty. Sometime in the next few days I have to shut everything down and rearrange the power lines so that I can support a third machine out here. I have a pair of small UPS units that will go into place; in the event of a power outage Manion, the monitor and the KVM will be routed through it. The cable modem already has a battery in it, so I don't have to worry about it. *sigh* I need to know which one to smack. Maybe I'll just smack 'em both...
The nephew has pulled another little stunt, possibly two. The definite one is that he managed to unblock his phone and download over $100 worth of games. The potential one is that the parental controls I'd set up on his account have been turned off somewhere along the line... which means someone guessed either mom or dad's password and went hunting for it. Having logged in remotely, I discover that it's been pretty badly hacked. SOMEBODY has been visiting porn sites and picked up some nasty virtual STDs. Hopefully SpyBot can dig things out, as I do NOT want to have to reinstall that machine again. *makes a quick phonecall* Okay, so the only one home is the bro-in-law, and he's heading out to my place now. Everyone else is at church and will be coming here after, so I've got some time to try and disinfect 'Beasty'. And yes, I really did name the computer 'Beasty'.
Hrm. Definitely hacked. Key loggers and other fun stuff. I've sent a warning to my sister to keep everyone off of it. *sigh* I know who's responsible for this. And I know who let it happen. Tempting to just let it corkscrew itself to death and be done with it, but I know that's not an acceptable answer. My niece there has her laptop back, so I know she's not using the Vista comp. Bro-in-law uses the other machine and never touches the Vista machine. That only leaves two, sister and nephew.
I must've been a lawyer or something in a prior life. This has to be karmic payback.
EDIT: Brother-in-law is bringing Beasty to me, so I can work on it here AND keep anyone else from getting their passwords rooked. I've moved IM duties back to Mansion for the moment; I have to shut down the G4 or there's not enough juice to run Beasty. Sometime in the next few days I have to shut everything down and rearrange the power lines so that I can support a third machine out here. I have a pair of small UPS units that will go into place; in the event of a power outage Manion, the monitor and the KVM will be routed through it. The cable modem already has a battery in it, so I don't have to worry about it. *sigh* I need to know which one to smack. Maybe I'll just smack 'em both...