Forwarding all them religious, political, cute ....

[Craig]

Just a few hints and some 'friends' stop mailing me that sort of crap.
But since I got my mom online some of her Midwest sisters have been
forwarding her every cute damned thing that goes around.
Today was one that said to turn on her sound and to click on a link in
the email.
When she called me that her computer had gone insane there was about
eight windows open to the site. - Actually I think she must have clicked the
link in the email to get it open that many times - but there was error
message that windows didn't know what to open the file with - a wav file.
I'd installed rifanview on her thing but when I gave some study I found the
folder in 'Program files" to be empty but for some txt files and a couple
folders with txt files.
I do not know how but there have been a number of programs on her
computer that have been uninstalled and left folders with empty or with some
whatever files just as is often done when uninstalling something.
So - I have XP installed on both boxes. What I wonder is if someone
knows if there is way to restrict her from changing or doing much of
anything other than what she most wants is to send and get email from her
sisters.

I'd like to restrict her doing actually anything outside to go to web
sites and to send and receive email without a password or something.
Or maybe I ought to just remove all the "uninstall" from any of the
programs in the start menu ??

LOL - so far only virus that got in was on my end. I'd been better
keeping her updated so I wound up getting that 'blaster' on my box and not
on hers. ;-)

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[Duane Arnold]

Just a few hints and some 'friends' stop mailing me that sort of
crap.
But since I got my mom online some of her Midwest sisters have been
forwarding her every cute damned thing that goes around.
Today was one that said to turn on her sound and to click on a
link in
the email.
When she called me that her computer had gone insane there was
about
eight windows open to the site. - Actually I think she must have
clicked the link in the email to get it open that many times - but
there was error message that windows didn't know what to open the file
with - a wav file. I'd installed rifanview on her thing but when I
gave some study I found the folder in 'Program files" to be empty but
for some txt files and a couple folders with txt files.
I do not know how but there have been a number of programs on her
computer that have been uninstalled and left folders with empty or
with some whatever files just as is often done when uninstalling
something.
So - I have XP installed on both boxes. What I wonder is if
someone
knows if there is way to restrict her from changing or doing much of
anything other than what she most wants is to send and get email from
her sisters.

I'd like to restrict her doing actually anything outside to go to
web
sites and to send and receive email without a password or something.
Or maybe I ought to just remove all the "uninstall" from any of
the
programs in the start menu ??

LOL - so far only virus that got in was on my end. I'd been better
keeping her updated so I wound up getting that 'blaster' on my box and
not on hers. ;-)

You can use Limited Account for the user. And any malware that tries to
run on the machine will have the same security context that the user who
is logged on has. If the user cannot do it, than neither can anything
else that tries to run.

http://www.jimthompson.net/xphome/File_Sharing.htm

You may also want to *harden* the XP O/S.

http://www.uksecurityonline.com/husdg/windowsxp.php

Duane

 

[Craig]

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You can use Limited Account for the user. And any malware that tries
to run on the machine will have the same security context that the
user who is logged on has. If the user cannot do it, than neither can
anything else that tries to run.

http://www.jimthompson.net/xphome/File_Sharing.htm

You may also want to *harden* the XP O/S.

http://www.uksecurityonline.com/husdg/windowsxp.php

Duane

Thanks. I'll give that some study.
I'd originally set the box up for myself. When I got this other and
networked to that one for her I didn't change much other than what it took
to share a folder and connection.
I tell her to not click on anything that comes in email without calling
me to look at it - but she does anyway.
She is pushing 80 and I guess I am doing good just to show her how to
email and open the games she wants.
"Right click." - "No, other right. - Pinkie...." LOL
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