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no i was not talking about you sarcasm i was asking overdraft if what he wrote was sarcasm cause he was yes i do got highspeed THANK YOU VERY MUCH and i was just asking if it was sarcasm or something

 

 

hahah but anyway no problem were you able to register i did not want to post the invite code in the torrent thread only trying to give it to people who deserve it

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Its alot to read so just read the headline

 

Employers wiping out Net surfing on the job

 

(Chicago Tribune (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) May 20--The Web can be a great waste of time at work.

 

From catching up on the latest weird videos to planning a wedding, millions of people use the Internet every day. But much of that surfing is done from a cubicle, leading to hours of questionable productivity and strained resources.

 

In response, workplace Internet policies are getting stricter.

 

Companies are starting to ban Web access, block instant messaging services to squash discreet conversations among chatty co-workers and prohibit employees from watching sporting events on their computers.

 

"If you're watching video, you're probably not working," said Vimal Solanki, director of product marketing at McAfee Inc., a software vendor whose products to block Web access are selling briskly.

 

In fact, the Web has become so addictive that 54 percent of men said they would rather give up their morning coffee than lose their personal Internet fix at work, according to a new survey. And 47 percent of women said they would do the same.

 

 

The Internet has become the modern day equivalent of the phone," said Richard Chaifetz, chief executive officer of ComPsych, a Chicago-based provider of employee assistance programs. "The difference is the phone is more obvious, you know when someone is talking. But the Internet is more stealth. It can be hard to tell when someone is online."

 

This is where the new restrictions come into play. In state government offices across Illinois, for example, workers have access to sports sites such as ESPN.com, but they can't watch the streaming video that accompanies game highlights. The reason: Internet video is a huge drain on resources, affecting not only productivity but also clogging network bandwidth.

 

The rapid growth of online video is only one reason why workplace Internet restrictions are getting tougher.

 

Other concerns include guarding against legal threats, such as sexual harassment, and preventing malicious software from disabling a corporate network.

 

"I'm paid to be paranoid," said Mike Ward, the director of information services at Anderson Hospital in Maryville, Ill. "I make sure we're secure."

 

At Ward's Downstate hospital, Internet access for nurses and other staff is severely restricted. Only a few employees can even use the hospital's e-mail system to send a personal note, and they cannot use Internet-based e-mail systems, such as Gmail or Hotmail.

 

At one point, Ward even blocked access to the Google search engine, but he has since rescinded that policy, even though many of the Web sites that a search query will return cannot be accessed.

 

For workers who find themselves unplugged, the experience is very "Big Brother-ish," said an administrator for a large health-care organization in suburban Detroit that instituted a strict policy last year.

 

"It can be a big barrier if you are trying to research a topic or even order supplies," said the worker, who asked not to be named.

 

To access the Internet, the worker needs to fill out a form stating the business case and have it approved by a manager before the IT department will grant access.

 

"It's not timely and is such a pain in the butt," the worker said. And if someone does get online without permission, "you can get in big trouble."

 

Indeed, an employee for the New York City education department was recently fired for using the Web to read online news reports and visit travel sites while at work. He had been warned to stop.

 

That is not an isolated case. According to a survey conducted in 2005 by the ePolicy Institute and the American Management Association, 26 percent of employers have fired workers for misusing the Internet. A total of 526 companies responded to the survey.

 

It also found that 65 percent of companies use software to limit or block Internet access, a 27 percent increase since the survey was last conducted in 2001.

 

"I'm surprised it's not 100 percent," said Nancy Flynn, executive director of ePolicy, a consulting firm that works with companies to reduce Internet risks.

 

"I don't think it's extreme to enforce that an employee's computer use is for the company, not personal business."

 

The biggest reason why, Flynn said, is legal liability.

 

"The courts make no distinction between electronic messages and paper messages," she said. "If your organization is involved in a lawsuit, you can take it to the bank that your employees' e-mail messages will be subpoenaed and their history of Internet surfing could be looked at, too."

 

She added that inappropriate Web surfing, such as a worker who visits a pornographic site and positions the computer screen so other workers see the images, could trigger a sexual harassment suit.

 

Another survey found that 16 percent of men who access the Web from work had visited a porn site, while only 8 percent of women had done so.

 

Furthermore, that survey found that men spent an average of 2.3 hours per week at non-work-related Web sites, while women said they spent 1.5 hours each week at such sites, according to Internet security firm Websense Inc. The results are from 500 workers who have work access to the Internet at companies with at least 100 employees.

 

The State of Illinois is one employer controlling where workers can go online. "We certainly block access to sites that are inappropriate," said Tony Daniels, deputy director of the bureau of computing and communication services, the state's top IT professional.

 

That ban includes such popular places as America Online and any access to streaming video. Daniels added the policy can be altered based on a department's business needs, but no longer do state employees get blanket access to the Web.

 

Over the past year, sales of hardware and software products to restrict Web access have been increasing, said McAfee's Solanki. "Videos, MP3 files and other such content is choking up Internet resources and not allowing the networks to work well."

 

The concern over Internet access can have consequences.

 

A co-worker of the suburban Detroit administrator wanted to take advantage of an employee discount program to buy a new mobile phone. But the vendor wouldn't allow the purchase to be made from a home computer.

 

The problem: an employer policy prohibiting on-line shopping from work.

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Balmer: With Vista spyware and other malware is history

 

Steve Balmer, chief executive of Microsoft, has made a statement about the securityfeatures in Windows Vista: “Windows Vista will deliver a level of security that could bring an end to traditional virus and worm attacks”, he claimed during a public speaking engagement in Silicon Valley yesterday. He claims that, when we take away the human error-factor, Vista is going to be so secure that all kind of malware should be history because by then Microsoft will have eliminated the known attack vectors that people use against Windows today.

 

read the rest here http://www.securityview.org/balmer-with-vista-spyware-and-other-malware-is-history.html

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I am fairly certain it got in through limewire/photoshop that i installed off of limewire.. so I deleted them both.

 

do you know any good file sharing programs that do not have very high risk?

 

 

I D/Ld them shits from them places.. just do a virus scan on the folders before you install or open em...

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well he can do that but the worm that norton found is a bad worm it creeps inside your windows system32 folder and changes things when you do a virus scan the worm will turn its files its changed back to normal till the scan is done and it will go back when finished thats why i said restart the computer and run in safemode so nothing is running but the antivirus program and to scan within archives

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thanks...

you get a previously received package and possibly some more memory chips when im done playin musical ram with the chips i just took out of the new pc at work and the 4 pc's at my house right now...

i know i know... but im setting up a new pc at work and we have a legit copy of office... i just cant find the serial... and the guy whose pc this is will be all butt hurt if he cant use word and excell on monday

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Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Final : s/n: Disk 1: DT3FT-BFH4M-GYYH8-PG9C3-8K2FJ

Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Final : s/n: Disk 3: 083-958389

 

Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Final : s/n: Disk 1: FHHG2-QGPPP-RMD2G-KPVJ4-4X4H6

Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Final : s/n: Disk 3: 450-6787671

 

Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Final : s/n: Disk 1: GC6J3-GTQ62-FP876-94FBR-D3DX8

Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Final : s/n: Disk 3: 442-0153147

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also besides avast for your antivirus and otherthings get outpost as your firewall too

 

 

 

I just paid for Norton, though. I got rid of the old version before I installed. It keeps reading 192.168.1.1 as an unknown ICMP threat and I can't find a control to mark that as safe.

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none of those office serials worked either... and its not the serial for symantec i need.. its a way to install a liscense file... i have a legit liscense...but usually on the "view" drop down menu "liscense" is an option and when you click it it gives you an option to install a liscense.... but its not even showin up in the drop down.... this sucks... i hate workin on saturdays

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yeah download rockxp http://www.snapfiles.com/get/rockxp.html it will recover serials from office

 

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No I wasnt being sarcastic.. haha.. I was just thanking you for your help..

 

I dont' reckon I know how to scan within archives, but I did reboot in safe mode and did a scan. Something interesting happened when it got to photoshop cs2 (which I had deleted before i rebooted). It took a really long time to get past it, but said there were no worms or any problems.. How do i scan within archives?

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Their support database is about as useless as their manual on that subject. I don't understand why they wouldn't make clear documentation about this. Doing a search for "router" only pulls up something about how LiveUpdate doesn't work and just tells you to update the firmware. I sent them an e-mail. I would call but I just found out it costs 30 dollars per incident, they're just as bad as Microsoft with that shit. Guess I'm going to have to keep clearing my router off the auto-block list until I get an e-mail back in an estimated 72 hours. I'm not about to turn auto-block off for worms since the first thing Norton found was the Byte.Verify worm.

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