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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: Problems Accessing the New Board?
« on: February 02, 2003, 12:24:27 PM »Quote
So...how does someone access your computer?
They can plant Trojan horses, keyboard sniffers, all sorts of programs that might report back to them over the Internet. There are a lot of twisted minds out there.
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AND, what do they do once they're in there?? Can they take files, or delete them, or can they put files on there??
If your computer is vulnerable enough and allows them enough access, they might do just about anything. Gain access to your passwords and credit card numbers (if you've foolishly had that sort of info saved by your browser or AOL) - they can even disguise themselves as you and use your computer to attack another computer system, making it very hard for the attack to be traced back to them.