Bill
May 5th 03, 10:03 PM
If you XP on your PC, Youe Can used Remote Desktop!!
You can control there PC from your PC. You can fine this
in the help window or if you have window messenger is
much faster.
BIll
>-----Original Message-----
>Trying to help my non-technically inclined parents in
>another state. I upgraded them to XP Home from Millenium
>at X-mas. As I would expect with their increasing
Internet
>usage, they have recently started getting pop-up ads.
But
>what I don't understand is the item they describe to me,
>which spontaneously appeared and stays on their taskbar.
>It is hard for us to communicate about computer issues
by
>phone because not only are they as non-computer literate
>as they come, but we have different versions of Windows.
>But they say this item either reads "Pop-ups allowed"
with
>some kind of upside down triangle next to it; OR
>reads "Pop-up blocked" with some kind of red and white
>boxes next to it.
>
>Normally I would assume that this was some kind of pop-
up
>blocking software at work, but that could ONLY be the
case
>if it is included in XP and launches itself!! It is not
>possible that they either "turned on" any such
application
>themselves; OR that they knowingly installed some
blocking
>program themselves. They have done nothing, and they
know
>nothing! I want to protect them if what is going on is
>that this is spyware that has downloaded itself. (I
>suppose another possibility is that, while I told them
to
>ALWAYS ignore even legitimate-looking messages that tell
>them this or that is not optimized, "click here to fix,"
>they may have clicked hastily and accepted something
>without realizing it. But it would have had to be
>something that could download and install itself with no
>further user interface, as they would have noticed
that.)
>
>I can't communicate any diagnostic steps that I would do
>myself to them by phone; it just doesn't work. BUT if
>someone here recognizes this item and can tell me
whether
>it is a legit XP function, that would help a lot. THANK
>YOU! I have suffered through serious spyware myself --
>Xupiter/Sqwire -- and want to spare them if I can!
>.
>
You can control there PC from your PC. You can fine this
in the help window or if you have window messenger is
much faster.
BIll
>-----Original Message-----
>Trying to help my non-technically inclined parents in
>another state. I upgraded them to XP Home from Millenium
>at X-mas. As I would expect with their increasing
Internet
>usage, they have recently started getting pop-up ads.
But
>what I don't understand is the item they describe to me,
>which spontaneously appeared and stays on their taskbar.
>It is hard for us to communicate about computer issues
by
>phone because not only are they as non-computer literate
>as they come, but we have different versions of Windows.
>But they say this item either reads "Pop-ups allowed"
with
>some kind of upside down triangle next to it; OR
>reads "Pop-up blocked" with some kind of red and white
>boxes next to it.
>
>Normally I would assume that this was some kind of pop-
up
>blocking software at work, but that could ONLY be the
case
>if it is included in XP and launches itself!! It is not
>possible that they either "turned on" any such
application
>themselves; OR that they knowingly installed some
blocking
>program themselves. They have done nothing, and they
know
>nothing! I want to protect them if what is going on is
>that this is spyware that has downloaded itself. (I
>suppose another possibility is that, while I told them
to
>ALWAYS ignore even legitimate-looking messages that tell
>them this or that is not optimized, "click here to fix,"
>they may have clicked hastily and accepted something
>without realizing it. But it would have had to be
>something that could download and install itself with no
>further user interface, as they would have noticed
that.)
>
>I can't communicate any diagnostic steps that I would do
>myself to them by phone; it just doesn't work. BUT if
>someone here recognizes this item and can tell me
whether
>it is a legit XP function, that would help a lot. THANK
>YOU! I have suffered through serious spyware myself --
>Xupiter/Sqwire -- and want to spare them if I can!
>.
>