i have a question, wonder if u all can help me

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I have a laptop, and my husband is a computer whiz. Hes been spying on me when im not home, logging onto my comp. and looking at my stuff. I dont have anything to hide, but it really pisses me off. I put a password on my log on id, but he just booted in safe mode to get access, and created his own account. No matter what i do, he can still get in. I remember seeing in cyberguys magazine one time, there was a thing for desktop pc's that was a 2 piece security device. one, you wore around ur neck or on ur keys or whatever, and the other inside the case. the pc wouldnt work unless you had the other piece within a few feet of it, so no one could access your stuff. I looked at their website but couldnt find it. Does anyone know if there is any such device for laptops? Or if there is any other way i can keep my snooping husband out of my crap? thanks in advance,

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thats a good product and all, but it still wont work since he can turn it on. if he can turn the computer on, all he has to do is push a button while its booting, and he can get into anything. Theres got to be SOMETHING that i can do to make the computer nothing but a paperweight until I access it. We are going to be getting a divorce, but not for a while yet. we have kids, so i cant do anything hasty. talking to him is not going to do anything but make him more curious. If i could drill a hole through it and padlock it, i would! lol. still open to any ideas though guys, thanks!

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mmm...remove the computer from your house. actually i have a better idea.

Buy an external Harddrive. Copy everything from your computer to that external hard drive. Then, when you leave the house, take the external harddrive with you. They are meant for transportation and portability so no worries about damaginfg it. That makes your computer a paperweight until you get home and plug it back in. How much stuff is on your computer GB wise?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822161101
 
©omputer ©hick said:
I have a laptop, and my husband is a computer whiz. Hes been spying on me when im not home, logging onto my comp. and looking at my stuff. I dont have anything to hide, but it really pisses me off. I put a password on my log on id, but he just booted in safe mode to get access, and created his own account.
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In that case why dont you do the same, password the admin account and delete his.
 
i agree, boot to safemode (F8 when booting up). Go into the Administrator account and put a strong password on it, (6-8 characters, alfa/numeric), delete his account and change your password to a strong one as well. Reboot. That should keep him out for a while. Oh... and don't walk away from your laptop if it's still on. Turn it off, (power it down, don't suspend or hibernate it), that way he can't get into it to create another account.

Also, you should talk to him about respect, and trust, especially in marriage, (voice of experience..) :)
 
If you have nothing to hide then why worry about him looking? He is your husband and all. But if he's like compulsive about it i'd just get an external hardrive.
 
what bothers me is he isnt looking at my files. hes reading my IMs and checking my history and stuff. i set my ims to turn of archiving, and i cleared my history and set it not to save any of it, and then when i get back on my computer, magically it has all been reset, and i have to redo it. im starting to wonder if there isnt some program he has installed thats hidden, that maybe automatically does taht. Also, how can i tell if he has put in some sort of key logger?


The only thing i am hiding from him, are my conversations about divorce, that i have in IMs. He doesnt want this divorce, but i do. Hes very very childish, and if i bring up the divorce, hes like ok fine get the f*ck out!!! and causes a huge scene, and scares the kids. I cant leave until im ready financially, so i cant afford to upset him. So when i clear the history and stuff, hes like, what are you hiding? and im like nothing. and hes like, well why are you clearing it? blah blah. I dont like him spying on me. He knows EVERYTHING about computers and aside from having some sort of physical security protection on this thing, i know he can still get in. im so paranoid that hes somehow seeing what i type that i log off of the wireless lan every time im offline. thanks for the suggestions...i really wish i could find that thing i mentioned in the first post. im still going to look for some sort of protection. thanks guys.

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If you think he's got a keylogger installed, download Hijackthis, install it, then log in as administrator and run it, select "scan and save logfile", and post the log here. We'll be able to see what's going on at startup.
 
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ok i downloaded that, and when i tried to unzip it, it says one file was extracted successfully...but there is no file. if i click run as, and select admin, the hourglass pops up then goes away and nothing happens. the only other option when i open it, is run winzip, but i dont have winzip, so now what?
 
elmarcorulz said:
what happens when the usb bit is taken out?
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it comes with a disc...maybe it has to have a password typed in or something. im sure they had to have thought of this when they invented it... i dunno. i wish i could tell by looking at it
 
©omputer ©hick said:
it comes with a disc...maybe it has to have a password typed in or something. im sure they had to have thought of this when they invented it... i dunno. i wish i could tell by looking at it
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yea, that makes sense
 
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