Tax Prep by Deb Posted December 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 23 hours ago, Medlin Software said: The part that raises my attention is "getting the computer back" and getting something from opening your browser. Why was your browser set to a bad default/home page? That is something the security people should have checked, and should be monitoring. Home page hijack is not a new issue... I am not saying the security folks you are using are bad, but that this should have been caught in advance. Ask them how it happened and how they will prevent it in the future. The default home page is what Microsoft directed it to. It's their home page MSN I believe. And it's quite possible that I clicked on a news story that caused the release of the bug. Every computer I have ever gotten has always been set to this as the default page, so I can not blame my tech for it. He had no way of knowing what page I would want as my home page. I currently have it set to Yahoo but kind of nervous about that too. What do you guys have it set to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack from Ohio Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 3 minutes ago, Tax Prep by Deb said: What do you guys have it set to? IRS.gov 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 1 hour ago, Tax Prep by Deb said: What do you guys have it set to? www.constitutiondecoded.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacun Posted December 20, 2016 Report Share Posted December 20, 2016 www.google.com now that my daughter is 8. When she was 3 and 4, we always found porn sites on our screen. My wife said that I was watching porn on my home computer until one day I paid attention to my daughter's (3 or 4 years old) internet skills. She would type a bunch of letters on google and press enter...then she would type more and more to the point that porn sites were popping up. I changed the default page and I solved the issue. By the way, you should delete your cookies and passwords (I don't save any) at least every other week or when you know you have been on sites that are risky. I have antivirus and ad aware and I run them both at the same time about once a month. If you are not careful you should do those actions more frequently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tax Prep by Deb Posted December 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2016 How do you know what sites are risky? I try to be very selective and I would say that I am only on safe sites. Most is either on this site, My ATX, IRS, Banks, Ect. Occasionally I will Google a news item and read a story, or if I'm having a problem I Google for a solution. How do you know which are safe and which are bad? I also have antivirus and adware software that I run daily. It never catches anything. I used Avast when the big bug got me and I guess from what my tech guy is saying I'm running Viper now. So honestly I don't know what else to do except to stop going on line and in our work that simply not an option. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abby Normal Posted December 21, 2016 Report Share Posted December 21, 2016 12 hours ago, Tax Prep by Deb said: How do you know which are safe and which are bad? Firefox warns me about suspicious sites (sometimes falsely, but better safe than sorry), and Eset antivirus monitors my internet traffic and blocks malware. I have the same setup at home and since my SO is a bit naive about these things, it has saved us on more than one occasion. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacun Posted December 21, 2016 Report Share Posted December 21, 2016 20 hours ago, Tax Prep by Deb said: How do you know what sites are risky? I try to be very selective and I would say that I am only on safe sites. Most is either on this site, My ATX, IRS, Banks, Ect. Occasionally I will Google a news item and read a story, or if I'm having a problem I Google for a solution. How do you know which are safe and which are bad? I also have antivirus and adware software that I run daily. It never catches anything. I used Avast when the big bug got me and I guess from what my tech guy is saying I'm running Viper now. So honestly I don't know what else to do except to stop going on line and in our work that simply not an option. Most Internet sites are safe (most meaning more than 50%, but in reality I would say 98% are safe). The main problem is when you get emails with links. That's where you have to decide to click or not to click.... that's the real question. This is my rule... if I get an email with a link and a very short message, I ask myself.... "Will I sleep well tonight if I don't click on that link? if the answer is yes, I don't click it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaraEA Posted December 22, 2016 Report Share Posted December 22, 2016 If you scroll the cursor over the link (don't click it!) the entire address will be visible. Oftentimes you'll see addresses with weird extensions. Delete. As for bad websites, you just have to depend on your security software. A few years ago I read that a lot of sites that showed up in Google Search were dangerous, but I haven't read anything recently so I trust they've cleaned up their act. Yahoo's email accounts were often hacked so I never trusted messages from Yahoo (even though lots of my clients have them). I get a lot of weird messages from Linked in too. Now that Yahoo has revealed the two biggest hacks of all time, nobody should use it for their home page. I too use irs.gov for the home page at work--saves a lot of clicking. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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