Technology, Computers and Smartphones

[schmoosie]

There are some good free anti-virus things. AVG is a good one. And as far as adware/spyware etc etc I have StopZilla. It seems to be working excellently.

I'm sorry fixing your problem was so stinky. AOHell stinks. I don't even need it. I'm on digital cable and pay 9.95 a month for AOL, but hubby won't get rid of it....I have to admit I use it for email cause it's easy, but that's about it.

[thetigs]

Does anyone know of good stock photo websites that don't cost a fortune? I'm putting together information for a small website and every place I've viewed is expensive. My husband is attempting to start his own rep firm and I'm in charge of the office side of things, so I'm trying to finish this project by Sunday night. Right now, I have Photospin.com, but they don't have a large selection. Getty was ridiculously expensive.

Thanks for your suggestions!

[sleepy]

Thetigs, I'll ask Mr Sleepy, because he submits to stock photo sites. He's working right now, but I'll ask him as soon as I get a chance to talk to him.

[thetigs]

sleepy said:

Thetigs, I'll ask Mr Sleepy, because he submits to stock photo sites. He's working right now, but I'll ask him as soon as I get a chance to talk to him.

Thank you so much! I want our website to look nice, but we can't afford to spend a fortune on the pictures. Getty wanted $1500 for one photo. Yikes!

[sleepy]

Okay, he looked horrified when I mentioned Getty (super pricey!). He recommends istockhoto. Prices range from one dollar to 40 dollars. You also have the option to pay a flat rate and get unlimited downloads. By the way, istock is owned by Getty.

He said you might also want to try alamy.

He also mentioned that if you don't find what you want, istock has a forum where you can post requests. So many people use it that your request is usually answered within 24 hours.

[thetigs]

Sleepy, thank you (and your husband) SO very much. I'll check this tonight!

[hamhock]

Is it possible to steal someone's yahoo password?
No, I don't want to do it myself, I know someone who has had some weird emails go out from and come into her account. That she didn't write but it appears she did.
Anybody? Bueller?

[Augustus]

hamhock said:

Is it possible to steal someone's yahoo password?
No, I don't want to do it myself, I know someone who has had some weird emails go out from and come into her account. That she didn't write but it appears she did.
Anybody? Bueller?

Technically yes, but most likely it's spam/spammer who is abusing an existing email address, in this case your friend's. This is due to the fact that a lot of servers only accept mail from real, registered and validated email addresses. I've had mailer daemons in my inbox for stuff I know I didn't send. Even funnier is when a weird mail is in my inbox...coming from me.

The thing is that you can set a different email address as a to-reply address or even as the sender, so be very very careful with posting your (private) email address on the web.

The weirdest thing that ever happened to me was a few months ago. I tried to log into my yahoo account and I got an error message. Thank god I had another mail account set up elsewhere that was validated for Yahoo. I log into that one and I get a surprise. Apparently I changed my password that day. WTF? I hadn't! Anyway got that fixed AND back into my account, but boy that was bizarre.

[hamhock]

hmm. It's someone she knows. And who initially set up the account for her. It looks like they've had a whole conversation about some very personal, upsetting things that my friend swears she never sent/replied to.
I know yahoo will let you sort of "retrieve" your forgotten password, but what happens is you answer a few security questions and then you RESET your password. Her password hasn't been changed......if someone used this feature, they'd have had to reset it. And she wouldn't be able to access it. See what I mean? Something funky is going on.

[Deleted]

The password does not necessarily have to be "stolen", it could simply be cracked using brute force methods, i.e. you have a program trying all possible combinations of letters and numbers.

Are you sure the e-mails are from your account? Check your sent items folder. I recently received an e-mail from myself containing a bunch of numbers or sometimes I receive delivery-failure notices for mails I did not send.
You can send mails in the name of somebody else without access to their mail accounts by simply changing the reply-to address to whoever you want. There are programs for this as well, they either generate meaningless addresses or use existing ones. Spammers use his technique to hide their identity. You would have to scrutinize the offending mail closely to discover its actual path from sender to addressee.

I hope this makes sense. I work in IT and sometimes I do not quite know how much knowledge I can pre-suppose in a conversation.