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Pregunta
Feb 5, 2010, 09:29 AM
Last weekend I had a family visit my country place. Amongst them was a smart alec fourteen year old girl who is pretty sharp with computers. Before their visit I password protected my computer which uses Windows Vista. I went to bed and left my computer room open. The next day I turned on my computer and entered my password. When everything was loaded on the screen I found I had no internet connection. I then spent a lot of time on the phone with my server technician and discovered that the internet connection settings had been disconfigured. I asked him if it was possible that the smart alec (who canīt stand not having access to her Hi5 page for five minutes) had tried to work around the password protection after I went to bed and in doing so changed the internet settings. He said it was possible but that Windows Vista itīs self is capable of making unwanted changes. So my question is what do you think? Could she have caused the problem by tinkering and trying to bypass the password protection? If so how? Or was it just an amazing coincidence?

dynocompe
Feb 12, 2010, 12:41 PM
She would have to gain access to command prompt or windows to be able to do this, and if she never got around your password, I don't think it was her.If your password is something easy, maybe she got in.