Urgent - Help Required Immediately!
Ok, I'm at Uni. I'm in a student village and connected to the Internet via a wired connection. However, recently, quite a large number of my files have gone missing, and as I put this down to computer problems (random freezing - not important at this moment in time!) I didn't think anything about it. I've realised today that someone has left me a file on Notepad on my PC saying that my PC is open, and had deleted some files and had put them all in a file with an .rar extension, on my harddrive again.
I thought I had turned off sharing and all that like with my drives, but obviously I hadn't. I'm seriously concerned. I need someone to run through with me the basics of protecting my PC from this kinda thing - from my PC showing up on all other computers connected to the network. I thought I'd done it all but obviously not. My PC runs on Windows XP. Could anyone tell me as well what kind of software I need to open a RAR file, please?
And yes, I have asked this in the Networks forum, I just need a quick answer!!
I thought I had turned off sharing and all that like with my drives, but obviously I hadn't. I'm seriously concerned. I need someone to run through with me the basics of protecting my PC from this kinda thing - from my PC showing up on all other computers connected to the network. I thought I'd done it all but obviously not. My PC runs on Windows XP. Could anyone tell me as well what kind of software I need to open a RAR file, please?
And yes, I have asked this in the Networks forum, I just need a quick answer!!
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http://www.rarlab.com
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar371.exe - direct link
www.zonelabs.com
Download their free firewall. I take it you're connecting via wifi?
No, I'm connected by a physical wired connection
firstly right click on your my documents and make sure they are private, the only docs you want to share should be in a folder in your shared folder documents, you know this folder as it has a little hand under it. Next and very important get yourself a FREE ANTI-Virus Program along with the firewall suggested earlier . Try AVAST, just put this into search engine and you'll get there. Hope this helps a little.