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Web interface - however she can't access it through her works laptop as its blocked, she always accesses it from home computers. She uses outlook at work

Had some issues last night with my wifes gmail account,had somehow been hacked and emails sent out(containg links) to all contacts in her gmail address book AND all contacts in her work Outlook address book. Obviously the work related stuff is quite serious as she works for a large multinational............BUT none of her work contacts are saved in her gmail contact list and in fact she has only ever sent email to 2 of her work contacts from her gmail account. She has access to her works email and intranet by way of a citrix VPN using a security keyfob number generator. Our home network is behind a router with all ports in and out nailed down and monitored, I regularly run all the usual anti stuff and all the usual security precautions are taken. Shes just been on the phone to me from work having had her help desk bod with her and he said it must have been from our end ( the companies) and happened when you were logged into the intranet from home! I said to the wife I thought that very unlikely, if the companies network has been compromised internally why then hack her google account to send emails instead of just sending them from her company email account -the only other option I can see is the company has standardised on blackberries for mobile access to email, maybe theres a weakness there. Just before the emails were sent from her account google recorded a login from a mobile device in france - obviously not my wife. anyone had anything siilar or any thoughts? Cheers

Thanks digip, will do that in the meantime but have become quite interested in this from a fun POV,thinking about a nifty little utility to screw around with mates computers by remapping various keys:) Just for a bit of fun of course

Hi, The u key on my dell laptop has stopped working, I've taken the cap off and checked the retainer which is ok, taken the silicon cap off which is ok, it seems to be a problem with the contact being made underneath but I don't know why. Anyway found a nifty utility that would alter the registry for me and map the u to an alternative ket. In my case I picked the right shift key. Things is it didn't work , I've gone to microsoft site and read their scan code mapper for windows help page:(http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/w2kscan-map.mspx) I looked at the changes tweakkey had made to the rgistry and it seemed to me that the third DWORD value( number of mappings ) should be 03 00 00 00 and not the 02 00 00 00 that tweak key had put in. Here is the full scan code map data that is in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 36 00 16 00 00 00 00 00 Anyway still no joy. Has anyone her done anything similar and if so can you help? Cheers

yes , I did and can use google - I was just trying to tap the broad range of expertise here to see if any1 had any particular recommendations due to their experience or really out of the way sites, just as I have recommeded sites and resources in my areas of expertise to others on here. If you can't make a positive contribution don't waste your time replying - easy enough isn't it? :P

Any1? Does no one on here use cad?

Hi Anyone come across and used any good free turbocad(preferably v12 for windows) training materials/websites/videos? Particularly to use it to produce room plans? Thanks for any help. Much appreciated

From the sounds of it you need to get yourself through a basic electronics course -there are plenty of good ones on line. This will give you more of an idea of how to use a multimeter , what sort you want in order tocover your needs etc. As long as you get an autoranging one your pretty ok on not inadvertently blowing it - oherwise you need ot know what you are doing and be very careful with picking the correct range when usng it.

Fluke are the Dogs Bollocks of multimeters - and not those cheap chinese copy ones off ebay. They should be starting around $150 for the real deal. I use one at work - never regretted buying it.

Just got back off holiday, thanks for taking the time to reply, will follow up all links and google research on the other info you gave. Again thanks - really enjoy having a new project to work on!!

Thanks for the info, much appreciated.

Hi just looking for some advice on learning sources. I've got a whole load of DV and analogue tapes of family events etc lying around and have decide its time to get them into some sort of order and backed up so I want to get them onto my computer edit them ( very basic) to cut out the crap and then save them . At the moment I have a core 2 duo with 1 gb HD, and am planning on using the inbuilt editor that comes to vista to start with - however if someone was to tell me that one of the cut down editing packages from adobe etc would speed things up I could probably swing to the cash for that. What I am looking for is a site/books that takes a novice through from importing the video , editing ,rendering , archiving, what resolutions to use etc , basically the whole process. For example I imported my first movie from my sony dv cam this week, imported it over the firewire connection in avi format. Did some basic editing using windows movie editor and then rendered it? to dvd quality - this gave me a file size of just over 8gb for about 45 mins worth of footage( my daughters school play actually), so won't fit on a DVD, its this non familiarity with codecs and resolutions for outputting stuff that I need to rectify. I mean do you guys keep a backup of your original AVI files or just saved your edited stuff in the output resolution? Hoping for some good advice on where I can learn about this stuff Cheers

Your right about the time for working on the system stingwray. Todays press carries a release about pleope who have actually made tax returns to reclaim amounts upto £9k after they had been put on emergency tax code having to wait 3 to 4 weeks because the inland revenue are putting all records onto one system. I wonder if this is all some bollocks up by them with bank account record fields being transposed or something alomg those lines when the DBs are merged ???

OK - bit of an update on this. My accountant has also spoken to the inland revenue about this because he also had a pile of letters from them for all his clients informing him of the £1999 rebate. The IR apparently however are stonewalling and making no comment - the police also were disinterested when he phoned them. As far as the IR system being down for 2 weeks - I don't believe it - I know how much stink it causes at some multinationals when downtime is as little as 1 to 3 hours so for a major vital government department its pie in the sky. According to my accountant the online access to client files at the IR is still operating. AS it is the security on the online access to these accounts is pretty pathetic anyway. With regards to this scam - the accountant is working his way through his client list and it seems separate accounts have been opened for each and every client with Barclays, some have already had the rebate paid into the account and some haven't. From the lack of response from the IR and the dodgy "computer system down for 2 weeks due to maintenance blah blah blah......" recorded and verbal message I think this is alot bigger than just the clients of one accountant , IMHO something has gone awry with the revenue computer records. The opening of so many bank accounts also points to online account applications so the perpetrators obviously have my and others personal details in order to do this. I've checked all my accounts and so far everytinhg seems ok. Serious;y if I don't get some answers off the IR soon I will be going to the press with this.

Got a tax rebate notice yesterday for £1999. Phoned the IR as I hadn't done my tax return for 08/09 and I also didn't recognise the bank account no or sort code. All I got off them was the payment has been stopped anyway , but it was done after submission of your 08/09 tax return and they couldn't check anything else cos their system would be down for 2 weeks!!!!!WTF!!!!!!! My brother phoned me today to warn me that he had also got this notice of a £1999 refund despiye not having done his tax return. Apparently the IR don't check any refunds under £2k , my brother had phoned his accountant (which we share) and he said either his system was hacked or its the IR but someone has got hold of all the bank and personal details etc and submitted bogus tax returns sending the money to newly opened accounts and then moving it to offshore accounts. I will be going to take a look at my accountants system on Monday but was just wondering whether any other self employed UK hak5'ers had had similar experience??? Really am very *****ed off with this and want to know exactly what personal info there hackers have got. Also its unbelievable the IR has its com[puter system for maintenance for 2 weeks just at the time this has happened!!!!!

Yeah - don't think it works on .sit files though.

Which is your favourite? I find I need a few to handle all the file formats I hve come across or is there one you use that does them all? I have tried numerous but have on my machine at the moment - wnizip, winrar, tugzip,magic disk. What do you use for those files with less usual extensions like .sit and .ufi?

Not come across this before. Have Dld'd some files and tried unpacking them with winrar. Files are something.r00 .....something.r01...........etc............to something.r12 Have done a crc check usng the sfv file . tried starting the unpacking with something.r00(as there is no something.rar file) an keep geting the error message:"You need to start extraction from a previous volume to unpack something.r00" done google search and the closest thing I acn get to explaining the process is this link:http://www.jtpfxp.net/nfosfvrar.htm but from this I seem to be doing nothing wrong . any help appreciated.

Just moved my domain registrar and cancelled my hosting. Set up dns using zoneedit and hosting using google apps, tried to send email to my domain from my yahoo webmail account, got the following message: Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6) I am able to send email from my gmail account to the domain account, can I take it this problem is just because the dns has not updated round the net yet? I set up zone edit dns 2 days ago.

Juts been sent a mail from a guy trying to organise one inthe north west uk..........will have a look see, seems interesting.

on till the 4th -one year osting at $9.99

Meets in the first wednesday of the month , only just found outy about his so won't be able to get there for this months! On an associated note check out http://www.howduino.com/. Very interesting

Will try dreamhost see if they can do a cheaper plan - its easier to stay where I am if they do - thanks for the response

Its that time where my hosting plan is up for renewal - its with dreamhost at the moment - must say they have been really good BUT I don't use all the facilities, storage or bandwith so am looking at something cheaper as the renewal cost for 2 years is $190 which equates to £134 gb pounds for me at the moment. Hae found a plan with 123.co.uk for £2 per month working out at £48 for the 2 years which will do what I want. I'm just curious what other folks on here are paying and what recommendations you have.

My folks got a load of svhs tapes they would like cponverted to DVD, so I need recommendations for an external device that can do AV capture. It doesn't matter whether it uses firewire or USB2 to connect to pc. Any recommendations?