I am SOOOOO HAPPY!!

[Ravens_Tears]

I love my brother sooooooooooooooooooooo much. He spent the whole day rebuilding my computer! Had to buy a new mother board and I only have a 640 MB hd right now but I can come and see you guys whenever I want again!! yeah I missed you all sooooo much:heartthro :heartthro :heartthro :heartthro

[Lavender]

Welcome back!!!! :p We kept your seat waiting for you! :)

[WtchyChick13]

YEA!!!!!!!! Welcome back Raven!!! I'm so jealous, my laptop has been a virtual paperweight for almost a year now (NOTE: It was only a year old when it died). :(

It's great to have you back! :)

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[shnen]

YEAH! Welcome Back! YEAH your brother! :boing: :boing:

[Phoenix Blue]

:eyebrow: I still say no hacker can cause a hardware failure.

But welcome back anyway. :bigredgri :wave:

[Desert_Shadow]

:thumbsup: Welcome back!

[materra]

Welcome back...you're brother is a wonderful person Glad you can return any time you want to :boing:

[Old Witch]

Glad you're up and running again!!!

[Rubi Waters]

Welcome back Raven!!!!! How wonderful your brother is to fix it for you!!:)

[Flaire-FireStar]

Congradumulations & Welcome back! :boing:

[flar7]

Originally posted by WtchyChick13
YEA!!!!!!!! Welcome back Raven!!! I'm so jealous, my laptop has been a virtual paperweight for almost a year now (NOTE: It was only a year old when it died). :(

It's great to have you back! :)

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you should have a funeral for the little laptop......its best to just
let go and move on...sniff.:(

[Ravens_Tears]

Thank you all so much! I am so happy to be back!!:heartthro :heartthro I was lonesome!:(

Actually Phoenix, If the hacker ( or cracker as I have been informed that it is not in the spirit of hacking to destroy) knows what commands to give your comp once they're inside your system they can definately cause physical damage. There are viruses now that they can load directly to your system that will destroy your boot disk sectors rendering it ( the hd) garbage. Through dos they can instruct your comp to open/close your cd-rom drives. They can instruct your hd to keep spinning up and burn it out, same with your other drives and cpu fan; causing the system to over heat and burn out. We still haven't determined exactly what they did to my hard drive but they flashed my mother board and screwed the bios. From testing the board as much as we could here, it also appeared they burned my vid and pci slots with the flash. I have to send it back to the manufacturer to see if they can fix it at all. And if they can, have to pay for it as it is off warrenty. If all hackers could do is screw up your software or os, firewalls wouldn't be as nesscesary. Reinstalling software is annoying but fixable. It's the physical damage that is a serious problem and it is in fact do-able. Most People that do this don't bother with regular people. I made the "mistake" of letting a friend crash here a couple nights when he rode his bike 200 miles to see a girl down here. I thought it was romantic of him to do so. Apparently he owed people money, which I didn't know at the time. And they were convinced he was living here and I was holding out on them, so they took it out on me. They hacked me through yahoo messenger. Which is why I no longer leave messenger running unattended. It's better to be safe than sorry Phoenix. Do a search on hacking and cracking you'ld be surprised at what you'll find.

[Ravens_Tears]

Originally posted by WtchyChick13
YEA!!!!!!!! Welcome back Raven!!! I'm so jealous, my laptop has been a virtual paperweight for almost a year now (NOTE: It was only a year old when it died). :(

It's great to have you back! :)

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Did you ever have anyone take a look at it to see what's wrong???? :( Lap tops are kewl!

[flar7]

yep, yahoo messenger sucks for that reason. I still use it though.

[Ravens_Tears]

I use it too, but I don't leave it running anymore.. apparently ICQ has been just as bad for that and msn is getting more of that now too :(

[flar7]

I've gotten about 10 viruses this year from yahoo messenger.....
only one was any real trouble.........grrrrrrrrr.

[StarryDancer]

Yes, I've found that the IM's are no end of trouble, and hence don't use any.

Glad you're back, Raven! Three cheers for your bro!

[Phoenix Blue]

**Blinks** Good point--I hadn't thought about flashing the BIOS. Mostly because of the difficulty involved with identifying the chipset and then fragging it. And even then, you'd think you'd be able to erase the CMOS settings and reset the BIOS that way. . ?

[materra]

I don't know if anyone is aware of this instant message services, but my son uses it...for it is pretty secure...it is called Imici. It seems compatable with most systems, but is more secure. Our family uses it. It seems more stable too...not as many problems. I don't know the cost but it is worth it to us. BB

[Ravens_Tears]

Tried it all phoenix!:( :( It didn't make a lick of difference, they fried my board but good. Will have to send it in for an autopsy and see if they can revive it!

[Witchy Cowgirl]

WELCOME BACK (your dreams were your ticket out, welcome back to that same old place that we laughed about......some of you will be too young to remember WELCOME BACK KOTTER.....but now I bet others have that song stuck in your head just like me! *EVIL LAUGH**baaaaahaaaaahaaaaa*)

[Ravens_Tears]

Chuckles witchy! Thank you! :D I remember that show.. guess that tells how old I am!;)