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Check out the browser extension “F.B. Purity – Clean Up and Customize Facebook” it gives you a lot of control over what you see.
http://www.fbpurity.com/

AdBlock Plus will also allow you to control Facebook annoyances. https://facebook.adblockplus.me/

Like cmptrgy & others I have used a shortcut to shut down various versions of Windows & never had it cause a problem.

These shortcuts do not force a shutdown, if something refuses to shutdown normally you will still get the usual window pop up that asks if you want to wait or force the specific program/app to close. Usually Windows finds a way to shut it anyway before you’ve had time to read the window & click an action, the window disappears & shutdown continues.

Micro$loppy’s long-winded (designed for every possible option or level of user expertise!) methods of giving Windows any command have caused there to be several ways of doing anything in Windows & no 1 right way to do it.

These shortcuts are simply another way of shutting down, all you are really doing is saying “Windows shutdown NOW” instead of “Windows, I think I want to shutdown but I might change my mind & decide to restart or log off or do nothing at all so give me enough options to delay the action until I’m sure beyond a reasonable doubt!”

Good luck getting any help or satisfaction from GoDaddy!!

In the security community they have a really bad rep for hosting anything & everything but never responding to confirmed & well documented reports of drive-by malware, illegal activities, spammers or abuse. They are averse to anything that requires them to actually DO something unless they can charge for it! Their biggest money grabbing disservice to the public is their “Domains by Proxy” registration service that hides & blocks access to ALL information about a domain registrant without a court order

Regrettably domain name theft can happen with a lot of registrars BUT it should NOT be possible. A reputable registrar will not transfer a domain name for a specified time period (usually at least 48 hours) & only after they have sent an email to the address they have for you & received confirmation back that you did initiate the transfer. To comply with all that, a thief, after hacking into your account, would need to change at least your email address (& possibly your password) before initiating the domain name transfer. Those changes should trigger at least one email to your original address asking for confirmation! The whole sequence should raise huge red flags with ANY decent registrar!

What can you do?
Contact the new registrar yourself & accuse their registrant of theft.
Contact ICANN & initiate a dispute BUT, if the new registrar is out of their jurisdiction, they may not be able to help.

Good luck, I’m afraid you’ll need it :rolleyes:

Fred I wouldn’t recommend that site if I were you! They wouldn’t know a virus, threat, or malware if it hit them in the face & the object of their scans is to get you to BUY affiliate marketing products. You should be very wary of ANY scan that “identifies” problems but wants you to pay to fix anything. You can end up with an infection FROM these scans & the paid fix only fixes what the scan installed!! Read Fred Langa’s WS columns on this subject.

My daughter in law has an old XP laptop that seems to have become infected with the iLivid virus.

iLivid is NOT a virus it’s a download manager & video player. The program itself is harmless, Malwarebytes, anti virus programs & scans won’t flag it. BUT… it is bundled with other software “offers”! I run a freeware listing site & I won’t list iLivid because of all the c*** it offers. I don’t have the resources to download & check everything I list so I rely on a site that rarely lets me down, Softpedia, & their iLivid listing carries a warning…

Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:
· Offers to change the homepage for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to change the default search engine for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to download or install software or components (such as browser toolbars) that the program does not require to fully function
· Creates desktop or start menu shortcuts for items unrelated to the program’s functionality

So… if your daughter didn’t pay attention when she installed it (& trust me, she DID install it, you can’t get it without clicking several times during the install routine!) then she has almost certainly got some or all of the “extras” – those WILL mess things up & are a pain to clean out. The best advice you can give her is to direct her to BleepingComputer’s XP forum. Tell her to register for the forums then post a request for help. Use an informative topic title, I suggest “How do I find the “extras” installed with iLivid?”, then in her post give details of her laptop, make, model & amount of memory & version of Windows & say she installed iLivid but doesn’t know what else or how to find/remove it. Here’s the link to BleepingComputer.com XP forum.
Hope this helps, good luck!

One annoying thing about Photoscape: When you go to its home page, the download link gives you GIMP, which is an entirely different photo editor. ….. Who knows why Photoscape gives you GIMP on the apparently official download link.

ROFLMAO please excuse my mirth, that’s a Google ad! I had to refresh the page several times just to see it, the ad I got was for Corel Draw. It’s always wise to mouse over a link before you click it to be sure what it is & where it’s taking you :rolleyes:

Double Ditto on the trust issues!
The greatest motivator is the word “NO” & the computer equivalent is somebody else controlling what you can do!
Both encourage the opposite of the desired behaviour :o: How would YOU react to being spied on & not trusted?
Yes kids need boundaries & yes they will push those boundaries, didn’t we all?!?! But a child who is intelligent enough to defeat what you have set up is certainly intelligent enough to participate in a discussion of the issues involved.

If you consider it necessary to exercise control without the restriction of someone physically being around, make sure your child understands WHY then get creative with the HOW. e.g. If it’s a ‘time online’ issue use a kitchen timer or loud alarm clock but don’t put it anywhere near the computer. A loud alarm going off in the bathroom alerts the whole household that someone’s computer time is up.