Tonight something happened to me that freaked me out. I'm sure it is probably nothing, but I didna have Hashi to ask because his da had surgery today, and he was away. I was reading a random journal and went to close the layer when I couldna find my cursor. Then all of a sudden, up at the top of the window I see a cursor going crazy in several different places. Then I found MY cursor, and it was not apparently the one I had just seen. This reminds me of the times when tech services had come on my machine at school remotely to try to fix something.

As far as I remembered, remote access to my computer was OFF, yet when I went to the control panel and checked the system icon, sure enough it said to allow my computer to invite remote assistance. This just pisses me off no fecking end. I fixed that and then ran Spybot. No problems it says. I am updating and scanning with Avast as well.

In addition, I googled this remote issue and found I could type 'netsat' in the RUN command to view all the connections, but as soon as it started populating the window, it disappeared and refused to return, so I googled some more and found a free programme you can download which will allow you to view and ascertain the properties and domain owners of all your computer's running connections. It is a tiny programme with no installation. You just unzip and go. It is called TCPView, and I am including the introduction for it. You may visit the site and download the programme here:

TCPView for Windows v2.51

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