http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: Windows Shut off Protection en Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:17:51 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/439#post-2189 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:50:02 +0000 Lee 2189@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>More than likely you got a trojan horse.</p> <p>You can set your system by when you switch on the maching press delete key to you get a blue screen that contains your bios and it's settings and in there you should see a setting that says 'system password' or similar.</p> <p>Use a 6 digit pw as that should be enough sometimes people put in a password too long and bios don't tell you it's too long and you end up having to reset bios etc. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/439#post-2188 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:36:59 +0000 penneddragon 2188@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I was hacked by someone who turned off my firewall and antivirus by rebooting my system. Are there any programs that allow you to require a password to reboot your system so that hackers can't reboot and delete your security programs. They already are password protected, but a reboot can allow them to be deleted or turned off. The guy used my email to send out mass mailings. </p>