http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r13012090 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:25:55 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:25:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13016885 tup : It is not only the Document folder that is a problem.
I recall when I installed Limeware about a month ago, it also wanted me to share my Program files. Since I usually install all software applications like my tax program in Program files, my tax info would have been available to anyone if I had okayed this permission.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13016885 Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:50:56 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13014132 Rifleman : I tried this with shareaza--and was shocked to find hundreds. I connected and talked to a few---they were floored and scared to death. A few even have their family photos for sharing. Scary stuff. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13014132 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:11:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13013599 antdude : I searched tax return and found a few. Amazingly, I can't believe people do this!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13013599 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:49:26 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13012238 jdong : PSSSSST: Small hint:

If you use NTFS, create a separate user to do tax/confidential stuff, then mark everything private (i.e. read/write permissions to owner, deny all access to everyone else). Not foolproof, but sure would stop dumb mistakes like this!
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»news.com.com/LimeWire+security+f···949.html
Edit: Looks like this went beyond default. Whoops.
»secunia.com/advisories/14555]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13012090 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:05:40 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13012057 Doctor Four : It's amazing the amount of personal data that clueless P2P
users allow others to freely download because they are
sharing their personal documents folder, or in some cases
their entire C drive. Several months ago there was a news
item about how easy it was to obtain others' sensitive
personal documents (and even some military ones) on Gnutella
by doing a search for *.doc, etc. These users are just
asking to have their identity stolen.
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Seriously, the amount of data ripe for picking in those programs is amazing. People just share anything without thinking then blame the program.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13011793 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:15:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13011746 heels_fan : somebody posted a website a while back that had stuff like this on it....

Very informative
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ID theft is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Passed this info along to some so called savvy USERS..they were stunned what they LEAVE on their puter. w/o a pw or any protected file/!!
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as with most installations user's need to be vigilant when configuring software installation;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13011176 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:40:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13011091 Greg_Z : That is because the idiots share their "My Documents" directories, which has everything in them. Wish people would stop blaming the program, and start placing blame on their own stupid acts.
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»michellemalkin.com/archives/001830.htm
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