Advice Needed

mad1 said:
well cheers for that, glad you have all given me a lesson in how to discipline a child, obviously this is the wrong place to get advice. like him this is full of morons, nice one
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Before you get abusive, perhaps you should consider what question you have asked.

You have been extremely vague and as such nobody can help you, other than to state the obvious which is to suggest getting this young adult to behave within some boundaries.

It sounds like a case of someone with a reasonable level of comfort with computers winding up Luddites. Perhaps introduce him to this forum, I suspect he would like it more than you do.
 
AJK, yeah thanks for your helpful advice NOT, first of all i asked a question, yes to most of you on here its funny and to be taken the P**S out of. Im not mr computer guru, if i believe me after the replies Ive got I definitely wouldn't be on here. I work overseas for a start and he does it all while I'm away, and as some of you keep saying my wife must keep logged on and he basically goes on, no he doesn't, he does most from his phone, yeah next will be some arse saying take his phone off him. discipline, like that is going to work, its been done and he doesn't give a Toss. oh and yeah smashing his face in rest advice there, you must have a masters in being an arse. oh and i didn't JUST buy a mac purely to stop him hacking it, so again cheers for your sarcastic comment.
 
no he's not a child, and yes once I'm back all his pc crap is going. and he bypasses the logging in side of life, he doesn't need a password, and yes i have posted in the wrong place. like I've just said, I'm no IT guru, i asked for advice not idiots like the stepson comments, he would say just as 80% of you lot have on here.
 
oh and he would love it yes. I'm not getting abusive either, i asked a question, is it to much to ask for then questions asked to me, rather than the torrid of abuse.
 
mad1 said:
discipline, like that is going to work, its been done and he doesn't give a Toss.
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It's the correct way to deal with it, however, especially since:

mad1 said:
Im not mr computer guru,
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I don't mean this to come across as offensive, because it isn't intended as such, but likely any kind of security that you're able to implement will only slow down any progress if he's really good with computers (and even if he's only a little good with them, as you can easily find hundreds of workarounds to things just by searching online). The only way you can truly deal with this is to stop him from "hacking" in the first place. Perhaps you need to understand why he's doing it, because the chances of there being an effective quick fix for this situation of yours are pretty slim.
 
You seriously need to lighten up. If you give the facts of what he is actually doing, people will help you secure your system. You have provided no information. If you keep being vague and humourless, you will get more of the same.
 
Unless you implement full drive encryption on your wifes laptop pretty much anything you do is pointless as as long as you can get physical access to a machine you can do what you like.
 
mad1 said:
AJK, yeah thanks for your helpful advice
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No problem!

mad1 said:
he hacks anyone he wants on Facebook from his bedroom
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No, no he doesn't. Unless by "hacks" you mean "guesses passwords or the answers to security questions" perhaps? As mentioned above, it may be that he's installed a keylogger or similar on the household PC, but that seems unlikely (and if it's the case, you're back to the disciplinary issue, right?)

Alternatively, your stepson is a computer genius and should probably ring up Facebook and explain the security holes he's found - they'll pay a lot of money for that information.
 
I seriously doubt he's as an impressive a hacker as you think, it's far more likely that he guessed and/or brute forced some passwords is all. It's not difficult to appear like a hacker to a layman.

If he is a real hacker, then short of removing his access to all computer systems, there is little you can do I suppose. The only good news is that his ability will not be universal, i.e. just because he got into Facebook/Windows doesn't mean he can get into say your bank account. Different platforms and software need very different skill sets.
 
Ok skidder, and the rest who have posted, ok I was vague, but ask me a serious question with reference to my original post.

One more point which I didn't say, he was also sacked from his job where he was IT Administrator, oh and yes for looking at someones email he shouldn't have
 
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