RE: Question of ethics

Who is your customer? What the customer does with the info is up to them.
Tell her. She has a right to know.

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Faul
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 10:13 PM
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Subject: [CHAD] Question of ethics

A Lady brought her little Sony Laptop in because it is "getting slow",
so she wanted it checked for viruses etc. It has one of those finger
print log in devices, so before she left it I made sure she removed the
login password, which she used the finger print for so I can get into
the operating system without having to make my own account etc etc. In
the course of removing it, she was telling me a little bit about how her
husband was really suspicious of her, and she was trying to keep him out
of her business without making a big deal out of it, but somehow he was
still able to log on and read her email etc etc.

Well I just started cleaning it up and guess what??? There is a
keyolgger installed in the unit. I was just going to remove it and not
say anything, but now I am not sure what the proper thing to do is. In
my opinion, any husband who resorts to this should be strung up by his
balls, or at the very least get some serious consoling, but if I tell
the lady what is going on, I am sure it will trigger some
confrontation. She actually seemed pretty blase' about his paranoia,
but I know this type of insecurity can be dangerous.

Any discussion of this will be welcome.

Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell%40icehouse.net">ardellicehouse.net
509-891-5188

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And besides, you have no way of determining how the keylogger got on
there or who put it there. Treat it as you would any other malware,
remove it and tell her what was removed. She needs to know because its
also possible that her personal/credit/banking information may be
compromised.

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Ken (desco) Ramsey wrote:
> Who is your customer? What the customer does with the info is up to them.
> Tell her. She has a right to know.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussionyahoogroups.com
> [mailto: Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussionyahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Ardell
> Faul
>; Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 10:13 PM
> To: Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussionyahoogroups.com
> Subject: [CHAD] Question of ethics
>
> A Lady brought her little Sony Laptop in because it is "getting slow",
> so she wanted it checked for viruses etc. It has one of those finger
> print log in devices, so before she left it I made sure she removed the
> login password, which she used the finger print for so I can get into
>; the operating system without having to make my own account etc etc. In
> the course of removing it, she was telling me a little bit about how her
> husband was really suspicious of her, and she was trying to keep him out
> of her business without making a big deal out of it, but somehow he was
> still able to log on and read her email etc etc.
>;
> Well I just started cleaning it up and guess what??? There is a
> keyolgger installed in the unit. I was just going to remove it and not
> say anything, but now I am not sure what the proper thing to do is. In
> my opinion, any husband who resorts to this should be strung up by his
> balls, or at the very least get some serious consoling, but if I tell
>; the lady what is going on, I am sure it will trigger some
>; confrontation. She actually seemed pretty blase' about his paranoia,
> but I know this type of insecurity can be dangerous.
>
> Any discussion of this will be welcome.
>
>; Ardell Faul
>; Computer Monitor Service Inc.
>; Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
> 10816 E. Mission Ave.,
> Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
> ardell%40icehouse.net">ardellicehouse.net
> 509-891-5188
>
>
>;

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