Covert Channel Exploit in ICMP Packet!?

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Well the last few days have been difficult. I tried to log into my Hotmail the other day but was told that my account had been blocked for sending spam, then an alert came up from my security telling me that a "covert channel exploit" had been detected. Well that was a worry, i got the feeling i had been hacked straight away.

After long conversations with my family and a lot of interrogating about what websites i have been going to, we decided it would be best to take the computer to an expert, but first my mum thought she would try googling the problem, which i thought was a total waste of time but i was in trouble and not about to argue.

Well here comes the morel, the Internet told my mum that this is a standard problem with our security, and that with a few simple steps we could solve the problem, and then we did. Whatever you do, if you find a problem with your computer, don't make the first thing you do to tell your parents all of the websites you have recently visited that you think might be dodgy, don't make your first idea to go and pay a lot of money when it may be something you can sort, and last but not last your mum is always right, listen to what she says.

P.S
If you are having a message like mine and have eset smart security 5 check this out http://forums.techarena.in/networking-security/1441425.htm
Or if you need anymore help comment on this blog and i will check

Parents arguing?

Well i personally think that a kid should never have to listen to their parents arguing, trust me have listen to enough of these arguments and it can only ever upset a child so i have a few things to say about this topic:

• Firstly, if you are a parent and you are reading this, take this from the perspective of a 16 year old girl who has listen to years of her parents screaming at each other, it isn't fair on your child and if your gonna argue do it away from them.

• More importantly if you are a kid and your parents start to argue take some advice from me go into your room, close the door and play some music and text your friends because the last thing you want to do is listen to that. And if they ask you questions or guidance that they are in the right, please don't give your opinion because it only comes back to get you!

Retaliation- A bad idea

A few days ago one of my friends were having a huge rant on twitter about something. I text her to make sure she was okay and she said she was just getting a bit angry about something, and that she was sure she would be fine later on. I then went on twitter to find her next tweet said so now you care whats wrong. Obviously my first reaction was that she was lying and that i had done something to upset her and i was caught between tweeting a cryptic dig back or texting her to ask what i had done, and in the end i decided to do neither and just hope it blows over.

The next day i was in my lesson with her and she came over to me and said sorry about yesterday she didn't want to get into it on the phone, and then told me that she had fallen out with her dad.

So i guess the morel of the story is you shouldn't read something and make assumptions and jump to a conclusion, because you can be wrong and it can cause a problem if you are.

Also...

Adding to my last thought, today it occurred to me how awkward it is for the boyfriend too, how he has to watch his parents wave at his ex girlfriend and say how much they used to like her knowing that either you broke her heart, or she broke yours. So sorry i didn't think of that sooner boys, promise I'm not sexist or something.

Why not to meet the parents

I'm not saying that you should never meet your boyfriends parents, in fact i think it can be a brilliant bonding experience, not necessarily the other way round as girls parents can be very protective but a boyfriends parents always seem to be welcoming to a girlfriend. The problem is when you break up.

I think if you are under twenty years old, its not likely that you will marry the guy and a break up will likely happen. When i first got together with my ex boyfriend i used to go to his house nearly all the time, and of course because of this i would see his parents a lot. They are really nice, i liked them straight away. Then his birthday came around and his dad asked me if i wanted to go out to dinner with them, and before that he would have a driving experience. I was really excited to spend time with them as part of the family, and whilst he was driving i spent two hours getting to know his parent. We talked about so much, and they even joked about getting him to but me an expensive birthday present. Afterwards we went out to dinner and the night ended very sweetly with him falling asleep on my shoulder.

Fast forward a month and he had broken up with me. The breakup was hard but I'm finally starting to get over him, the thing is his sister is a good friend of mine, so i still see his parents a lot, and every time they smile at me, and wave through the window of their car when they see me walking. Its really hard to respect the fact everything is over and then smile at his parents and listen to their stories.

Only Children A Blessing Or A Curse

I'm an only child myself but most of my friends have a sibling and a lot of the time they tell me how lucky i am and how spoilt only children are. If I'm honest i always felt the same way. As a child i would always tell my parents there was no way that i wanted them to have another kid, i totally wasn't interested. The idea of sharing annoyed me and in my head just like my friends said only children were so much luckier they got everything they wanted.

But as i got older i started to realise being an only child means you are the only one your parents can worry about, so whilst all of your friends are enjoying themselves going out shopping, i was sitting at home because my parents thought i was too young to be in the town centre without them. The thing is even through that i thought that the benefits outweighed the costs, i could still spend time with my friends and i still got everything i wanted.

Recently though i found the big downside, the one where i have started to realise that have a brother or sister isn't that bad. It makes you strong and it makes you appreciate what you have with them. Today my friend found out that her brother and his girlfriend are having a baby. Today she told me how excited she is that she is going to be an auntie and i realised that i never will be one. I can marry someone with brothers and sisters but i will never be a blood auntie.

Is being spoilt really worth the sacrifice of missing out on your family, of having those siblings that you can rely on when your grown up and needs someone to talk to, Ive decided probably not!

Birthdays

Birthdays are such an interesting thing. In one day you become a year older, and people ask you things like 'do you feel any older?' and 'how does it feel to be __ now?' when really its one of the most illogical things to say because they are only a day older, and they become this much older every single day! Its kind of funny really that people make such a big deal about the day they were born every single year, and it also makes me laugh that so many things have a limit on them, so you cant do them until you are a certain age, even the day before.

It's just fascinating, in one day we age a year.