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Originally Posted by OneOfOne
My wife's daughter insists on leaving her computer on, even when no-one is home, perhaps for 6 hours or more.
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What is her reasoning for leaving it on?
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Other than the waste of energy and cost,
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this wouldn't amount to much, but still doesn't make sense to waste it
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We have Nortons virus and firewall
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If correctly configured, that should keep you pretty safe
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My understanding is that it is possible for hackers to automatically search for live connections and may be able to hack into the computer to gain access to your connection.
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That's always possible, and if you're infected with trojans (if your daughter is prone to opening spam email, etc.) then it's a problem. It's easy enough to connect to a wireless access point. I'm assuming you have security turned on with your wireless connection and at least a 20-character random (non dictionary) encryption key.
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I am also worried that other applications that you just "must have" like LimeWire, iTunes etc could be using the connection to allow file sharing etc when you are not using it.
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They will because that's what they're all about, especially if you have left default settings (upload limits, etc)
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TaskManager is more than two screens long and she always complains about how slow it is (hmmm can't work out why?) Any thoughts?
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Is that 2 screens of 'applications' or 'processes'? If applications, that's pretty over the top!
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At the moment if I come home and the computer is left on, I just "turn it off" and never shutdown properly, in fact if I am peeved enough I will start up a number of applications and turn it off before they are completely started  Unfortunately, this has only caused one "improper shutdown" so far 
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Not sure what you're trying to achieve here.. just the annoyance factor?
