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worried about little brother breaking my computer...
ok so my little brother, is always downloading weird stuff on the family computer, hes always making our computer less secure, make it run slower, downloading really weird things, etc. i'm pretty sure the majority of things he downloads is to help him hack his little games he plays or cheat on the game. i get really mad because A. I have school stuff and pictures on here, and its annoying when we have to reboot the computer. B. I play this one game, and when the computer breaks, i lose everythng. C. the computer runs slowly, & thats no fun to deal with either.
We've already had to buy a new computer because of him. My parents don't really do anything about it, because they don't care, & plus he lies like crazy, and gets his way out of anything.
I want to be able to block this stuff, actually.. does anyone know if like whenever he goes to download something, a message type thing would pop up & he would have to enter a password? because that would be really helpful, so then i could check what he's downloading.
i've tried blocking the websites, but i don't know all the websites he goes on, and some of it is like websites other members of the family go on, and i think its bad, but its really not.
oh he has some of things on the desktop right now...rsbot, swift kit, MOD'S, riseq, rsclient.
if anyone knows if that stuff is bad, please tell me.
thank you for any help!
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Definitely, there are no doubt something to prevent him from downloading first, you need to become an administrator on the computer, make sure he is NOT an admin, go to the control panel and set up the controls on his account also you two should have seperate accounts such as when you have a guest account you can make one for you and one for him. Make a password he will not guess like you can make up a word, that always works like, kimbaria, see random word :3 makes no sense noone will guess it, and he will have to ask you before downloading anything, make sure he tells you what it is, what it's for, game cheats aren't really bad things but if he downloads too much it could be dangerous to the hardrive and disk space. I'm not sure about the things on the desktop but if rsclient's icon is just a blank white page that you can't open it's nothing to worry about. I'm sure most of that stuff is fine but you can uninstall anything you want by going to the control panel and clicking programs. To make a password for him to not download much stuff go to control panel and click user accounts and family safety, somewhere it should say add or remove user accounts make one for you and one for him create a password for yours and it should say somewhere set up parental controls for any user, and from there on it's pretty easy. Somewhere it specifically says something like prevent from downloading any software or w/e without admin permission/password.
Good Luck! Get back to me and tell me if you have any problems with it.
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I just want to step in and say that violating a video game's EULA is not in any way an illegal act. It is a violation of a legal agreement by which the company is entitled to suspend/ban/delete/modify your account or characters at will for any reason including them finding out that you're botting.
It could cost a bit of money if he gets banned, and alot of time if he gets permabanned, IP blocked, or characters deleted. If runescape is subscription based, then Time = Money and someone's going to end up paying that too.
Actually fixing the computer is too involved. People get paid fifteen+ bucks an hour to fix the kind of crap he's probably done to it, so maybe check out geek squad or google up instructions on reformatting the hard drive.
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Unfortunately, as long as he has access to your computer, he can download pretty much anything. You could block most of the sites, sure, but there are filters to get around that.
I do know that, "rsbot" is a common cheat in Runescape, it's a program called an "autobot" which earns you "money" in the game without actually "earning" it. It's a hacking program, and these programs are actually illegal. The likelihood of him getting into any legal trouble over it is slim, but depending on what other "cheats" he's downloading and for what, he could be putting you all at risk. Any script that illegally manipulates a website or a way a game functions is a felony, period. Not to mention, EVERY website you ever go to records your individual IP address.
These are definitely things to bring up with your parents. Because no matter how good of a liar he thinks he is, a simple google search of "rsbot" will tell you that what he is doing is fraudulent, even if it's childish.
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