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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1244399" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Ok..you're getting just a tad paranoid..so let's work through this..</p><p></p><p>When you are away from your home, do you keep your computer off or sleeping? Either way, you come home and then turn it on or wake it up, and if Skype was already running and you were logged in before, it will be available, if you explicitely turn it on then you'll login with your profile.</p><p></p><p>Now on the REMOTE ("other side of the world" as you put it), your friend and others have you in their contact list and when you get logged into Skype, it will notify them about that. Skype, like other services, also has a way of monitoring your activity or inactivity on the computer and relaying that information so that you can be logged into Skype but away from the computer so people wouldn't try to chat with you since they can tell you're not there..</p><p></p><p>All of this is the WAY Skype and other IM services work and have worked since they came into existence. Next this isn't necessarily Mac specific..</p><p></p><p>Lastly, when you don't know what's going on it is easy to trigger happy and suggest virus, trojan and so on..keyloggers don't fall into either of these categories as they are used for legitimate reasons by paranoid parents..</p><p></p><p>Now for applications like keyloggers to be installed, it would require Administrator level privileges, so you're friend who have had to send you a link to an application or something pretending to be an application and you must have clicked on it and then allowed it to install giving your admin password and THEN you might have a keylogger..</p><p></p><p>If there is ANYTHING you should know about the Internet in general, trust nothing and noone. If anything ever prompts you for your admin password, think twice about entering it, only enter it when you were expecting it because you specifically launched a program or installer that you know is trusted..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1244399, member: 110816"] Ok..you're getting just a tad paranoid..so let's work through this.. When you are away from your home, do you keep your computer off or sleeping? Either way, you come home and then turn it on or wake it up, and if Skype was already running and you were logged in before, it will be available, if you explicitely turn it on then you'll login with your profile. Now on the REMOTE ("other side of the world" as you put it), your friend and others have you in their contact list and when you get logged into Skype, it will notify them about that. Skype, like other services, also has a way of monitoring your activity or inactivity on the computer and relaying that information so that you can be logged into Skype but away from the computer so people wouldn't try to chat with you since they can tell you're not there.. All of this is the WAY Skype and other IM services work and have worked since they came into existence. Next this isn't necessarily Mac specific.. Lastly, when you don't know what's going on it is easy to trigger happy and suggest virus, trojan and so on..keyloggers don't fall into either of these categories as they are used for legitimate reasons by paranoid parents.. Now for applications like keyloggers to be installed, it would require Administrator level privileges, so you're friend who have had to send you a link to an application or something pretending to be an application and you must have clicked on it and then allowed it to install giving your admin password and THEN you might have a keylogger.. If there is ANYTHING you should know about the Internet in general, trust nothing and noone. If anything ever prompts you for your admin password, think twice about entering it, only enter it when you were expecting it because you specifically launched a program or installer that you know is trusted.. [/QUOTE]
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