Would like the help of those with PC knowledge. Having just moved into the PC world from MAC a little over a year ago I'm still in a learning curve with this thing. As this group can help with anything from removing agitators, getting stains out and providing fantastic emotional support, I thought I'd ask for some help. Also sorry for the long story/post here.
Here's the tech info Sony Vaio laptop, Windows XP, service pack 2, Norton Internet Security, had Cox Cable Spyware blocker, just moved to Windows Bets Spyware blocker.
As I am doing a lot of video editing, space on the hard drive is at a premium. I went into my C drive, it's a partitioned disc. I was cleaning up and deleting all old and unnecessary files. In my "Documents and Settings" folder, in one of the "Owners" folders, a folder labled ".jpi_cache", then two folders, one File, one jar. In the File folder, another folder marked "1.0"
Opened this folder "1.0" and found a ton of files, noticed some were .gif and a lot of .jpg. I assumed these were old video files or some sort of temp files. I was very surprised to see the .jpg were of an adult nature. Yes, I visit adult sites, but these were photos I had never seen. Then discovered the .gifs appeared to be part of an adult website. I checked the main logo I saw and it was for some sort of adult hosting site. It was like looking at bits and pieces of logos, lines, etc. Stuff needed for a website. I deleted the whole mess.
So, my question is (finally!!) can some third party upload the makings of a website, get it past all the security features and unknown to me, be running a website on my computer? I do know one of the answers would be not to run IE or even go back to a Mac. It's a bit scarey, as thank heavens, there wasn't anything that bad in the photos, but I am concerned that there could have been.
Here's the tech info Sony Vaio laptop, Windows XP, service pack 2, Norton Internet Security, had Cox Cable Spyware blocker, just moved to Windows Bets Spyware blocker.
As I am doing a lot of video editing, space on the hard drive is at a premium. I went into my C drive, it's a partitioned disc. I was cleaning up and deleting all old and unnecessary files. In my "Documents and Settings" folder, in one of the "Owners" folders, a folder labled ".jpi_cache", then two folders, one File, one jar. In the File folder, another folder marked "1.0"
Opened this folder "1.0" and found a ton of files, noticed some were .gif and a lot of .jpg. I assumed these were old video files or some sort of temp files. I was very surprised to see the .jpg were of an adult nature. Yes, I visit adult sites, but these were photos I had never seen. Then discovered the .gifs appeared to be part of an adult website. I checked the main logo I saw and it was for some sort of adult hosting site. It was like looking at bits and pieces of logos, lines, etc. Stuff needed for a website. I deleted the whole mess.
So, my question is (finally!!) can some third party upload the makings of a website, get it past all the security features and unknown to me, be running a website on my computer? I do know one of the answers would be not to run IE or even go back to a Mac. It's a bit scarey, as thank heavens, there wasn't anything that bad in the photos, but I am concerned that there could have been.
