leaving mic plugged into computer

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Is there any problem with leaving the mic part of the headset plugged
in all the time?

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In message <36db9bF4tlaosU1@individual.net> "Ivor Jones"
<ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:

>Tim923 wrote:
>> Is there any problem with leaving the mic part of the headset
>> plugged in all the time?
>
>Why would there be..?

If you're the type of person that installs spyware, viruses, or other
junk on a regular basis then you need to be aware that someone could be
listening in -- But chances are none of us here (myself included) have
anything interesting enough to be worth spying on.


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In message <36dun2F4pmj9tU1@individual.net> "Ivor Jones"
<ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:

>DevilsPGD wrote:
>> In message <36db9bF4tlaosU1@individual.net> "Ivor Jones"
>> <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Tim923 wrote:
>>>> Is there any problem with leaving the mic part of the headset
>>>> plugged in all the time?
>>>
>>> Why would there be..?
>>
>> If you're the type of person that installs spyware, viruses, or
>> other junk on a regular basis then you need to be aware that
>> someone could be listening in -- But chances are none of us here
>> (myself included) have anything interesting enough to be worth
>> spying on.
>
>Shouldn't you be more concerned with checking that you *haven't* got any
>spyware..??!!

You'd think, but the way people seem to install spyware these days, I
just assume people have spyware installed.


--
'Tis far better to have snipped too much than to never have snipped at all.

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I was having some hard drive type noise coming out of my speaker that
seemed to happen after I used my headset, making me wonder if the
headset had anything to do with it. That's why I asked. It may be
the cheap built-in sound card.

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DevilsPGD wrote:

[snip]

> You and me both. I've run without virus scanners for several years
> now, although I do occasionally scan my system with a couple AV
> solutions plus a couple spyware scanners, and aside from cookies
> (since when are cookies spyware?) I haven't had a legitimate hit in
> years.

Cookies can report back what you've been doing, where you've been on the
web etc. so I don't like them for that reason. Not spyware in the strict
sense of the word but I still delete them on a daily basis. It keeps
getting me popups asking if I want to accept cookies every time I go on
eBay or wherever, but at least I know what's going on.

> Interestingly enough an app a friend and I developed back in the
> late 90s is now on NAV's virus list. It was just a simple (one
> click) install a FTP server and some remote control software, plus
> a home grown precursor-to-dynamic-DNS client to make remote
> troubleshooting easier.

I have trouble occasionally with an old DOS application I sometimes use.
It's a remote control program that lets you take over the screen and
keyboard of another computer under the IPX protocol, which I use to
monitor a standalone DOS PC that's on my system. Norton Antivirus flags it
as a trojan, which of course it is, but it was designed to be..! I keep
adding it to the known applications list but it keeps deleting itself
somehow ;-)

Ivor