YOU CANNOT USE MY COMPUTER ANYMORE!!

[Veho Nex]

I've had all I can stands and I can't stands no more...

I've done passwords, internet blockers, internet re-directors, build a new 400$ computer, and countless other things. Some have seen a post or two by me before and have seen what I have done before...

So I get it, I'm working full time now, no time to actually use my computer, so someone has to use it right? WRONG!

To the main point now: I goto work today, and my brother and his friend(s) think... HEY AWESOME JAKES GONE!! LETS GO USE HIS COMPUTER AND SCREW IT UP!! While I am gone, my brother goes websites that if I posted links here I would be banned for eternity, and downloads "free full" games off the internet. I do all my anti virus scanning my self so I have no anti virus programs. Well... I get home and my hard drives are wiped. I'm surprised my computer even turned on for the amount of time it took to tell me I don't have an operating system installed.

I'm sick and tired of this, I have done passwords but after a while I get tired of having to use a password just to turn on my computer. I get tired of having calls while I'm helping move a 300 pound piano, and then having my boss yell at me for messing with the whole vocal communications thing.


I need serious ideas on how to keep my brother and his friends off my computers. Locking my room doesn't help and I type in my password once and my brother looks and instantly remembers it. I just don't know how to fix this... problem of mine.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Use a long password, type it quickly, and make sure he doesn't see it. Simple.

[TevashSzat]

Okay....this is what you do if you really want him off:

Get three passwords at least 8 random characters long that contains the following: lowercase letter, uppercase letter, number, and a symbol like %,^,or @.

Practice typing in the password really fast. Then, use one of them in your normal windows login, one to lock your BIOS settings, and the third to lock Windows from booting. Also, remember to change the boot order so that harddrive is first so he can't try to bypass it by installing Linux on or something and then getting the password that way.

Alternatively, I suppose if you really want revenge, you could put a keylogger on your computer and get his passwords and use those as leverage to teach him a lesson about using your computer.

[Caius]

I've had all I can stands and I can't stands no more...

I've done passwords, internet blockers, internet re-directors, build a new 400$ computer, and countless other things. Some have seen a post or two by me before and have seen what I have done before...

So I get it, I'm working full time now, no time to actually use my computer, so someone has to use it right? WRONG!

To the main point now: I goto work today, and my brother and his friend(s) think... HEY AWESOME JAKES GONE!! LETS GO USE HIS COMPUTER AND SCREW IT UP!! While I am gone, my brother goes websites that if I posted links here I would be banned for eternity, and downloads "free full" games off the internet. I do all my anti virus scanning my self so I have no anti virus programs. Well... I get home and my hard drives are wiped. I'm surprised my computer even turned on for the amount of time it took to tell me I don't have an operating system installed.

I'm sick and tired of this, I have done passwords but after a while I get tired of having to use a password just to turn on my computer. I get tired of having calls while I'm helping move a 300 pound piano, and then having my boss yell at me for messing with the whole vocal communications thing.


I need serious ideas on how to keep my brother and his friends off my computers. Locking my room doesn't help and I type in my password once and my brother looks and instantly remembers it. I just don't know how to fix this... problem of mine.

Unplug the RAM.

[LittleGrizzly]

You could always try putting his hand into warm water whilst he sleeps

Maybe get him his own computer ? so he'll use that instead of yours, by the sounds of it it wouldn't last long

Is he a younger brother or what ?

you could always try physical threats, wrecking his stuff in retalaition...

[Privateerkev]

Take a part of the computer with you.

The mouse, keyboard, power cable, something he can't find in the house.

If your really desperate, take the memory. It's usually very easy to take out and I doubt he'll find a stick of it sitting around the house.

Or the fan.

Or the processor.

[Beirut]

Remove a cable/keyboard/mouse/something that will render the computer inoperable and take it with you.

[Marshal Murat]

The computer monitor is always an option.

Or plug the keyboard into the mouse slot, mouse into the keyboard.

[Veho Nex]

the memory was somthing i tried a while back, so you know what he did. Called up my friend whos a tech guy and asked to borrow some ram. Now that pissed me off. I dont know how to put a password on bios and he alraedy has his own computer. Also I can't really take anything with me since I work for a moving company. It will most likely get broken.

He was a star defensive back for the Hornets and he's two minutes younger than me. so physical threats dont really work.

[Privateerkev]

Take the processor and just put it in a backpack that you take with you.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Question - how is he getting your passwords? If he's getting them just by looking, just make sure he doesn't look.

Also, if there really is no alternative, take the hard drive. They're easy to plug and unplug, and he can't do much to your computer without the hard drives you're using. Just take them in a padded box in a static wrap (basically the container you bought the drive in).

[LittleGrizzly]

He was a star defensive back for the Hornets and he's two minutes younger than me. so physical threats dont really work.

You don't have to be bigger, ever seen the New Guy ? just give him the crazy eyes! ;)

im half serious, maybe ask nicely first try explaining how annoying it is and ask him nicely to stop, if that doesn't work next time he does it completely fly off the handle, show him your willing to kick scratch and punch to protect your pc, he may be bigger than you but if you could cause him alot of pain everytime he touches your computer it may work....

BTW why does he use your computer instead of his own ? is it because he knows he'd mess his pc up ? if so go have fun on his pc, download every dodgy file you can get your hands and click every little pop up involving porn (i would recomend installing zango as well, sure to annoy)

If nothing else works how about your parents ? will they help sort out this situation or will they simply tell you to get along ?

[CountArach]

Put your computer in your room and buy a lock.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Just hit him when he's not expecting it. Keyboard over the head for irony purposes.

[LittleGrizzly]

Find out how much he's willing to lose in his crusade to watch porn on your pc, take items from his room and inform him your doing so, pick important things he'll miss and inform him your hiding them (or maybe even throw them out) a friends house you could take these items too would be helpful, if parents wiegh in on his side act innocent, the annoyance of all his stuff going missing will drive him crazy, tell him this is how you feel tell him you won't stop until he does, if he does stop return his stuff at a constantly increasing rate and tell him the moment he returns to old ways so will you.....

remember look and act crazy, those who seem to have nothing to loss are generally left well alone....

[Mikeus Caesar]

Invest in a safe and an external disk enclosure. Remove your hard-drives from the computer and put them in aforementioned disk enclosure. Every time you have to leave the house, disconnect the enclosure and put it in the safe.

It will probably cost a fair bit, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Plus, it beats taking the physical hard-drive out of your computer case all the time.

[Husar]

Setting a BIOS password is done in the BIOS, it's not hard if you know how to get to the BIOS, then it's a matter of who gets bored first when he keeps standing next to you waiting for you to enter your password...

[FactionHeir]

Get a fingerprint scanner as password verifier.

[Marius Dynamite]

I need serious ideas on how to keep my brother and his friends off my computers.

Suggestions

1. Take him and his friends to court.
2. Break something of his.
3. If its your house, threaten to kick him out then do it.
4. Lock your door? Does he walk through wall or something? Lock it properly.
5. Get evidence of him downloading games and get him arrested.

It seems to be your brother is treating you like ****. A brother who does that is not a brother. Don't hold back. You are an idiot to be treated this way.

[Abokasee]

As for info on making a password

Alt' characters are useful: Ü ô ä f ▓ § ☺ ☻ ♥ etc

Short passwords typed quickly with those will confuse him quite easily

[cmacq]

only because you're related I've but two words.

baseball bat...


get one and learn to use it.

[lars573]

You keep acting like a doormat, he's gonna keep treating you like one. My 22 months younger brother was always the same height and around the same weight as me. Till puberty and now he's 4 inchs taller and has 40 pounds on me. Has that ever stopped from goin' upside his head if the situation demands it? Not on your life. But as Obi-Wan said. There are alternatives to fighting. As others have said do to his PC what he does to yours. An extention of this is to put passwords on his PC (but something tells me his already have passwords). Or if tit-for-tat doesn't appeal. Take his PC. Litterally remove it and hide it. You say work for a moving company. Take some packing materials and seal up his PC tower right and good. Then bury it 3 feet below the surface of the earth some where. The only important part of the where is that your brother doesn't know of it. To up the annoyance factor remove components are bury them in a seperate location. If you can't bury them find a real friends place and hide them there.

On the security front get a PC case that locks. Put a lock on it. Then remove the ram. Then getting into the case graduates from a prank to a crime.

[Veho Nex]

He kicked open my door once and i havent had the time to fully repair it Though come to think of it reading these hase given me a pretty good idea. Get a drawer right under my computer put like 3 or four locks on it and take out the ribon wire before I leave and put it in there.

[Fragony]

Kick out his teeth and kindly ask him to stop being such a terror.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

He kicked open my door once and i havent had the time to fully repair it

He kicked open your door and your parents didn't do anything about it?

[Whacker]

Electrify the keyboard, mouse, and your chair.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I must wonder as well how he can get away with kicking down doors.

Is he computer-savvy? Doing some sort of double disabling of the computer may work. That is - take the power cord with you. He'll go get his or something. But also unplug the PSU inside (can that be done? I think so).

Also, he may be some athlete, but last time I checked, moving company guys weren't paperweights.

You don't have to be able to beat him in a boxing ring to show him not to mess with you. Obviously, he will go to lengths to mess with you. Your brother is acting like a real jerk, and fighting like a man possessed may be the only way to get him to stop. Something like jumping him after he messes with your computer and he doesn't have any friends with him. Don't give any hint before you attack. Just let him know why after you've given him a good beatdown.

Show him you have the will.

CR

[El Diablo]

There are several body pressure points that were favoured by Nepalese Fighting Monks in the late 3rd cente....

ohh forget it.

Just give him a quick kick to the slats.

Big man + kick to slats = big man on floor...

[Husar]

Well, if my son would kick down the door of his brother....

What whacker said, look for overland powerlines or rails for electric trains...

Well, seriously, locks may indeed be the best solution.

[CountArach]

Iron door.