Southern4sure
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I do not know much except for what my Dh tells me. I will try and briefly explain why I want to know.
For the last few weeks my DS16 has been having a squabble with the younger brother (15 yr old I'll name him kid A) of a friend of his. Nothing serious we thought. Basically we told my son to just ignore it and he did try but kid A likes to run his mouth and brought the squabble to school. Well you know how kids are and the squabble has blown up and now is involving mutual friends. I call the mom so we could get the boys together and find root of the problem and move on. Ds and Kid B are still friends and everything was ok until yesterday. Mom did not want to do that but she would talk with kid A and he was grounded for a day. Towards the end of our conversation I was stunned when she said have our son to beat the crap out of her son.
5 days later, out of the blue Kid A sends my son two emails through myspace posing as his friend Kid B's account. Ds said the emails were attached with an alert talking about imbedded material and a box popping up to ok Active X before Ds approves or denys the email/post. I read the alerts and call DH and read him the alerts while in the meantime Ds calls kid B to ask what it was which he said he didnt send anything at all but kid A used his account. DH became very concern because of not knowing what the embedded material is and coming from kid A. We did not know if it contained a virus or a worm of some kind or what at the time. Father of these kids works from home and is an internet security analysist and Kid A is a self proclaimed hacker. DH knows computers also so you see why the concern.
DH went to talk to the father to find out what this embedded material was and he just waves it off as just a wavfile. DH is concerned that it was more to it since Active X was part of it. The father said the same thing about our son beating the crap out of kid A. Again, we are blown away. Since father was no help and showed no concern, Dh told him he was going to have myspace investigate the embedded material and if it was a virus/worm it is a federal offense. Father then said to press charges. I would think the father in his line of work would know all about active x and such. I know nothing about computers but I learned alot that evening and it is scary. After sending the emails to Myspace, DH researched the embedded material and it is a active X wavfile. The material would freeze up our computer everytime my son went to his myspace account and everyone elses who looked at his myspace page.
Yesterday I received a call from the dad and now he shows concern because his boys are upset because myspace cancelled their accounts. He said fuel has been added to the fire. Then he hangs up on me before I could really say anything. Did he just wake up and see a problem? It appears he is turning a blind eye to what his son did by maliciously sending embedded material through email meant to harm my son's page. We did not asked for cancellation, we just wanted to know what the embedded material was. For all we knew, all our important information could have been sent to someone in China and etc. I feel if myspace cancelled their accounts there must have been a reason. Kid A was in the wrong for using Kid B account because Kid A knew ds wouldnt read his emails from his own account and posed as Kid B. I feel Kid A is the reason for the cancellations because he maliciously sent a "bug" to our computer and was caught.
I have never experienced this before and I'm totally confused how to handle it now. Trying to talk with the parents is a waste of time, all they say is beat my kid up. I need some wisdom on how to handle future problems with these kids. I say kids now instead of just Kid A because they believe my son did the reporting to myspace but DH actually did and dh told the father he would. Now kid B is saying he will get ds back.
Help!
For the last few weeks my DS16 has been having a squabble with the younger brother (15 yr old I'll name him kid A) of a friend of his. Nothing serious we thought. Basically we told my son to just ignore it and he did try but kid A likes to run his mouth and brought the squabble to school. Well you know how kids are and the squabble has blown up and now is involving mutual friends. I call the mom so we could get the boys together and find root of the problem and move on. Ds and Kid B are still friends and everything was ok until yesterday. Mom did not want to do that but she would talk with kid A and he was grounded for a day. Towards the end of our conversation I was stunned when she said have our son to beat the crap out of her son.
5 days later, out of the blue Kid A sends my son two emails through myspace posing as his friend Kid B's account. Ds said the emails were attached with an alert talking about imbedded material and a box popping up to ok Active X before Ds approves or denys the email/post. I read the alerts and call DH and read him the alerts while in the meantime Ds calls kid B to ask what it was which he said he didnt send anything at all but kid A used his account. DH became very concern because of not knowing what the embedded material is and coming from kid A. We did not know if it contained a virus or a worm of some kind or what at the time. Father of these kids works from home and is an internet security analysist and Kid A is a self proclaimed hacker. DH knows computers also so you see why the concern.
DH went to talk to the father to find out what this embedded material was and he just waves it off as just a wavfile. DH is concerned that it was more to it since Active X was part of it. The father said the same thing about our son beating the crap out of kid A. Again, we are blown away. Since father was no help and showed no concern, Dh told him he was going to have myspace investigate the embedded material and if it was a virus/worm it is a federal offense. Father then said to press charges. I would think the father in his line of work would know all about active x and such. I know nothing about computers but I learned alot that evening and it is scary. After sending the emails to Myspace, DH researched the embedded material and it is a active X wavfile. The material would freeze up our computer everytime my son went to his myspace account and everyone elses who looked at his myspace page.
Yesterday I received a call from the dad and now he shows concern because his boys are upset because myspace cancelled their accounts. He said fuel has been added to the fire. Then he hangs up on me before I could really say anything. Did he just wake up and see a problem? It appears he is turning a blind eye to what his son did by maliciously sending embedded material through email meant to harm my son's page. We did not asked for cancellation, we just wanted to know what the embedded material was. For all we knew, all our important information could have been sent to someone in China and etc. I feel if myspace cancelled their accounts there must have been a reason. Kid A was in the wrong for using Kid B account because Kid A knew ds wouldnt read his emails from his own account and posed as Kid B. I feel Kid A is the reason for the cancellations because he maliciously sent a "bug" to our computer and was caught.
I have never experienced this before and I'm totally confused how to handle it now. Trying to talk with the parents is a waste of time, all they say is beat my kid up. I need some wisdom on how to handle future problems with these kids. I say kids now instead of just Kid A because they believe my son did the reporting to myspace but DH actually did and dh told the father he would. Now kid B is saying he will get ds back.
Help!
I started honking my horn cause there was no teacher watching them! Then I told the man who opens the car doors (he's the school janitor) and he just shrugged his shoulders. I was so upset that morning. It stayed with me all day. And they're only 7. 
