Have you heard the term Botnet and wondered what it means? Botnets are made up of large amounts of computers that have been infected with a virus or Trojan and gives some control of the computer to a “botherder,” “botmaster,” or “botneter.” This person can silently use the computer for illegal purposes such as hosting [...]
Yes! WyldRyde can host a chat for you if you’re organizing a conference or other event that will have many attendees connected to a wired or wireless internet connection. For example, WyldRyde has hosted chats for the wildly popular Gnomedex conference, Northern Voice, and many Ustream.TV events. You may use our free Flash Chat on [...]
Chris Pirillo was asked, “How safe is the chat room?” so he posted the following video and an accompanying article to explain safety and security on IRC. Chris wrote after recording the video: When you’re on IRC, you’re as secure as you want to be. Don’t give out any personal information you don’t want others [...]
Our friend Andru Edwards has posted a how to IRC on an iPhone with Colloquy on Gear Live. You’ll need a Mac that can be reached by an IP address on the internet and has Colloquy installed and connected to an IRC server and joined to one or more IRC Channels. The Mac will also [...]
It’s easy to use the WyldRyde IRC Network for an online meeting from 5 to upwards of 200 people! You can setup a channel and add a web chat to your web site or keep it simple by just emailing a link to a chatroom so that anyone you want to come doesn’t have to [...]
You should never share a picture of yourself online if you’re not comfortable with everyone seeing it. When you share your picture with someone they can forward it to their friends and they could post it anywhere on the internet. Whoever you sent it to could even do that themselves. Once a picture is online [...]
Once you share a picture of yourself online it’s on the internet forever. Even if you’re just giving it to someone privately. They could easily email it to their friends or posts it on message boards and then anyone can download a copy of it and save it.
If you need a web chat but don’t have a web site or can’t include or upload our web chat scripts on your web page we added this just for you. You simply use this URL to create a web chat that is hosted by WyldRyde: http://www.wyldryde.org/chat/chat.php?channel=help or to paste it in a web site [...]
If you come across an online predator on WyldRyde please report them immediately to a WyldRyde Staff member in #help. You can also fill out a report at CyberTipline.com. Children should tell their parents about any inappropriate conversations and parents should make sure their children know that it is very dangerous to give out personal [...]
