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I'm running windows 7 & read that i can get a second desktop. I want to be able to separate one from the other like an "A/B switch". Is this possible?

I'm just testing. I'm on Vivaldi browser. This site reports it as chrome. Another site said Mozilla so obviously the reporting tool there isn't working. (It is understandable because the forum software is very old asp).

Rakhni Trojan has evolved to examine the infected PC to determine which form of malware will be best to install. An ever-evolving form of malware has added a new tactic which sees it choose to deliver ransomware or a cryptojacker depending on the circumstances of the infected victim. If an infected computer contains a bitcoin wallet, the malware will install file-encrypting ransomware -- if there's no pre-existing cryptocurrency folder and the computer is capable of mining cryptocurrency, a miner will be downloaded and installed for the purposes of exploiting the PC's power to generate cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency miner is the latest addition to Rakhni …

The announcement comes just six months after Yahoo and AOL parent company Oath discontinued AIM. If you're interested in downloading your Yahoo Messenger chat history, be sure to do that soon. Pour one out for Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo has announced plans to discontinue the vintage chat service on July 17, 2018. "We know we have many loyal fans who have used Yahoo Messenger since its beginning as one of the first chat apps of its kind," the company wrote. "As the communications landscape continues to change over, we're focusing on building and introducing new, exciting communications tools that better fit consumer needs." Yahoo first introduced the chat ser…

From tech giant Facebook Inc. to libraries and schools, organizations are now subject to the world’s most far-reaching data privacy regulation in a crackdown aimed at protecting people from losing control over their personal information. It’s occupied thousands of lawyers, taken years of planning and triggered billions of emails. Mess up now and you can expect very little tolerance, warns Andrea Jelinek, the Austrian in charge of policing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, which took effect on May 25. “If there are reasons to warn we will warn; if there are reasons to reprimand we will do that; and if we have reasons to fine, we are g…

Comcast patched a bug Monday that under certain conditions leaked customer SSID names and passwords of Xfinity routers. The flaw was accessible via the Comcast website used by customers to activate and manage their Xfinity router. The bug did not affect Comcast customers that used their own private routers. Researchers Karan Saini and Ryan Stevenson discovered the bug on Monday. Saini told Threatpost after notifying the media of his discovery, Comcast was alerted of the glitch and the bug was quickly patched. The prerequisite for the website vulnerability was that the researchers needed to have an Xfinity customer’s account number and just the street number (bu…

In March, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg became what’s believed to be the first pedestrian killed by a self-driving car. It was one of Uber’s prototypes that struck Herzberg as she walked her bicycle across a street in Tempe, Arizona on a Saturday night. There was a human test driver behind the wheel, but video from the car’s dash cam published by SF Chronicle shows that they were looking down, not at the road, in the seconds leading up to the crash. Police say that the car didn’t try to avoid hitting the woman. The SF Chronicle reports that Uber’s self-driving car was equipped with sensors, including video cameras, radar and lidar, a laser form of radar. Given that…

I think the Pixel 3 comes out in Oct. and Essential-PH3 in September. I lean towards the Pixel from Google but may need to buy before those dates. Considering frequency of updates, do you have a choice if I bought now?

A spike infections follows an update to the password and cryptocurrency-stealing malware. A form of malware which uses fake Facebook Messenger messages to spread has suddenly surged back into life and has developed new tricks to steal passwords, steal cryptocurrency and engage in cryptojacking. First uncovered in August last year, the malware used phishing messages over Facebook Messenger to direct victims to fake versions of websites like YouTube, at which point they are encouraged to download a malicious Chrome extension. The malware has remained under the radar since then, at least until April when it appears to have suddenly spiked in activity, targeting …

I could not find you by searching or with my bookmark, so I deleted you from my list of forums and passwords; glad to see you are back.

StressPaint malware is "developed professionally" and could be be harvesting accounts for anything from credential selling and identity theft, to malvertising and propaganda campaigns, warn researchers. Users who download a painting software advertised as a tool for stress relief might soon find themselves stressed out because the program is actually a front for malware which steals their Facebook credentials and payment information. 'StressPaint' first appeared a few days ago and at the time of writing has infected over 45,000 Facebook users. The attacks appear to specifically target users who operate Facebook pages and have configured a payment method into t…

Several times per day gmail requires me to sign into my gmail account. Is there a means of permanently signing in without the sign-in repetition? I'm on a desktop, windows 7, internet explorer.

I have a web site at GoDaddy. A couple of weeks ago, they sent me the following notice. There were 7 files listed, all with a php extension. These files have the same names as other files on my site, but only with the php extension. For instance, I have a file called bfile0506.pdf. In the same directory, there is now a new file, that I didn’t create called fbile0506.php. Then yesterday, GoDaddy called me about this possible malware. They were trying to sell me protection. Anyway, I scanned 4 of the 11 files that GoDaddy suspected with Virus Total. They were all clean. I didn't waste any more time scanning the rest. I then replied to GoDaddy’s email asking what pr…

After Tuesday’s nearly five-hour grilling in the Senate – more of a light sautéing, really – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday gave Congress another five hours of his life: this time, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Representatives’ questions again hit on Tuesday’s themes: data privacy and the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data-scraping fiasco, election security, Facebook’s role in society, censorship of conservative voices, regulation, Facebook’s impenetrable privacy policy, racial discrimination in housing ads, and what the heck Facebook is: a media company (it pays for content creation)? A financial institution (think about people paying each othe…

I have here a W8.1 machine and can't get into it because it's not recognizing the user's password as being valid. I clicked on the Forgot password button. It gave me a website to go to - https://account.live.com/password/reset. So, using another computer, I went to the site. It emailed a numeric code to the user's email address to verify the user was the one with the account in question. Then I was able to create a new password. Now, back onto the Windows 10 machine, I logged in using the newly created password. My question is - how did the W8.1 machine know about the newly created password? It hadn't been connected to the Internet when we created the new password.

Below each poster is the OS and browser used. On other forums, it is like pulling teeth to get someone to tell you what OS they are using and browser with the version. This saves a lot of posts getting the information - especially from people new to forums who say help my computer doesn't work.

Revelations that data belonging to as many 87 million Facebook Inc. users and their friends may have been misused became a game changer in the world of data protection as regulators are looking to raise awareness about how to protect information. Revelations that data belonging to as many 87 million Facebook Inc. users and their friends may have been misused became a game changer in the world of data protection as regulators are looking to raise awareness about how to protect information. Elizabeth Denham, the U.K. privacy regulator leading the European investigations into how user data ended up in the hands of consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, will say in a s…

Newsflash! Hold onto your hoodies! Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, is less than impressed with Facebook. Last week, Mozilla announced that it was suspending all of its Facebook advertising - citing concerns that the social network’s current default privacy settings are not protecting users well enough. And now Mozilla has announced a new Firefox add-on - called Facebook Container - that “isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity.” Here’s what Facebook Container does in Mozilla’s own words: Facebook Container works by isolating your Facebook identity into a separate container that makes it harder for Facebook to track your visits to o…

Intel revealed that it will not be issuing Spectre patches to a number of older Intel processor families, potentially leaving many customers vulnerable to the security exploit. Intel claims the processors affected are mostly implemented as closed systems, so they aren’t at risk from the Spectre exploit, and that the age of these processors means they have limited commercial availability. The processors which Intel won’t be patching include four lines from 2007, Penryn, Yorkfield, and Wolfdale, along with Bloomfield (2009), Clarksfield (2009), Jasper Forest (2010) and the Intel Atom SoFIA processors from 2015. According to Tom’s Hardware, Intel’s decision not to patch the…

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If you use Google GOOGL services, there's a really easy way to download everything you have stored on the company's servers. This is particularly important if you ever decide to quit Google and delete your account entirely, but still want a record of your Google Calendar, an archive of the pictures in Google Photos or a copy of everything in Gmail. It's also useful if you want a reminder of everything Google knows about you. We already showed you how to download a copy of everything Facebook knows about you . Now here's how to download an archive of your footprint on Google. A reminder: downloading your data doesn't delete it. Think of it as a backup. What Goo…