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This Guy is sooo stupid. Hope he doesn't breed. What an IDIOT. Caution: Coarse Language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=silnlo8VbWc View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=silnlo8VbWc

User calls me today because his desktop and taskbar were missing some icons. Additionally, his documents are gone. Went over there and found when you open the user's account and click on the documents icon in the left-hand pane, indeed there were no documents. I checked Properties of the Documents library link it and it was pointing to C:\Users\\Temp. The documents were intact and in C:\Users\\Documents where you'd expect them. I redirected the link to the proper folder. When he opened Outlook, it looked as if it were opening for the first time. It wanted to set up his email account. I searched and couldn't find his pst file. I even searched with Show hidden files ena…

Anyone with Comcast? My home page loads then immediately reloads. It's a year old issue I keep reporting. Win 10 Pro, Edge and Chrome, no other issues. Sent feedback for what it is worth.

Hey, remember the USB Killer, a device that looks like a thumb drive and lets you destroy 95% of computers by frying them with a quick jolt of electricity? There’s now an improved version on the market, which is more powerful, looks more like any generic thumb drive, and comes with micro USB, USB-C, and Apple Lightning adapters, allowing you to fry a wider variety of electronics. How do you know whether your device is vulnerable to attacks with a similar computer-frying stick? You don’t. A video compilation shows the new version’s Lightning port destroying an iPhone 7 and at least briefly confusing an iPad Pro. The only way to stop an attack on a vulnerable system is t…

I have the latest version. Every few minutes it drops out and reboots by itself. Have reinstalled Skype a number of times. Any clues? Windows7. Thanks.

I have a Toshiba Satellite C855-S5350 laptop in here that wants a BIOS password. I know this machine and I know the customer well. He said he didn't set a BIOS password and I believe him. I told him that to set the BIOS password, you'd have to start the machine and press F2 to get to the BIOS. He said he didn't do that and I'm sure he didn't. He teaches at a well-known university. I wonder is one of his students didn't set the password when he wasn't looking. I'll have to ask him the chances of that. My question is: has anyone heard of any malware that can do this? Also, if you have a solution as to how to reset the BIOS password in this machine, I'd appreciate i…

Hi, After each system startup of my Windows 7 SP1 desktop, the Event Viewer reports the following as information (neither a warning nor error): --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 96811 Application Information 24/01/2017 19:07:47 Wlclntfy 0 6000 Chris-PC 4 124 The winlogon notification subscriber <SessionEnv> was unavailable to handle a notification event. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The computer appears to be working n…

Trying to get through a humid 44c 111.2 Fahrenheit day here. Outside is a furnace. Garden plants are drooping. Huge Passion Fruit vine doesn't look good at all. Had to go outside for 15 mins. That was enough.

My 4 year old grandson is getting a Google ChromeBook for Christmas. My granddaughter wants me to set it up for him. I've heard that it has it's own built in protection but I haven't seen it and I'm a little skeptical as to how well it would work. What do you recommend, if anything, Pete, for antivirus or antimalware?

Victims of this cyberattack can have online activities monitored, data stolen, and their machine hijacked to carry out DDoS attacks. A new email scam campaign by cybercriminals purporting to be from 'Microsoft Security Office' is infecting its victims with Neutrino exploit kit malware. The email warns the recipients that their bank accounts are being used for suspicious activity as a result of a virus. Neutrino bot malware can be used for various nefarious criminal means, including data theft via capturing keystrokes, form grabbing and taking screenshots, performing DDoS attacks, making spoof DNS requests, and downloading additional malware onto the infected m…

I have Firefox version 50.1 and Google set as my search engine. When I go to type anything in the center box, my type doesn't appear even though the start is flashing. I click the box a second or third time and all is well. This is happening on three computers. Anyone else experiencing this PITB? I like using the middle search box. I can't pinpoint what is causing this. It may be just Australian Google.

I think Google is getting wacked today. I'm having problems with searches. Had to use Yahoo. Additionally, my gmail, calendar and Google Voice has been slow.

These clowns should be hunted down and de-nutted. Malwarebytes say Computer is clean. At the moment, every time I try and access the net, this page pops up. Have got a clone, but will lose latest programs, Photoshop edits and Data. Pete?

No way I would live in Florida. http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/16/giant-alligator-takes-stroll-through-florida-nature-center

Anyone heard from Mommalina? I sent an Email, and got no reply. She normally always replies. Hasn't logged in for just on a month. Hope she is OK.

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday, Bill. Have a great day, and hope you get plenty of prezzies.

I don’t understand this business of FTP ports for PASV mode. (Well, there’s a lot I don’t understand, but let’s stick to one thing at a time….) As my server will only have to deal with a small number of FTP connections, I understand that I can get away with only a relatively small number of open ports - say 4900 to 5000 – and I have seen advice that this is more secure… but why? If having 1000 ports open is insecure then surely so is 100, or even 10 for that matter. And how can it be that insecure anyway, or no FTP server anywhere would be safe…. And how can I ensure that these ports are ONLY available (open) for authenticated FTP traffic? (I would happily not use PA…

Hello If I want privacy on vacation, knowing a Chromebook has no Ethernet port, I would get an adapter. Then a wireless router. I think I must be wired to the router from a PC to configure it. I then can either stay connected or go wireless after configuration? Please correct me as I have not yet bought the router or adapter. My desktop - I had the ISP's router bridged and I configured my old router then all else got internet off the WiFi from that now old router. Please correct and thank you. Thank you Peter P.S. In other words I do not know how to set up my wireless router so I can get internet with the Chromebook.

Hi, Just recently the event viewer has regularly been reporting a Volsnap error on a daily basis. I've run sfs /scannow and disc cleanup without any improvement. System resources are not extensive but have not lessened significantly recently. At present the C partition which has a capacity of 63 GB has 20.6 GB of free space. The processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GH. The relevant report from My Event Viewer is as follows: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Record Number : 2269956 Log Type : System Event Type : Error Time …

Getting packages stolen from your front doorstep is unpleasant, no matter who you are or what time of year it is, and knowing that you or a neighbor actually let the thief inside must be even worse. We buzz delivery people who are strangers in and give them get a kind of implicit trust, and one delivery driver in Chicago is accused of violating that trust by grabbing packages on his way out the door. Unfortunately, we know this because there’s surveillance video of the man scooping up his own takeout (warning: auto-play video at that link) on his way out the door after a resident of the condo building had buzzed him in. Who dispatched this driver? That’s where thing…