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Q&A with CIPCUG Session 203

Tuesday, 30 June 2020 07:00
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Fred Krueger   I have  a Netgear C7000 modem/router, and I find that I cannot login to settings. After several attempts I went the Netgear support and the forums and several people mention that you cannot login to this router. It has to be accessed by the ISP.  I

cannot change any settings. Is this correct??

News Item:  IBM Differential Privacy Library: The single line of code that can protect your data

News Item:  On Facebook, she denounced a Starbucks worker who asked her to wear a mask.

News Item:  Charter seeks FCC OK to impose data caps and charge fees to video services

News Item:  Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea A Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location

News Item:  Facebook starts tagging news from politicians that violates their standards

News Item:  Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update  ‘to prevent confusion’

News Item:  California COVID-19 Modeling Website, Open-Source Tools For ‘Citizen Scientists’

News Item:  Microsoft developed a Windows 10 File Recovery tool

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Q&A with CIPCUG Session 202

Tuesday, 23 June 2020 07:00
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Lisa Toth   I have a Surface Pro with windows 10, 1903.  It is so slow to load pages. It is like having an old win version.

Andy Toth   I am installing Oracle’s VirtualBox on a windows 10 computer to have a version of winXP available. When I am creating the virtual winXP machine in VirtualBox, I get the message “The hardware virtualization is enabled in the Acceleration section of the System Page although it is not supported by the host system. It should be disabled to start the Virtual system.” How do I locate this System Page?

The Desktop in question is a HP P7-1007PC. It was a Win7 computer upgraded to win10. the onboard NVIDIA graphics chip is powered by the win10 drivers and the OEM drivers that were part of the purchased desktop. The only setting I can seem to access is the resolution.

Fred Krueger   An update on my prime video problem, I uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled. You tube is now working fine, Prime video still not working, went to help and disabled add-ons and prime is working even with VPN enabled.

News Item:  T-Mobile outage caused by fiber circuit failure, not DDoS attacks

News Item:  Apple Re-Closes 11 Stores Just Weeks after Re-Opening Them

News Item:  Microsoft fixes printing issues for all affected Windows 10 versions

News Item:  Windows 10 Fresh Start and Reset this PC Merged in 2004

News Item:  Adobe Flash Is Finally Going to Die end of December

News Item:  Microsoft planning Windows 10 2004 rollout for devices near EoS

News Item:  Bank of America phishing email bypasses spam filters?

News Item:  Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It For You

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Q&A with CIPCUG Session 201

Tuesday, 16 June 2020 07:00
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Andy Toth   I have migrated to a new computer and will be wiping the previous laptop hard drive and reinstalling win10 Home. OneDrive on previous computer is set up to keep copies of the OneDrive files on the hard drive. I login in with a local account on that computer.  The only option given to me on the new laptop was to login in with my Microsoft account.

I believe that in order to wipe the old laptop is to break the link with OneDrive. If I log out of my one drive account from the old laptop will I also be logged out on the new laptop? Is the Microsoft account login specific to a specific computer. logging out of one computer will keep me logged in on the other?

Fred Krueger   Using Firefox I have been trying to log into Amazon Prime and found out Firefox is blocking Amazon video? I can still use Firefox to order things on amazon but not watch video. Had to go to Edge and Prime video works there.

Fred Krueger   You can do almost anything from your phone. Why is there not an app that can marry your phone to your car so you can lock, unlock, start and stop the engine, disable the car, etc. the car would not operate without the phone. I think this would be a good idea with the uptick in vehicle thefts.

Andy Toth   I recently migrated to another laptop running windows home 1909. The major difference between the two computers are larger amount of RAM and an i7 processor. I went to partition the 500GB drive and discovered that there was only 305GB of space available. The previous computer with the same SW installed had almost 400GB free space. I am using the installed windows partition application. Any idea why so much more space is used on the hard drive?

News Item:  IBM Cloud global outage caused by “incorrect” BGP routing

News Item:  FBI warns of increased hacking risk if using mobile banking apps

News Item:  Apple and Google’s COVID-19 contact-tracing could be useful, but so far only 3 states have agreed — and none has started to use it.

News Item:  2020 June update bonks some printers

News Item:  Facebook announces the winner of its Deepfake Detection Challenge.  The winning submission spotted tampered video 82 percent of the time.

News Item:  Twitter deletes over 170,000 accounts tied to Chinese propaganda efforts

News Item:  Chinese Phishing Attacks against Trump and Biden Campaigns

News Item:  U.S. lawmakers ask Zoom to clarify China ties after it suspends accounts

News Item:  Patch your computer now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Q&A with CIPCUG Session 200

Tuesday, 09 June 2020 07:00
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Craig Ladd   LSEV – low speed electric vehicle, suppose to be the market of the future,$26 billion – computers involved

Fred Krueger   Does anyone have a good recommendation for a QR reader

Jerry Crocker   G-Mail has aliases

Sue Nethercott   You could talk about the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus pandemic is a cover for a plan to implant trackable microchips and that the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is behind it.

News Item:  Some computers are blocked from Windows 10 2004

News Item:  Contact-tracer spoofing is already happening – and it’s dangerously simple to do

News Item:  UK data watchdog claims coronavirus Test and Trace program flouts GDPR

News Item:  Google sued for $5 billion over alleged privacy violations

News Item:  Microsoft blocks Trend Micro from Windows 10, rootkit detector product pulled from site

News Item:  To test its security mid-pandemic, GitLab tried phishing its own work-from-home staff. 1 in 5 fell for it

News Item:  REvil ransomware creates eBay-like auction site for stolen data

News Item:  Self-driving cars could only prevent a third of U.S. crashes

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Q&A with CIPCUG Session 199

Tuesday, 02 June 2020 07:00
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Andy Toth   I’ve been investigating rooting my android phone.

Andy Toth   For an existing IMAP Outlook email setup on a computer, is it possible to change to a pop3?

Andy Toth   How to create the path and pst file? When you archive or auto archive does it get saved in the same pst file? How do you get the folder structure in your outlook email to transfer to the pst file? I will be setting up a new computer. what is the best way to export all email for input into a new installation of outlook?

News Item:  Windows 10 2004 upgrade may be blocked due to old graphics drivers

News Item:  Microsoft Edge to save edits made to PDF files without saving a copy each time

News Item:  Zoom’s New, Stronger Encryption and Security Will Protect Paying Clients

News Item:  Waymo to bring self-driving minivans back

News Item:  Left and right criticize Section 230

News Item:  Comcast, Charter and ViacomCBS Join Forces to Make TV Commercials More Targeted

News Item:  Well-known web sites port scan their visitors

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