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TheConnection Walls
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Computers
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Essgee1952 I have become more and more concerned about data mining by Google. They already know far too much about me. Does anyone know which (if any ) search engines and free email providers don't do it?
February 8 at 09:56 EST .
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Bebece Today I received a strange phone call. The person sounded foreign, but said she worked for Microsoft and there was a problem and was I on my computer whiich I was and said yes. She said do you see your control tab, yes, do you see microsoft tab,yes and at this point I hung up. Has anyone else received this?
January 29 at 21:10 EST .
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Eagles Dominion I guess Tech doesn't monitor this wall. Avatar problem still not fixed.
January 22 at 14:40 EST .
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Bettijo Should I disable Java, and if so, how?
Another vulnerability has been discovered in Java that, if Java is installed on your machine, malware authors can exploit to infect your computer by something as simple as your visiting a malicious or hacked website.
As I write this there is no update to Java, which means that there is no fix. Technically that makes this a "zero-day exploit".
The fix that most experts, including myself, are recommending is to remove Java from your machine. Chances are you don't actually need it anyway.
But before we go further, we have to do the old "Java vs. JavaScript" dance.
Continue reading: Should I disable Java, and if so, how?
http://ask-leo.com/C6234
January 15 at 19:13 EST .
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Balogreene I saw that article too, Bettijo. Our computer people at work have yet to tell us to disable Java. We are a large corporation and they are very quick to act on this kind of thing. They will also tell us if they have a fix, but we should disable it on our home computers, as so many work from home occasionally. I'm trusting them so far, and have not disabled it.
January 16 at 18:43 EST .
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Bebece Kim Komando said to remove all old Java, which I did and have had no problems that I can tell. I think Java 7 and newer are ok but to be sure she has a column about it on 1/27
January 29 at 21:13 EST .
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MsHope I had a computer crash and lost email contact information for several Ldotters. Someone mentioned on another page that if I updated my profile I would have access to "look up members" again. Would someone please explain to this less than tech savvy person how one goes about doing this? Thanks.
January 14 at 21:25 EST .
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Escaped commieny Write to Luis, I saw that, so I updated my profile on the mothersite, and still NO access for obtaining other L-dot emails.
January 18 at 08:36 EST .
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MsHope Thank you Miss E.C. Have done as you suggested.
January 22 at 21:55 EST .
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Surfhut New computer. Malware Bytes or Norton? Something better?
January 8 at 22:01 EST .
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Surfhut Thanks, Bob. I went with malwarebytes. Going for the spyware you suggested. Is the superantispyware better than spybot?
January 18 at 20:29 EST .
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FL Homeschool Mom I'm ready to pull my hair out!!!! I was having issues because PC Tools suddenly popped up on my computer and every day at the same time it would run and shut down my internet. Finally figured out how to delete it and now I have another problem. Whenever I search for anything on the internet, it sends me to garbage search sites when I hit the link in my search. The search looks fine, nothing out of sorts, then I click on the link and it sends me to funky search sites that make no sense. I know the address on the link is correct because I searched familiar sites to see if the the addresses were coming up wrong. I've done every Norton scan I can and spent two hours on the computer with a Norton tech and they were unable to fix it. Has anyone else run into this? I swear PC Tools is the one that put this on here because the day a deleted their program, this problem started. One thing, I can go to web sites, as long as I type the address, so I'm not without computer use -- just really a nuicance.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
January 2 at 22:32 EST .
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FL Homeschool Mom It says right on the computer that it's "redirecting" if that helps with problem solving.
January 2 at 22:33 EST .
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Bob913 First try System Restore to go back before all the problems happened.
Start> Programs> Accessories> System Tools> System Restore
Choose a date on the calendar that is in Bold. The pc will restart and restore the pc back to that date. No personal files will be lost.
If that does not work then you can log in as administrator. http://www.petri.co.il/enable-the-window
s-7-administrator-account.htm
Download and install malwarebytes or superantispyware
Add a .org and a .com to the names above to get to their websites.
Run the antispyware programs.
January 3 at 00:35 EST .
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FL Homeschool Mom My friends husband came over and installed Malwarebytes on the computer and found 2 bad trojans. Not really sure why Norton couldn't find it, but after spending 2 hours on the phone with them and having him wipe out all my favorites, I don't have as much faith in them. The tech really couldn't figure and I think some of it was a language barrier. He should have passed it on to someone who could help, but for some reason the techs from India refuse to pass you on to someone else.
All is fixed, I can run the program myself when these problems arise.
January 3 at 17:20 EST .
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Surfhut I'm haaving fits with my new laptop. Cheap-ish Toshiba. For some reason, The Connection appears in text so small that I can barely read it. How do I make it appear in larger text. Also, when I log onto the main Lucianne site, I can't scroll down to read comments after an article. This dinosaur needs help! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
December 25 at 09:27 EST .
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Eagles Dominion Try using your Ctrl and minus or plus button.Pushing both at the same time will increase or decrease everything on the page to whatever you find comfortable.
December 27 at 12:58 EST .
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Surfhut Thank you so much ED. Told you I was a dinosaur! I can read The Connection now without squinting!
December 27 at 19:32 EST .
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Eagles Dominion :- ) Pleasure to be of service!
December 27 at 23:29 EST .
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Escaped commieny Wife texts husband on a cold winter's morning: "Windows frozen."
Husband texts back: "Pour some lukewarm water over it."
Wife texts back 5 mins. later: "Computer completely screwed up now."
December 19 at 06:51 EST .
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Balogreene LOL
December 20 at 18:54 EST .
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Bob913 Oh No! We just got Windows 8!!
 December 8 at 23:48 EST .
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Balogreene Thank goodness our company has so many internal programs, it takes them a year or more to switch to a new version.
December 20 at 18:53 EST .
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Escaped commieny Generational Communications
December 7 at 10:29 EST .
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Bob913 I have this look at work as I do Help Desk support for the company I work at.
December 8 at 23:49 EST .
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