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24/03/2022

the malicious goose infected desktop

12/03/2022

if you are a victim of google blocking gmail accounts in versions of Office Outlook 2016 and earlier - there's an easy solution, go to your gmail account and setup forwarding to your usual email.

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09/03/2022

Gmail is blocking gmail in Outlook earlier than 2016. I'm using Outlook 2013 on a desktop.

The easy answer is (1) dont do anything at gmail settings (2) use Spark email program (free) on your iphone or ipad.

For windows be patient....it's coming. Pop over here
https://sparkmailapp.com/

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19/01/2022

Its one of the most annoying sounds I've ever heard on a computer, like a trilling sound from some toneless instrument from the depths of tonal hell. There are a lot of toneless non-musical alert sounds on a windows 10 computer but this one in particular is more annoying because it is extended and like fingernails sliding across the blackboard.

I knew it was going to be a job to find it because the "volume mixer" tool only refers to system sounds. I knew this wasn't a system (inbuilt) sound. It interrupts whatever I'm concentrating on and whacks me over the head with a sturgeon fish. I had to get my sherlock holmes hat on and find it.

First of all I loaded up Mark Russinovich's PROCESS MONITOR from sysinternals.com

I chose the filter tab. From the filter choose these conditions:
path contains .wav

click add. Then click okay and leave it open.

Come back in the morning and check the log on the screen.

In my case it was HD Sentinel, the hard disk analyzer.

01/05/2021

JUST HOW PRIVATE ARE YOU ONLINE? SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!

You might not know this but just a little while ago google was reading your gmail emails for targeted advertising purposes. Imagine the personal content of emails being read by complete strangers. They claim to have stopped doing that now - the reading your emails bit. But when you opened your email, where you were when you opened it, what time you opened it, they can even know where your mouse pointed to in the email - people think with their mouse. It tells marketers or whoever else about your behaviour. They might have stopped reading your emails but there are third party apps doing the same thing.


Here's something you probably didn't know. Lets say you have a non-personal email address you use for shopping and communicating with family members. e.g. [email protected]. Then you buy something online, then you write to that business to complain about something or praise their service. If they are a pretty big online store their email program will scour the internet to find a photo attached to that email address. That's why sometimes you will see your photo suddenly appear in a return email from that store. The email software retrieves your photo from wherever you have used it associated with that email address you thought was private.

They may have got it from facebook or instagram, or worse, that private little dating site that turned out to be dodgy and now you cannot access to delete your picture.

So you can see that using an encrypted third party email is not going to keep your identity private. Once someone has the image of you they can search via image to find out a lot about you, where ever you used that image.

In the second image you can see how a reply email from an online store suddenly had a photo of the customer. They did not need your permission to do this because the photo is publicly accessible.
You might need to click on the image to see the second image.

27/04/2021

HOW TO FIX VPN SLOWING YOU DOWN

My VPN was running very slow. I uninstalled the VPN and got full speed back (25mbps). I fiddled around the different server settings in the VPN, UDP changes, different countries, though your local state is the best option as a rule.

Every setting was the same. Super slow. It would be easy to blame the VPN software because that appeared to be the logic. Remove it=fixed. Bring it back online=broken.

But that didn't explain why my laptop on wifi had good performance on the same VPN.

So I put my network engineering cap on and analyzed the network. I had a gigabit network switch. I removed the cat6 cable to plug directly into PC and this resolved the issue.

I guess it was another case of thinking outside the switch.

15/04/2021

WHY DOES YOUR EXTERNAL USB HUB STOP WORKING AFTER A WHILE?

A couple of issues to this very common complaint about hubs. If you get a 7 port hub your chance of plugging in 7 devices at once would be next to zero. They just don't have the power.
I have an external 240v powered hub (does not plug into a computer at all) which I use to charge my iphone and my ipad, my headphones, and a couple of other items. Every hub I've used to date is not able to provide consistent power to charge these devices, especially the combination of iphone and ipad. The brand is mbeat, but I have a desktop mbeat 7 port USB hub that gets dead ports. So it's not the brand we should focus on, rather the amps and external power supplies.
My mbeat offline charger hub has high amps, 240v, with a switch for slow charge and rapid charging for ios devices.
You're getting the picture. I am still trying to find an answer for a reliable desktop computer usb connected hub. Looking at the specs of the Orico transparent hub, and reviews on YT, I have decided to give this one a try out. It cost me $24. Cost to some implies good quality and reliablity - the more you pay the more eliable it is. This was not borne out for me. They have all been under powered, they get static discharge and have to be disconnected and left to rest a while before reconnected (disconnect everything!!).
If you do buy the Orico please let us know in the comments how it worked out for you. After I've had it about 90 days I'll let you know my result.
Buy here:
https://www.mwave.com.au/.../orico-usb30-transparent...
review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmxC875_eIQ

17/03/2021

one of the most common questions from customers is where did all the bugs come from. Allow us to show you an example from a downloaded program called bootracer. It is a legit program which measures startup performance but when it is downloaded from popular free download sites it can be full of rubbish, bugs, unwanted programs. This is common to many free downloads.

The most common threat to system integrity are Potentially unwanted programs (PUP's). These are not necessarily malicious or out to steal banking details, but they take up high amounts of system resources causing system degradation. Removing these PUP's is part of the process to restoring system headaches and slow performance. Once installed without your knowledge your antivirus may not detect any of them.

15/03/2021

https://fb.watch/4eKYvVdZt0/

15/01/2021

Most people know how to carry out speed tests. But the results are not always the same. I use ookla. It's easy and as accurate as speed testing gets.

Remember these two tech secrets when testing. Your ping should be around 10. If it's 70 or 80 it's too high, meaning your connection to a server will be slow even if you have a high download speed.

On the ookla page you will see the server you are being tested against. Remember to always use the change server link to always test with the same server. ISP's are known to force the test to a better server than theirs so they look good.

Sign in to ookla to keep a diary of all your tests.

20/12/2020

Here's a great tip for safety and performance on any laptop or PC.

Your ISP gives your router its DNS settings. This is usually not the preferred DNS settings for privacy and speed.

The fastest DNS at this time is Yandex. Access your router/modem and change the DNS to these numbers for the first and second options:

77.88.8.88

77.88.8.2

The difference in speed will be dramatically better than your ISP. This particular DNS servers also offer (free) protection from viruses lurking on the internet.

20/11/2020