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https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/30/netgear_abandons_45_routers_vuln_patching/ 45 Netgear routers they know are vulnerable, know have a real world proof of concept exploit but are refusing to patch! TL/DR list of routers is here: AC1450 D6300 DGN2200v1 DGN2200M DGND3700v1 LG2200D MBM621...

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/24/intel_7nm_chip_slip/ Still over a year to two years away from mainstream production and possibly as much as three years before they really hit the shelves, in some cases!

I have banked with Natwest for years and years and although the account is not really used anymore, I tend to keep it around as a bit of a savings account combined with they occasionally offer decent things. I just logged in today and got a message directing me to get a free Malwarebytes full...

I found something out fairly recently about Windows 10* in that netsh has a packet capture facility built into it. This is a decent write-up about it: https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/how-can-i-perform-a-packet-capture-in-windows-with-built-in-utility/170905204545360/ *I say...

Well worth a read. He also converted Pinball amongst other things.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/ Install applications etc via a command line.

One of the things that crops up here fairly frequently is that a new machine seems a bit sluggish when first used. Generally, this is because of the indexing. When Windows is first used it tries to index all of the files and folders on the local drive to make searching faster but this, combined...

My youngest son wants to dip his toes into streaming his Fortnite gaming, so he's asked for a few bits and bobs for his birthday. I've got the mic he wanted and a light but i wondered if anyone had any suggestions for a USB webcam? Don't want to spend a fortune on it but it needs to have...

Out of interest, what was everyone's first and second ISP? Proper "internet" ones, not the forerunners. Around 1996 I started with AOL (I didn't know any better) on their dialup. My first DSL product was Nildram. 512 whole kbps. They were fantastic until they were bought out (can't remember...

If you have Windows 7, 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 with Avast or Sophos installed, Microsoft patches this week risked borking your machine. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/11/microsoft_sophos/ Seems like they've (MS) now blocked the patches if the installers...

Not sure if you know, PCS, but you've borked the forums: You _can_ access the forums if you scroll down. Seems like this for me in Edge, Chrome and IE.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2019/04/04/improving-the-windows-10-update-experience-with-control-quality-and-transparency/ Though it does say if you're getting to the end of life of a feature release version , it will forcibly update anyway so not entirely true. Welcome news...

Just posting about SSD's and that I'd popped one into a laptop I had lying around got me to wondering what everyone here does with their unused/upgraded kit? On the whole I do not sell it except occasionally the odd few bits here and there on eBay. Experience has taught me that when you sell...

I am not entirely certain if the Asus news is relevant to anyone here as it generally seems to refer to a full system, but I'd assume their update software is also useful for their motherboards? Apologies if not, but it's handy information for anyone who might have an Asus system lying around as...

If anyone here is playing CS:1.6 still you may want to rethink that: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/39-percent-of-all-counter-strike-16-servers-used-to-infect-players/ :(

It's beyond time this company was sued into extinction: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/30/facebook_apple_enterprise_certificate_revocation/ (Note the comment at the end about Google abusing the same system). So for all those folks that won't use Windows 10 because "slurp"... once again...

...I am forever trying to educate my non-technical friends and family NOT to click on links in emails that say things like "We need to protect your account". So when you email me crud like this: "...Hello Tony, It's been more than a year since you last updated your personal info. Keeping...

First a bit of background: I need to rebuild my NAS - it's got some weird behaviour going on right now whereby if I try to move more than a handful of files around at any time, it will drop the connections and essentially freeze. I can't power it down or reboot it from the GUI and, despite...

So I decided to put the latest version of Windows 10 LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel) - what used to be their "LTSB" version. Before that, I'd only run it as a test in a VM so rarely every actually touched it and never gave it any real thought. I've been running it since before Christmas and...

Hope 2019 is good to everyone