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This is the second half of a 2-part issue discussing the large scale cyber-attack that occurred on October 21, 2016. If you missed part one, it is available on my website at ItsGeekToMe.co/columns/Issue-484. As I told you last week, achieving the data rate of over a terabyte/second that was used to take down Dyn would […]

I’m going to take a break from answering reader questions this week to explain the hows and whys of the recent large scale cyber-attack that affected east-coast United States users of some of the largest sites on the worldwide web. I’ve received a lot of e-mail recently that leads me to believe that even you, […]

Q: In answering a question recently (I.G.T.M. #474, August 21-27, 2016), you told the questioner that he should replace the Windows Vista operating system. Your comment seemed to imply that there was a security issue. I too have Windows Vista in my computer (a Gateway lap top). I would appreciate a few word concerning the […]

Q: I generally read all your columns in our paper and learn so much just reading them. But I have never seen this particular subject: My father, who is 84 years old, is forever having problems with his computer. I live 800 miles from him. This is his link to the world for him since […]

Q: You recently replied to a writer that s/he should discard the ten-year-old Vista immediately. Last March I bought a Dell which came with Windows 10. After two days I disconnected and began using my old Vista. Earlier this month I bought a flash drive, copied my emails, documents, etc. and loaded them into Windows […]

  Q: I upgraded to windows 10 from 7. My computer doesn’t recognize d drive or e drive. I insert disk, nothing happens.  Virtual disk manager cannot find file. Device SCSI\Disk&Ven_&Prod_\4&14b0e2e7&0&010000 was configured. – Denise T. Mossy Head, Florida A:  This looks to me like an installation that either locked up, or was otherwise interrupted […]

Q: First I would like to thank you for your time and dedication. I have been reading your column every week since I moved here 6 years ago and truly appreciate it. My dilemma is I’m trying to install Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems (KB3176493). It starts downloading and stops […]

Q: I was recently on a business trip and I could not get a wireless connection even though the hotel wireless was up and running. Upon returning home, I have been unable to connect to my home wireless. The wireless icon in the task bar shows wireless is not available. The computer is not in […]

Q: I sent you a question a couple of days ago about how to recover Windows 10 after a computer hardware failure. (Geek Note: See last week’s edition) I would like to add to that question. I have since heard that Microsoft claims that they can identify all computers that have legally updated to Windows. […]

Q: Yesterday I upgraded my third (and last) computer (2 laptops and a desktop) to Windows 10. I had a little problem that lasted about 24 hours and then went away. The problem was that after it had initially worked, I could not left click the windows icon nor on Cortana. This afternoon this went […]