Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

:-)

Maybe at Euro prices too.....

Changed my DNS to 1.1.1.1 recently following lots of various online tips to do so.

Made a note of what it was previously, of course, so as to change back again should the need arise.

My PC seemed much faster and happier than before, as did the downloads

....and then....

My BT online e-mail has been hacked with an unmovable advert in and amongst the regular e-mails in the Inbox.

The Spam box got one of these too, but that disappeared on deleting all the spam.

I do believe, that BT are responsible for the hack.

Aha!

I've just updated ALL my software using 'PatchMyPC'. I did this because there is a new version of CCleaner. Then, of course, I've run CCleaner.

CCleaner seems to have shifted whatever it was. The advert is now gone.

"As long as I can say what I want, vote as I wish, and I am getting my own way I don't mind what I have to do."

Any target will do.

Come to mind.

Wrong thread!

Dum, dum, dum, dum, d-dum, dum, d-dum. Oh, I'm afraid the NEC will be quite operational when your friends arrive.

except fred that first you actually have to vote!

Nasty bugs on airport security trays

IT is bad news for holidaymakers already dreading the slow trudge through airport security.

Airport trays, as well as being an annoyance, also harbour nasty cold and flu bugs from the thousands who use them daily.

Scientists who swabbed the trays found half carried respiratory viruses including rhinovirus, which causes the common cold, and influenza A.

Experts say ill passengers may be using handkerchiefs and tissues, which they put in their pockets, before removing metallic items such as keys and phones to put in the trays. This will then expose other holidaymakers to the bugs. Jonathan Van-Tam, professor of health protection at the University of Nottingham, which carried out the research with the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare, said: ‘People can help to minimise contagion by hygienic hand washing and coughing into a handkerchief, tissue or sleeve at all times – but especially in public places.’ And Professor Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen University, who was not involved in the study, said: ‘There is a risk of passing on these viruses, especially during flu season, to other people using the trays and more so to airport staff.

‘There may be other viruses on the trays, like norovirus, which can’t be tested for.’

Researchers found evidence of viruses on ten per cent of the airport surfaces they examined. These included shop payment terminals, staircase rails, passport-checking counters and children’s play areas.

Swabs were collected at Helsinki-Vantaa airport, Finland’s main airport, at the height of flu season in February 2016.

Evidence of viruses was found on four out of eight airport trays tested.

The study, published in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases, concludes that security screening trays pose the ‘highest potential risk’ of any surface in an airport.

The researchers recommended that alcohol-based hand sanitisers be installed in airports for passenger use before and after security screening.

Think of the number of "card" payments at cash machines etc. and the buttons being pressed.

Have to use rubber gloves when I go out.

Good idea Fred, that'll help contain your germs and keep the rest of us healthy. :)

Just take your cleaning staff with you.

George.

Nah,

I will just sigh over the buttons as I press them.

Google is celebrating Chrome’s ten-year anniversary with a slick new theme, but there’s another big new change. The familiar green lock and “Secure” indicator in the address bar are going away.

Web users around the world have been trained to look for the green lock and the “Secure” wording before entering a password, credit card number, or other private information. The word “Secure” indicates the connection is encrypted with HTTPS security, preventing any snooping or tampering.

With Chrome 69, released on September 4, 2018, the word “Secure” is gone and the lock icon turns from a bright green into a monochrome gray.

Those encrypted websites are just as secure as they’ve always been, but Google is cleaning up Chrome’s interface. In Google’s opinion, every website you visit should be a secure website that uses HTTPS encryption. Chrome now warns you that standard HTTP connections are “Not Secure,” so you’re using a secure connection unless Chrome says otherwise.

PS. If you've read the above post, you'll realise Chrome now has an update available.

TIP: So....if you are now thinking of updating Chrome don't. Instead, download and install Patch My PC from HERE and let this program do it for you and also update all your other programs too.

Having duly installed Patch My PC, when you launch the program it will scan your machine and automatically update EVERY PROGRAM on your machine including Chrome.

It might need a bit of setting up to start with but not much.

Notice how the MoneyAM Investor's Room is NOT SECURE.

This means that everything you post on here is available to be read by the whole wide world.

eg. Just 'do a Google' for your MoneyAM Username.

All that 'faff' with logging into the site and it would appear to me, that you can read more posts on here by not logging in, than you can if you do. :-)

The £am site does have a security certificate, Doc. It's simply a case that http traffic on port 80 doesn't automagically redirect to the secure port on the server. If you don't believe me, try adding https at the start of your browser's address bar, and you'll get your green padlock. :o)

That said, a green padlock doesn't stop everybody on the interweb reading your content. Google and co can freely access and index sites regardless of whether there's a green padlock or not. The exception is that they can't index content on the pay per view side of websites unless the webmaster provides them with access (eg. as in the case of some news websites which operate via a subscription).

Thanks for the info, Hils.

On the topic of 'accessing the Internet' there is some 'fake news' doing the rounds about Chrome being insecure.

The news example tells you what can detrimentally happen if you use Chrome on a 'public' as against a 'private' WiFi link.

Obviously, it's the insecure 'public' link which is really the problem, not the browser being used on it.

How do you answer a question? So, answering a question, you answer a question by starting with so.

You answer a question by giving an answer or the answer.

So is that what you are asking and mean then? Or do you mean to ask something else?

So please tell us.

Try nodding your head and then denying it!




8-)