Made in China.

[ribrash]

Does someone have to install a program for keyboard logging ? As for wifi capability,I haven't a clue.I plugged it in when it was delivered from BT and I haven't been near it since.WinXP has been the most trouble free OS I have ever used.I dread the day when I have to get a new computer.People tell me that Win 10 does what it wants.

[Pontius Navigator]

A keyboard logger indeed must be installed and connecting your computer to the Internet can be the route to infection.

In early days, without the Internet, you could get virus through programs on floppies but they were just annoying.

WiFi can be a vulnerability but more so in flats and dense housing. Also if you use public WiFi.

I think for most of us our wealth is such as to make us less susceptible to threats. I think our biggest problem is having your email hacked and you being coming the stooge for spam emails.

[boing]

Ribrash,

Clarification. Windows 10 does exactly what Microsoft wants (assuming they get the programming right which is becoming less frequent). Windows 10 is the most intrusive version of Windows so far with nearly every "update" pushing yet another half-baked Microsoft product that many people certainly do not want. The forced updates are also more difficult to reverse. You will also note that Microsoft is trying to push owners into using only Microsoft products or products purchased via their "app" store. Who knows what a non-Microsoft sourced product sold through their app store has been modified to contain?

That having been said, if you are capable of kicking it into shape Windows 10 works pretty well.

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[ribrash]

Thanks for all imputs.I will continue to talk nicely to my PC.When the time comes I'm sure I'll get the help I need to kick Win 10 into shape.

[Boac]

I would recommend everyone to run Malwarebytes (a free virus checker) through their systems on a regular basis, especially those using insecure old Windows systems. It generally always picks up something on my (fully protected and 'up-to-date') machine - normally only a tracking programme of some sort.

[TheGreenGoblin]

I would recommend everyone to run Malwarebytes (a free virus checker) through their systems on a regular basis, especially those using insecure old Windows systems. It generally always picks up something on my (fully protected and 'up-to-date' machine) - normally only a tracking programm of some sort.

+1

[G-CPTN]

As an aside, almost every website now wants you to OK the use of cookies.
I thought that cookies merely decided whether you had visited the site previously - yet the options suggest that the operator of the website can extract information and send it to their central database.
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What I am asking is what information can they extract from me?

[Boac]

Cookies in themselves are pretty harmless. The danger is that when you click on 'accept' (or 'refuse'....) you could be, unwittingly, be giving a nefarious website permission to install something else. Hopefully your AV will stop it.

[Seenenough]

I suspect that there is a lot more to be told about the rapidly deteriorating relationship between the US and China.

[Undried Plum]

A very silly, and unwinnable, form of warfare.

Most especially for the inevitably losing side.

[Seenenough]

A very silly, and unwinnable, form of warfare.

Most especially for the inevitably losing side.

Who will inevitably loose in your opinion?

[Undried Plum]

The fascist Imperial side will lose.

They always do.

Just read History in order the future's place within it.

[Seenenough]

The fascist Imperial side will lose.

They always do.

Just read History in order the future's place within it.

Come on Plum,who are the" fascist Imperials"?

[Undried Plum]

who are the" fascist Imperials"?

Read History, then take great big guess.

[Seenenough]

who are the" fascist Imperials"?

Read History, then take great big guess.

China?

[Undried Plum]

Imperial domination of China was short-lived, in the long term.

Made a lot of money, though.

[Seenenough]

Imperial domination of China was short-lived, in the long term.

Made a lot of money, though.

Has the term expired?

[boing]

There were actually about a dozen counties involved in the Treaty Ports agreement. I suppose if you really stretch things you could call this Imperial Domination but in effect it was a reverse form of One Country Two Systems as we used to see in Hong Kong. The core aspect was trade not territorial expansion.

Of course the Chinese throughout history have had numerous examples of Imperial domination but these occurred between rivals on the Chinese landmass but regardless of ethnicity they were certainly examples of one group dominating another and the process continues today in Tibet and Kyrgyzstan.

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[Undried Plum]

Kyrgyzstan?

Are you kidding?

That country is not, and never has been, a part of the Sheeples' republic of China.

Did you perhaps mean Taiwan? That island has been Chinese for eons.

[boing]

Not kidding at all. Lots of action. Start reading here.

https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/chinese ... tral-asia/

The seeds of " Imperial Domination" are being sowed. What is the difference between the Treaty Ports and Chinese investment in Kyrgystan protected by Chinese security firms.

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