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We’re going to look at several instances of the Clearview AI facial recognition system making news, and at the systems which fell during last week’s Vancouver Pwn2Own competition. We cover some welcome news from the U.

Department of Justice and some disturbing news about a relatively simple and obvious hack against popular Bluetooth-link smart locks. We have some closing-the-loop feedback from our listeners, including a look at what’s going on with the Voyager 1 space probe, and another interesting look into the looming impact of quantum crypto. Then we finish by sharing an in-depth examination of the surprisingly deliberately orchestrated shutdown of the Conti ransomware operation.

Apple has pushed a set of updates to close an actively exploited zero-day. Google announced the creation of their Open Source Maintenance Crew. A ransomware gang wants to overthrow a government. Google’s Play Store faces an endlessly daunting task. A piece of errata and some closing-the-loop feedback from our terrific listeners. Then we’re going to look at just how far afield the European Union has wandered with their forthcoming breathtaking surveillance legislation. We briefly revisit Connecticut’s new privacy law and we take a quick look at the raft of recent ransomware victims.

The U. State Department has added another ransomware group to its big bounty list and we look at what’s being called the biggest cybersecurity threat facing the U. Meanwhile, the White House issues a memorandum about the threat from quantum computing and we have the discovery of a new and pernicious DNS vulnerability that’s unlikely to be fixed in our IoT devices.

We’re going to look at some hopeful new privacy legislation recently passed in Connecticut’s house which if signed into law would cause it to join four other privacy-progressive states, and we’re going to look at Moxie Marlinspike’s irreverent rationale for the need for port knocking. Then, after sharing some interesting listener feedback, we’re going to look at the background, implementation and future of a very encouraging development in user web browser and Internet privacy.

The 0-Day Explosion This week we’re going to take a close look at the U. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s mandated must update list, including some recent entries. We’re going to examine the somewhat breathtaking mistake that Lenovo made across more than of their laptop models, and a cryptocurrency wallet implemented in a web browser what could possibly go wrong?

Then we’re going to look at another startling vulnerability that was recently discovered in Java versions 15, 16, 17 and We have a bunch of interesting listener feedback, a brief Sci-Fi interlude, and the announcement of a major milestone reached for SpinRite.

Then we’re going to wrap up by taking a look across the past ten years of 0-day vulnerabilities thanks to some recent research performed by the security firm Mandiant. The title of this week’s podcast gives away what’s been happening. A Critical Windows RPC RCE This week we examine Chrome’s third zero-day of the year, followed by Microsoft’s massive patch fest last week, and we note that we don’t even bother counting Windows zero-days, though there were another two this month amid the 47 critical vulnerabilities that were patched, one of them being so worrisome that it captured this week’s podcast title, which we’ll cover at length before we conclude.

We also have more WordPress add-on trouble, the return of a longstanding problem in Apache Struts, and we have some interesting commentary about the current hackability status of the United States nuclear arsenal. I want to share a bit of closing-the-loop feedback with our listeners and give everyone a snapshot into the recent work on SpinRite. Then we’re going to take a close look at the one flaw, out of that Microsoft patched last week, that truly has the entire security industry on pins and needles because it enables a zero-click Internet worm.

Spring4Shell We’ll wrap up this week’s podcast by revisiting Spring4Shell. Last week, when we first mentioned it, it was just a questionable itch.

Now, a week later, it’s a full blown outbreak deserving of today’s podcast title. But before we roll up our sleeves for that we’re going to examine credible reports of a 0-day in the Internet’s most popular web server platform.

We have another instance of an NPM protest-ware modification of a highly used library, and I want to share a bit of miscellany and listener feedback. Then we’ll finish by looking at what one week has done to Spring4Shell.

Sophos has got themselves an attention grabbing must patch now 9. Squarely in the doghouse this week is WYZE whose super-popular webcams have problems which are just as serious as those of the company itself But it is extremely clever, cool and useful. In today’s world, there’s more reason than ever for ports and the services behind them that are not actively soliciting public traffic to be kept completely hidden.

There are a number of ways this can be done which are very cool. Targeted Exploitation This week we start by looking at Chrome’s second zero-day vulnerability of the year. We then spend some time with an interview of the Chief Technical Officer of one of Ukraine’s largest ISPs learning of the challenges they’re currently facing. JavaScript’s most popular package manager npm is under attack again, and Honda tells worried reporters that they have no plans to address the consequences of a new glaring security vulnerability affecting five recent years of their Honda Civic design.

Then, after addressing a piece of use-after-free listener feedback, we take a detailed look at the consequences of Chrome’s first zero-day of the year and at the attacks launched by North Korea which leveraged that flaw. We examine a worrisome software supply chain sabotage and the trend it represents.

A very concerning infinite loop bug has been uncovered in OpenSSL time to update! We then take a look at the Windows vulnerability that refuses to be resolved, and we’ll finish by spending a bit more time than we have so far looking more closely at why User-After-Free flaws continue to be so challenging.

QWACs On? This week we briefly touch on last week’s Patch Tuesday for both Windows and Android, the world’s two most used operating systems. We look at a recent emergency update to Firefox and the need to keep all of our systems’ UEFI firmware up to date. The Linux kernel has seen some challenging times recently, and Russia has decided to start signing website certificates. Research was just published to put some numbers to WordPress add-ons’ observably miserable security, and the European Union legislators who brought us GDPR and mandatory website cookie notifications are at it again.

What now? Rogue Nation Cyber Consequences This week we examine many of the cyber-consequences of Russia’s unilateral aggression against Ukraine. In a world as interconnected as today, can a rogue nation go it alone? Ukraine has formed a volunteer IT Army.

Hacking groups are picking sides. Is Starlink a hope? Actors on both sides of Russia’s borders are selectively blocking Internet content. Google has become proactive. The Namecheap registrar has withdrawn service. Use of the Telegram encrypted messenger service has exploded. Cryptocurrency exchanges block tens of thousands of wallets. Russia releases the IP addresses and domains attacking them, and likely some which are not.

They also prepare to amend their laws to permit software piracy and appear to be preparing to entirely disconnect from the global Internet. All of the technologies we’ve been talking about for years are in play. Trust Dies in Darkness This week we examine the consequences of paying ransomware extortion demands. How did that work out for you? We take a deep look into “Daxin,” a somewhat terrifying malware from attackers linked to China.

We take something of a retrospective look at Log4j and draw some lessons from its trajectory. We touch on some technical consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including which kitchen appliances Russia’s servers are claiming to be, and the question of the possible consequences of the U.

We have a piece of interesting listener feedback and the results of last week’s next SpinRite development pre-release. Then we’re going to take a look at the significant mistake Samsung made which crippled and compromised the security of all million of their most recently made Smartphones. We look at the new Xenomorph Android malware and at a mistake made by a new and prominent ransomware service. We examine why blurring or pixelating text for redaction was never a good idea, and what can go wrong with a plan to shut off one’s teenagers’ Internet access at home.

Then, after quick sci-fi and SpinRite updates, we’ll take a look at an effective and lucrative attack that was perpetrated by deliberately abusing the still-too-trusting Border Gateway Protocol. We also look at what the U. CISA thinks of not only these, but of 15 other problems that our federal agencies seem to be in no big hurry to fix. This being the third Tuesday of the month, we’ll look back at the second Tuesday to see how that went.

Sunday saw a true emergency patch issued by Adobe that probably canceled some Super Bowl plans, and we have an amazingly bad idea for a WordPress add-on. Google has published their Bounty Report, and their Project Zero has published stats about how things are going there. We have Microsoft removing a popular and highly abused feature of Windows. And then, because nothing else in the past week commanded the podcast’s title, I’ll wind up by formally introducing GRC’s latest freeware which puts its users firmly “InControl.

The Inept Panda This week we’re going to take a look at our law enforcement and cyber-defense recommendations regarding safe conduct while in Beijing for the Winter Olympic Games.

We’re going to take a look at a serious CVSS 9. We’ll examine Microsoft’s most recent approach to application packaging and installation triggered by their recent wholesale neutering of it’s primary application and feature. And we’re also going to celebrate a welcome change in Microsoft policy that’s been 20 years in the making.

I’ll share a brief pre-announcement of a new forthcoming GRC quickie freeware utility. Citizen Lab’s reverse-engineering analysis will explain how this week’s podcast got its name. I have a totally random bit of miscellany to share in the form of a tip, a SpinRite update and some closing the loop feedback from our terrific listeners. We look at the result of the insurance industry’s pushback against ransomware coverage and at the resulting changing cyber-insurance landscape.

We look at another WordPress add-on problem and a supply-chain attack on a very popular add-on provider. We also wonder whether WordPress still makes sense in ? We’ll share some interesting questions and topics suggested by our listeners, then we’re going to take another of our recent technical deep dives to examine the precise cause of that pervasive NetUSB flaw — it’s really fun and completely understandable!

Anatomy of a Log4j Exploit This week we start off by looking at how the U. Pentagon is dealing with Log4j and how the U. This being the 3rd Tuesday of the month, we’ll look back last week’s decidedly mixed-blessing Patch Tuesday — the good and the unfortunate. We’ll then look at a very serious new remotely exploitable problem which affects many popular routers — and provide a shortcut of the week to immediately check your own routers — and then over a new and very welcome access control standard being introduced by the W3C which Chrome is already in the process of adopting.

We’ll wrap up the top portion of the podcast with yet another set of very serious WordPress add-on blunders. Then we’ll share a bit of listener feedback, including answering the very popular questions about refilling empty SodaStream tanks. And after a brief SpinRite progress update we’re going to take a close look inside the operation of an actual, Iranian, Log4j exploit kit. URL Parsing Vulnerabilities This week we’ll begin with another in our series of Log4j updates which includes among a few other bits of news, an instance of a real-world vulnerability and the FTC’s somewhat surprising and aggressive message.

We’ll chronicle the Chrome browser’s first largish update of and also note the gratifying growth of the privacy-centric Brave browser. WordPress needs updating, but this time not an add-on but WordPress itself. December 33rd This week we start off the new year with a handful of Log4j updates including yet another fix from Apache; some false positive alarms; Alibaba in the doghouse; and an underwhelming announcement from the U.

Department of Homeland Security. We note the postponement of a critical industry security conference, an interesting aspirational announcement from DuckDuckGo’s CEO, and the soon-to-be-rising costs of cyber insurance. Then, after a bit of miscellany and a SpinRite update, we look at the surprising technological decision that has forced the official creation of December 33rd. Best of Leo Laporte walks through some of the highlights of the show and most impactful stories of So this week we’ll look at the further consequences of the Log4j vulnerabilities, including the two additional updates the Apache group have since released.

But before that we’ll look at what will hopefully be Chrome’s final zero-day patch of the year, Firefox’s surprise refusal to take its users to Microsoft. We have a new and interesting means of increasing the power of fraudulent cell tower Stingray attacks, and a continuing threat from cross-radio WiFi-to-Bluetooth leakage. We’ll touch on a sci-fi reminder and a SpinRite update, then dig into what’s happened since last week on the Log4j front.

Log4Shell is not like Spectre or Meltdown, which were academic theories. This is at the far other end of that spectrum. But first we’re going to talk a bit about last week’s massive Amazon network services outage and the unfortunate but probably inevitable abuse of Apple’s AirTag ecosystem. I need to correct the record over my undeserved praise, last week, for Windows 11 and its loosening grip over its Edge browser association, and we need to warn all WordPress site admins about a new and serious set of threats.

We have a single item of closing the loop feedback about today’s main topic, a bit of Sci-Fi and a SpinRite update. Then, we’ll roll up our sleeves and by the end of today’s episode listening will understand exactly how, why and what happened with Log4j and Log4Shell. We look at the horrifying lack of security in smartwatches for children smartwatches for children?!? Microsoft softens the glue between Windows 11 and Edge, bad guys find a new way of slipping malware into our machines, a botnet uses the bitcoin blockchain for backup communications, and HP has printer models in dire need of firmware updates.

We touch on sci-fi and SpinRite, then we look at new research into an entirely new class of cross-site privacy breaches affecting every web browser including a test every user can run for themselves on their various browsers.

Bogons Begone! This week we’ll note that the new Edge browser’s Super Duper Secure Mode has been deployed and can be enabled by security-conscious users. We have an important reminder about clicking links in email and wonder how that can still be a problem, and the entirely predictable evolution of a Windows zero-day vulnerability which is latent no longer. We have some interesting closing-the-loop feedback from our terrific listeners, and a sci-fi book update.

Then we take another and much broader look at the recent efforts to clean up IPv4, but this time from the perspective of those working to do so. They’re proposing a change to a fundamental and long-standing aspect of the Internet’s routing which I think must be doomed to fail. So we’ll spend a bit of time on this in case it might actually happen. Then Microsoft reveals some results from their network of honeypots, and we update on the progress, or lack of, toward more secure passwords.

GoDaddy suffers another major intrusion, and just about every Netgear router really does now need to receive a critical update for the fifth time this year. This one is very worrisome. Blacksmith This week we look at a critical 9.

We’re then rocketed back to reality by a review of last week’s Patch Tuesday, looking at what it broke and happily what more it fixed, including hints that Christmas might finally be coming to printing by December.

We have some more encouraging ransomware vs the law news, and we examine the question of how to make big money defrauding online advertisers. Bluetooth Fingerprinting This week we quickly cover a bunch of welcome news on the combating ransomware front.

We look at the results from last week’s Pwn2Own contest in Austin Texas and at a weird problem that only some users of Windows 11 started experiencing after Halloween. There’s a serious problem with GitLab servers and additional supply-chain attacks on JavaScript’s package management. We have some fun closing the loop feedback from our listeners.

I’m going to share the details of an interesting IRQ problem I tracked down last week. Then we’ll take a look at an aspect of radio frequency fingerprinting that has apparently escaped everyone’s notice until seven researchers from UCSD did the math. Trojan Source This week we keep counting them Chrome 0-days, we look at a pair of badly misbehaving Firefox add-ons with Mozilla’s moves to deal with their and future proxy API abuse.

We check-in for Windows news from Redmond which I’m again unable to resist commenting upon, then we look at a surprise motherload of critical updates from Adobe and at the still-ongoing DDoS attacks against VoIP providers and their providers.

We’ll look at some fun and interesting Closing The Loop feedback from our listeners and I’m able to share some surprising early benchmarks from SpinRite. The More Things Change This week we share some welcome news about Windows Leo gets his wish about REvil. Microsoft improves vulnerability report management, attempts to explain their policy regarding the expiration of security updates, and prepares for the imminent release of the next big feature update to Windows 10, 21H2.

Zerodium publicly solicits vulnerabilities in three top VPN providers. Three researchers disclose their new and devastating “Gummy Browser” attack, which I’ll debunk. Another massively popular JavaScript NPM package has been maliciously compromised and then widely downloaded. We close the loop by looking at “Nubeva’s” claims of having solved the ransomware problem.

We touch on a new annoyance spreading across websites, and also briefly touch on four sci-fi events: “Dune,” “Foundation,” “Arrival,” and “Invasion.

Then we’ll take a look back to share and discuss a conversation Leo and I had more than 20 years ago. What’s surprising is the degree to which “The More Things Change Minh Duong’s Epic Rickroll This week we, of course, update on various controversies surrounding Win11 and catch up on the aftermath of last week’s Patch Tuesday.

We note that REvil’s brief reappearance appears to have ended — perhaps this time forever — and we examine, just for the record, the outcome of the big, virtual, nation anti-ransomware meeting where the invitations for China and Russia were apparently lost in the mail.

We look at the amazing results of this past weekend’s Tianfu Cup hacking competition in China, at the startling success of a prolific botnet’s clipboard hijacking module, and at LinkedIn’s decision to dramatically pare down its offerings in China. And then, after quickly sharing Sunday’s big news about SpinRite, we’re going to take a very fun and detailed look at the sophisticated senior prank orchestrated by Illinois’ Minh Duong who miraculously sidestepped his own arrest.

We look at Google’s warning sent to more than 14, of its Gmail users and at their move toward enforced two-step verification. We look at recent hacking and ransom payment legislation and at last week’s massive breach at Twitch. We cover the emergency Apache web server update and the mass exodus from WhatsApp during last week’s Facebook outage. We look at new Windows 11 side effects and at Patch Tuesday. We close the loop with some listeners and I quickly update on SpinRite’s progress.

Then we settle down to consider the true significance and import of the various year-to-date 0-day counts. But before we get there we look at this week’s new pair of 0-day flaws which Google fixed in Chrome, we note the arrival of Windows 11 with a yawn and also caution about one known flaw that it’s already known to have.

We look at some potential for global action against ransomware, and some possible movement by the FCC to thwart SIM swapping and number transporting attacks. We also examine a widespread Android Trojan which is making its attackers far too much money, and speaking of money, there’s a known flaw in Apple Pay when using a VISA card that neither company wants to fix. We examine the growing annoyance of those who are reporting bugs to Apple, Epik’s belated confirmation of their mega data breach, Windows 11’s further progress toward its release, and its new and much more useful PC Health Check tool.

We look at some additional fallout from this month’s ever-exciting Patch Tuesday and take notice of a clever new approach for bypassing anti-malware checking under Windows. And after a quick check-in about the first two episodes of AppleTV’s Foundation series, we settle in to examine the week’s most explosive, worrisome and somewhat controversial disclosure of yet another huge Microsoft screw-up which caused this week’s episode to be given the domain name: autodiscover.

We checkout the once again mixed blessing of last Tuesday’s Microsoft patches, and we examine a welcome feature of Android 11 that’s being back-ported through Android 6. Then we’ll wrap up by introducing the latest weapon in the malign perpetrator’s arsenal, the powerful commercial tool known as Cobalt Strike. The Meris Botnet This week we’re going to note the apparent return of REvil–not nearly as dead and gone as many hoped.

Even though IE is gone, it’s guts live on in Windows. We’re going to share the not surprising but still interesting results of security impact surveys taken of IT and home workers, after which we’ll examine a fully practical JavaScript based Spectre attack on Chrome.

I have bit of closing the loop feedback to share and a surprisingly serious question about the true nature of reality for us to consider. TPM 1. We look at some new troubles for Bluetooth and at a popular and persistently unpatched residential security system which can be trivially disarmed by bad guys.

We share some interesting closing the loop feedback and a new Sci-Fi discovery. Then we take a long and careful look at the details and differences between version 1. Life: Hanging by a PIN This week we’ll start out by clarifying the terms credit freeze and credit lock.

Then we have news of the T-Mobile breach from its perpetrator. We examine the evolving and infuriating question of where will Windows 11 run and we look at yet another newly revealed attack against Microsoft’s Exchange server known as ProxyToken.

I wanted to clarify a bit about Tailscale’s source openness, and touch on the disturbing revelations shaking the mass storage industry with SSD performance being deliberately reduced once they’ve been well reviewed and adopted.

I’ll update our patient SpinRite owners on my recent work and progress, we’ll touch on some cellular phone terminology, then conclude by considering the power of the PIN and look at just how much damage it can do. Microsoft’s Reasoned Neglect This week we briefly look at Firefox’s plan to block unsecured downloads. We examine the threat posed by T-Mobile’s massive and deep data breach and what current and past customers of T-Mobile should do.

We’ll also examine a simple-to-make flaw in the Razer gaming mouse installer, cover another worrisome IoT protocol screw-up, and share a couple of feedback notes and a question from our listeners. Then I want to conclude by following up on last week’s discussion of Microsoft’s apparent culpable negligence with a proposed explanation of their behavior and motivation which fits the facts so well that it becomes Reasoned Neglect.

Microsoft’s Culpable Negligence This week we look at another very significant improvement in Firefox’s privacy guarantees and the first steps for Facebook into native end-to-end encryption. We look at several well-predicted instances of abuse of Microsoft’s PrintNightmare vulnerabilities, and at a clever cryptocurrency mining Botnet that optimizes the commandeered system for its own needs. Then, after touching upon a bit of errata and some closing-the-loop feedback from our terrific podcast followers, we conclude with a sober consideration of Microsoft’s handling of vulnerability patching during the past year.

And we ask what it means. Apple’s CSAM Mistake This week we look at a pervasive failure built into the random number generators of a great many, if not nearly all, lightweight IoT devices.

We look at some old, new and returned critical vulnerabilities in major VPN products. We look at a number of terrific bits of feedback from our listeners. Then we carefully examine the operation and consequences of Apple’s recent announcement of their intention to begin reacting to the photographic image content being sent, received and stored by their iOS-based devices. The BlackMatter Interview This week we look at FireFox’s declining active user count, at the evolution of the Initial Network Access Broker world, at several different ransomware group renamings and revivals and we encounter a well-informed Active Directory security researcher who feels about Microsoft’s July pretty much as we do.

I want to turn our listeners onto a very interesting looking Hamachi’esque overlay for WireGuard and share a fun diagnostic anecdote that cost me a day of work last Friday. But we first look at how Chrome managed to hugely speed up its Phishing website early warning system making it even earlier.

Obviously, Microsoft is happy for millions of W10 users to throw away equipment that still has years of working life in it. Microsoft is obviously not happy with e-waste. They have a site that clearly addresses this issue. Use your machine until it physically stops working. So you say to use your machine until it physically stops working, and to not worry about security.

Hopefully by then all the currents fools at Microsoft ruining Windows with 11 are fired and return Windows to a proper desktop operating system. People still use Windows?

Both Windows and MacOS feel like a constant game of whackamole as they hide or remove one important option after another.

While Linux changes fast at times e. That is, Linux is tending towards the same model as Windows. It also collects telemetry. Want to use Linux? Having to type a password every 15 minutes, and do almost everything from a command line in Linux, plus issues with networking with a Windows server in the mix is not a lot of fun.

Hold on there Corky, Linux Mint is not bloated and updates are not automatic, you have control over what gets updated. YOU have control I would think in most distros. And the only time a reboot is needed is during a kernel update but still, linux reboots in literally seconds instead of MINUTES in windows.

I run Mint and only have a Windows machine to use turbo tax once a year. Windows Trolls have been saying forever. I am personally grateful to MS for introducing Vista because it got me on Ubuntu. I have not looked back since and have helped dozens make the change. I have not had issues getting older intelligent users on Linux. Win 11 will get a new wave of desktop Linux users up and running. Those not clever enough to migrate will be on their smart phone or iPad.

Thanks MS for the latest incentive for many others to switch, as well! Mint runs right out of the box, recommended for newbies.

It typically even finds your printer and installs it for you. Linux has a number of advantages. One is, relatively impervious to viruses. You have to type in your password to make any change to your system, NOT every fifteen minutes. Uh, well, yeah, just like Windows. All that stuff that makes a computer usable, like your browser, your video and music players, email, photo display, Office software….

You can install most distros without the bloatware. If you call it bloatware. A newbie is likely to call it your codecs to play music and videos, your browser, your email client, your software manager and package manager, your Office software, your video and music player, your photo software, for starters.

A newbie wants all of this installed, does not want to have to install it. A new setup of Ubuntu is a lot of typing in Terminal, and you have to learn what to type, unless you are using your computer only for a server, and a newbie would never do that. Do you NOT realize Microsoft has stock in various hardware manufacturers? Class action? I had to get another laptop last week and … it came with Windows 11, of course.

I took it back to the office, discovered that two of my color printers were incompatible with W, discovered that I really hated the new format if I wanted to buy a frigging Mac, I would have done so , and promptly downloaded and installed Windows I am at peace.

Further, documents on a Windows NTFS internal drive are also easily viewed, if the drive is mounted, though the converse is not true — Windows is loath to deal with ext4 format. Only Irfanview you need to run in Wine. And more stable at that as well, I might add. At least they do for me, on my laptop with Pop! Whether streaming video, writing, or calculating I use Ubuntu for almost everything.

Yes, it takes a little getting used to, but once one has crossed the threshold, I find it gives one more consistent service than the MS windows family ever has. Linux distributions are mostly free, but come with differing levels of support. Ubuntu is supported by Canonical who provide regular updates. LTS versions are fully maintained for five years. A great deal of free open source software is available and can be found either co-bundled with the OS, in the software depository or by searching on the web.

Libre Office from the document foundation provides sophisticated word processing and spreadsheet capabilities both capable of reading or writing MSWord and Excel compatible files and works seamlessly with ntfs files. My preference is keep an uncluttered desktop, and I set up all my PCs with what used to be called a Windows Classic style. The point I am making is that Ubuntu enables you to configure the desktop pretty much the way you want to.

Load Ubuntu and keep on using it for as long as you want. Better for your cash and better for the planet! I hope that that helps a bit. I wonder what will happen to unsupported cpus running Windows 11, will 22H2, 23H2 or 24H2 basically leave people stranded with no upgrade or downgrade path?

I have the same experience. One laptop with AMD graphics would get bricked as soon as windows 10 installed drivers for it. Tried Windows 11 on the same laptop, whaddayaknow.. All running with ZERO issues. So far I have installed Windows 11 on something like 40 different computers and the newest one was from Everything has worked out of the box.

Most computers on the planet install Linux operating systems. There are a number of good, user friendly ones out there. Then Microsoft suddenly Finds Jesus, grows heads, and cuts the crap, and presto bingo, all the computers run Windows I switched to Ubuntu when Windows 7 support ended.

I have never looked back. I did install ubuntu on a second computer a few years before that just to learn it. At that time you had to do far more the hard way than you do now, like install the ability to connect to a printer, especially if two computers used the printer.

Linux has grown up. I am 65, and had planned to use Windows all of my life, until Microsoft lost its mind. Anyone who used Windows 3. You had to tell it how to find and connect to the Internet! Some Linux operating systems, like Mint, are attractive out of the box, others, like Ubuntu, make Windows 8 and 10 look desirable by comparison. You move the favorites bar to the bottom, select your own desktop background, and with a little skill you can make the favorites bar transparent and the top bar as well much of the time, and even make an applications menu appear on it.

I recommend avoiding KDE with Ubuntu, including the Kubuntu version, because while it is pretty, and can be set up to look like Windows 7, it is hard on computer resources, and whatever you do, do NOT run KDE or Plasma alongside Gnome the default Ubuntu desktop , or neither will work properly.

MS has been getting away with this for decades because our courts are not doing their job. Your computer belongs to you, not to the maker of the OS you choose to use.

MS is entitled to upgrade its OS. MS is not entitled to brick your computer or anything you have installed on your computer. Which means your computer is not yours when you install windows on it. End of story. Installed windows? You gave away your computer. You are allowed to use it though, which is mighty big of microsoft. People still run windows 7 with the same security update problem. Currently, the only web device I have running in my house is my iPad which I bought a long time ago as a substitute for a car navigation system , and it is for receiving Classic FM UK The number of applications you require is limited.

An environment in which they can be used is sufficient. The end of my life is in sight. The most important thing for me is to organize dispose of my assets. Other solutions are creeping in, and MS is dying a death from cuts. I still use Windows 7 Pro with 0patch. Both are acceptable ways to keep safely using your computers. Linux is a great alternative. But one problem would be software and games support that people need. So if someone need to use Ms access then they will struggle with Linux.

So do bear in mind that Linux is not always a great choice. If there is wine and proton but may have issues or not launch at all. But at most times for me it always works with no issues. And you can dual boot Zorin with Windows So when support ends for 10, just keep using it, but keep it off-line, and use Zorin to go online. As for games, if you are not rich, then just buy the best console you can afford even a used one and be done with Windows.

For the most part, desktop gaming is for rich folks, and hence this topic is of little concern to them. MS has at least demonstrated a willingness to issue a post eol patch when something particularly egregious is discovered. In Japan, except for large corporations with good business conditions, even national organizations government offices, local administrative organizations and medical institutions are still using Windows 7. Because of the huge cost of system migration not only money, but also system construction, education and training, etc.

Moreover, with the added severity of COVID, the world economy is deteriorating, domestic and foreign demand is unstable, and corporate performance and national finances are in crisis. Rather than investing for the future, emphasis is now being placed on measures to prevent business and financial collapse. Not only the home use market, but even the corporate use market, has little interest in Windows I already made the switch to Linux.

Linux runs considerably better on mysystem than windows does. I have moved 4 of my PCs to Linux. Really no need to stay on Windows. The bottleneck is in the storage, namely hard disks. Even though The government knows disabled veterans must have a computer to talk to their doctors, order their medications and make appointments for medical treatment. Begin right now to reduce your dependance on local programs that require Windows.

For example, even QuickBooks now has a web-based system that allows you to escape the shackles of Windows! Get rid of those old legacy programs if you can! Yes, however, USB flash drives would still be a concern! Microsoft this, Microsoft that. The problem most of us have nowadays is about upgrading the video card, not the rest of the computer, and you can install Windows 11 easily on a computer with an older video card. Too many things to do, a fully loaded computer with tons of software and games and, on top of that, no interest in reinventing the wheel and spend the next 3 years learning the quirks of Linux.

Guess what I did today? With a pen, on paper. To a girl I like. The post office lady looked at me like I had lost my mind when I wanted to buy a stamp, for my hand-written letter in a real paper envelope. Put that in your digital pipe and smoke it! Now… to get you all excited. I bought an Acer ChromeBook and enjoying it very much.

I guess now I am going to get an earful from you guys. Would you rather be at the end of old technology and be left behind for a decade , or at the beginning of new technology and compatible with everything for the next decade? This will happen prior to And let me remind that the current generations are still NOT immune to meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities. In most cases, I believe the answer is support for TPM 2. Note specifically that Microsoft dictates that it has to be supported on the motherboard, and not just in the CPU.

That is, the keyboard, trackpad, audio, Bluetooth, Wifi, wired internet, touch screen and HDMI port for dual screen support, which works marvellously btw. Was I lucky? Were you unlucky with your hardware? Talking about a can of worms there…. You had to request the driver from the vendor who sold you the card. All the other times I used the terminal were either for highly optional system tweaks or because it was actually quicker and easier than going through the GUI.

But those were simpler times, with simpler hardware and simpler software…. I had a friend with an old Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro that he loved and wanted to hold onto in Windows 7, even though it was no longer supported. All of this was in Windows, mind you…. You are correct, as consumers buy product, yet Linux is free. Hence your point is moot, and the rest is the hyperbolic ranting of a daft novice.

I still have clients running Windows XP for non consumer, specialized tasks. Many older residential clients are still running Windows 7 because it works for their needs and they have limited financial resources. I have one vintage quad core tower that refuses to upgrade past Windows 10 v unless I totally wipe the hard drive and perform a fresh install.

Nothing I am running on that computer today that requires a newer version of Win Switch to Linux definitely! Internet browsing, office applications, email etc. I have a 6th gen i7 their upgrade tool is telling me its incompatible with 11 despite their website saying it is. Thats rediculous. Now my grandmothers core2 quad thats 12 years old i kinda expected it not to make the cut.

I think not, the average Windows user wouldnt have a clue, let alone consider installing Linux. So many pitfalls and its wont run all that software you have on Windows. However, about a month ago the message on windows 10 update page that stated windows 11 is coming stopped showing up. I decided to try and upgrade to windows 11 by downloading the installation iso. It always fails. Try restarting Setup. That is it. I have multiple physical disks and cloned my boot disk to another hard drive.

Created a hyper-x vm with same result on the vm. I tried a completely new install by booting the vm to the iso installation disk and it succeeds but wipes out my disk. Any thoughts! Bob Pfeffer, on your computer that fails to update to Windows 11, run Windows Update repeatedly until the check tells you that you are up to date. Then run the PC Health Check app again just to be sure that your hardware is truly supported in Windows After that, back up your files, if not to an external drive, sync with Microsoft OneDrive so your files reside somewhere other than on your system drive.

Finally, run Windows Update, check the optional updates, you should see the upgrade to Windows 11 there. If not, you can then safely upgrade to Windows 11, even if it wipes your drive because you already have everything backed up, either to an external drive, or to Microsoft OneDrive.

Is your Windows 10 up-to-date? I spent a few months during researching and building a new PC. I tried it out and my new Logitech mouse was a bit flaky under Windows By the time I decided the issue was with Windows 11 and not my new mouse, it was too late to revert back to Windows 10, so I did a clean install of Windows 10, and I am still using it today.

At about the same time I ordered the parts for my new desktop, I ordered a new Lenovo Legion 5 laptop to replace my very old Acer. It can and does run Windows I upgraded to Windows 11 as soon as it was offered to me in Windows Update.

Windows 11 is working very well on my new laptop, and I like it. I have no issue with either Windows 10 or I like them both.

My families first computer was a Commodore Vic Soon after that we got a Commodore It had a floppy drive so we could use it more like a real computer.

My twin brother got that one for me and my sons for Christmas along with a variety of games we all could play. We got that PC for my wife who was going to a local business school to learn business machines.

Her teacher gave her a copy of WordPerfect 5. Then one day, the hard drive suffered a head-crash. Later on, I got a copy of Windows 3. I provide this history so you can see why I still use Windows. I have used various distributions since the s.

My first distribution was Mandrake Linux. It was the first one I tried to use that worked well right out of the box so-to-speak. The only thing I had to do was to configure my Ethernet adapter, and there was information in the Mandrake documentation to guide me. These are my opinions about OSs, and my experiences with PCs in general. You are of course free to agree or disagree. Hi Ernest, Thxs for the reply. I am trying to avoid rebuilding my system from scratch. It would take at least 2 days to get it all restored.

If so, I suggest you seek help from a neurologist. For many years now, I would have loved to switch to Linux. How would I recover data off of Windows disks unless I have a copy of Windows to run the data recovery software on? Would it be safe to do that from a virtual machine? Make a Windows boot disk? Normally my Windows test machine is off, unless I need it. Going to make a Windows 11 virtual machine to test it out, along with my Windows 7 virtual machine. I use an older Apple laptop for my business needs.

Works just fine for me, and far more efficient. It is full of glitches and bugs. Valorant is not supported in windows So I strongly prefer to stay on windows 10 itself. Thank you:. Chromebook finally surpasses Microsoft with a system that can work the first time every time and Bill Gates wants one. Right now there are not many computers running Windows 11 due to the incompatibility issues.

Windows 11 reviews are not very good either, it reminds me of the old Windows ME version that never took a strong foothold. Windows had to get their act together and make Windows XP to keep their strong customer base.

Most people still prefer Windows Windows needs to step back and figure out how to help customers, with older computers, get windows 11 on these computers with full support and minimal crash potential. But for consumers, as a daily driver, for every day use? Forget it. The Linux fan boys, year after year after year, repeat the same old joke — that it can somehow replace Windows.

Linux is too hard for the average person, never developed a reliable library of professional software and has never gained good hardware support from many mainstream vendors. Try getting any decent quality printer to do much more than print on both sides — and advance features? Linux is great for a dedicated purpose. I use one as a Samba file server, use another for home theater — for streaming — but that is all. Sure, Linux is free. In its present state, no way it can be a Windows replacement.

If it was that good, guess what? It would have more than 1. Desktop Linux is for techies and hobbyists, not for consumers. I just got rid of windows 11 and switched back to Windows 11 sucks. I hate it!

No start or search bar on bottom screen. The only way to turn it off was manually. And setting a background was all figured out for me and I hated it. The color of orange and I could not get rid of it. I noticed a trend that if Microsoft had an okay OS, skip the next one and get the one after.

Windows Vista had issues, Windows 8 had issues and so does Windows Well that really sucks! I purchased my Asus laptop in and I love it! As of the release of Windows11 I started considering all windows as ransomware. Roll on Windows 11, the sooner the better as it should mean lots of good cheap or free computers around. Then we can install Linux Mint Cinnamon on them and carry on using the computers as if nothing had changed — except….

NOTE — Linux Mint updates are thoroughly checked before general release, unlike Windows updates which keep breaking things. Microsoft will lose most of its customers and they will install Linux or some other android system because of this update, they said Windows 10 would be the last operating system they will bring out, now with Windows 11 people will say goodbye and Microsoft.

Zorin OS is a very nice Linux distro, the first one I used. They have a free version and paid versions. The interface looked very much like Windows 7 which made it easy on the eye. My favourite is Manjaro. Some people say that Manjaro is advanced, but I have never really had any issues with it or ever needed to use the command line unless doing more technical things.

It is also rolling release — everything is updated via one program. No need to reinstall a new version of the OS unless your hard disk dies.

Linux systems can however use emulators for older games. Not really given a choice as my computer is perfectly good and will still be in for what I want and Linux will not run some of the software I need. The entire Windows 11 migration in my mind is a total screw up, I purchased a new W11 HP laptop at the beginning of the year and yes it is pretty screen wise but was awfall on workflow in nearly all cases the biggest mess was the File Manager.

Since then endless updates have made and NO I am not on insider updates been there done that moons ago never again. Hang on you broke you fix it Mr, Microsoft. Now I have a new one it advises me that DropBox is creating an error and I need to reload same, so how did you break it Mr.

Oh yes a reload does not solve it either so your update has screwed this as well now. I wonder when Microsoft is going to do some solid regression work on their updates, or are they just a bunch of software geeks? I fast coming to the decision to ditch Microsoft and join the Apple camp whcih has its own set of problems to be addressed in doing the migration to same.

I will wait until 22H2 is released in the hope that all the bugs issues have been resolved but I doubt it especially as Mocrosoft is now talking Windows 12….. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up.

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Server Fault windows server 2012 standard checking for updates forever free a question and answer site for system and network administrators. It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location tsandard is structured and easy to search. I’ve done all this to resolve the update issue. Catroot rename 2. WU diag troubleshooter cab 5. DISM cmd 8.

Did the above a few more times, then I reinstalled after a wipe and updates worked. Has not worked since that first time. Screen picture after привожу ссылку hours.

Using sconfig may help you out here if the graphical Windows Update service is failing for forevef reason. First, though, I would try restarting the wuauserv Windows Update service once more to ensure that the actual Windows Update service isn’t an issue.

If windows server 2012 standard checking for updates forever free continues to not work though, there’s a sweet little command line utility that’s meant for managing Server Core windows server 2012 standard checking for updates forever free other terminal-only systems but that will work wonderfully on Desktop Experience servers called sconfig.

Sconfig server config is a Microsoft-provided read: included by default tool that helps you привожу ссылку do many management tasks, including, but not limited to, triggering an windows server 2012 standard checking for updates forever free check.

To use sconfig, open up the command prompt as an elevated user and type in ‘sconfig’. From there, your prompt should turn blue and you should be launched into the sconfig interface. From there, hit 6 on your keyboard and following some more prompts, autodesk mep 2018.1.1 keygen free should start to check for updates.

That’s a method that I used to alleviate my update issues with Serverbut if that doesn’t приведенная ссылка, my last resort would be to try reinstalling Server with a new image if you haven’t already. It’s possible that something may be broken in that image.

Also, it may be a networking issue. Let me know if it doesn’t work standagd, and we can go through some other ideas. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Start collaborating and sharing organizational knowledge. Create a free Team Why Teams? Learn more about Teams. Asked 3 years, 6 months ago. Modified 3 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 3k times. Improve this question.

Michael Hampton k 42 ссылка gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Windowx you tried to download the CAB files by themselves by looking at what updates are failing and installing either through WSUS or through manually installing through each executable?

No WSUS. As far as knowing what cab files I need, I feel that’s impossible, since firever doesn’t get to that point. Just “checking for updates” and the green bar that keeps going for days I feel that implementing WSUS might be an option, but if that doesn’t work, I’ll try investigating on my own infrastructure. I remember having this issue with and I don’t remember windlws I did to fix it. KelvinTechie – thanks. What about using sconfig as I also outlined in my previous comment?

Show 6 more comments. Sorted by: Reset to default. Highest score default Date modified newest first Date created oldest first. Improve this answer. It may be a few days before I’m back in front of that server, but I will try this and let you know. Продолжить for your effort and assistance.

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