Computer Talk 3/28/20 Hr 1
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Dyson designs and builds a new type of ventilator for coronavirus patients.  Broadband speed plummets by 40% after coronavirus outbreak. YouTube to limit video quality around the world for a month.  GM will build ventilators and masks to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.  Taiwan collars quarantine scoffers with smartphone geo-fences. A 77-year old man in Spain was fined for playing Pokemon Go during the coronavirus epidemic.  A listener asks for what do do with hard drives before recycling a computer.  A caller with a three year old laptop has video display issues where a white screen intermittently appears.   We suggest checking RAM and trying to connect an external monitor for troubleshooting.  A caller has questions about the safety of people using their computers to donate processing time like Folding@home in order to solve complex problems.  A caller wonders why a particular ".gyjoru" file tries to open when the computer starts up.  Also, he wonders if two anti-virus programs should run on his computer at the same time, and how to verify if Windows Defender antivirus is turned off, and finally how to set up OpenDNS on a router.  A caller with a Samsung TV and a Memorex DVD/VHS player asks for help connecting his DVD player to his TV.  Also, we help with advice on connecting a new cable modem.  We help another user as well to connect his own modem, router, and voice  modem (for cable phone service instead of renting from the cable company.