cover of episode Computer Talk 9/29/18 Hr 1  Latest Facebook Security Breach Impacts 50 Million User Accounts

Computer Talk 9/29/18 Hr 1 Latest Facebook Security Breach Impacts 50 Million User Accounts

2018/9/29
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Erik and Bob take your questions. Massive Facebook security issue could compromise at least 50 million accounts. Securities and Exchange Commission fines robocaller $80 million in an effort to stem Caller ID spoofing. Federal Communications Commission to cities and states: Stop with fees, regulations slowing the development of 5G cellular service. A listener wants to know if he can read information off an older floppy drive with a parallel printer port bformat in his computer . We alert listeners to a potential Amazon Payment car purchase scam involving gift cards after a caller relates his story. A listener with a new laptop seeks a commercial antivirus solution. We also cover the benefits of using OpenDNS and a popup blocker in order to surf the Internet more safely. A listener gets an error message when trying to open a PDF with Adobe Reader. A fellow computer user and caller suggests using Google Voice as a way to receive messages from an iPhone and display and reply to them using a Windows computer. We help a user with instructions on how to create a "recovery drive" in Windows 10, which may be helpful in the event of a future computer failure.