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OK – they sorted it out after my second, slightly stroppy, email. My wife still was lacking email for a couple of days – annoying but not a serious problem.

Chris
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windbg, SueW, Cybertooth

A slight caveat on eM Client. My wife, after using it successfully for several years, found an email claiming she was using it for commercial purposes and must buy a commercial licence. That was not true. We emailed back and they said they would whitelist the domain we use (a personal domain used for family purposes). 4 days later, however, they blocked her.

I sent another email asking them (in no uncertain terms) to unblock the domain – we’ll see what happens.

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douglas9x, SueW

I am really sorry to see the news of Woody’s death. He taught me how to use Office and how to use Windows (various flavours) through his books (I still have some on my bookshelves) and his newsletters, starting about 30 years ago. For a non-technical person wanting to use these tools without corporate support he was invaluable.

My sympathies to all his family.

Chris
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DrBonzo, AlbertMcCann623, Myst

Thank you b, dg1261 and Alex5723 for your helpful comments.

dg1261 wrote:

If I’m understanding Chris B, he’s been using Outlook 2010 to access his gmail acct but no longer can because gmail now requires OAuth2. As I read it, Chris is looking to stay with Outlook 2010 but replace his gmail acct with something else. If so, I’m not sure outlook.com will be the solution.

This was indeed my my objective and, while the fallback of using Gmail online was an alternative, it would not have been as convenient as picking everything up in Outlook.

I tried:

dg1261 wrote:

Actually, I forgot that gmail (as well as outlook.com, I believe) still support “app passwords“. I just checked and I still have a laptop with an old version of Thunderbird — with no OAuth2 support — that still accesses my gmail via an app password.

with the addition of Alex5723’s tip of implementing 2-step-verification and I now have Gmail set up in Outlook as I want it.

Many thanks for all  your help.

Chris
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I see Microsoft greyed out the Repeat question button at 326. Funny that.

Chris
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Just bumped it up to 296

Chris
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I agree completely with rc Primac’s post.

If you want to see an illustration of how it works and why the algorithms are so corrosive, have a look at the Netflix film The Social Dilemma. It is quite frightening.

Chris
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rc primak

I have been using Bitdefender for a couple of years and am generally happy with it. However, I do get quite a lot of false positives, which can be frustrating getting to a site (often on my own network) that I know is safe.

Chris
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Cybertooth

I moved away from Kaspersky over a year ago. I did not (and still do not) have a view on Eugene Kaspersky’s motives, nor any other of his staff. However, what a person might do when told “we have your wife/daughter in a gulag” is a totally different mater. There is plenty of evidence of this kind of a thing in China and Russia. Hence, without judgment or emotion, I moved to another AV supplier.

Chris
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Thanks for a useful article.

I am retired and, while fairly IT aware,  I am far from an IT professional, so even the consumer options are fairly complex. I do think the industry needs to develop some consistent and reasonably easy to use methodologies for 2FA for the ordinary consumer – probably starting with email authorisation.

I do use 2FA for all my financial accounts, generally using the provider’s proprietary app, but only for a minority of general logins, and not for my PCs at home.

Moderator’s Note: Caught in spam filter. Sorry.

Chris
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Folks, I cannot believe that we are arguing about misinterpretation of basic English grammar, instead of focusing on the primary issue, which is securing our systems., Why don’t we just read PKCano”s responses and get on with the job.

Chris
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jburk07, Bob99, Cybertooth, LHiggins

Alex5723 wrote:

How would the average Windows home user know about Susan’s newsletter ?

Alex

Friendly people like you or I make the recommendation.

Chris
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Alex5723

pmcjr6142 wrote:

How is the average PC user supposed to know about these issues and what are they supposed to do about them?

Quite simply, subscribe to Susan’s newsletter and follow her advice. I have done that for many years and never hit the buffers.

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WSbobby-p, LHiggins

Thank you for this helpful advice. I have disabled IPV6 on my Windows machines and on my router. Do I need to worry about Android devices? I have several phones and tablets running Android and a Synology NAS running Linux (I think). Am I correct in thinking these devices do not need attention?

Chris
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Just to underline Susan’s point, I checked both of our computers for Bitlocker. On my Dell XPS it was turned off – fine. On my wife’s Dell Vostro, it was turned on, presumable by default from installation because it is a business laptop. I didn’t know and have no idea where the recovery key is. The drive is now decrypting. Thanks Microsoft.

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