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John Prine NPR Tiny Desk Concert (15 mins)

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/12/592266527/john-prine-tiny-desk-concert

 

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@ oscarcp
Like a third shoe dropping, huh?

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OscarCP

Ah, wasn’t aware of time limit, Edit button goes away.

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b wrote:

No. Millions have installed it without any issues.

Born discussion left it up in air:
https://www.borncity.com/blog/2020/03/25/update-kb4052623-microsoft-fixt-defender-scan-skip-bug/

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Is KB4052623 Version 4.18.2003.8 still an issue? I have it paused in queue to avoid any problems..

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SpamArrest cost $60/90 per year, limit of 1 GB mailbox, you also need to turn over your entire address book to them for this to work. Third parties are not necessarily best or secure or economical option.

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I tried free Spamfighter and found it to be way less effective than just using Outlook Safe Senders filter. They also nagged me constantly to get their paid version. Was not a good experience.

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SueW

I have a Hotmail address for over 20 years I don’t want to give up using because of my huge number of correspondents and thus it would be a big hassle to change my email address.

I get tons of spam because I’m now on every spammer’s list out there at this point making me a very effective honey pot. I research* the headers and see that the spam comes from all over the world, much of it using networks from the Netherlands, much of it using amazonaws.com networks.

I’m using Outlook 2016 and use Safe Sender’s list only so all the spam goes to the Junk folder but I still need to review them for occasional false positives.

The volume of spam is certainly annoying so I’ve tried ways of fighting back, such as reporting spam messages to spamcop.net, but it is time-consuming and requires commitment. The spammers constantly change their tactics so Microsoft is in a whack-a-mole game to keep them out of the hotmail/outlook email servers as best they can, so the cycle of spam volume rises and falls accordingly. I’ve read that as much as 80% of all email circulating on the Internet is spam.

One recent success I’ve had in reducing volume is reporting by forwarding all identified* spam messages that comes thru amazonaws.com networks to abuse@amazonaws.com (you must include the full email headers). They will acknowledge your report and take action against spammers. I used to get dozens per day but now down to only occasional.

*using IPNetInfo free utility available from:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html

 

I’d like to continue discussion of helpful ways to deal with spam and will be adding more comments. Thanks for your participation.

 

 

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Just did W7 to W10 Home ‘free’ upgrade in place with no problems.Virtually all programs carried over OK.

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Microfix wrote:

Very good advice @SueW to image prior to installing SSU’s (let alone patches)
SSU’s once installed are permanent, we can’t uninstall them.

If you do a System Restore Point *before* installing the SSU would you be able to get back to that point if the SSU caused a problem or are still stuck with it?

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