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One additional contribution/inquiry. I have an old XP PC that, for reasons not relevant here, has been On continuously for several months, and sometimes untouched for several weeks. A couple of times, on returning to that PC, I have received an error message regarding memory. Checking Disk Management shows practically no free space on the C: partition of the hard drive. Reboot restores C: to over 40% free space. I just now rebooted it, and increased C: free space from 24% – 13GB to 33% – 18GB; some operation had eaten 5GB, and it has been much more at other times. Malware scans have found nothing to account for it other than normal operation. So if you leave a PC on all the time, you might be alert for that phenomenon. If anybody has any clues why that XP might have started doing that, I’d appreciate any tips.

I have long been interested in some flavor of Linux, but not to complicate things by running Windows under Linux. And I depend on a program which works with a modem and one phone line, listens to an incoming call for a fax tone, if a fax tone, sends back the handshake, and receives the fax digitally. If there is no fax tone, it answers, sends an outgoing message, and records the voice mail. I started with WinFax Pro until it dropped voice, then HotFax Message Center until Smith Micro dropped it, and then FaxTalk Messenger Pro.

I have checked several times and never found a Linux program that will perform that function. Does anyone know of such a program which will run under Linux?

I applied the fix to Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 11 on my Win7 Pro PC. Poodle Test for Chrome & Firefox said “Not vulnerable.” Test for IE said “Vulnerable.” Went to Settings, etc., and sure enough, “Use SSL 3.0” was checked. I unchecked it, closed IE and reopened it.

Poodle Test said IE was “Not vulnerable.”

I closed IE, and a few minutes later, came back to IE, it displayed the home page for a few seconds, and then: “Internet Explorer has stopped working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.”

Several re-tries of IE have had the same result. Interestingly, AOL, which is based on IE, tests “Not vulnerable” and is not crashing at the moment.