PC Security and Other Useful Information

5 common VPN myths busted

“Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are popular but often misunderstood. There are many misconceptions about them—misconceptions that may be stopping people from adding a useful layer to their security and privacy defenses.”

Free Ransomware Decryptors from Kaspersky

“Welcome to No Ransom, the place to find the latest decryptors, ransomware removal tools, and information on ransomware protection.

What is ransomware? It’s a malware (a Trojan or another type of virus) that locks your device or encrypts your files, and then tells you that you have to pay ransom to get your data back. It’s not cheap, and there’s no guarantee of success. If you become a victim of ransomware, try our free decryption tools and get your digital life back.“

Win10 Alternate Update History Sources

Apparently, with the 189 update, there are reports that using the “normal” way of viewing the Update History” will give you a blank result. In this post, Ed Tittel reveals two ways to get the information (no regedit required!).

Ran into this the other day.

Windows Repair Toolkit
((Almost) everything you need to repair Windows problems in one small handy tool.)

Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration

“Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility for our customers and less fragmentation of the web for all web developers.”

MS Posts New Win10 1809 Group Policy Reference

Thanks to Fellow MVP, Ed Tittel, MVP for pointing this out.

“These spreadsheets list the policy settings for computer and user configurations that are included in the Administrative template files delivered with the Windows operating systems specified. You can configure these policy settings when you edit Group Policy Objects.“

Keyboard shortcuts in Windows

I’m not big on keyboard shortcuts, but sometimes they come in handy. Here’s about as complete a list as I’ve seen.

CCleaner Disregarding Settings and Forcing Update to Latest 5.46 Version

“Reports are coming in that Piriform is forcing CCleaner to update to the latest 5.46 version even when users had configured the program to not perform automatic updates. To make matters worse, once the users were upgraded to the latest version, their privacy settings were reverted to default, which is to allow anonymous usage data to be sent to Avast/Piriform.”

How to Take Screenshots in Windows 10

This article shows some different methods of getting a screen shot. Personally, I like Snag-It the best, bar none. Absolutely necessary if you need to do editing of the screen shots.