Daiwa

Daiwa

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Reply to PWGen–free password generator in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

While it appears to be a good PW generator, it looks like it doesn't handle remembering & autofilling them for you as does, for instance, LastPass. Personally, I find that feature of LastPass well worth the cost.

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Reply to Pale Moon 25.3 is here. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Palemoon also skins well, FWIW. I've had only a couple of issues with PM - Flash frequently crashes (suspect that's Flash but interaction with an aspect of PM is reasonable to consider) and .pdf's fail to render at times & generate an error message saying there was a problem with Adobe (Reader or Acrobat). It claims to be a modified Firefox, "optimized" for Windows with all non-Windows features & code stripped out. At least in layman's terms.

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Reply to Pale Moon 25.3 is here. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Disabling SSL scanning in BitDefender & Avast (perhaps in other AV's as well) 'fixes' Chrome's FREAK vulnerability (at least here), but Chrome should fix it natively. Not sure how important SSL scanning is to one's AV, but until the AV's are updated to not use the old ciphers, wouldn't enable it. I prefer PM to Chrome in any event.

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Reply to Object Desktop Infinite in Object Desktop JoeUser Forums

I would strongly recommend the annual subscription for two reasons - price and indefinite use of the apps (always remember to download and archive). Not sure I can fathom paying $10/yr more to get less (apps vaporize when you don't renew). Seems a strange marketing plan to my simple mind. And I still contend the "infinite" tag is at minimum inconsistent with the product 'features'.

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Reply to The ‘FREAK’ security flaw: How to protect yourself now. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Well, well. The fix MS recommends breaks Windows Update. One of the comments in the ghacks article mentioned it and sure enough, it's broken on my rigs - when I check for updates I get an unknown error. It is MS, after all. [e digicons];P[/e] EDIT: Reset to Not Configured, rebooted & Windows Update is working again. What a cluster. EDIT2: Turns out the reason Chrome didn't initially pass was BitDe

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Reply to The ‘FREAK’ security flaw: How to protect yourself now. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Thanks for the additional link, Doc. It is a white list so a shame the ZDNet author muddied the water. I followed the instructions from ghacks (& MS's security bulletin, using the cipher list there) and rebooted. Interestingly, Chrome 41 is still vulnerable after applying the policy according to the freak check tool. Hopefully, the OS cipher list filter protects it.

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Reply to The ‘FREAK’ security flaw: How to protect yourself now. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I looked at modifying the Group Policy as described in the ZDNet article. He provides a list of outdated vulnerable ciphers that he says should be added to the SSL Cipher Suite Order list and further says that adding them will prevent these ciphers from being used. As it happens, my SSL Cipher Suite Order is currently Not Configured, which from the description in the Group Policy Editor means the OS default list is being used , which presumably <

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Reply to how to uninstall windowsblinds in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

If Windowblinds is running, you'll want to change to the default Windows GUI (skin) within the Windowblinds Configuration dialog first. Then unload Windowblinds, then uninstall it using Control Panel. Si Windowblinds est en marche, vous aurez envie de passer à l'intérieur de <sp

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