Erik and Bob take your questions. We offer advice on how to secure your Ring doorbell cameras after a series of news stories about some of the less secure cameras being taken over by hackers in recent weeks. Lexis-Nexis database exposes names of risky potential bank customers. Mozilla Foundation and others file an appeal to restore "Net Neutrality" in court. A listener asks if a new laptop with an Intel i5 processor, 8th generation quad with a 1TB hard drive is a good deal. Also he wonders about the security risk of allowing a their party to transfer information from his old computer to the new one. A user with an old Lenovo laptop wonders why his WiFi keeps dropping out, but the problem happens with all his devices. A caller has a Samsung Galaxy S2 tablet sees the message "Samsung Plus Has stopped" plus he sees advertising popups from a British newspaper app. A user with an old Dell desktop running Windows 7 wonders if he should replace it.
A listener who falls victim to an online scam tells her story having a malicious "fixit.exe" program running on her computer. A listener running Windows 7 wonders what would be the best computer to buy for a new one. Another caller looking to purchase a new computer looks for a way to easily transfer information from his old computer to a new one. An Apple Macintosh user looks for a way to remove the SearchMine trojan fro her Mac. We help a Windows user who wants to increase the time she stays logged into her computer. Also, she wants to stop mortifications from Yahoo! news. A Mac user asks if the e-mail she received saying that he old sent.net e-mail address going away was a scam exposing her to a possible computer virus. An Outlook.com user looks for a way to stop a large increase in spam to his e-mail address. A listener says that her e-mail recipient cannot open the spreadsheet she sends.
