Question: I’ve heard Internet Service Providers have experienced some sort of virus-like attack that slowed down service. Do you know anything about this? –Max Answer: Smaller ISPs have been hit quite hard by attacks called “denial of service” attacks, also called “SYN floods” or simply abbreviated “DNS”. How they work is that a hacker targets […]
Question: I am using Netscape Navigator as an Internet browser now, but there are so many ads pressuring to switch to Microsoft Explorer. Can you run a column comparing the two? I have also been unable to find out how much space Internet Explorer takes. Since I have a small hard drive this is a […]
Question: I own a six-month-old IPC Pentium 133 with 256K pipeline cache, 16MB RAM, 1 Gig hard drive, 2 Meg video card, 6X CD-ROM, internal 14.4 modem and running Windows 95. Ever since it was new, it crashes with invalid page faults, GPFs and segment load failures, if more than four or five windows are […]
Question: Do you know any source of information on the Wang computer company? Does it still exist? What’s the history of the company? Thank you for any information you can supply. — Clay Answer: Information on Wang Laboratories Inc. can be found at www.wang.com. The Lowell, Mass.-based company was a computer industry pioneer. It filed […]
Question: My nephew borrowed a game CD and installed it. It’s designed for Windows 95 (I think it’s SimCity but that’s not important). To make a long story short, after he was finished with it, he returned the CD and deleted the directory using Explorer, but in the Control Panel, Add/Remove Program, Install/Uninstall tab, there […]
