I’ve been advising folks who are looking for new laptops to hold off till now to see if there are any new developments. If you’ve been putting off a purchase, you may as well go ahead, because you probably won’t see anything new until the Fall. Right now you may picture me putting on my “Sad Clown” face.
Apple has been lax in the software realm recently as well. We’ll see if they have taken this criticism to heart and makes those basic quality improvements we’ve been hearing about.
Not much to see here, so moving on.
That Thing About Rebooting Your Router
You’ve probably seen it in the news: the FBI wants you to reboot your router. There is malware out there called VPNFilter (Yeah, it’s probably the Russians again) that has the ability to intercept your web traffic and insert malicious code into it, among other things.
What’s a Router?
The router is part of your internet gear. Most of us have a modem of some sort that brings the internet into your house. Then the router takes that internet and distributes it to all your devices, either wired or via Wifi. The router is usually built into the modem these days, but not necessarily.
The quick & dirty fix is to reboot your router (turn it off and back on again). But there is the possibility that a trace of it is left on the router and it could come back. You will want to reset the router, apply firmware updates if available, and further harden the settings.
If you have an Apple Airport installed by me, you can rest a little easier in that the Airport is not on the list of affected devices. But it won’t hurt to reboot it anyway.
If you would like me to visit and take care of this, I would be happy to help.
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