If Windows Updates Fail

R/C Properties of Start Button
Customize
check - "Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar"

http://jackstromberg.com/2013/09/code-80243004-windows-update-encountered-an-unknown-error/

Microsoft Releases Security Updates for 5/17 Ransomware, Windows XP Included

See
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer-guidance-for-wannacrypt-attacks/

The Bulletin
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx

Background
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/world/europe/cyberattacks-hack-computers-monday.html

Lots of good technical details:
https://gist.github.com/rain-1/989428fa5504f378b993ee6efbc0b168
MORE technical details, in depth:
https://www.endgame.com/blog/wcrywanacry-ransomware-technical-analysis

And more background, particularity MS' response
https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/13/microsoft-windowsxp-wannacrypt-nhs-patch/

Consider blocking port 445
or disabling SMBv1,2,3....see:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2696547/how-to-enable-and-disable-smbv1,-smbv2,-and-smbv3-in-windows-vista,-windows-server-2008,-windows-7,-windows-server-2008-r2,-windows-8,-and-windows-server-2012

LIVE MAP of related infections and botnets
https://intel.malwaretech.com/botnet/wcrypt

Reminder re VSSWriters

In elevated CMD prompt:

Run the command: “vssadmin list writers”. This will display the state of any VSS-aware application writers.

If any of the VSS-aware application writers are in an unstable state:

Troubleshoot the individual writer and error.

For Server 2003 or earlier only: Manually reset the state of the VSS writers.

Shutup for Windows 10

Here
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Palm Software Movements

Check the following posts when trying to locate Palm software

https://www.dejaoffice.com/forums/showthread.php?3669-Hang-On-To-Your-Palm-Install-CDs-and-Palm-Desktop-install-Files

• A new company now has the rights to the Palm name and logo and has a placeholder web site called mynewpalm.com. They have also taken possession of the palm.com domain and any link with palm.com redirects to mynewpalm.com. The unintended consequence of this (unintended as in, no one was paying attention) is that (I believe) *all* of the Palm downloads on the HPwebos.com Palm archive pages now do nothing more than redirect you to mynewpalm.com. This is because HOP still had those downloads mapped to the palm.com domian, but the masters of the internet have switched the tracks so to speak. So you can still find the Palm archive pages at HP (they were mapped to the hpwebos.com, although for some pages you have grab the page url and change "palm.com" to "hpwebos.com"-- sadly, this latter trick does not work for downloads).
  
  Just though folks would like to know. Hang on to those backed up installation files if you are still using Palm Desktop. Many 3rd party sites that offer them for download used the palm.com links. CNET does have a download of Palm Desktop 6.2.

Shutdown Command for Restart

shutdown -t 0 -r -f


-t 0 is for right away; f for 'force' program closes

Online Storage Reviews

From a review of IDrive
   https://www.cloudwards.net/review/idrive/

SEE THESE
https://www.cloudwards.net/online-backup-reviews/

What do you know, cloud berry shows up again
   http://backup.cloudberrylab.com/

   and the review
   https://www.cloudwards.net/review/cloudberry-backup/