Posted on 04/18/2022 9:44:56 PM PDT by dayglored
The good news may only last week - at best.
I use Windows and the Microsoft Edge Browser.
A week ago, my Microsoft Bing Maps home page suddenly changed from my home town - Seattle - to Cambridge, MA, home of Harvard and MIT.
No matter what I do on various settings pages, it either will not change from Cambridge to Seattle, or else it goes to Seattle for one or two clicks, then reverts to Cambridge again.
I do not even want to think about how many teenage hackers are currently living in Cambridge, MA.
Is your VPN dumping you here?
However, I would very much like to know why Bing Maps thinks my computer is hooked into a Cambridge, MA network.
I noticed that behavior with one Win-10 PC I use. I set up the default weather program and Microsoft cheerfully invited me to turn on location services. I declined and manually set my location.
About three weeks go by uneventfully and then it starts showing weather for another state. I put it back and it has been behaving itself.
Now if I could just fix the bluescreens that machine has suddenly developed!
Rather than sending the requests off to /dev/null, wouldn't it be at least somewhat helpful if microsloth would attempt to contact owners of computers that are making calls to these botnets to let them know they are powned?
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