About this tag
Discussions tagged with 'damage' on WindowsForum.com cover physical harm to laptops, such as cracked screens, broken cases, and internal damage from drops or impacts, often leading to boot failures or display issues. Other threads address potential system file damage from improper shutdowns, like unplugging a computer, which can cause blue screens. The tag also includes legal and cybersecurity contexts, such as a UK tribunal ruling on Apple's excessive App Store fees and potential damages, and a technical alert about UDP-based amplification attacks that can damage network infrastructure. These varied topics share a focus on harm, loss, or impairment to hardware, software, or legal rights.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    UK CAT Finds Apple App Store Fees Excessive; Damages Up to £1.5B Possible

    In a sweeping judgment that shifts the ground under the modern app economy, the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has found that Apple abused its dominant position in the distribution of iPhone and iPad apps, ruling that the company’s App Store commissions were excessive and that affected...
  2. D

    Windows 10 Dropped laptop down into the stairwell

    After dropping my new laptop down into the stairwell, I watched it bounce off the railing, then into the wall and then slam onto the concrete floor. When I go to turn it on with a cracked case, it doesn't seem to want to boot up. I left it on the sideboard for a minute and don't you suppose it...
  3. Rainer Bielefeld

    Windows 7 UPLOAD problems for big files

    Since few months I have a strange problem with several kinds of upload of big files to Internet. 1) SMTP Problem When I send e-mails with big attchments (for example 19MB + 2MB + 4MB) my Seamonkey progress bar reaches 99% within less than 5 seconds, what is rather unexpected with an upload...
    • Rainer Bielefeld
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    • antivirus browser buffering damage email error files filezilla ftp internet network pictures progress seamonkey smtp testing timeout transfer upload wordpress
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  4. AustinH35

    Windows 7 My Windows 7 Starter Laptop Screen Is Messed Up!

    I have a Windows 7 Starter laptop, and I put it on my couch and I believe someone sat on it. And now my screen looks like the pics attached. How do I fix it?
  5. News

    TA14-017A: UDP-based Amplification Attacks

    Original release date: January 17, 2014 | Last revised: February 09, 2014 Systems Affected Certain UDP protocols have been identified as potential attack vectors: DNS NTP SNMPv2 NetBIOS SSDP CharGEN QOTD BitTorrent Kad Quake Network Protocol Steam Protocol Overview A Distributed...
    • News
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    • amplification amplification factor attack bandwidth best practices damage ddos detection drdos impact ingress filtering mitigation network prevention protocol security source ip traffic shaping udp vulnerability
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Security Alerts
  6. xNathan

    Windows 7 Broke my computer screen. Need some advice

    Hello there. I just dropped my computer as I was carrying it downstairs. As you can see ,the screen isn't cracked or anything. But something from the inside is messed up. Not sure what exactly is wrong. And I'm not asking on how to fix it or anything. Because i know i can't . My question is...
    • xNathan
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    • advice blank screen computer damage hardware laptop repair screen technical issues vertical lines
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
  7. J

    Windows 7 Unplugging Computer = Bad?

    i have unplugged my computer, instead of logging off. can this cause any system file damage and the blue screen? when i used SFC/SCANNOW, my system seems fixed now. so could the unpluggging have been the cause of the BSOD?
  8. reghakr

    Sebring man hurls newspaper box through 'Late Show' theater window in NYC

    NEW YORK— Police say a 42-year-old Sebring musician hurled a newspaper box through the recently repaired glass doors of the Link Removed Theater days after another man did the same thing. Read Full Story: Link Removed due to 404 Error
    • reghakr
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    • community court crime damage entertainment event glass incident law media musician new york news police public repair sebring theater vandalism window
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  9. reghakr

    Major quake strikes northeastern Japan

    TOKYO — A strong earthquake jolted on Sunday the same area of northeastern Japan that was hit by a massive quake in March, but there was no sign of further damage along the coast or to the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, officials said Some say it's an aftershock from the original...
    • reghakr
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    • aftershock coast damage earthquake fukushima japan march northeastern nuclear official
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  10. reghakr

    'Inmate'? That's offensive!

    The family of a coldblooded killer serving 25 years to life in state prison for shooting a man in the head complains he's being stigmatized -- by the use of the term "inmate." This guy wants 50 million dollars in damages.............WTF Read Full Story: Prisoner's sister files slander suit...
    • reghakr
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    • cold-blooded damage inmate justice killer lawsuit offensive prison slander stigma
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  11. reghakr

    LimeWire pays $105 million in music copyright case

    SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – The popular online file-sharing service LimeWire has agreed to pay $105 million to settle charges that it was a platform for music piracy. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said Thursday that the negotiated settlement came as jurors in a federal court...
    • reghakr
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    • copyright court damage file sharing infringement judgment law legal lime group limewire mark gorton marketplace music music industry p2p piracy plaintiff riaa settlement technology
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  12. cybercore

    Japan earmarks first $50 billion for post-quake rebuild

    Link Removed Japan's cabinet approved on Friday almost $50 billion of spending for post-earthquake rebuilding, a downpayment on the country's biggest public works effort in six decades. The emergency budget of 4 trillion yen ($48.5 billion), which is likely be followed by more...
    • cybercore
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    • bond budget cabinet crisis management damage disaster earthquake economy emergency finance government investment japan prime minister public works rebuild reconstruction spending tsunami yen
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  13. cybercore

    Japan earmarks first $50 billion for post-quake rebuild

    Link Removed Japan's cabinet approved on Friday almost $50 billion of spending for post-earthquake rebuilding, a downpayment on the country's biggest public works effort in six decades. The emergency budget of 4 trillion yen ($48.5 billion), which is likely be followed by more...
    • cybercore
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    • budget crisis damage disaster earthquake economy evacuation finance government japan kan leadership nuclear public works radiation rebuild reconstruction support tepco tsunami
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  14. cybercore

    [CURRENCY] Termites eat Indian currency worth $220000 that was stored in steel bank chest

    LUCKNOW, India - It was an all you can eat buffet at the bank. An army of termites munched through 10 million rupees ($222,000) in currency notes stored in a steel chest at a bank, police in northern India said Friday. The bank manager discovered the damage when he opened the reinforced...
    • cybercore
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    • banking currency damage documents furniture india investigation negligence rupees termites
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  15. cybercore

    Factbox: Japan's disaster in figures

    The following lists the impact of the earthquake and tsunami that rocked the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 and the subsequent crisis at a nuclear power plant. ( DEATH TOLL A total of 12,009 people were confirmed dead by Japan's National Police Agency as of 9 p.m. EDT Saturday, while...
    • cybercore
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    • aid building damage death toll disaster earthquake economy electricity evacuation fukushima impact japan national police agency nuclear disaster reconstruction shelters tohoku electric tsunami water supply
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  16. cybercore

    Five years to rebuild Japan as cost of earthquake is put at £145billion ✔

    Japan may need five years to recover financially from the earthquake and tsunami, which have caused about £145billion of damage, the World Bank warned yesterday. The disaster is likely to shave up to 0.5 per cent from the country’s economic growth this year. ‘Damage to housing and...
    • cybercore
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    • cost damage disaster recovery earthquake economic growth financial recovery housing infrastructure japan reconstruction recovery report tsunami world bank
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  17. cybercore

    Man gets stuck in hamper during break-in

    A man is in custody after police say he broke into an Arizona townhome and got stuck in a clothes hamper underneath the window he climbed through. To the book of faces! Mesa police say 20-year-old Michael Trias was arrested on suspicion of burglary and criminal damage. The East Valley...
    • cybercore
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    • arizona arrest burglary criminal damage hamper homeowner incident mesa police
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  18. cybercore

    Overwhelmed by the scale of damage: Thousands more bodies found in Japan

    1,000 bodies are found scattered across coastline; officials run out of body bags, coffins Link Removed
    • cybercore
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    • body body bags coastline coffin damage disaster japan official recovery rescue
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  19. cybercore

    Japan earthquake is country's 'worst crisis since World War II'

    The aftermath of the huge earthquake and tsunami is Japan's worst crisis since World War II, the country's prime minister Naoto Kan has declared. It also resulted in a tsunami that saw huge waves obliterate towns along Japan's north-east coast and officials now believe the final death...
    • cybercore
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    • 2011 community crisis damage death toll disaster earthquake evacuation fukushima humanitarian japan magnitude 9.0 nuclear power outage prime minister public safety reconstruction relief efforts response tsunami
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler
  20. cybercore

    Car Crash Victim Sues Paramedic Who Stole His Foot

    She stole his foot -- and now she might have to foot the bill. A former Florida paramedic who snatched a man's severed foot from the scene of a car crash is being sued by the victim. Cynthia Economou -- a former St. Lucie County Fire District firefighter and paramedic -- admitted that she...
    • cybercore
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    • accident cadaver car crash civil case civil suit court cynthia economou damage firefighters florida injury karl lambert lawsuit medical ethics outrageous behavior paramedic probation sentencing theft training
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    • Forum: The Water Cooler