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How to Ask for Technical Help Correctly

I was going to post this over in reddit's /r/cybersecurity_help, but I decided it sounds too much like a lecture.  ----- We understand that when you have "pressing" concerns, you often can't even formulate a question coherently, but please take a few moments to organize what information you have, and what questions do you have, so we can answer your questions immediately, rather than trying to draw additional details out of you which wastes both your time and ours.  Rule 0: Please read the posting guide: https://www.reddit.com//r/cybersecurity_help/wiki/guide  Rule 0.5: Please read the "10 rules" (check right hand bar at following link). Failure to follow them may result in removal of your question.  https://sh.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity_help/ I'm going call this the 2 C's of Cybersecurity Questions: Condition, Confirmation. (There are 2 more on the answer side, Cause, and Correction, but we'll talk about those later) **Condition: WHAT made you c...