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How to Remove or Delete an App from an iTouch, iPod or iPhone, and from iTunes, and from Your Hard Drive

It’s so easy to end up with a big collection of apps, isn’t it? There are so many free applications, so many interesting looking apps, that you can eat ’em like candy. But eventually they start taking up too much space on your iPhone, iPod or iTouch, or on your hard drive in iTunes. Here is how to remove an app from your device, from iTunes, and from your hard drive.

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“Web Security” Pop-Up Trojan Making Rounds Again, This Time Attacking Both Windows and Macs

The “Security Alert” trojan, sometimes known as a ‘rogue antivirus’ attack, is making the rounds again. First spotted a few years ago, until recently the “web security” antivirus alert trojan targeted mainly PCs, tricking Windows users into downloading the evil ‘BestAntivirus2011.exe’ file by telling them that “To help protect your computer Windows web security have detected trojans and ready to remove them.” (Note the poor language usage.) Now this same tactic is being used to attack Mac users – all that has changed is the “Windows” to “Apple” and the file name (‘MacProtector.mpkg for Macs’) – even the poor language remains the same! “To help protect your computer Apple web security have detected trojans and ready to remove them.” says the pop-up. Don’t fall for it, and whatever you do, don’t click on “Remove all”, which will cause the malware to be downloaded to your computer.

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How to Choose and Buy a New Computer

At this time of year, thoughts often turn to buying a new computer (by which we mean buying a new new computer, not one that is used but “new to you” or one that is already in your grasp but you are making “new” by buying new computer components for it). The first question to ask yourself should be “Should I buy a new computer system?”, or even “Do I really need to buy a new computer?” But assuming the answer to a new computer buy is “yes” (or even if you don’t really need a new computer, but just want in on all the new computer technology), this leads to several more questions people should ask themselves before they buy new computers: “A Microsoft new computer or a new Mac computer?” And if you are going to go Microsoft, then “A new computer with Windows 7, or Vista or, heck, maybe even a new computer with XP?” (Yes, they can still be had.) “Do I really need all the new computer technologies or should I consider some of the cheap new computers?” Ultimately, when purchasing a new computer, the best new computer for you is the one that will gives you the most use, with the least hassle, and the most satisfaction.

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Microsoft Issues Security Advisory for Security Hole in IE6 and IE7

Microsoft has issued a security advisory (#981374) for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6) and Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) that could allow someone to remotely execute code on your PC – that is, to remotely operate your computer.

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Funeral for IE6 Not a Hoax – Being Held in Denver Thursday Night

The planned funeral for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is not a hoax – it really is happening, tonight, in Denver, Colorado. Oh sure, it’s a spoof, but an elegant and well-planned one, to be sure, complete with prizes “for the best IE6 memory & the best dressed!” In fact, the IE 6 Funeral has gotten not just national, but even international attention, being featured in such overseas news sources as Britain’s The Register.

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Microsoft Issues Urgent Windows Update to Protect Internet Explorer and Office Products

Microsoft has just announced an emergency patch for both Internet Explorer (IE) and Office Products, and it is recommended that everyone install this patch ASAP (link to patch included below). This affects Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) as well as any Microsoft Office Product with ActiveX, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Access.

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Even Bill Gates Himself Says Windows Website is an “Absolute Mess” and “Crap”

Even Bill Gates has been driven beyond frustration with the Windows website. The below email, from Bill Gates himself, takes several Microsoft managers to task for, what Gates himself calls “crap” and the “absolute mess” that is the Windows website (lack of) usability, particularly with respect to downloads.

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Microsoft Blocks Google as “Not Family Safe”

Perhaps you’ve heard about Microsoft’s WIndows Live new “Family Safety” software, which you can install on your Windows computer, so that your children can safely surf the web without fear of exposure to material that is not family friendly – or ‘family safe’. Apparently in Microsoft’s view this includes competitor Google, although oddly it does not include their own similar search engine, Live.com.

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The Conficker Worm – What it Is, How to Know if You Have it, and How to Get Rid of It

The Conficker worm or Conficker virus (also known as Downadup or W32/Downadup), which has been in the news a lot lately, is currently estimated to have infected more than 9 million Windows computers the world over, and continues to spread at an alarming rate. With a $250,000 bounty on its head offered by Microsoft, and set to activate on April 1st, nobody yet knows what the millions of PCs infected by the Conficker worm will be ordered to do, but it’s a sure bet that if and when it happens, it will be nasty. Fortunately there are ways to combat it and even a free Conficker removal tool.

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Emergency Windows Patch Issued by Microsoft – Get It Now!

Microsoft has gone outside their usual patch release schedule and has released an emergency patch which everyone running affected versions of Windows is urged to get and install immediately.

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Beware Fake Microsoft Patch Received in Email

If you get an email, supposedly from Microsoft, which says “Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows”, ignore it, delete it, and whatever you do, don’t install the “patch” which comes with it, which is, of course, really a trojan program just waiting to wreak havoc on your computer.

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New Stripper Virus Entices Windows Users to Break Captchas for Spammers – If Melissa Asks You to Help Her Strip, Just Say No!

In a new twist, web spammers are using images of a stripper named Melissa to dupe naive Windows users into helping them break CAPTCHAs – those “enter this text” images that websites rely on to keep spammers from posting spam on their site. Dubbed the CAPTCHA.a or Captchar.a virus, an infected Windows computer will display a picture of Melissa, who promises to remove an article of clothing for each “puzzle” that the user solves.

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Microsoft Issues 7 Critical Microsoft Windows Updates and Patches – Including an Internet Explorer Update – Patch Your Windows Today!

Microsoft this week issued seven “critical” Microsoft Windows updates and patches, including an Internet Explorer update, and they want to make sure that you update your Windows! Because each of the seven updates and patches are rated as “critical”, it really is advised that if you are running a computer with Windows, you pay immediate attention to these.

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What the Error “This device cannot start. Code 10 in audio driver” Means

If you run into the error “This device cannot start. Code 10” (often followed by a driver identifier, for example “This device cannot start. Code 10 in audio driver”), here is what it means.

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Millions of PCs Claimed to be “Vista Capable” Aren’t Says Lawsuit Against Microsoft

Millions of PCs that were sold as being “Windows Vista Capable” aren’t, according to a lawsuit filed this week against Microsoft. The Windows Vista lawsuit, on behalf of an as yet undetermined number of consumers who purchased PCs in the past year with the expectation that they would be able to run all of the Windows Vista features, alleges that Microsoft knowningly and intentionally mislead consumers by allowing PC manufacturers to label PCs on the market as “Windows Vista Capable” when that meant only that the PC hardware would be able to run Vista Basic, and would not be able to run all the features that everyone is anticipating from Vista.