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I am running XP home edition. Recently, I have experienced problems bringing up Internet Explorer. When I click on the icon, the window appears, but it is slow in refreshing. My normal FR home page doesn't appear. Also, I get other IE windows that point to www.popuppers.com (even though I am using Panicware pop-up blocker). I try to close the individual windows, or close the group, but am unable to. I am running Norton Internet Security 2005. It told me that I have spyware, but can't delete it. Could this spyware be causing the problem? Any help is appreciated. I...

I work for a Fortune 500 company, and I'm a pretty happy user here of Outlook. The only major problem with it is that we can only keep about 30 Meg of space on the central server for all of our Outlook items. So the big hassle is staying under this limit, and putting the email someplace where it can be quickly searched for later reference. I figured out a reasonable way to move lots of email to another one of my drives. But the problem is that it is VERY slow to search through these old emails. I've searched...

Why does the media ignore the distinct possibility that Burkett typed these memo's? USA Today and CBS have been in his house. "Hey Bill, while we are visiting, do you mind if we look at your computer? Nice printer. What's on the hard drive Bill?" Seriously, whoever did this is guilty of a felony. Isn't there probable cause for the local sherriff to seach Burkett's house? Can't he be called in for questioning. If Burkett has a printer, does anyone know, can it be matched up to a specific document. You know, little imperfections, like they do with tracing of...

Google is spending some of the cash it raised from its IPO on headhunting staff to build a web browser. Staff have already been poached from Microsoft and Sun.Joshua Bloch, a senior Java developer at Sun, and four people from Microsoft's IE team have all joined the firm in the last few weeks, according to the New York Post. One of the four, Adam Bosworth, was also a lead developer in the development of Access. Joe Beda, a developer working on the user interface for Microsoft's Longhorn, has also joined Google. His blog refers to the NY Post story,...

Please no spilled milk jokes. Ok, spilled milk into my Inspiron laptop keyboard, (PIII 700 Mhz, 256k RAM, 30 GB HD, Win 98). I turned it over and powered down. I disconnected it, battery out, drives out, HD out, keyboard removed and all dried out for 36 hours. Cleaned out all the visible residue which seemed confined to the QWERTY area and some on the circuit board where the power button was (not the mother board). It now powers on and functions normally with the exception of the keyboard not working (5-6 keys mis typing), I figure it needs replacement,...

Pre-patch your XP Setup CD once; never have to install SP2 again. Fred Langa walks you through a 16-step process. Our recent discussions about Windows XP's SP2 show that the huge patch is working fine for most users; and that with caution (make a full backup or image beforehand; read and follow all of Microsoft's pre-SP2 installation tips), even potentially troublesome installations can be handled smoothly. But not swiftly: The update process can take a considerable chunk of your workday, even if you don't count the download time or install from the free SP2 CD. Twenty to 40 minutes seems...

Home | FAQ | Contact | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe from Alerts Search US-CERT > Advanced Search National Cyber Alert System Cyber Security Alert SA04-261A Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla products Original release date: September 17, 2004 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Mozilla Suite (Mozilla web browser, Mozilla Mail)Firefox web browserThunderbird email client Overview By taking advantage of one or more vulnerabilities in Mozilla products, an attacker may be able to take control of your computer. Solution Upgrade to the latest version Mozilla has released updated versions of the affected products. You can download the latest versions: MozillaFirefoxThunderbird...

Hello, What is the best way to get ride of pop ups and several icons? I would liek to do it without downloading anything. I have Norton AntiVirus but taht doesnt stop all teh ads and spyware.

Symantec has labelled a program that enables Chinese surfers to view blocked websites as a Trojan Horse. Upshot? Users of Norton Anti-Virus cannot access Freegate, a popular program which circumvents government blocks, the FT reports. Freegate has 200,000 users, Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT), its developer, estimates. It lets users view sites banned by the Chinese government by taking advantage of a range of proxy servers assigned to changeable internet addresses. But a recent update to Symantec's AV definition files means the latest version of Freegate is treated as malware and removed from systems protected by Norton. Short of disabling Norton...

A start-up company plans to release software at the end of this year that it claims will make it possible for applications designed for one platform to run on another at near native speed. Transitive Technologies Ltd.’s QuickTransit software, which resides in Flash memory or on a computer’s hard drive, decodes application binaries into an intermediate form, optimizes blocks of code and stores them in cache, then encodes for the target processor. It’s sort of a plug-in approach where companies will be able to mix and match starting and target operating systems, explained vice president of marketing Ed McKernan. “We...

Just asking... John Kerry's discharge papers from 1978 (as posted on his website) were typed with proportional type and justified right-hand margins. Was this common on official Navy discharge papers from 1978? http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/Honorable_Discharge_From_Reserve.pdf

(note from Stoat: This article goes on for eleven pages and so I'm only going to post an excerpt. Please be sure to go to the original article and read more than what I've posted here because there's a tremendous amount of real-world information that I would consider essential reading if you're considering the XP-2 patch either for your PC or for your enterprise) Forget the ivory-tower pundits--here are first-hand reports from the trenches, relayed by your peers who've already installed the new Service Pack. By Fred Langa, InformationWeek Sept. 6, 2004 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=46200911 You've heard a lot about Windows...

Hi - My PC clone has AMD-K6 & Win 98 SE 1. What changes do I have to make, (and how), to make my computer Boot from CD-ROM? I have a CD that has FreeSBIE / (FreeBSD) on it. When I am able to boot from the CD-ROM, then the FreeBSD is supposed to run the computer from the CD. 2. The ribbon cable that goes to the Hard Drive has that extra plastic connector in the middle of the cable. If I connect a 2nd hard drive to that extra connector, (also with the power connection), what else do...

One in 10 corporate PC users will encounter difficulties in upgrading to Windows XP Service Pack 2, according to AssetMetrix. Smaller firms will be hit hardest by compatibility problems between their applications and the much anticipated update of Microsoft's flagship operating system, the Canadian asset management firm says. Microsoft has issued a list of applications that require modification in order to work properly with XP SP2. The list has been in a state of flux since XP SP2 was released. But based on the current list of approximately 60 applications with SP2 compatibility problems, AssetMetrix reckons that an average company...

I just had my hard drive fail. It stopped spinning. Does anyone have experience with a company that recovers the data off a broken hard drive? What price is reasonable? What type of success rate is expected?

I was looking at the computer of a user who has Windows 2000, in the hope of setting her up to get Windows updates semi-automatically (that is, she gets the updates automatically, then chooses which ones to install). I found, however, that she has no control panel icon for "automatic updates." Furthermore, when I click on the "windows update" link on the left side of the control panel window, I see a message that says that apparently a person must be logged in as adminstrator to get updates. That seems really inconvenient. Therefore, can she do automatic updates at all,...

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I am running XP. I click on "control panel" then select the link for Windows update. The next screen tells me that I am set up for automatic updates. The problem is, I don't remember how I did so, and cannot find a link to a dialog that lets me change this setting. Neither the "settings" link nor the "administrator options" link allows me to change this setting. Also, how would I set up automatic updates in Windows 2000? Thanks.

I created a thread here a couple weeks back. I was asking for help with a Web site that I was planning on building for the OSU College Republicans. Well I have now built that Web site, and you can view it here. Let me know what you think of it. But I do have another problem I would like some help with. I recently added some links from gop.com and georgewbush.com They are news tickers. I believe this is what is causing the errors. Could any expertise freepers help me out. It keeps asking me if I want to...

Richard Cunningham is like many twenty somethings in the United States -- he enjoys hanging out at the bars with friends, motorcycling, hiking and buying the latest electronic gadgets. He regularly puts in 12-hour days from his home office and is respected by peers in his industry. But his industry is about as unconventional as it gets. And if the anti-spam community discovered who he really was, it would go out of its way to make life as difficult as possible for a guy who profits from flooding your e-mail inbox. "Richard Cunningham" more than likely isn't his real name;...