The other day I was speaking with someone who had tried to charge the battery on one of his devices. Everytime he plugged in the charger, the device would shut down and he couldn’t figure out why. In asking several questions, we finally came to the key. The charger he was using wasn’t made for [...]
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One can’t be to careful these days, when opening an attachment in an email from a “friend” can create all kinds of trouble to your computer and your life. Everyone does it – seeing an email from a friend or family member you automatically open the attached file, because if it’s from someone you know, [...]
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Associated Press Get AP Mobile for your phone at APnews.com Microsoft warns of serious computer security hole Story user rating: JORDAN ROBERTSON Published: Today SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) – Microsoft Corp. has taken the rare step of warning about a serious computer security vulnerability it hasn’t fixed yet. The vulnerability disclosed Monday affects Internet Explorer [...]
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Most people happily go about their web page surfing, left clicking on links as they go, just accepting that the link will either open in a new window, a new tab, or replace the page they are currently on, but never knowing what it will do until it’s clicked. If the last one occurs, and [...]
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Microsoft has warned users of Windows XP Service Pack 3 of an issue that can lead to digital pictures becoming corrupted. According to Microsoft, the problem is limited to XP SP3. Microsoft has explained that when using Windows Picture or Fax Viewer to manage TIFF images, in the eventuality that a specific picture is rotated [...]
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I’ve been reading recently that on some computers Microsoft’s updates are happening automatically, even though the user has set the update settings to download but notify before updating, or even set to check for updates but not download or install without prompting. Microsoft has mentioned on their blog “Update Notifications and Install-at-Shutdown Behavior” that they [...]
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