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Nearly Half of UK SMBs Believe a Cyberattack Could Close Their Business

44% of decision makers are spending a day each week dealing with cybersecurity issues 64% say workload demands result in mistakes that put...
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JimM Retired Webrooter

"Defrag Tools" on MSDN

I happened to stumble across this show earlier today.  The audience it appeals to is hardcore techies - mostly those who do a lot of troubleshooting.  Naturally, this is relevant to my interests.  Probably, many of our more technical Community members will enjoy it as well, so I'd lik...

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Question About System Analysis Results

I ran a system analysis with Secur Anywhere Complete and got an alert that some devices are not operating properly and may need to be reinstalled.   What are the next steps I should take to address this alert?   Thanks   Chris

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Running webroot secure anywhere with other antivirus software

Hello I am running webroot secure anywhere with Kaspersky pure 2.0 at the same time. So far I don't see any problems. I contacted HP support about my computer doing auto restarts for no reason and the tech said its because I am running tandem virus programs. I have windows 8 64 on the PC. However I...

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The first ever Opera Browser for Android with WebKit released

Redesigned from the ground up Opera browser has been designed specifically for Android and its rendering engine WebKit-based software offers a new level of compatibility sites. Native user interface allows high comfort when used on smartphones.   Available for download on Google Play.

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Flash Issues

I'm a newbie and not very high-tech savvy, but I have a problem that has been plaguing me for a couple weeks now. When I go on some sites, I get a small window that pops up saying that it's from "Adobe Flash Player Settings." It says that some website (such as nbcuni.com or cfiles.5min.com or secure...

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Delay Receiving Email Notifications
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  I receive email notifications about posts made to threads in which I have an interest.  However, there is a delay of usually several hours before I receive an email about a post.  This does not happen with most other sites.  Is the problem at my end or WSA’s?  Can I fix the problem?

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IE10 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses

Published Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:46 AM   Internet Explorer 10 is available worldwide in 95 languages for download today. We will begin auto updating Windows 7 customers to IE10 in the weeks ahead, starting today with customers running the IE10 Release Preview. With this final release, IE1...

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JimM Retired Webrooter

The WSA "Clean Up Now" Function

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What was your first real virus?

What was the first real virus you got? What was its name and what did it do?   My first one was I think on Windows 95 and all it seemed to do was repeat explitives out of my computer speakers. My second one was on Windows 98. It corrupted all digital media and web development data on a work station....

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YegorP Retired Webrooter

What the Tech is going on in the world today?

Hacks aside, there are other things going on in the world of tech today...so I thought I'd post the three biggest news/events of the day. Let me know what you've heard and think about them!   1. Sony expected to unveil the much-romored Playstation 4 at 6PM EST. Yep, it's almost time for the PS...

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How Did You Learn About WSA and What Influenced You To Adopt It

I’m not certain if this thread has been opened previously, but if so, I’m sure someone will let me know.   I had been using Norton Anti-virus programs for years.  I had always been reasonably satisfied with them, but was not pleased with the fact that Norton typically slowed down the response time o...

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Browser Test

What do you make of this Browser Test should it pass all with WSA ID Shield? http://www.browserscope.org/security/test   I used Firefox 19.0   TH  

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Windows 9 build 9319 spotted in the wild, kernel gets bumped to 6.3 the speculation begins.
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Since the launch of Windows 8, the string of leaks of Windows builds has all but come to a halt. While we have been hearing quite a bit about Windows Blue, the images you see above are supposedly from the M1 of Windows 9 (unconfirmed). As the M1 build kernel has been given a bump to 6.3 (Windows 8 u...

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What's your current PC hardware specs?

This is my current two year old Laptop and I only use Laptops from now on. The only thing I wish it could do is run the 2 SSD's in a RAID 0 configuration.   Dell XPS 17" Laptop HD 1st Gen Intel®️ Core™️ i7-840QM Processor (8M L3 Cache, 1.86 GHz) 4 cores & 4 threads Turbo Boost to 3.2GHz 16 GB...

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Opera officially announces transition from Presto to WebKit and 300 million users reached

Today comes the turn for Opera with the official confirmation of the recent rumours about the move from Presto to WebKit as the engine at the core of the browser. Furthermore Opera announced reaching the milestone of 300 million monthly users across all its browser products on phones, tablets, TVs a...

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JimM Retired Webrooter

Fun with Tracert

An inventive Cisco-certified networking professional, who must also be a big fan of a certain sci-fi movie, set up some private routing tables that tell a pretty amusing story when you try to tracert his site's ip address.   For a funny result, open up a command prompt and run this trace: trace...

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Samsung Has Sold More Than 100 Million Galaxy S Devices

Stan Schroeder Jan 14, 2013Samsung has sold more than 100 million Galaxy S devices, the company has announced. Samsung reached this milestone in 2 years and 7 months after the launch of the original Samsung Galaxy S back in May 2010.     Full Article   TH

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YegorP Retired Webrooter

No more used games? Wrong Answer, says GameStop.

When Edge initially reported that the the new Xbox console would likely need an active Internet connection to work and would eliminate second-hand games, the 'comments' section naturally filled with replies ranging from utter disbelief, to "giving up on console gaming" messages, to sheer anger. &nbs...

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Windows 8 Keyboard shortcuts compilation

Windows key: Switch between Modern Desktop Start screen and the last accessed application Windows key + C: Access the charms bar Windows key + Tab: Access the Modern Desktop Taskbar Windows key + I: Access the Settings charm Windows key + H: Access the Share charm Windows key + K: Access the Devices...

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Richard Retired Webrooter

Bill Gates does a AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit

As some might have been able to tell, I am on Reddit quite a bit.  You know, for science.  Yesterday, Bill Gates hosted an open discussion for members of the community to ask him anything about everything.  Topics covered ranged from his past, his beliefs, technology, and even Steve Jobs.  I highly...

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Best paid-for software?

What non-free, non-security, non-famous software do you have on your machine? There’s a big meme that says you never have to pay for software since there is so much free stuff. And it's true, there is so much great free software out there. But there is a lot of great commercial software out there as...

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If You Were To Build A Computer, What Would You Build, And Why?

I finally came to the realization that, after about six years, I was due for a new machine.  The technological advances during that span of time were formidable and, while I pride myself at keeping reasonably current with technology, I realized I was unfamiliar with a lot of good product.  I turned...

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Shutting down windows 8

Some of you who are using windows 8 might find shutting down and other options in windows 8 a bit tangled. Moving your cursor to the right upper corner brings out the charms menu and  opening the Charms bar, clicking Settings, selecting the Power button and choosing 'Shut down', does the job normall...

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Context menu orientation in windows 8

For some weird reasons my windows 8 started showing the context menu and cascades to the left side. And after poking around a lot i figured it out.   To change context menu orientation :   1. Start the ‘Run’ command 2. Type in: shell:::{80F3F1D5-FECA-45F3-BC32-752C152E456E} – click on OK 3. This wil...

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Your mobile setup

What is your mobile setup? How do you stay connected on the road? How do you stay secure?

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