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Restricting other people’s Facebook app permissions

Added a new game to FB and it's flooding your friend's News Feed with "__ plays this; you should, too!" messages? No need to let a silly game spam your friends and family. Go into Settings (upper-right)...Apps (left margin). You may find some old apps that you can remove entirely. But, if you click the…
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Phone rebooting over and over again?

A reminder to all that your phone crashing might not be the fault of your phone but its memory card. Woke up at 5:30am to notice my phone's screen on and it being in a reboot loop. {sigh} At one point, I noticed "You have ejected your storage card." Popped open the back, ejected the…
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First email hoax

The first hoax that *I* ever saw on the internet is back. It started in 2005 as a chain-email claiming that, for every time you'd forward it, Bill Gates would give you a dollar. What people didn't (still don't?) realize is that there is no way to track an email unless a copy were sent…
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FBI/DOJ Crytoplocker triumph

A big FBI/DoJ takedown resulted in a whole wackload of servers of the (nasty) Crytolocker virus recently. YAY. But, it's down but not out; other servers are still out there. I'm working on some new features for Constant Care and Weekly Care w/AV subscribers, the first of which will block the Cryptolocker virus from infecting.…
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