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Are free downloads safe?

I was investigating the price of Microsoft Word for my wife to install in her new laptop and discovered, to my surprise, a site from which Word 2007 can be downloaded free! Anyone tried this? What are...

freespirit80

is www.soft82.com a safe site?

I have a new computer and have left my printer software at my parents, so have been looking for a trust worthy site to down load it from as Cannon’s official site did not seem to give me the...

Mr-H

vista security tool 2010

is this a virus? i seem unable to get on the net using either Firefox or ie8 without being told that i am under threat etc. however, Google this and you discover that word like 'clone from the...

deggers316

wireless connection

my friend has his comp on an extension socket he's only pulling 6 mb out of 10mb download (showing in the router config:) orange support say if he was into the master socket he would pull 10mb the guy...

alavahalf

Trouble booting up...

....after having a weeks worth of laptop problems which, Chuck kindly sorted out ... it's now my desktops turn. It's a Fujitsu Scaleo P... running XP. ( I have a recovery disk...no XP disk) When I try...

Sqad

PC won't start.

snags

Email notifier utility for Mac OS X...

I'm looking for a Mac OS X (Tiger) email notifier (preferably free) that would sit in my desktop's menu bar and notify me - visually and/or audibly - when I receive emails in to my Hotmail and Gmail...

dave870

Messages from Hewwit packard

I am getting a message on my computor as follows HP Precision Scan LT set-up The programme updates HP Software you may see a message about Digital signaturew not found you must ckick yes for update to...

whiskeryron

Gmail Notifyer

I am running Firefox & Windows 7, I have made several attempts to download gmail notifyer & every attempt has failed to work, when I open gmail normally, no problem but after each download of...

carlton23

Sophos

Looking through `All Prog`s` I see a something called `Sophos`, which is a security programme which I don`t know how it was added. As I already run `Malbyte Anti-Malware` and `Avira Anti Virus...

scotman

Trojan Gen-Krpytik

Hi all Yesterday I ran SuperAntiSpyware on full system scan and I got an alert for a possible trojan. This is now in quarantine. This had the name as above in the title (spelling is as reported by...

stevec000

safe mode

hi guys, my brothers pc for some reason started up and went to the safe start up page but its stuck on it no matter what he presses eg if he says start windows normally it trys to start but just goes...

daginge

Cleaning Print Rollers

Anyone know how to clean the print rollers on an HP C3180 printer / scanner and if this may stop a feed problem. Mine keeps dragging multiple sheets through and printing half on one sheet half on the...

telboy1938

SP3 problem

Since downloading SP3 I get the message "The procedure entry point aps Search Interface could not be located in the dynamic link library wlanpi.dll" I understand this is a blip caused by...

Puzzled001

Synchronizing yahoomail in outlook express

Help please, different sites have different answers to this problem, some are years out of date.Gone to tools> general ,put ' pop.yahoomail.com ' in mail account ( also tried pop.mail.yahoo.com),...

sphinxy

lost hard disk local disk (e)

Rob-Roy

Error messages ??

I have been getting these messages - 1) other applications currently occupy your bandwidth please close applications. I don't seem to have anything else going apart from anti virus. 2) error 271. I am...

Hughes 66

Why does it take 12 hrs to download service pack 2 for vista

iamalem

voting security

I have designed an electronic voting page but it does not prevent the voter from voting more than once by simply clicking the 'back' button and voting again. What should i do to prevent the vote...