It appears that the draw of the almighty dollar has pulled CNET to the dark side. CNET is a popular technology news site with a download portal called Download.com where many users go to download software that are free, shareware and open source. The site built a reputation a while back as a dependable location for hosting software that was devoid of malicious content – trojan horses, adware, virus etc.
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If you recently ran into a strange Quick Books error, specifically Error Code 3371 “Quickbooks could not load license data. This may be caused by a missing or damaged file.”, with a status code of 11118, you are not alone. And it looks like this headache has been plaguing the users of the accounting software for several years.
The symptoms are usually that you are unable to open your company file in Quick Books and resolution attempts like repairing the installation fail, and you get prompts for a mysterious html file.
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In case you have not heard, another SSL Certificate provider, Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar, a subsidiary of Vasco Data Security, was breached recently and from the preliminary report coming from the company that did an audit, it looks pretty bad.
Some of the names in the list of bogus certificates generated by the attackers include Comodo, Google, Thawte, Microsoft, Mozilla, WindoswUpdate, WordPress’ MI6, the CIA, Facebook and Twitter.
When you run the Windows Update service, you may sometimes discover that you are not able to install any windows updates or even use the windows update website. Instead, you get a message like:
The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below might help you solve the problem
Then there is an error code 0×80070424. It could also show up as error 80070424.
This could be a symptom of one or more of the following problems:
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Google’s Chrome browser is quickly becoming a favorite of users in the ever competitive Internet browser market mostly because of its perceived speed and clean interface.
A lot of the accolades are warranted, but my focus in this write-up is on the area of user data privacy and how the Chrome browser seems to have built-in tools that are a reg-flag for privacy violations in spite of Google’s Privacy Policy.
Our position is that the Chrome browser is “chatty”, and acts as a keystroke logger in the area of search. In fact, the folks at Scroogle characterized Google Chrome as a browser that tends to “phone home a lot”. And here’s why:
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