If you’re running as an admin user in Apple’s Mac OS X then now is the time to step down into a standard user account. Reports over the last few months detail how a malformed installer package could gain root access without a password meaning that unless your running as a standard user you could be vulnerable.

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If you are trying to remove Norton Antivirus or other Norton product from your system and having difficulties then try the Norton Removal Tool. This is the official removal tool from Symantec and effectively removes all Norton 2007/2006/2005/2004/2003 products from your computer. Simply install the removal tool and follow the onscreen instructions.

If you are looking for a more lightweight or free Anti Virus solution then check our Antivirus Downloads page for a list of recommended software.

Over time, as you use your computer and install new software, more services and programs will start along with Windows and run in the background. If you take a look at your system tray, the area on the task bar where the clock is located, you will see an array of icons. Each of these icons represents a software application that is waiting to be used. Applications ‘pre-load’ like this, and run in the background, so that they can start up faster when you want to use them. But computers are now so fast that this is no longer required, and as the list of background applications grows the amount of required memory and CPU cycles also grows and can begin to slow down a system.

There is a way to combat the growing list of applications loading when your computer starts - the Microsoft Configuration utility, MSConfig.

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Internet Explorer 7 is different from regular Windows updates in that it appears in the add/remove programs list. If you wish to remove IE7 you can do so by following the steps below. Although, It is advisable to use a more secure browser such as Mozilla’s Firefox instead of IE6, if you do not want to use the new IE7.

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