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I welcome coverage of apple thongs. I suspect many readers, like me, use windows, Mac and Linux interchangeably and equally. Come to think of it, articles on interchanging data would be good to read.

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Outlook warned me the email on this topic contained ActiveX controls which it would not run for security reasons or ‘because I had blocked the publisher’. Did that happen for anyone else?
I replied to the email to report this and got the response
> Thanks for your email and feedback. I’m sorry you are having this trouble.
> I have never heard of anyone having this trouble before.
which is neither helpful nor informative.
I wonder why there would be ActiveX controls in an email?
can anyone shed any light?

“pcdecrapifier” is a useful tool to run on a new machine – it will strip out all those trial applications and OEM specials. It worked for me on a new netbook.

> Adobe released critical patches for its Flash Player …
Maybe I’m alone, but Firefox will not install Flash updates on the 3 machines we have using either the Adobe site in a web browser or by using Firefox’s Add-ons menu and searching for updates from there…once I get past the security questions I get an “update failed” message from the Adobe server.
However, using the links in Secunia’s online vulnerability reporting tool worked fine (secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/)

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Did you find a solution? This sounds the same as the “On Network,but no Internet” thread.
Is there a new, unidentified, type of malware?

I’ve had the same problem at home for a couple of months with a (wired) XP machine. It shares a printer and folders and they remain accessible from other computers, but after 20 minutes to sometimes 2 hours use this PC’s web browsers say no connection. tried FF and IE. A reboot fixes it for a while. Tech advice from work: “that can’t happen”…. Maybe the lounge has better advice?