There was a PDF exploit in Safari in iOS 4 on the iPhone, which is how comex and other members of the iPhone Dev Team were able to jailbreak it. But Apple quickly found out about it, and released a patch for it. However, this patch (iOS 4.0.2 or iOS 4.1) will cause you to lose your jailbreak and your unlock, possibly forever! So don’t do it.

Instead, do this:

Click here to view the embedded video.

In the video, I use an app called Rock Your Phone. You can download that app for free via Cydia. Cydia is an install app that automatically gets installed as an app on your iPhone when you jailbreak it. Just open Cydia, do a search for Rock Your Phone, and then install it. Then watch my video above to see how to patch the Safari PDF exploit.

NOTE: Rock Your Phone states the following on their page that gives download and installation instructions:

All users should use the newest jailbreak from jailbreakme.com which was released on August 1st, 2010 to install RockApp on your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.

So if you did not jailbreak your phone via jailbreakme.com, then I’m not sure if it will work. But unless you have iOS 4.0.1 on your phone already, and you just have not had a chance to jailbreak your phone, then you are out of luck with regard to jailbreaking your iPhone, as iOS 4.0.1 is no longer available via iTunes. iOS 4.0.1 is the most recent version of iOS that can be jailbroken. The version of iOS on iTunes now is iOS 4.1, which does not have a jailbreak yet. However, I’m sure the Dev Team is hard at work cracking the code for iOS 4.1.

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Do you have a Windows 7 PC that asks for a user name and password when you try to connect to your wireless network? I was having the same issue with a friend’s Windows 7 laptop. I did some searching and finally found the answer.

The main problem is that Windows 7 does not really support WEP encryption. It prefers WPA. So if you want a quick fix, and you have access to the router’s settings, then just change the encryption type for the wireless network to WPA.

However, if you really want to stick with WEP, here is the workaround:

1. Click on START (the multi-colored ball in the bottom left corner of your screen
2. Click on CONTROL PANEL on the right
3. Click on NETWORK AND INTERNET
4. Click on NETWORK AND SHARING CENTER
5. Under CHANGE YOUR NETWORK SETTINGS, click on SET UP A NEW CONNECTION OR NETWORK
6. Select MANUALLY CONNECT TO A WIRELESS NETWORK and click the NEXT button below
7. Type in the name of your network in NETWORK NAME exactly as it was entered into the router
8. Set the SECURITY TYPE to WEP
9. ENCRYPTION TYPE should automatically change to WEP and should be grayed out so you can’t change it
10. Type your network password/key into the SECURITY KEY field
11. Check the box next to START THIS CONNECTION AUTOMATICALLY, if you want it to and if it is not yet checked
12. Check the box next to CONNECT EVEN IF THE NETWORK IS NOT BROADCASTING if you have the SSID Broadcasting feature disabled on your router (meaning you set it so that your network name won’t show up when someone searches for the available wireless networks in the area)
13. Click NEXT
14. Click CLOSE
15. Then, if you are not already connected and you are broadcasting your SSID, click on the bars in the bottom right corner of your screen where the time is where you normally connect to a wireless network, and select your network
16. Click CONNECT
17. You should be good to go!

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I just had a client who was infected by this nasty spyware. No, it was not a virus. It was spyware acting like an antivirus program.

First and foremost, never…

ever buy an antivirus program that pops up on your computer. Never will a legitimate antivirus program just appear on your screen and say, “Your computer is infected! Buy me!” That will ALWAYS be spyware that does that. So DO NOT fall for it. Buy nothing. Install nothing, and do what I suggest below IMMEDIATELY.

The first thing that you MUST do to fix this issue is to get your computer into Safe Mode. Why? Because as you probably know, if your computer is infected with this threat, you can’t execute any program. It disables the ability to do that. So, get your computer in Safe Mode and you will once again be able to run programs.

How do you get it into Safe Mode? Immediately upon rebooting (restarting) your computer, hit your F8 key (it’s at the top of your keyboard) repeatedly until a black screen with white text appears asking you to choose how you would like to boot up your computer. Choose “Safe Mode with Networking” so you can still access the Internet.

However, to get into Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking, there is one possible catch. If you are working with a desktop and you have a USB keyboard, it may or may not allow you to go into Safe Mode. Some USB keyboards will not work until the computer starts to boot up into Windows. So hitting the F8 key repeatedly may or may not register when using a USB keyboard. That’s why it is best to get your hands on an old school PS/2 keyboard (the kind that has a connection that is round with prongs) for this job.

The two programs that will remove this annoying and PINA spyware are the following:

1. Combofix – you can both download and be shown how to use this program with that link
2. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition – this also includes an anti-spyware component, which is what will remove and fix this issue

You will need to install and run ComboFix in Safe Mode with Networking, since you will not be able to do anything with it in regular windows.

When you use Combofix, there is no need to post the results on a website like the instructions on the page that I link to above suggests. Just running it will fix the issue, at least it did for my client. So run that program first.

Then download, install, update, and run AVG, just to be sure. HOWEVER, you’ll need to UNINSTALL your current antivirus program to do that, if you have one installed. You can not have two or more antivirus programs installed on your computer at the same time. They will cancel each other out and you won’t be protected. It could also potentially harm your computer.

If you don’t want to remove your current antivirus program and install and run AVG FREE edition, that’s OK. But I highly suggest you do it if you want this threat to be GONE from your computer.

Good luck!

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This is a little known, but very handy tip that you can use whenever you want to hide your files and folders for whatever reason (e.g. the files have valuable financial info, you don’t want anyone else who uses your computer to see them, etc.). It’s very easy to do, but I still felt the need to do a video about it. I also added the text below the video in case you prefer to read.

Here is the video!

Click here to view the embedded video.

And here is the text version of how to do it:

How to Hide Your Files and Folders

1.  RIGHT-click on the folder that you want to hide, go to PROPERTIES, and check the box next to “Hidden” at the bottom of that window
2.  Click OK
3.  Select “Apply Changes to this folder, subfolders, and files” (this setting will hide everything inside that folder; “subfolders” are folders that are inside that folder)
4.  Click OK again
5.  The folder will disappear

How to See the Hidden Folder and its Contents, and Then
Hide Them Again

1.  To see the folder as well as its contents again, open Windows Explorer (Go to START>PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>WINDOWS EXPLORER)
2.  Go to the TOOLS menu at the top of the WINDOWS EXPLORER and select FOLDER OPTIONS
3.  Click on the VIEW tab
4.  Select SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS
5.  Click OK
6.  The hidden folder that you just hid will now appear, only it will be faded, which means that it’s a hidden folder
7.  You can now open it and view/work with the files
8.  To hide it again, just follow Steps 6 – 10, except in Step 9, select DO NOT SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS, but make sure you do not have any of the files that are in that folder open in any
program

How to No Longer Hide the Hidden Folder and Its Contents

If you no longer wish to hide that folder and its contents, and you have the folder options set to DO NOT SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS, (where you can’t see the hidden folder) then follow steps 1 –  5 under How to See the Hidden Folder and its Contents… above.

Once you see the hidden folder (again, it will be faded), then do the following:

1.  RIGHT-click on the folder
2.  Select PROPERTIES
3.  UNcheck the box next to HIDDEN
4.  Click OK

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Ever have some files or folders that you want to make private so only you can see them, or so that when you bring your Mac in for repair (which is rare), your files are hidden? Well I just did a video that shows you exactly how to do it.

Check it out!

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If you’re having issue with Avira Antivirus updating on your system, you have a couple of options:

1. You can update the virus definitions for Avira manually by following the instructions on this page:

http://www.avira.com/en/support/kbdetails.php?id=95

However, this is a temporary workaround, as you don’t want to have to keep on doing this. You’ll need to go to the Avira forums to find out your specific problem.

2. You can uninstall Avira (make sure you do that FIRST), and then install another very good free antivirus program. Here are the others I would suggest:

• Avast Home Edition FREE Antivirus
• AVG Antivirus Free Edition

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Here are some simple things that you can do to avoid getting a virus on your computer:

1. Avoid going to the following type of websites:

a. Adult/Porn
b. Gambling/Online Casinos
c. Warez (pirated software or unauthorized keys to software)

2. Avoid opening email and email attachments from people that you don’t know

3. Take caution when downloading something onto your computer from a burned CD or DVD, including programs.

4. Avoid installing pirated software (software one normally pays for) with an unauthorized key (a key that was not purchased)

5. Avoid using Peer to Peer software programs like Limewire or Morpheus (you may think you’re downloading a legitimate file, but it may be a virus)

6. Avoid downloading and installing games and/or screensavers unless they are from very well known websites

These tips do not apply to Macs, as there are no known viruses that have been written for the Mac OS X operating system. Yes, viruses don’t just happen. They are written by not so nice people.

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Is your PC running slow or giving you a lot of popups? Spybot is one of the programs that I use to handle that type of situation.

You can download this free software for free at www.download.com

Here is a video that I made that shows you exactly how to perform a scan on your computer for spyware and malware with Spybot: Search & Destroy 1.5 (the latest version at the time of this post):

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1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Administrative Tools
4. Click Local Security Policy
5. Click the “+” next to Local Policies
6. Click Security Options
7. Doubleclick “Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile”
8. Select the “Enabled” radio button
9. Click OK

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Most likely either the windows user name was changed after it was set up, or the user name consists of two words with at least one space in between (TI does not like spaces in user names).

Here is the work around:

1. While logged in to your normal Windows user, go to START>CONTROL PANEL>USER ACCOUNTS and create a new user named “Backup” (no quotes); make sure you set it up as an administrator account
2. Create a password for that user
3. Once that is done and that window is closed, then open True Image 10, start the wizard for creating an incremental backup, and when it comes to the window asking for the computername\windowsusername (where you got the “Login information is not correct” error), LEAVE the computer name as-is, delete the windows user, and enter “Backup” as the windows user (no quotes). It should look like this:

computername\Backup

4. Then enter the password you assigned to the “Backup” user when you created that account
5. You should be able to continue past that window now and finish the scheduling of the task
6. Success!

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