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Chronicle cavalcade mug of Helpline computer columnist Jay Lee photographed in the Chronicle flat Friday, April 20, 2007, in Houston. ( Photogapher / Chronicle )
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Q: I accept an iPad, and my Safari browser has been bedeviled by a admonishing of an Apple Security Breach - adage I charge alarm 809-570-9239 to get it fixed. I accept this is a scam. How can I actual this?
A: Aloof like any added accretion device, iPads and iPhones are accountable to advancing pop-up advertisements and scams. One of the absolutely aggravating things about the added awful pop-ups is the scammers, and spammers assume to accept begin a way to accomplish the advertisement difficult to remove, which makes it assume added acceptable that your accessory has been compromised or adulterated with a virus.
Usually this is not the case. Viruses and hacks for the iPhone and the iPad are awfully rare.
If you appointment a assiduous pop-up like this, the aboriginal affair you should do is double-tap the Home button rapidly to accompany up the multitasking manager. Back you do this, you will see all of your contempo applications, forth with the appliance you currently accept open. If you again bash the appliance upward, it will abutting it out. This applies to pop-ups like the one you are seeing.
To apprehend this commodity in one of Houston's most-spoken languages, bang on the button below.
If you can't get rid of it this way, you can consistently aloof ability bottomward and restart the iPhone by captivation the ability button on the top or the ancillary for a few abnormal until the Slide To Ability Off advantage appears on the screen.
Once you've swiped abroad Safari and/or rebooted, you will appetite to tap on Settings, again Clear History and Website Data and again bang on Clear History and Data.
While you are in the Safari settings, you should additionally accomplish abiding you accept Block Pop-ups enabled.
And a ancillary note, you don't accept to use Safari on your iPhone and iPad. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are accessible in the App Store and ability be a bigger browsing acquaintance for you.
Q: Accept you apparent Xtra-PC advertised on TV? It is a USB accessory that you use with your old computer, and it is declared to acceleration it up like it was back new. Is it account attractive into?
A: Products like Xtra-PC are artlessly cossack accessories that accommodate chargeless and accessible antecedent operating systems and utilities and are advised to bypass your computer operating arrangement with the software on the USB drive. Usually this is a adaptation of Linux and a archetype of commodity like Accessible Office so that you accept commodity to administer your abstracts and added files.
These things tend to be cheap, but they do present challenges. For example, you won't accept admission to any of your originally installed software applications or your aboriginal Windows interface. While the interface is somewhat like Windows, it's absolutely not absolutely the same.
In my opinion, you would be bigger off award the accretion disks for your computer and reloading the aboriginal operating system.
It is additionally account acquainted that you can accomplish your own bootable deejay like this, on a USB drive or a DVD drive. There's a abundant Popular Science commodity at tinyurl.com/helplineportable that describes how to do this.
