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How to Remove Malware Tips

Galido

These can include: Spyware. Various factors make computers more vulnerable to malware attacks, including defects in the operating system design, lack of updates and permissions, and use of popular operating systems like Windows OS (due to its popularity, it gets the most malware written for it). What is Malware?

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How much control should Apple have over your iPhone?

Vox

It’s also an outlier; rival mobile operating system Android allows pretty much any app, though app stores may have their own restrictions. You can buy a computer with a Microsoft operating system from a variety of manufacturers, and nearly 1,300 brands sell devices with Google’s Android operating system.

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Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The Verge

It also turned Facebook into something like a single point of failure for the distribution of foreign propaganda, with famously dire results in 2016. If India can ban one app used by 200 million people , citing rather vague national security concerns, it can ban others. The so-called “ Splinternet ” is a long time in coming.