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That was going to be my next question!! :) Moved on to another hotel, different wifi. Let's see what happens tonight.

I've had no start up problems since the last reported one about a month ago. I've done all the upgrades since then too. I had a brief panic today, and I'm now thinking that it might have been the same thing that caused the adware link to appear last time. I now think it's likely that I...

As I said earlier, I suspected Photobucket. Now I'm pretty sure! There's an adlink to a Genieo download on my photobucket today. Although the ads there can follow previous things you click, so it may be an effect rather than a cause.

Thanks again. Now at a different hotel and it all seems back to normal. I ran through the checks shown in the link and found nothing. If any more turns up. I will have another go.

On holiday in France from UK. MacBook Pro. OSX 10.9.2 Safari 7.0.3 Last night I was in the hotel, connected to the internet using the hotel wi-fi "WifiPass from Passman". Safari suddenly posted a new page in a new tab from "updateplayer.us" demanding an "urgent update to FlashPlayer" and a...

I haven't installed any hackies or any unofficial software. I've just checked the few extensions that I have and they all appear in a list of Maverick extensions that I Googled, so I think everything is OK on the face of it. There are no extensions that are older than the laptop itself. I...

I updated Firefox and it has done it once since then. But that was straight afterwards at the next start-up. So OK for over a week. The laptop is set up to startup with all windows restored as it was when shut down.

Did it again this morning. Started at the second attempt. The only oddity, which I may have noticed last time, is that Firefox was odd. It showed it was opened at startup with the icon marked in the dock, but when I clicked the icon Firefox seemed to start from scratch. I have just upgraded...

The MacBook has been updated to 10.9.2 for a while with no problem. I've started the thing four times since, and it's been OK. One thing I noticed was a problem with Firefox. I don't use it much, so I didn't open it the first time I got the computer started after the crash. Next time I...

MacBook Pro 13 inch Mid 2012 2.5GHz i5 8GB Memory OSX 10.9.2 Failed to start up four times. Then started on next attempt. Screen started p with the grey apple. Then went grey and blank. Then the spinning clock appeared. Then it cycled endlessly plain grey screen and spinning clock, every...

Well, I think I've found it. Somehow Java Script got turned off. Don't know how. Wasn't me. And no one else has used the laptop... Hmmm.

MacBook Pro 2013 OS 10.9.2 Safari 7.0.3 It was working last night. Shutdown overnight and started again an hour ago. I can view websites like this, but I seem to have lost stuff linked with images. Photobucket appears, I can log in and see the skeleton of the page but no images. I can...

Open it in Preview. Crop it in proportion and then expand it to the size you want.

I had something similar go wrong with ours. Soon afterwards the iMac mailbox went blank and I had to do a rebuild. Maybe a rebuild at this stage would cure it?

Thanks! I can't find a source for the slim BluRay reader in the UK, but as I'm looking for a Newer Tech HD t the moment, there are the two items below. Although, once again, we are victims of the £1 = $1 sales conversion that is common over here. :(...

The saga of my 2010 iMac continues. The black screen issue seems to have been cured by a new screen, but now the superdrive is not consistently recognising inserted discs. I've tried a clean, but the problem persists. If I decide to buy a newer iMac, I will need an external disc drive...

I have an external dive (Firewire800) that disappears from the desktop. I haven't checked the System Profiler, but it appears immediately if I switch it off and opn at the mains. It appears to be "self ejecting"; there is no complaint from the system about not properly ejecting the disc.

That looks interesting. I'll investigate. Thanks :)

Ah! No! The WD drives at Apple are Thunderbolt only. My iMac is too old for Thunderbolt. :( The only Firewire 800 drives in the UK Apple Store are G-Tech. Lets have a look at other suppliers.

I'm UK based. I have my Time Machine on a G-Tech 1TB external hard disc attached to the iMac by a Firewire 800 lead. It's been working for a long time with no problems. As the 1TB has been good, I decided to get a G-Tech 2TB drive which is chained to the 1TB disc for some one-off backups...