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There seem to be a huge number of emails lately that claim to come from CNN advising you that you need to upgrade Flash or your PDF reader or some other commonly used program. These emails are kind enough to offer a link to where you can download their recommended upgrade from their favourite malware site.

These emails do not come from CNN. They are spam and should be deleted immediately. If you have had the misfortune to be tricked into installing one of the programs that they link to you should uninstall it immediately and run antivirus and antispyware scans of your computer to try to clean up the damage that they have done to your system.

The latest version of Flash and PDF Reader can be downloaded from the Adobe web site and should never be downloaded from anywhere else.

The new version of the Adobe reader (version 9) is now available as i found while hunting the Adobe site to try to figure out why Adobe Reader 8 can only print 12 pages of a document at a time.

I found out the hard way though that the instructions that are on their site for downloading using Firefox are utter garbage. I followed their instructions and it used the Adobe download manager to download the file and then stupidly tried to install it automatically (which of course failed since you can’t install it from a limited account on Windows (and no one would be stupid enough to access the internet in a web browser on an administrator account unless they are trying to collect viruses). When their download mangler couldn’t install the file which it had just taken ages to download it either deleted it or hid it so well that I can’t find it. I have ended up having to download the entire program AGAIN because of their stupid download mangler. If you are going to download Reader 9 using Firefox then make sure you DO NOT allow their download mangler to run and use the regular download manager in Firefox to download the file instead.

There are thousands of different web editors available for you to use on your own computer to create your web pages. The following is a small selection (including some that are free downloads) and most of these are available for both Windows and Mac (and in some cases Linux as well).

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