Do your web browsing through a restricted user account and not an administrator account.
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The go-to site among Americans is clearly Facebook, with 51% having a user account.
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In some cases, the user account can also act as the main server for a private mini-network.
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If the user account of "tivo" logs in and requests a file, the plugin intercepts the request.
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Set up a non-privileged user account for handling your everyday work-flow accessing email, browsing the web and word processing.
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Not to be confused with the root user account you'll see later.
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In a distributed network, however, the central server is removed, and the user account passes information directly to another user who requests it.
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Naturally, when users learned of the issue this weekend, some wanted to disconnect their credit card accounts or delete their entire user account.
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"Specifically, there is no individual user account information on the server supporting senate.gov that could have been compromised, " she said in a statement.
Firefox users on Windows have had to contend with a UAC (or User Account Control) prompt every time they want to update the browser.
Each user account comes with free 5GB capacity and option to increase it incrementally via actions i.e. refer friends, link to your existing Flickr, Picasa, and Instagram accounts.
Once an account is created, the STRIVA products are mated to the user account and sent special instructions on preferred wireless access points nearby when away from home or the office.
For example, instead of creating a user account, you now can create a user object that includes various attributes that help identify where the user account lives in the network hierarchy.
In June, a programming error at Internet-based storage firm Dropbox Inc. temporarily allowed any password to be used to access any user account on its website, though Dropbox says fewer than 100 accounts were affected.
The two companies said their partnership will help them grow their respective businesses and that they will "cooperate in the areas of user account connectivity, data exchange, online payment and online marketing, among other things".
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Columbia's just-launched GPS Pal app is not only available on both Android and iOS, but it's actually designed to be used with a user account so that activity logs are neatly housed in a searchable, organized portal.
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Not long after the the theft of more than 100 million user account details from Sony, Fox has confirmed that hackers also breached fox.com and obtained a file of details on 73, 000 people who requested information about the X-Factor auditions.
Yodlee aggregates the user's account information into one place, providing that the user has accounts with the fixed list of sites included in Yodlee.
The encrypted key is what is necessary, along with the user's ID and password, to obtain access to the user's account with the bank, and it reflects information about the laptop from which the user is accessing the bank's website.
Once a person signs up for an account, Liberty Reserve gives them a user name and an account number and they can start transferring money around the world, Costa Rican officials said.
For that price a user gets one account, storage for 1, 000 emails and the ability to make videos lasting up to five minutes.
The widgets work with cookies that Facebook places in a Web browser when a user creates an account or logs in to its site.
It has been just over a year since a glitch briefly let people use any password they wanted to s ign into any Dropbox user's account.
Provide sign-up opportunities on user profile or account management pages.
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The new software features a self-service portal that lets any user create an account, set up the amount of storage they need, and then start uploading files via the cloud with just a few clicks.
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Parents can open a joint account with a child or add the child as an authorized user to an existing account.
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Now, each game purchased comes with a digital registration key which is bound to a single account once registered, rendering the user powerless to sell their game due to the personal information tied to the account registered, and that account may be home to more than just the game title said user wants to re-sell.
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We wait 14 days between receiving the request from the user and deleting the account.
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The OpenTablet 10 also features built-in multi-user sharing, with account management options and logins for different family members.
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