Security issue with a website and java

I am having trouble getting Java to work on a website, the message tells me that I have a security issue but I don't know how to fix it??

The site may be sending Firefox for Android a page that is not correctly formed.
We have a feature in Firefox 39 which will allow the request desktop site menu item to show the full desktop site.

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Severe Security Issue with Sharing Permissions and Windows

I recently discovered a severe Security issue with the windows sharing an permission settings:
I have two users, an admin user and a parental controlled user. On my mac mini, i have a external harddrive connected. On the harddrive, i have three folders, Itunes, Iphoto (Package) and a Temp Folder. I want to share the Harddrive RW for the admin, but only R for the parental user. But the Temp folder should be accessible for RW for the parental as well.
1. I set the Drive checkbox "ignore ownership" off.
2. I set the permissions of the drive to admin RW, parental R and Everyone to "no access"
3. I apply to enclosed Items
4. I set the permission of the Temp folder to admin RW, parental RW and Everyone to "no access"
5. I apply to enclosed Items
6. I go to "File Sharing" in the Preferences and activate SMB sharing for both users
7. I delete all previous shares
8. I add the Disk and use the proposed permissions which are admin RW, parental R, Everyone "no access"
9. I add the Temp folder and use the proposed permissions which are admin RW, parental RW, Everyone "no access" - Funny, there is a new Group called "Temp" created which has custom access on both sharepoints
10. I connect to the mac over a Windows machine (NTLM auth set appropriatly). Now I try to create a folder on the root of the Disk share, I get a denied message.
BUT WHEN I GO INTO A SUBFOLDER (eg. ITUNES or IPHOTO), WHICH HAS ALSO JUST "R" PERMISSION FOR THE PARENTAL USER, I AM ABLE TO RW, DELETE AND DO EVERYTHING!!!
TO RECAPITULATE: THE SHARING PERMISSIONS ARE "R", AND THE FILE PERMISSIONS IN THE RESPECTIVE FOLDERS FOR THE RESPECTIVE USER ARE ALSO JUST "R". BUT THE USER CAN DO EVERYTHING IN THE SUBFOLDERS!!!

I recently discovered a severe Security issue with the windows sharing an permission settings:
I have two users, an admin user and a parental controlled user. On my mac mini, i have a external harddrive connected. On the harddrive, i have three folders, Itunes, Iphoto (Package) and a Temp Folder. I want to share the Harddrive RW for the admin, but only R for the parental user. But the Temp folder should be accessible for RW for the parental as well.
1. I set the Drive checkbox "ignore ownership" off.
2. I set the permissions of the drive to admin RW, parental R and Everyone to "no access"
3. I apply to enclosed Items
4. I set the permission of the Temp folder to admin RW, parental RW and Everyone to "no access"
5. I apply to enclosed Items
6. I go to "File Sharing" in the Preferences and activate SMB sharing for both users
7. I delete all previous shares
8. I add the Disk and use the proposed permissions which are admin RW, parental R, Everyone "no access"
9. I add the Temp folder and use the proposed permissions which are admin RW, parental RW, Everyone "no access" - Funny, there is a new Group called "Temp" created which has custom access on both sharepoints
10. I connect to the mac over a Windows machine (NTLM auth set appropriatly). Now I try to create a folder on the root of the Disk share, I get a denied message.
BUT WHEN I GO INTO A SUBFOLDER (eg. ITUNES or IPHOTO), WHICH HAS ALSO JUST "R" PERMISSION FOR THE PARENTAL USER, I AM ABLE TO RW, DELETE AND DO EVERYTHING!!!
TO RECAPITULATE: THE SHARING PERMISSIONS ARE "R", AND THE FILE PERMISSIONS IN THE RESPECTIVE FOLDERS FOR THE RESPECTIVE USER ARE ALSO JUST "R". BUT THE USER CAN DO EVERYTHING IN THE SUBFOLDERS!!!

Safari issues with Tabs, Video, and Java

Hi. I updated to Lion and Safari 5.1 and did all the software updates. I have a MacBook from 2008. For some reason, I am having a lot of issues with Safari. I hope someone knows what I am doing wrong.
1. Every time I open Safari after I turn on my computer or it wakes up from sleep, I have to do an internet test to get the computer to realize I am still connected to my house WiFi.
2. The computer goes to sleep after 30 secs. Can I change this somehow?
3. I cannot open any videos from YouTube or vidoes my friends have posted on Facebook.
4. I used to be able to drag a link over an existing tab and it would automatically go there. Now I have to drag it to the + sign to get it to open. (command click still works)
5. I tried to check my plug-ins to see if that was the problem. I put all of my internet plug-ins in the trash and added them one by one. Safari seemed to work a lot faster, but then as soon as it went to sleep, I had the same issues. Also, I can't find Java anymore (not in my trash, didn't delete anything from the trash) and I did the java test on a website and it's not showing what it's supposed to. All the software updates say it is fine, but obviously it isn't.
I know this is a lot of stuff, and most of it is probably due to me not really understanding how my mac works. I've been looking through the forums to see if anyone else has all of these issues; after an hour and a half of reading discussions, I gave up. Any advice would be really appreciated. Thank you.

So, while waiting for some help, I've been continuing my own research.
3. It turned out that it wasn't Java messing with my videos. I just needed version 10,3,181,34 of Adobe Flash and now all videos are working. Hope that helps if anyone else was having similar issues. Here's the link if you need to find out which version you have: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
4. It turns out that there are several other discussions regarding people who can't drag and drop links into Tabs on Safari. My solution was to write to Apple to ask if they can put that feature back in.
5. I'm not sure if I am still having Java issues, but so far everything I am needing to upload and watch is fine.
One and two are still annoying, so I'll continue to look for solutions. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate them. Hope this helps someone as much as it helped me. I don't want to throw my computer against a wall every 5 seconds now.

Hello...after upgrading to firefox 6 i'm having issues with some websites and would like to go back to firefox 5. can i do this and if so how? thanks

ever since firefox updated to version six i am having some issues with games on facebook and also loading several sites. i'm getting a lot of time outs. i would like to go back to firefox 5. please advise

Sorry, Swanarva, It didn't work as it was supposed to. I downloaded, saved file, clicked the download to open, clicked 'run' then got an error message that it couldn't find the file(!) . No idea what happened or why. Should I have uninstalled Firefox first, then downloaded Firefox 8 using another browser or downloaded, uninstalled Firefox 09 beta then tried installing Firefox 8?
At this rate, IE is looking good, despite its shortcomings.

Firefox 4 issue with certain websites and mp3s

Downloaded Firefox 4 for my Mac 10.6.7. I'm no longer able to watch certain videos (like those at adultswim.com) or listen to mp3s. Know this has to do with plugins, but I can't figure out which ones are the issue.

Hi Fred-
I tried your suggestion, and both the sites I mention above loaded without issue. But I think hardware acceleration was already off:
When I went into the advanced preferences in safe mode, hardware acceleration was unchecked, which, according to the FF guidance I saw on safe mode, is the default in that mode. When I then relaunched FF in normal mode, acceleration was still unchecked. So unless starting in safe mode turned off the acceleration and that setting carried over to normal mode, I'm assuming it wasn't on in the first place.
Because the issue only occurs on a few sites, I'm assuming it is sloppy web design as opposed to a browser problem. I wonder if the issue could be related to the problem sites using Java or Flash, or some script that stymies Firefox, but I don't know how to check that.
The thing that bothers me is that the browser causes the whole system to hang while it struggles with loading the site. I'm no expert, but I don't think that should happen in a four-core, 2.8 GHz system with 6 GB of RAM.
--Eric

Security issue with NetStream.appendBytes() and BitmapData.draw()

Iuse appendBytes to continuously and seamlessly stream video data into a netStream. since we're NOT playing the video files directly from a web domain, there is no meaning to the checkPolicyFile property of our netStream object and therefore - we cannot BitmapData.draw() our Video instance with the netStream attached.
Is there any possibility to get images from the netStream in order to manipulate them on-the-fly?

I ran into the same problem. Have you managed to find a solution to get around the security violation?

Issue with Internet Explorer and Java Plug-in

Hi, I have a problem here and I hope someone knows whats going on. I have installed the Java Plug-in 1.4.0_01 and I have no problems using the plugin from Netscape.
Now when i try to load the applets using IE, it will not use the Sun plug-in that is installed. I have selected both IE and Netscape in the Java Plug-in Control Panel and IE still does not want to use the plug-in.
Is their a way to force IE to use the plugin?
Thanks!!
Alain

The HTML converter creates a wrong classid,
in opposite, the one in the (online) documention works!!
See
http://www.hemmerling.com/html/en/hvanity.html
applet-style:
http://www.hemmerling.com/html/en/hvanity5.html
plugin-style:
http://www.hemmerling.com/html/en/hvanity6.html

Security issue with the SGA and multiple installation group.

Hi,
Documentation ARE WRONG:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/rac.112/e10743/preparing.htm#TDPRC131
# useradd -u 1100 –g oinstall -G dba -d /home/oracle -r oracle
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e10816/typinstl.htm#CWSOL156
# useradd -u 1100 -g oinstall -G dba oracle
The "-g" and "-G" must be exchange!
In an advanced installation with multiple Oracle users call them ( ora1, ..., orai, ..., oran )
with multiple OSdba group defined users call them ( dba1, ..., dbai, ..., dban)
Associate each oracle user to a dba group with the same number and the install group as oracle told it.
User ora1 group dba1
User orai group dbai
User oran group dban
Now make the software installationS with the group OSinstall ( install) as written in the documentation, in 3 Oracle_home
Call the oracle_home1, oracle_home2, oracle_home3
Now check semaphores, Sharedmemory and files!
ipcs -msa
IPC status from <running system> as of Thu Apr 29 12:14:06 CEST 2010
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NATTCH SEGSZ CPID LPID ATIME DTIME CTIME
Shared Memory:
m 16777246 0x6525858 rw-rw-- oracle2 install oracle2 install 36 5368725504 3479 4298 12:10:01 12:10:31 16:30:45
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NSEMS OTIME CTIME
Semaphores:
s 50331701 0xb7892c1a ra-ra-- oracle2 install oracle2 install 202 16:30:47 16:30:45
s 50331700 0xb7892c19 ra-ra-- oracle2 install oracle2 install 202 no-entry 16:30:45
s 50331699 0xb7892c18 ra-ra-- oracle2 install oracle2 install 202 12:13:48 16:30:45
ls -l $OSD/oradata/*/*/* | sed s/oracle/oracle2/
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 11600384 Apr 14 18:30 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/changetracking/o1_mf_5wcsdcfh_.chg
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 11600384 Apr 15 15:08 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/changetracking/o1_mf_5wf7787k_.chg
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 11600384 Apr 29 13:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/changetracking/o1_mf_5wg8jggf_.chg
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 16695296 Apr 29 13:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/controlfile/o1_mf_5wg4j9go_.ctl
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 524296192 Apr 29 03:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_aud__dol_5wg4mntr_.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 104865792 Apr 29 03:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_aud__dol_5wg4mp3v_.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 209723392 Apr 29 03:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_example_5wg4ml5z_.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 419438592 Apr 29 13:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_stat_dba_5wg4mmhg_.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 2097160192 Apr 29 13:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_sys_undo_5wg4kf8n_.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 2097160192 Apr 29 03:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_sys_undo_5wg4lss2_.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 1363156992 Apr 29 13:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_sysaux_5wg4k1xf_.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 1048584192 Apr 29 13:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_system_5wg4jp26_.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 209723392 Apr 28 22:01 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_temp0_5wg4l302_.tmp
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 209723392 Apr 15 16:06 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_temp1_5wg4lsod_.tmp
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 104865792 Apr 29 03:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/datafile/o1_mf_users_5wg4l33f_.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 104858112 Apr 29 13:05 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/onlinelog/o1_mf_1_5wg4jb44_.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 104858112 Apr 28 21:00 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/onlinelog/o1_mf_2_5wg4jdn6_.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 104858112 Apr 28 22:00 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/onlinelog/o1_mf_3_5wg4jgw8_.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 104858112 Apr 29 03:00 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/onlinelog/o1_mf_4_5wg4jk64_.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle2 install 104858112 Apr 29 13:01 /app1/oracle/admin/ora11g/oradata/ORA11G/onlinelog/o1_mf_5_5wg4jmcd_.log
ls -l $OH/bin/oracle | sed s/oracle/oracle2/
-rwsr-s--x 1 oracle2 install 256263032 Apr 14 13:54 /app1/oracle/product/11.2.0_64/db_1/bin/oracle*
That the evidence the documentation provide you a wrong way to do it!
François LANGE

The right document syntax for this is:
UNIX: Do I Need To Use The "oinstall" Group? (Doc ID 463052.1)
FRançois

Any security issues with My MSN or outlook bookmarks

any security issues with My Msn and Outlook as bookmarks

Your question is not quite clear, and no Mac can iOS, but anything and everything made by or for Microsoft carries a security risk.
Which is why most sensible people run Apple OS X.

Using latest version of fireFox to access Think Central, pages will not load and they say that this is a security issue with FireFox?

Teachers in our district are supposed to use www.thinkcentral.com with FireFox.
Some have no problem accessing the lesson plans.
Most when they login click on a lesson plan and an icon shows up that says loading but never does.
If you reboot the computer and login you can open a page once but not a second time and no other lessons will open.
Think Central support says this is a security issue with Firefox.
I have updated FireFox, all the Adobe, Reader, Flash, Air and Shockwave. As well as Java.
I have allowed the pop ups to the think Central web site.
Any help would be appreciated

Are there any notification icons on the left end of the address bar? If so, please click them to see whether they related to security issues (such as blocked content - shield icon: [[How does content that isn't secure affect my safety?]]) or a plugin requiring permission (Lego-like icon).
Does Think Central have any help pages about this issue? Without an account, it is difficult to explore the issue first-hand.

Safari cannot create secure connection with certain websites

I have OS X 10.10 with every available updates, and Safari's currently unable to 'establish secure connection' with some site I'm trying to connect, most disturbing being the whole Steam network (store/support.steampowered.com, steamcommunity.com, etc). IE (via Bootcamp), Chrome (both standalone and integrated into Steam client) and Firefox have no problem doing so.
Considering sometime before the in Steam browser indicated the site as insecure (a red lock icon with a cross, typically used to indicate bad cert) for a short time, and hearing of certs issued to gov agencies for man in the middle, I compared the cert for store.steampowered.com/login (which, in contrary to most content on that domain, forces a secure connection) and this discussions.apple.com. Well Firefox and IE do show a normal grey lock icon without organization name, and Chrome admits the website's ownership is unverified (in details, it says ownership is verified by the CA but there's no public verification record; the secure setting of that site has outdated, too) despite having Valve's name and green lock icon. So the cert could be a fake since it's an ordinary (I guess?) cert from a EV authority (DigiCert High Assurance EV CA-1 in this case). The certificate shown from Chrome is totally fine (not a single red cross in the chain), though.
Well there're other https resources Safari fails to create a secure connection with every now and then. I just forgot/ am unable to test them with other browsers (Sometimes it's not the page itself that can't be retrieved via https, but some resource it loads. Sadly I only know how to use Inspector in Safari, though I'm sure other browsers have similar functions, too). I suspect Safari just refuses such certificates (or the AES_128_CBC method maybe) while other browsers accept it. Is there an override for this?
Weird enough, https://ev-root.digicert.com/ has grey lock on Firefox and Safari. Seems overriding is the only workaround.
As a side note, my Safari freezes upon loading PayPal, being ir-responsive for tens of seconds on every activity such as clicking a link. For most of duration of the freeze no high CPU usage is monitored, though ocspd does sometimes take 50% or so, and the web process bursts into 100% immediately before unfreezing. Guess Yosemite has some issues with TLS on the system level.

This could be a complicated problem to solve, as there are several possible causes for it.
Back up all data, then take each of the following steps that you haven't already taken. Stop when the problem is resolved.
Step 1
From the menu bar, select
           ▹ System Preferences... ▹ Date & Time
Select the Time Zone tab in the preference pane that opens and check that the time zone matches your location. Then select the Date & Time tab. Check that the data and time shown (including the year) are correct, and correct them if not.
Check the box marked
          Set date and time automatically
if it's not already checked, and select one of the Apple time servers from the menu next to it.
Step 2
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/System/Library/Keychains/SystemCACertificates.keychain
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
          Services ▹ Show Info
from the contextual menu.* An Info dialog should open. The dialog should show "You can only read" in the Sharing & Permissions section.
Repeat with this line:
/System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain
If instead of the Info dialog, you get a message that either file can't be found, reinstall OS X.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Open a TextEdit window and paste into it by pressing command-V. Select the line you just pasted and continue as above.
Step 3
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
In the upper left corner of the window, you should see a list headed Keychains. If not, click the button in the lower left corner that looks like a triangle inside a square.
In the Keychains list, there should be items named System and System Roots. If not, select
          File ▹ Add Keychain
from the menu bar and add the following items:
/Library/Keychains/System.keychain
/System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain
Open the View menu in the menu bar. If one of the items in the menu is
          Show Expired Certificates
select it. Otherwise it will show
          Hide Expired Certificates
which is what you want.
From the Category list in the lower left corner of the window, select Certificates. Look carefully at the list of certificates in the right side of the window. If any of them has a blue-and-white plus sign or a red "X" in the icon, double-click it. An inspection window will open. Click the disclosure triangle labeled Trust to disclose the trust settings for the certificate. From the menu labeled
          Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
select
          no value specified
Close the inspection window. You'll be prompted for your administrator password to update the settings.
Now open the same inspection window again, and select
          When using this certificate: Use System Defaults
Save the change in the same way as before.
Revert all the certificates with non-default trust settings. Never again change any of those settings.
Step 4
Select My Certificates from the Category list. From the list of certificates shown, delete any that are marked with a red X as expired or invalid.
Export all remaining certificates, delete them from the keychain, and reimport. For instructions, select
          Help ▹ Keychain Access Help
from the menu bar and search for the term "export" in the help window. Export each certificate as an individual file; don't combine them into one big file.
Step 5
From the menu bar, select
          Keychain Access ▹ Preferences... ▹ Certificates
There are three menus in the window. Change the selection in the top two to Best attempt, and in the bottom one to CRL.
Step 6
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it:
/var/db/crls
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
          Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
A folder named "crls" should open. Move all the files in that folder to the Trash. You’ll be prompted for your administrator login password.
Restart the computer, empty the Trash, and test.
Step 7
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
open -e /etc/hosts
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting. A TextEdit window should open. At the top of the window, you should see this:
# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1                              localhost
255.255.255.255          broadcasthost
::1                                        localhost
fe80::1%lo0                    localhost
If that's not what you see, post the contents of the window.

Security issues with Lion

Anyone know what the real deal is with OS X Lion security. I've heard lots of things about how the recent Blackhat conference in Las Vegas said that Apple's security was not as good as Windows 7's. Anyone know anything about this? Thanks in advance for any feedback or input.

JB2909 wrote:
I've downloaded Java for OS X Lion 2012-001 to fix the security issues with Java but when I open it to install it gives me an error message saying don't open it as it has a disk image issue (?) and may make my computer less secure or cause other issues? I don't understand why it would cause security risks when it is supposed to be a patch to fix them?! Is it safe to go ahead and open/install?
Could that be why Apple has released Java for OS X Lion 2012-002 here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1515 ?

Issues with Exchange Account and Q10

Well, I hate to be writing this, but I'm hoping that there might be someone out there that can help get past some first day issues I am experiencing.
The background: I have a long history with legacy BlackBerry devices, and almost as much history with iOS devices. My most recent phone was an iPhone 4S, and I make extensive use of iCloud to keep my iMacs, iPhone, and iPad connected in real-time. The setup worked. It wasn't perfect, but it worked. However, because I used to have a BlackBerry device (most recent the 9930) and because I don't use the iPhone for more than e-mail, iMessage, and phone calls (generally speaking), I decided to give the newest BlackBerry device a shot. So I bought a Q10.
At this point I feel compelled to say that the hardware is everything I had hoped it to be. It's solid, has a good weight, and appears to be made very well. I have no complaints with the hardware, including the keyboard (a big selling factor for me), so I won't really get into the hardware as the issues I am experiencing all have to do with the OS. Let me also say that I am very familiar with the iCloud integration issues (missing Contact photos and disabled Calendar sync), so I'm not voicing a complaint over those issues in this thread.
I have connected my Exchange account. I used to have everything in Exchange before I moved my entire computing world over to Apple, and now I keep Exchange around for e-mail. Therefore, I have no contacts, no tasks, no notes, very limited calendar entries, and a massive amount of e-mail on the Exchange server. However, to test everything out, I have added a single contact record so I can see it show up on the phone and be able to test two-way sync between the Q10 and Exchange. And here is where the first issues crop up. It looks like Exchange connects and then disconnects at random. For example, if I open my Contacts on the phone, I see the one contact (called John Doe). Then, as the phone is sitting there with the screen on, the contact will disappear and I will see a "Start adding contact to your contact list" notice on the screen. Then, after a short period of time, the single contact will return. It is important to note that the entire time this is happening, the All Contacts option is selected in the list so that all available contacts are shown. Additionally, I have SIM card contacts turned off, but if I alter the selection in the view list (All Contacts, Favorites, etc.), the SIM contacts will re-appear when I return to the All Contacts view. At the same time, even though I have turned off SIM Contacts in the settings, the setting has reverted to show SIM Contacts. If I turn off the setting again, SIM Contacts still show up. Possibly related: I can't delete contacts on the SIM card, no matter how many times I try, and it now it seems that I can't get SIM Contacts to go away in the Contacts app.
Likewise, Exchange seems to connect and disconnect from Calendar. I go to the calendar and move day by day to June 15th. I see an entry that I know is from Exchange (I have no other connected calendars at this time), and it is in blue. I change the calendar color to green and the entry changes color, as expected. However, if I jump back to today and then scroll day by day to get to June 15th again, the calendar entry is missing. After a few seconds, the entry re-appears, but it is, once again, in blue. The setting has reverted itself, and it seems like Exchange is completely disconnecting and automatically reconnecting to the phone like I am setting it up again for the first time. Very odd. As I'm typing this, I just saw something odd. I swiped to wake up the phone, and the active frames screen was the visible screen. The calendar app is still running (since I left it running, minimized, when the phone went to sleep) and the date shown in the active card was Jan 1, not Jun 8. Why? The date (and time) on the phone is correct and is set automatically by the cellular system.
Nevertheless, looking at BlackBerry Hub, I see only two e-mails in my Inbox from Exchange, even though I have roughly a dozen in my Inbox. The rest are filed in sub-folders. And bam! Just like that... I get the "Add Accounts" screen while looking at the Hub. In other words, as I was typing this, I first saw two Exchange e-mails and then, out of nowhere, the e-mails disappear and I see the "Add Accounts" screen as if no account has been connected.
So... first question: Is anyone else experiencing this issue? This is very strange, and very frustrating. Second: could this be related to the large amount of e-mails I have stored on Exchange, some of which have large attachments? I selected "Forever" as the sync history length. I have my concerns, however, if this is related to loading historical e-mails onto the phone (in other words, the first sync with Exchange) because there is no reason that I can understand that the phone would blank out as if no account was connected at all. I can understand lag and stuttering while the history is syncing, but not a complete disconnect and reconnect. Considering all of the issues with the one and only contact record disappearing, the calendar entry for Jun 15th disappearing and then reappearing with the wrong calendar color, and e-mail in my Inbox incomplete (two of a dozen e-mails) and ultimately disappearing, I feel like this OS just has some real, significant issues.
Full disclosure: I do want iCloud to work and am a fan of Apple products, but the lack of full iCloud sync support is not a big enough issue for me to want to send back this phone and/or see it fail so miserably. I will happily move my info from iCloud into Exchange, Google, and/or set up a new Exchange account for personal use (Office 365) because I am not wedded to iCloud per se. But, I won't go through that trouble if I can't even get my first account to work properly. It should also be noted that I do have a basic Google account (non-paid) and I had previously attempted to connect to it. However, I was experiencing the exact same issues with contacts disappearing, e-mail disappearing, etc. So I deleted that account. Truth be told, I deleted the Exchange account as well, and then re-connected to Exchange only to test one account at a time. Unfortunately, even with Exchange only, I am seeing very strange and frustrating behavior as described above.
Help... please. I want this to work but the frustration I am feeling is growing worse by the hour.
Model: SQN100-2
OS Release: 10.1.0.2011
OS Version: 10.1.0.2038
Build ID: 525050
Ian

To follow-up with this issue:
I ended up performing a security wipe on my device. The security wipe finished, and I was about to reconnect with Exchange when I decided to visit our host's web site to see if they had any articles covering the issues I was experiencing. While they didn't have anything specific, I did find a step-by-step guide to connecting a BB10 device to Exchange... and right there at the end, it said "Do NOT enable memo sync."
I contacted support, and the rep told me that OS 10 has an issue with memo sync and it can cause all sorts of unpredictable behavior. Now, whether or not this is accurate I can say this: So far, the device is not disconnecting and reconnecting like it was before. Problem is, is this a result of not enabling memo sync, or is this a result of the security wipe?
I may have overlooked it, but I don't recall reading anything about that anywhere else. I'm tempted to try re-enabling the memo sync to see if everything blows up again. At least that way I can see for myself if the memo sync is a real issue. Of course, perhaps it's an issue with SherWeb (our host) specifically. Hm...
Anyway, for those that were interested, and for those that may come along in the future with a similar situation, the strange behavior that I first reported is no longer happening. I just don't know if it was a result of a security wipe or a result of not enabling memo sync with Exchange.
Ian

Issues with iCloud synchronisation and contacts over two or more devices. iTouch and iPad2 sync with different results from iMac. Thoughts?

Has any one experienced issues with iCloud synchronisation and contacts over two or more devices? The primary machine is an iMac running Lion. Address Book was created from vcf file (backup of address book prior to moving to iCloud). iTouch replicates Contacts just fine and matches the Address Book on the iMac. The iPad 2 does not showing only 123 contacts where there should be 200. I have turned off iCloud on both devices thus erasing the iCloud content of both devices and staring from scratch with both devices with identical results. Even turned off iCloud on the iMac and erased the Address Book and rebuilt with the same results. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I am going nuts.....

To follow-up with this issue:
I ended up performing a security wipe on my device. The security wipe finished, and I was about to reconnect with Exchange when I decided to visit our host's web site to see if they had any articles covering the issues I was experiencing. While they didn't have anything specific, I did find a step-by-step guide to connecting a BB10 device to Exchange... and right there at the end, it said "Do NOT enable memo sync."
I contacted support, and the rep told me that OS 10 has an issue with memo sync and it can cause all sorts of unpredictable behavior. Now, whether or not this is accurate I can say this: So far, the device is not disconnecting and reconnecting like it was before. Problem is, is this a result of not enabling memo sync, or is this a result of the security wipe?
I may have overlooked it, but I don't recall reading anything about that anywhere else. I'm tempted to try re-enabling the memo sync to see if everything blows up again. At least that way I can see for myself if the memo sync is a real issue. Of course, perhaps it's an issue with SherWeb (our host) specifically. Hm...
Anyway, for those that were interested, and for those that may come along in the future with a similar situation, the strange behavior that I first reported is no longer happening. I just don't know if it was a result of a security wipe or a result of not enabling memo sync with Exchange.
Ian

Just wondering what Apple's stand is on the issue with a flickering and a dark area appearing on imac 27"screen - forums seem to indicate this is not uncommon - and happens through normal use - so should be subject to repair (Sale of Goods Act - 6 years)

Just wondering what Apple's stand is on the issue with a flickering and a dark area appearing on imac 27"screen - forums seem to indicate this is not uncommon - and happens through normal use - so should be subject to repair (Sale of Goods Act - ie 6 year warranty)

We are just users like yourself. If Apple has stated publicly about the problems you mentioned, it will be listed on their website and/or in one of their Knowledge Base Articles.
I have a 27" & do not suffer from such a problem. You should keep in mind that these are technical support forums. Generally, the only people posting here are those with problems. The thousands/millions without problems don't ever come here.
Think of these forums as a hospital emergency room.

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