Get rid of persistent search bar in Cm 11--KitKat Android 4.4 and higher

On the Home Screen, you press and hold the screen, until the "wallpapers/widgets/themes" options come out. When that happens, press the three dots that look like an arrow, it will open another menu with lots of options to change. There, the first option you can change is the Search Bar, turn it off. Press the three dots again to minimize the menu, hit back and that's it.

Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit free tool

Go to this page  HERE  to read about it and my suggestion is to download the free version and keep it
running on your system...

Page down on that page till you see Free Download greyed out...click on it and it will give you the
file....

install that one....

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Another vulnerability has been found....wow the Internet as we know it is sure not safe anymore no matter how secure we think we are!

So to be as safe as possible make sure everything is up to date on your browsers....

and use this tool to check them to make sure!

(PS...stay away from IE till Microsoft patch comes out)  Firefox is safe as long as updated)

Latest Info from Microsoft HERE

Click on link below to test each browser running on your PC.

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