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How Should I Uninstall Intego Personal Backup from macOS?

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  Today we are going to answer the question bellow, how exactly can you successfully uninstall Intego Personal Backup from macOS and Mac OS X: JC said in AppleDiscussions blog: "My MacBook came with a file backup application called 'Personal Backup X3 which was set to save system files et al every 24 hrs at 8pm. When I installed Time Machine this app became redundant and I dragged the folder to the Trash bin. However, the application still runs and annoyingly I get reminder every day at 8pm that I cannot find the appropriate folder into which to save the files. I have done a search thru' Finder and the Applications folder specifically to try and find any remaining elements of the Personal Backup X3 files/software, but to completely no avail. Any ideas please." In this case, the user of this MacBook apparently can’t uninstall Intego Personal Backup very easily, let’s review what he have done in order to remove Personal Backup from a Mac computer.

AMD launches Spectre Patch for its Own Processor

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While Intel is at the center of the Spectre/Meltdown fiasco, AMD's chips are also affected by the CPU flaws. Though AMD insisted Meltdown Flaw pose little threat to their own products and are likely to be protected from Spectre due to the architecture. That's largely because, as the chipmaker explained an initial statement, there is a " near zero risk " to its processors. Still, AMD launches Spectre patch updates for its Ryzen and EPYC chips this week. "We have defined additional steps through a combination of processor microcode updates and OS patches that we will make available to AMD customers and partners to further mitigate the threat,” AMD's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster said in a blog post on the official site in reference to Spectre. At present, Linux vendors have also rolled out fixes. For Variant 1 , Mark shares some detail about how AMD is handling Spectre in the blog : We believ