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5 Cоmрutеr Tірѕ Tо Sесurе Yоur Cоmрutеr Frоm Vіruѕ Attасkѕ

Amrik Virdi — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:27:29 +0000

Tаkіng раrt іn соmрutеr ѕесurіtіеѕ mеаѕurеѕ ѕuрроѕе tо bе рrасtісеѕ thаt еvеrуbоdу thаt hаvе а соmрutеr muѕt tаkе раrt іn еvеrу tіmе bесаuѕе fаіlurе tо dо іt саn rеѕult іn ѕоmеthіng bаd lаtеr. On dаіlу bаѕіѕ, dіffеrеnt соmрutеrѕ gеt bаd duе tо vіruѕ аttасkѕ еіthеr frоm thе іntеrnеt оr rіght оn thе соmрutеr іtѕеlf аnd [...]

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Firefox Nightly Build Permission Manager:Browse with Better Privacy Control

Tanmay — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:08:56 +0000

Did you ever think about the privacy and security of your web accounts and social networking profiles? Websites as well as the web applications collect browsing data from your computer which may be a real threat for privacy and security. Any one can collect the website list that you browse every day or find out [...]

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Activate a Mobile Phone for Facebook Account to Recieve Notification at Phone

Tanmay — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:57:43 +0000

Since the launch of Facebook, the Facebook engineers are trying to make it more featured and secured. If you are using Facebook for a long time, you might be noticing that they have consequently rolled out some features like Facebook login email alert, Facebook Question etc for better security and user experiences. One good thing [...]

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How to Setup Facebook Login Approvals: A Two Step Verification Method

Tanmay — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:45:04 +0000

Facebook launched two step verification for Facebook accounts and this feature is called Facebook “Login Approvals”. This is a follow-up security update regarding Facebook Login from Facebook. They have already integrated Facebook login email alerts to get notification emails or SMS messages whenever a suspicious person uses your Facebook account from a different location. But [...]

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How to Set Up Google’s 2-Step Verification For 2-tier Security Of Your Google Account

Tanmay — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:39:56 +0000

Today, Email has taken the place of letter which was earlier used by everyone. We use email to send or receive information in on daily basis. Sometimes, we send private information through the email, but in today’s world this is not secure your information. Your email account may be hacked by someone, because only the [...]

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7 Tips To Secure Your Website

Tanmay — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:02:28 +0000

In an age where hacking is prominent in the web space, one has to take steps in order to protect your web hosting account so that your efforts it doesn’t land up in the wrong hands. So, let’s check out some ways with which you can easily secure your web hosting account. Update with the [...]

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Encrypt Hard Drive, USB Drive in Windows 7 by BitLocker

Tanmay — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:58:06 +0000

BitLocker drive encryption is an inbuilt windows 7 security feature. BitLocker encryption lets you to protect data in a hard drive or any removable drive( Usb flash drives or external hard drives) by encryption. It’s quite easy but secured way to keep away your personal files or folders from being accessed by a third person. [...]

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A Complete Guide of Gmail Security

Tanmay — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:58:05 +0000

Gmail is one of the most popular free mail services from Google. In the present days, so many important and official contacts are made through Gmail. So you have to strongly secure your Gmail account, that’s why no one can enter in your Gmail account. Here, I’ve listed some important Gmail security tips which would [...]

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How to Save Your Facebook Account From Hackers

Tanmay — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:35:39 +0000

So if you are in Facebook and use Facebook for your business purpose, you know how important is your Facebook account. You must be alerted about the hackers who are consistently trying to hack Facebook accounts. They uses various black hat methods to get access of your account. When they succeed to do so, they [...]

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Setup Facebook Login Email Alerts to Secure Your Facebook Account

Tanmay — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:19:31 +0000

Those who use the public computer in a Cyber cafe or use a Wi-Fi network for internet connection to access Facebook account should be always careful about their Facebook account security. The situation may be that you’ve forgot to log-out from Facebook after accessing from a shared computer. The person who uses that computer at [...]

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BitDefender Safego Protects Facebook Profile

Tanmay — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:48:08 +0000

Facebook is a popular social networking site and most of us spend a lot of time on it interacting with our friends and posting on their walls.But at times these might lead to malware and spam which can steal your personal informations. BitDefender safego is a free Facebook application which you can download which scans [...]

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Secure Private Folders Making Inaccessible and Undeletable [Screencast]

Tanmay — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:44:37 +0000

You can secure your confidential data by keeping in a folder that is inaccessible and undeletable. Here is the video tutorial of how to make a folder inaccessible and undeletable by command prompt. In this tutorial we have used a command prompt tricks to make a folder inaccessible and undeletable and also to get back [...]

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How to Verify Fake or Invalid Email Addresses

Tanmay — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:23:16 +0000

Fake email addresses can be some time used for stilling your confidential data. So it is obvious that you always check the sender’s email address before clicking any link of the email content or replying that email as that may contain malicious application link and other hacking related stuffs. Suppose you want to verify the [...]

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How To Disable Facebook Places In Easy Steps

Tanmay — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:20:50 +0000

Facebook feature called “Places” app enables you send your whereabouts to your friends. If you are a private person like me and don’t want to share your location updates with your friends then you need to follow some easy steps to disable it or manage the Facebook Places. 1. Log-in to your Facebook Account, click [...]

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Change Photo Tagging Settings To Keep your Facebook Account Safe & Secure

Tanmay — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:23:37 +0000

Facebook is an addiction to most and if you have lots of friends, it might happen that some of your friends tag you in photos/videos, and you don’t want to be in some of them for your Facebook security and privacy. When you are tagged in a photo, it allows others also to see who [...]

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How to protect yourself on a Social networking site

Tanmay — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:34:31 +0000

Do you know that potential employers are now scanning social networking sites to know more about their applicants? You should be aware of this fact so you can use it to your advantage in this explosive age of computer technology. If your online integrity is damaged by your slapdash posting of updates in these networking [...]

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5 Facebook Security Tips To Safeguard Facebook Account

Tanmay — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:15:11 +0000

Do you think your Facebook account is safe or your privacy is protected from the folks? If not then you should take some immediate actions to safeguard your Facebook account security and privacy. Here are 5 awesome tips on Facebook security. 1. Log-in to a public computer using Facebook One Time Passwords For better Security: [...]

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Share Your Video Privately With VidMe

Tanmay — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:42:00 +0000

YouTube happens to be the most preferable site when we are talking about any video sharing network. But YouTube can not provide proper privacy and security all the time, because every user has the access to view and download your shared video. Here we introduce an another video sharing network VidMe where you can get [...]

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Endow the Anti Phishing Feature in Gmail

Tanmay — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:15:16 +0000

Standing on the present platform of today one uses Emails for conversation, chatting, business and professional matters and even in the field of money transfer. As far as the custom of online money transfer is concerned Paypal and Ebay occupy a significant position. [Quickly Recover Your Google Account Password Through SMS Message.] Regarding money transfer [...]

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Hide Your Personal Files and Folders in Linux

Tanmay — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:19:17 +0000

The term “Linux” symbolizes security. Because of its never before witnessed high level of security, Linux is “the” operating system platform that is preferred by users globally, for whom making his system secure holds the utmost of priorities. Be it a virus threat or the system’s internal workings, any Linux based operating system boasts of [...]

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Adopt Windows 7 Firewall Control to Manage Firewall Better

Tanmay — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:23:33 +0000

We have reached a point where we have no other option but to connect our computers to various networks for the sake of our profession as well as in regard of our personal use. Moreover, computers, nowadays, are mapped onto each other to such an extent that makes the firewall an utmost necessary entity in [...]

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10 Things You Must Apply to Secure Your WordPress Blog

Tanmay — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:16:24 +0000

WordPress is the most used blogging platform in the world. World’s top blogs like Tech Crunch, Mashable etc. use WordPress as platform. The main reason behind that is WordPress provides a well structured and secured blogging interface for you. But hackers are not spending their holidays. They are also trying to hack the WordPress blogs [...]

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Secure Data by Hiding the Partition in Windows Command Prompt

Tanmay — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:16:29 +0000

Securing confidential is so essential and there are many ways or tools to hide your data in Windows computer. Numbers of ways have been described in some previous articles in Tech-Tips-Geek. Here is another addition. And believe me, I personally use this process to hide my confidential data. Tip: Password Protect Folder Without Using Any [...]

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How to Operate User Account Control(UAC) in Windows 7

Tanmay — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:58:08 +0000

Using Microsoft Windows XP over a prolonged period of time may provoke some computer critics to say that Windows XP is no more secure. Microsoft, as always, in order to upgrade to better security, takes a look at the security issue in Windows 7 more deeply. User Account Control security policy was introduced in Windows [...]

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Block Access To A Website Without Any Software

Tanmay — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:39:20 +0000

The world of web is studded with millions of websites. Among these heaps of sites we, the common mass want some sites to be restricted for our own benefit. Some websites may be fake while others may have to be restricted due to age issues. Parents want to restrict some websites dealing explicitly with adult [...]

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Protect Windows XP by Locking with Your USB Drive

Tanmay — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:30:14 +0000

It is a very general problem faced by the general mass when our PC, which is supposed to be personal, is used many other people. It happens many a time that neither we can oppose them nor we can accept the scenario. For all those people, we come up with a nice and interesting trick. [...]

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Browse Without Leaving Any Records

Tanmay — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:30:32 +0000

Do you really want to browse privately? Suppose you are browsing some thing that you shouldn’t in office work. You may feel easy after erasing all the history of your browsing staffs in that computer by clearing the private data from the browser you are using. But don’t feel so easy. There is still remained [...]

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Password Protect Folder Without Using Any Software in Windows

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:14:23 +0000

It is very important to hide the confidential data in Windows. Some time the data which are really private need to be secured from the third-party. We have already discussed about the data hiding and file security in previous articles. But this one can take your data protection to a whole new level, a more [...]

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Clean Your Computer Removing Antivirus Live Application

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:51:47 +0000

Antivirus Live is a type of stupid anti-spyware application. This fake anti-virus applications ( Microsoft has released essential antivirus) are installed automatically through Trojans and various malicious software without the user consent ( Prevent your Computer from Virus Infection through the USB Drive ). It is automatically run, when you start your Windows. It also [...]

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Prevent Your Computer from Virus Infection Through The USB Drive

Tanmay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:24:53 +0000

USB device is now a very common device to travel data from computer to computer. As it is a faster and portable device and comes with a huge storage capability, people love it to use. As a result the risk of virus infection of your computer becomes very high when you insert any USB device [...]

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