10 resolutions for New Year 2012

All of us take resolutions in the new year. What is followed and what will be left out are points of discussion beyond this post, however, most of us make resolutions. Here is a list of resolutions you can take this new year. If you hold on to it, better it is. I will use [...]

Who is selling your email address?

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It is very common that people get spam emails. The filters are GMail, Yahoo, hotmail etc… does a wonderful job to categories most of the spam mails and normally will not deliver in the inbox. Still you will get a bunch of them if you are using your email in all the subscription forms found [...]

BitDefender Internet Security 2011 – Review

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BitDefender Internet Security suite is one among the best Internet Security solutions. It comes with features such as anti-virus, anti-malware, parent control, email filtering etc… We tested it against known malware, phishing sites, junk emails etc… We summarize our review as below: Pros: Very good overall protection, False positives are very limited, Very friendly user [...]

How to enable YouTube in Tor

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Tor is widely used for online anonymity. Tor helps its users in evading the tracking mechanisms of the internet and thus providing acceptable levels of anonymity. To ensure the anonymity while using internet, the IP tracking applications (which needs direct communication to the PC)are by default disabled in Tor. These includes flash based files. This [...]

Trojan Horse – An Insight

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Trojans! Virus! Worms! Well all of them are roaming around in the network to find their prey. Learn more about the Trojan in brief in this article. This article talks about what a trojan is, how it works and what you can do to protect yourself.

PC Antivirus Protection

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For virus protection you need antivirus. It protects your computer against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other malware. Here is a list of free antivirus’ available, which I have used in the past. Avira Antivir Antivirus It is free antivirus for personal and non commercial use. It protects the computer against viruses, worms and Trojans. [...]

Web based password managers

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Use of passwords are on the rise as we have so many web sites like web based emails, social and business network sites, web applications, e-commerce sites, online banking sites, online trading sites, file sharing sites, airline sites and many more out there in the wild internet To protect your user accounts in these sites, [...]

Tor project for Online anonymity

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Many times we need to be anonymous on the internet. It might be for business, political or just personal reasons. There are many mechanisms around in the internet to keep your anonymity. Most of these are using internet proxies. What if you are being watched by the ISPs thru which you are passing to the [...]

How to boot in safe mode

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Safe mode is another method for booting in operating systems, where it is easier to diagnose problems. Only the most essential files and drivers that are needed to load the operating system would be started. If a new software was installed and there are some errors throwing up and if we want to find why [...]

Geotagging and Privacy

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The article talks about the geotagging and its privacy issues.

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