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The reason why most computer malware are so deadly is because many users fail to recognize whether they have been infected or not. Had they detected the infection at an earlier stage, the damage caused could have been greatly reduced. As each virus is programmed differently, it becomes difficult to identify a virus outbreak. However, there are some general symptoms that make it easy to detect an infected computer. Here are some of them:- 1) Programs won't start or crash suddenly: If some system programs like the task manager or registry editor have suddenly stopped working or crash randomly without any visible reason, it is more than likely that your computer has got some form of worm that is attaching itself to various programs and thus, corrupting their code. A virus modifying registry entries to prevent these programs from running could also cause this. 2) Unusual Network Traffic: If even after closing your browser and other applications that may use the internet, you see th...

Seventy-nine percent of purchase decisions are influenced by online reviews – so it’s easy to see why businesses are so concerned about their reviews, and why some companies are willing to pay to get good ones. You don’t want biased reviews clouding your judgment, so here are six ways you can spot (and avoid) fake reviews with ease. 1) Check the Name The reviewer’s name can reveal a lot. If it’s more like a screen name than a real person, like Harvey88 rather than Harvey, consider it suspicious. If you happen to notice that the name is also very similar to the name of an important person in the company or to the name of the product itself, beware. 2) Check the Time If you see several good reviews in a row, check their timestamps. If the reviews were written very close together, especially within minutes of each other or in the same hour, they may have been written by the same person. It may also be a sign of fakeness if you see lot of reviews written at...

Did you know that the most unused feature on a smartphone is the phone itself? We just don’t call each other the way we used to. Instead we text, email, or Facebook to get in touch. This is the reason your phone doesn’t ring very often. When it does, you usually know who is calling you thanks to caller ID. Caller ID allows you to screen every phone call and only answer when you want to talk. If you don’t, you can ignore the call and return it when it’s more convenient to you. But what if just ignoring the call isn’t an option? Or what if you don’t know who is calling and you answer the phone only to find out that it’s someone you really don’t want to talk to? Here are some tips on how you can deal with unwanted phone calls. We all know what it’s like to have a telephone conversation with someone who just won’t shut up. We make polite comments of agreement like, “Mmhmm,” and “I see,” but we aren’t...

When you’re constantly on the move and rely on your laptop to perform when you most need it, you need to be sure that your battery won’t suddenly drain on you, leaving you in the lurch. If this sounds like a situation that you frequently find yourself in, perhaps you should look at upgrading to a laptop battery with a longer life. But if that step sounds a bit drastic, there may be a few things that you can do to prolong your battery’s power, when you don’t have access to a mains supply. Turn down the brightness of your screen Most modern laptops allow you to control the brightness of the screen. As you might expect, the brighter the screen, the more power is required. Dim the screen and you could find that your battery lasts a lot longer. Shut down programs that aren’t being used It’s often the case that you’ll have a number of programs running, yet you’re only using one or two of them. Although you might not see them running, they co...

Google Analytics can be one of your best friends when it comes to managing your website and understanding how well your campaigns perform. Most people don’t look further than the number of visitors, traffic sources and bounce rate, but there’s so much more to it – and these four tips can help you leverage this free tool to learn more about the people visiting your website, and to use those insights to improve its performance. 1) Connecting with Google Webmaster Tools For accessing a set of reports under the tab “Search Engine Optimization”, you need to connect your GA with GWT. To do that, go to Traffic sources->Search Engine Optimization->Queries and click on Edit in Webmaster Tools Settings. The new reports you’ll see (Queries, Landing Pages and Geographical Summary) will help you identify things like keywords that provide a good average position but low CTR (changing meta title and description can improve the CTR), landing pages that have...

It's a writer's worst nightmare. The blank page. Whether you're writing a book, a blog, an article or an essay for school, you can encounter the same problem. You have ideas but you just can't think of a way to get started. You have to grip the reader from the start, and that challenge can be pretty daunting. It might help you to break down what makes a good first sentence. Dos and Don’ts of Writing a First Sentence Do Make It Personal Unless you're writing an academic thesis, bring your personality into your writing. Write in first person. Even better, address your reader directly as “you.” It will draw them in and make them feel a part of what you’re writing, as if you’re speaking directly to them (because you are). Don't Start with, “This Article is About…” It should go without saying, but it's an easy trap to fall into when you can’t think of anything to write. You don’t need to tell them what you’re writing abou...

Whether you talk about private individual users or online business owners, both need to pay more attention to the safety and security of their data. The fact of the matter is that in the last few years, more than 350 million users have reported theft of their precious data. In such a scenario, entrepreneurs and corporate managers have to take meticulous precautions to make sure that unauthorized personnel do not access their valuable data. Security of personal and professional data is no longer an issue that can be brushed under the carpet; rather all stakeholders need to take corrective actions to put an end to this problem. Here are some handy tips in this regard: Adopt Skepticism While Assessing Intentions of Strangers The fact of the matter is that in a world where competitors will literally go to any lengths to outwit their professional rivals. So, you need to be more careful while disclosing vital personal or professional information in front of people you cannot trust. Hacking...

A common sense technique When you stay in an hotel, how do you know there is no room pinhole camera? When you travel or take a business trip, and stay in a hotel or a guest house or room you could unknowingly be photographed. You can use this method to check your room: When you enter into the room, turn off the lights, and close the curtains, open your phone camera, do not turn the flash light on.Turn around the room with your cell phone. When a red dot is found, that means that a hidden web camera is installed. If no red dots, the room is ok. Please forward this message to your friends who travels alot or take business trips. Best wishes to you

Ever since telephone was invented it has undergone several modifications and new brands and operating system are being released every now and then over the years. These changes have been made to adapt to our various lifestyles, and phones have long since been digressed from the primary function (making and receiving calls) to much more complicated tasks. Among all the operating system being released and as far as mobile devices are concerned, Android and IPhone are the two most popular so far as they constitute more than 90% the smartphone OS market. You’ll agree with me that IPhone operating system (OS) is slightly better than the android operating system, I strongly believe that there is multitude of reason why you should buy an android phone instead of an IPhone. Without wasting much of your time, below are nine reasons why you should buy an android phone rather than an iPhone: 1. OPEN SOURCE PLATFORM: Nothing is sweeter about an android phone than the fact that it is an open...

A team of researchers from MIT introduced a new computer chip optimized for deep-learning, an approach to artificial intelligence that is gaining popularity. The chip, dubbed “Eyeriss” which was introduced two days ago could allow mobile devices to perform tasks like natural language processing and facial recognition without being connected to the internet. It’s the latest attempt to make the complex operations of machine learning more portable. That means that our smartphones, wearables, robots, self-driving cars, and other IoT devices could begin performing complex deep learning processes locally — something that until now has been very difficult to do. Deep learning has traditionally demanded large amounts of computer processing. GPUs, computer chips designed to render the graphics we see on our computer screens, are a good enough workhorse to handle the task. But GPUs come with a drawback: they suck up a ton a power. This makes them impractical to use for de...

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Online scams are ever increasing. Almost in every phase of the online world, you will come across scams. Social networks are no exception for such malicious activity. Recently, millions of accounts from LinkedIn and eHarmony were compromised. Facebook seeing danger has updated its security and is advising its users regarding various scams and how to fight them back ‘Please send money scam’ An unknown account sends a message stating that he/she has been mugged. Descriptions of events seem accurate including real names and places. Finally, the sender requests a certain sum, which will enable him/her to return home safely. Facebook has attributed such scams as ‘Please send money scams’. The sender’s account is either fake or has been taken over by cyber criminals. On receiving ‘please send money scam’ messages, Facebook advices to report/block the account. Phishing Phishing is a common way to to hack account(s). Phishing links are sent within ...

If someone has written an unfavorable comment about you and if the content pops up first when people Google search you, you will want to erase it. You may also wish to remove a post that you yourself posted on a website. As is the case with most websites, their terms and conditions deny you the right to edit your content once you post it! Such content can often come up in Google when people search for you. This can severely damage your reputation. However, a fact that you need to understand is that Google is not the source; it merely lets the content be found more easily. Google does not have the original file; it is with the website that has put up the content. So, contacting Google to remove the content will not do anything. So how to delete content once you post them online? Deleting any of your personal uploads like an article, a picture or video, an account, a website, a blog is not always easy, but it CAN be done. To delete content, you have to talk to the webmaster or whoever...

Some of my important emails end up in the Spam folder due to incorrect filtering. So, I occasionally check the Spam folder to see if an email that was not spam ended up there. Today, while checking the Spam folder, I came across an email that was a classic example of a phishing message. Hence, I decided to share it here to point out some common tactics used in such messages. Here is the email (Image at the bottom):- The phishing message. One look at the from address should be enough for anyone to judge that this message is not genuine. Messages from most companies are through a no-reply address. Also, most companies contact you from an  email address that is on their main domain, not some random free email provider. Moreover, almost all email providers use an interstitial page in the situation described in this message. None of them sends an email asking for verification. Another important thing to notice in this message is the Sent to: field. Notice how it mentions undisclosed...

It has happened to most of us. We buy a new hard drive (or maybe a flash drive) with mind boggling storage capacity only to find that it has less space than what was mentioned on the box. Angered, we start cursing the manufacturer and our dealer for false marketing thinking that they should be sued for doing this. Hey, but have you ever wondered how they continue to do this again and again without getting into legal trouble? The answer is that they are not marketing it falsely at all. Surprised? I'll explain. A manufacturer considers 1 Megabyte to be 1000 Kilobytes, 1 Gigabyte to be 1000 Megabytes, 1 Terabyte to be 1000 Gigabytes and so on. This is correct considering that kilo means 1000 and mega means 1000000 (10^6). However, computers calculate on base 2 and to them, 1 MB is actually 1024 kilobytes, 1GB is 1024MB and 1 TB is 1024GB. This difference in the method of computation is responsible for this "missing space." Lets take an example of a 500 GB hard disk. From...

Whether you are dealing with people or machines, viruses can seem like a real threat. Because of that, the antivirus industry, for both people and machines, is big business. Concentrating on antivirus for machines and devices, this week we asked our writers if they found antivirus software useful and how they safeguarded their devices. Our Opinions All in all, our writers mostly agree. No one seems to use it very regularly. Miguel sees antivirus software as “something that gives a slightly false sense of security.” He explains that “viruses have grown in sophistication and are often not easily removed by standard antivirus software.” As for safeguarding, he replied that he does so “with my own prudence.” Vamsi doesn’t use any antivirus on his Windows PC other than the default one that is provided by Microsoft. Yet, he does use Comodo Firewall as “it makes it easy to configure different firewall rules and even alerts me when a program is...

Here are all the Windows 10 shortcuts you need to know – Windows -> Show the Windows 10 Start Menu Windows + Tab -> Launch Windows 10 Task View Windows + Q -> Search the web and Windows with Cortana (speech) Windows + S -> Search the web and Windows with Cortana (keyboard input) Windows + I -> Open Windows 10 settings Windows + A -> Open Windows 10 notifications Windows + L -> Lock your Windows 10 device Windows + Ctrl + D -> Create new virtual desktop Windows + Ctrl + F4 -> Close current virtual desktop Windows + Ctrl + [Left][Right] -> Switch between virtual desktops Windows + [Left][Right][Up][Down] -> Position windows on your screen E.g. Windows + [Left] moves the current window to the left half of your screen. If you use Windows + [Up] afterwards, the current window will be placed in the upper left quarter of your screen. And, what’s very handy in my opinion: If you release the Windows key after positioning a window, Ta...

How DriverPack Solution Works? • Download DriverPack Solution • Run the Program DriverPack Solution.exe • After the program opens, DriverPack Solutions automatically scans your hardware looking for missing and outdated drivers as well as important programs you need to have installed. • DriverPack Solution finds the missing and outdated drivers in your computer as well as Important Program you need to install. • Select those missing and outdated driver Programmes. • Remember to Tick "Create a restore point" to avoid any software compatibility issues in the future and of course Accept the terms and conditions. Now, Start Installation. • Driver finished Installing. Make sure it reaches a 100% and you see this message • Click On Finish and Restart Your Computer for changes to take effect. That's all. All drivers updated and installed!

Good news! If you're a user of Infinix Hot 2... I am proud to Announce to you that Android 6.0 (codenamed Marshmallow) is out. Unfortunately, the update is rolling out slowly. But if you can't wait to get the update from device settings, here is the OTA URL link. https://android.googleapis.com/pack...b215e10308457665a9.M_incremental_OTA_0107.zip NOTE: THIS IS NOT FOR INFINIX HOT 2 USERS ON INFINIX'S XUI. THIS UPDATE IS FOR THE ANDROID ONE ROM YOU MUST BE ON DECEMBER BUILD. IT IS REALLY NECESSARY. CHECK IF YOUR BUIKD NUMBER IS X510-D5110-Androidone-20151208 Pre-Requisites(Warning!) Must be on a NON ROOTED ROM Must have STOCK recovery, NOT custom revovery How to Flash: Download the zip file Rename it to update.zip Place it on the root of your SD Card (it shouldn't be in any folder) Power off your phone Hold Volume Up + Power Button Release power button and tap volume up once you see the "Infinix" Logo It will show you a dead Android robot with a re...

This is a GUI program built in Visual Studio 2013 using the C# programming language that takes many ADB and Fastboot commands and puts them into an easy to use toolkit that supports a ton of Android devices. It's goal is to simplify the process of unlocking a device's bootloader, flashing a custom recovery and gaining root for the newbies of the Android world. If you find it helpful, give me a thanks and a donation if you can. If you find a bug or have a feature request, feel free to leave a reply. Thanks, and happy rooting! Features - Many Devices Supported - Beautiful MetroUI Theme - Full Bootloader Unlock - Gain Permanent Root - Flash Custom Recovery - Flash Custom Kernel - Flash Custom ROMs - Sideload Zips - Push Files - Install Apps - Relock Bootloader - and so much more! Download WinDroid Universal Android Toolkit Supported Devices Asus Devices ZenFone 2 HTC Devices Amaze Butterfly Butterfly 2 Butterfly S Desire 200 Desire 210 Desire 300 Desire ...