Beware of downloading skins and themes from internet

Posted by sarwar hossain on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 In : Download 

Is it safe to download skin and themes for my computer?

What is a skin? What is a Theme?

Skin is s most often used word by computer users. You may wonder what can be the relation between a computer and skin? What is the meaning of Skin. Now what is the literal meaning of skin. Skin is used to cover our body. Isn’t it? Similarly, the term skin in computer is used to refer to the interface or look and feel of any program or application. There are many skins available in the internet that can be...


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Download free Desktop Security software

Posted by sarwar hossain on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 In : Security 

When you are not near your computer other people can enter and read your files in your computer. They may edit them or even delete them. They can read you emails. They can format your hard disk. They can do anything they want with your computer.

In an office environment, this type of computer sabotage is possible. There are many software and applications related to ‘Desktop Security’. If you install a ‘Desktop security’ application in your computer, then you can prevent others from usi...


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Health risks while using computers?

Posted by sarwar hossain on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 In : Health 

Using computers for long hours may cause eye problems and spinal cord problems. Some of the common health risks in using computers are Carpel Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) and Repetitive Stress/Strain Injury (RSI). Pain from shoulders to fingers, numbness, numbness at the wrist, Shivering and shaking while holding objects in hands, Waking up often during nights are also problems faced by some computer users. The main symptom of CTS is the pain in the hand muscles. Pain, straightness, swelling, numbne...


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Use Password protected ‘Screen Saver’ to increase security

Posted by sarwar hossain on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 In : Passwords 

You can give a password to your screen saver and make it active whenever your computer boots up. Those who do not know the password cannot enter your computer. Let us see how you can protect your computer from unwanted users accessing your computer.

To create Screen Save with Password

Right click on the blank space of your desktop and select ‘Properties’. In the new dialog box, click on the ‘Screen Saver’ tab. Select any screen saver of your choice. For example let us assume you chose â...


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Beware of Spies in your computer

Posted by sarwar hossain on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 In : Adware 

Do you know? The free program or application that you just downloaded from internet may have Trojan Horse, Spyware or Key Logger hidden inside. This may seriously affect you. Your secrets may be stolen. Every computer and Inernet user should be aware of these enemies and how to tackle them. Let us see what these enemies do and how you can remove them.

  1. On the exterior the program which hides the ‘Trojan Horse’ may look very normal. But the enemy is hiding inside. Whichever task this enemy i...

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How to remove hijack virus?

Posted by sarwar hossain on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 In : Hijacking 

You may have read news about planes being hijacked. For example a passenger plane which is supposed to go to London may be hijacked by terrorists and flown to Turkey. The hijack virus does just that. If you key in a website address in your browser’s address bar and press ‘Enter’ then instead of going to that website the browser may open some other website such as an adult website or an advertisement website or a search engine website. If this happens in your computer then your browser h...


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What is ‘Safe Mode’ booting?

Posted by sarwar hossain on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 In : Safe mode 

While your computing is booting, you can instruct the computer to boot in ‘safe mode’. Safe mode refers to secure mode. You may then ask, is our computer not secure when we boot normally. Let us see how is safe mode more secure than the normal booting.

When your computer gives problems and you want to identify where is the problem, then you can use the safe mode for this. In safe mode, only limited number of driver programs are enabled. Therefore you cannot use CD drive. You cannot use the...


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Free Password Management software

Posted by sarwar hossain on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 In : Passwords 

To keep computer files, internet connections and other resources just to ourselves, we use passwords. Some people use the same password for everything. This is a very bad practice. Because if someone comes to know about this password then they will get access to all your resources. There fore it is essential to have different passwords for different purposes. But this poses another problem. It becomes very difficult to remember all these passwords. Some write these passwords in their diary or...


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Biometrics Security

Posted by sarwar hossain on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 In : Health 

We have seen in James Bond movies that doors can be opened by giving voice copmmands. In some hollywood movies, you would have seen thumb impressions are used to open doors. All these are nothing but Biometrics.

Think of these scenarios.

  1. You go to a bank to withdraw money. You fill up the withdrawal form, sign it and give it to the bank clerk. Your signature is used to verify your identity
  2. You are shopping using your credit cards. While paying the photograph on the credit cards and the signature...

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What is CTS and RSI?

Posted by sarwar hossain on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 In : Health 

Health risks while using computers?

Using computers for long hours may cause eye problems and spinal cord problems. Some of the common health risks in using computers are Carpel Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) and Repetitive Stress/Strain Injury (RSI). Pain from shoulders to fingers, numbness, numbness at the wrist, Shivering and shaking while holding objects in hands, Waking up often during nights are also problems faced by some computer users. The main symptom of CTS is the pain in the hand muscles. P...


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