CryptoLocker Tripwire: Free Cryptolocker Prevention Tool

The Cryptolocker Ransomware has been morphing into more dangerous forms and even started targeting other operating systems like Android. While those affected are always looking out for ways to get rid of or remove Cryptolocker ransomware, the old proverb still stands – Prevention is better than cure!

We have earlier seen how you can block or prevent Cryptolocker ransomware attacks using CryptoPrevent, Cryptolocker Prevention Kit and HitmanPro.Alert – and by following some steps to take to stay protected & secure, by preventing Ransomware from getting onto your Windows computer.

Via this post, we would like to inform you about another Cryptolocker Prevention Tool called CryptoLocker Tripwire.

Cryptolocker Prevention Tool

Fix: Windows could not start the WLAN AutoConfig service

We have already seen how to fix limited WiFi connection problems on Windows 8. But sometimes you may came around the issue, where your system isn’t able to identify or detect any WiFi or wireless network. In some scenarios, it could be a hardware issue which you can verify from the Devices Manager. Here you have to look for whether your wireless driver is working properly or not. In case you find that it is a hardware problem, you should visit the nearest computer repair shop to get fixed.

While if you’re pretty sure that nothing is wrong on the hardware side, you can check if the WLAN AutoConfig service is running properly in the Services window (Run  services.msc to get this). In our case, we found that WLAN AutoConfigservice was not working on the system and we received the following error message:

Philips Re-Enters India Mobile Phone Market

Philips, a consumer durables manufacturer re- enters the Indian market after a gap of two years. They have now introduced four devices ranging from a basic feature phone to an android-based smart mobile phone priced between Rs.1,960 and Rs.20,650 and will be available sometime this year.

"We are entering into the market again with a whole range of feature and smart phones that we believe serves all the categories of clients. We will be launching two new phones by next month that will take our range to about Rs.35,000," S.S. Bassi, country manager India, Overseas Sales, Shenzhen Sangfei.

Chrome to disable extensions not listed in Chrome Web Store

When we are online, malicious downloads and websites are the main sources that pose as threats to our personal information. All browsers are taking utmost care of protecting their users from such dangers by introducing different security blocks. Google Chrome too introduced ‘Safe Browsing’ feature so as to block such malicious downloads and websites. However, the threats can be introduced through certain extensions that are installed while using the browsers. Earlier, Google had banished toolbars & multi-purpose extensions from Chrome Web Store. Now Chrome has realized the dangers and has now enforced the policy, where extensions can be installed only if they’re listed in the Chrome Web Store.

Earlier, Chrome had made an announcement of they are going to make it difficult for the malicious applications and malware to install unwanted and hazardous Chrome extensions secretly – and they had already removed such extensions.. And this new policy announced on May 27, 2014 is exactly that. In an official statement, Chrome mentioned about this new security policy that,

Hack Windows XP and Continue Receiving Updates

After 12 years, countless installations, good times, and bad time Microsoft decided Windows XP (Home and Professional) had reached End Of Life (EOL). Since April 8th, 2014 Microsoft no longer supplies updates, or support, for Windows XP. Well, that isn’t exactly true. If you have deep pockets and a large installation base Microsoft will provide you with updates… For a fee. Not much hope for a diehard XP user, eh? What to do? What to do? Hopefully upgrade to Windows 7 or Windows 8, but what if you have no choice? What if you simply refuse to make a change?

When we hear about Windows XP most assume there are only two versions, but in actuality there are many more. Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Tablet Edition, Windows Embedded, and Windows POS. These last two are cut down versions of XP built for specific tasks which in this case are for devices you probably don’t realize run Windows and Point of Sale systems (Not the POS you were thinking of!). Both the Embedded and POS versions will receive updates through 2019 and since they are essentially XP at heart wouldn’t it make sense that the updates are the same? That’s exactly what the folks over at BetaNews thought and they set out to see if they could force the Microsoft Update service to think that Windows XP was actually Windows POS and issue updates. They succeeded.

Stylistic Sets, Ligatures, and Fonts in Word 2010

There is so much available to us in this latest version of Word! Trust me, nobody knows ALL of it, least of all me!

So imagine my surprise when I ran across an article regarding Stylistic Sets and Ligatures! I found myself puzzled and wondering what a ligature was! As it turns out, it’s pretty cool and so I decided that I definitely needed to share this information with my readers.

Follow the steps below to learn about Stylistic Sets and Ligatures:

1. Launch Word 2010 if it is not already open.
2. Open a new document or one that you have already created and saved.
3. On the Home tab of your Ribbon, in the Font group, select Gabriola,
4. Select the text to which you would like to apply Stylistic Sets and click the small button in the lower right corner of the Fontgroup, or click CTRL + D, which will open the Font dialog.
5. Click on the Advanced tab.
6. Under OpenType Features, you will see quite a few styles, designs and ligatures.
7. Use the drop-down arrow under ligatures to select Historical and Discretionary.
8. From Number spacing, select Tabular.
9. Select the Number forms style and lastly, the Stylistic set.

You will see a preview of the selected text in the preview pane.

10. Click OK.

Move, Copy, Sync files between cloud services and devices with Jumptuit

Jumptuit is a one stop place for most your cloud storage services like OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox etc. I always find it different to manage my cloud storages, since they are all located in different places and it’s not easy to sync them. Jumptuit will let you move, copy and sync files between cloud services and across devices.

Jumptuit

Jumptuit basically help us to connect with multiple cloud storage services and manage them at one place. Among the cloud storage services and social websites supported are, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive Dropbox, Facebook, Box, Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube and Vimeo.

How to add a keyboard and mouse to your tablet

When Apple announced its first tablet, it was skeptical whether the device would be liked by people, but as we saw in the past year, tablet computers have grown popular amongst people with varied needs and of all age groups.

With their ultra portable size and advanced computing capabilities tablets have redefined the term mobile computing. Multi touch interfaces and the ability to understand gesture based inputs have enabled navigational wizardry like swipe and flick, which have become part of common language among tablet users.

Even though touchscreens do justice to many of the functions of a traditional computer with a keyboard and mouse, users still feel awkward using them due to the old habit of using these peripheral devices.

SQL Server 2008 R2 Express installation error - LandingPage.exe

Problem: User gets this error while trying to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express:

Solution: To fix this error,

1. Show the hidden folders on your system. Go to Control Panel>Folder Options and select that option.

Google Cameras To Safeguard Your Home Soon

Soon, Google CCTV cameras may secure your house from intruders.The multinational corporation is reportedly planning to buy home security camera firm Dropcam.

San Francisco-based Dropcam offers a $150 internet-connected camera. The camera is controlled from a special app.

Using the special app, users can see live feeds, zoom and record footage.

It also has a night vision mode, two-way talk back and digital zoom, said a report on tech blog The Information

7 Amazing Search Engines You May not Know

Internet is a Global network that is growing day by day and has about millions of websites and users. With so many websites, it can get tough to find the website on which you will get the right info. So for making it easier for you, there are companies which are building different types of search engines that will make finding the right content much easier. Read more to find out the 7 amazing search engines other than Google.

1. Junoba

Junoba is a search engine that not only shows the search results but also shows the results from the social media. This website has a nice and a user-friendly interface that makes the navigation of the website very easy. You can also search for images on this website. The search results on the website are shown parallel to the social networking results on the website.

2. SmashFuse

SmashFuse is a social media search engine and is said to as a true social media search engine. This website has a trending column that tells what is trendy in the social media. The search results are shown in the form of images but when clicked they can lead us to images, videos or even tweets. What actually this search engine does is that it catches the conversations by scanning through mostly all the social media websites.

Security Threats To Grow Sever In Next Two Years

Internet has become an indispensable part of our business as well as personal lives and cyber threats are looming large to sabotage it. To counter these cyber attacks,, every year a nonprofit association, International Security Forum (ISF), tries to assess the security and risk management issues to give out a report on the biggest possible security threats in the next two years. Read on to know 7 such threats as compiled by the CIO.

 # Mobile apps become the main route for compromise: Mobile phones being a major disrupter in the tech industry these days, lacks security around the apps. This makes apps a prime target for the hackers to gain access into the user systems. It. The Chief information security officer should prepare the organization for the non avoidable situations by making sure that the ‘in house’ made apps follow the required testing procedures with the recognized systems. They should also incorporate the user devices into existing standards for accessing management and begin educating the people of BYOD risks.  

Firefox vs Pale Moon browser – Which one is better?

Mozilla Firefox employs the usage of an open source code to provide you with all the features, it currently has and to enhance your browsing experience. Since the source code is available easily, there are many other browsers that use the same code, with little variations to focus on something or the other. In other words, these browsers are customized for a certain feature. Pale Moon browser too, like WaterFox or CyberFox, employs Firefox code to provide you with a better speed and private searches.

If I were to describe Pale Moon browser in a sentence, it would be, “Pale Moon browser is a stripped-down version of Firefox, that leaves out certain features, to focus on speed of browsing”.  Instead of default Google search that most browsers use, Pale Moon employs DuckDuckGo search engine, so that your searches are not stored anywhere.

Let’s take a look at Pale Moon in a little more details.

Features of Pale Moon

The makers of Pale Moon browser have left out some parts of the original Firefox code to remove extra features that people seldom use. Likewise, they’ve customized the code a little to add small improvements to the browser over Firefox. It supports almost all Firefox extensions and themes. As such, it does not come preloaded with any extensions and/or themes.

Avira Safe Search and SafeSearch browser extension launched

Whenever we surf the web, for online transactions, for shopping or for searching information; our personal information is always at risk. And that’s why; online security is always on priority for web browsers. Same is the case with Avira search engine. This antivirus software company had already released a free WebGuard protection for search and browsing earlier. However, now Avira has expanded its Safe Search feature with additional functionalities, helping you to find the best offers, travel deals and weather information. Avira Safe Search will also enhance your protection by adding appropriate security information to every search result.

How to make Android devices faster

There are many things that you can do to make your Android devices faster while making optimal use of existing resources. This is very important as most Android devices come with 512 MB RAM. Even devices with 1 GB RAM tend to be slow due to various reasons.

Use a task manager

This is the first thing I advise any Android user to do. Whether you have a dual core handset or a quad core one, using a task manager is always advised because, in smartphones, just leaving applications won't kill them. Applications thus run in the background and eat a lot of memory. This is the reason why even some devices with quad core processors and 1 GB RAM hang every now and then.

How to increase RAM on Android devices

In laptops and personal computers, users have the luxury to expand the Random Access Memory or RAM, which is crucial to a device's performance. The same facility is not available in tablets and smartphones.

However, there are applications which allow smartphone/tablet users to expand their device's RAM by a substantial amount. Take the Roehsoft RAM Expander for instance. We had used this app in one of my devices, which has only 256 MB RAM and could not run even some basic games. But after using the app, there was a noticeable change in the device's performance.

However, keep in mind that such applications require your device to be rooted and rooting a device voids its warranty. Also, rooting is advisable only for advance users and you should not try rooting your smartphone or tablet if you do not have thorough knowledge of its functioning, as during the process you may end up killing your device altogether.

5 Things You Didn't Know Your Smartphone Could Do

As the saying goes, ‘Old is Gold’; when you upgrade to new versions of current available gadgets in the market, don’t throw away your old smartphones. Instead it can be a helping hand in doing some of the works with ease and without much spending on it. Read on further to know some of the ways you can make your old smartphones useful.

1. Use it as a Wireless Router:  You can use your smartphone as a router if it has a setup called tethering or internet sharing. Most smartphones like iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Android phones provide such setup. You can turn your phone into a wifi hotspot by using a 3G sim that has a good data plan. In this way u can carry your phone in your pocket and use wifi on other devices.

It is advised that you have a password to protect the hotspot from other people using it.

2. Media Player on Your TV: You can also connect your smartphone to your TV if it has the option of connecting with HDMI cable. All you have to do is plug in one side of the cable to your phone and the other end to your TV. Once you are connected, then what appears on your phone will appear on your TV, whether it is pictures, games, videos or surfing the web. It is more efficient to use an SD card of 32 GB or 64 GB so that you can copy as many movies and songs as you like.

Internet Explorer 8 Under Threat In India: Cyber Agency

Cyber security sleuths have alerted Indian users against a "high" level virus activity in a select version of popular Microsoft-owned web browser - the Internet Explorer.

The vulnerability, which once activated may compromise the privacy of a user's computer system, has been detected in the Microsoft Internet Explorer version "8" by the Computer Emergency Response Team of India, the country's nodal agency to combat hacking, phishing and to fortify security-related defenses of the Indian Internet domain.

The severity of the malfunctioning has been categorized as "high" by the agency.

Lenovo ThinkPad 10 and ThinkStation P300 For Enterprise Customers

Lenovo has announced its latest machine ThinkPad 10 tablets, for enterprise customers. The leading hardware manufacturer brand also launched a redesigned ThinkStation P300 workstation. The Lenovo ThinkPad 10 tablet is priced at $599 and will hit the market shelves anytime now, in the month of June.

Lenovo ThinkPad 10 Tablet

The company claims that the ThinkPad 10 is a premium multimode business tablet and will provide a full PC experience to the users. Made with high quality aluminum, this tablet ca also be converted into a laptop when attached with a keyboard. The keyboard for ThinkPad is available separately at a price of $129. A Compact Bluetooth keyboard case is also available for $119. The Bluetooth keyboard has touch-sensitive flat keys similar to the Touch Cover for Microsoft’s Surface tablets.

Spice Stellar Mi-509 with full HD display launched for Rs 7,999

Spice Mobility India has introduced a new dual-SIM smartphone - Stellar Mi-509. The new Spice Stellar 509 will be sold exclusively from the HomeShop18 website for Rs 7,999. The new Stellar 509 smartphone boasts a 5-inch touchscreen display and features an 8 megapixel camera at the back. This dual-SIM smartphone also offers 3G network support.

The new Stellar Mi-509 has a 5-inch display with full 1080x1920 pixel resolution. Spice armed it with a quad-core 1.3 Ghz mobile processor of unknown make and 1 GB RAM.

How to share PC's internet connection with Android smartphones

Most Android smartphone users depend on traditional methods, using a SIM card or via WiFi, for internet connectivity. However, you can also use your PC's internet connection on your Android smartphone. Here is a step by step procedure in which you can use your PC's internet connectivity on your Android smartphone.

Step 1:

First of all you need a USB male to micro USB male (as shown in above picture).

Step 2:

Using the above mentioned connector, connect the smartphone with the PC. You have to use the micro USB part in the smartphone while the full size USB part is to be plugged in to female USB port of the PC.

How to use your own video as wallpaper of your Android phone/tablet

Usually most Android smartphones and tablets come with a set of wallpapers and live wallpapers. They also allow users to use their own camera picture as a wallpaper but devices with Android 4.2 and higher versions also have the ability to shoot a video and use it as a wallpaper.

Here's how you can do it.

Step 1:

Touch and hold the home screen till the pop-up to change your wallpaper comes.

Top 5 WiFi data cards

Though mobile phones come with 3G connectivity, feature phones and many tablets do not have the facility to access the same on their own. Moreover, even though Android devices have ability to create WiFi hotspot, in doing so they can lose a lot of battery charge in a quick time. Hence, WiFi data cards are so important. 

Here we have five such data cards with ability to create WiFi hotspot.

Huawei E5151

Huawei E5151 is pocket WiFi device that can support upto 10 devices and claims to offer 21.6 Mbps speed. It has a full sized SIM card slot, so you can use a 3G SIM card to create WiFi hotspot, no need to plug in a data card or the LAN cable though it has provisions for both too.

The E5151 has a 1500 mAh Lithium-Ion battery, which provides about 5 hours of talktime. With a dimension of 92.8x63.5x16.3mm, Huawei E5151 supports Standard Micro USB. It has several LED indicators for Ethernet, Signal, WiFi, Battery and SMS.

Say ‘OK Google’ and Chrome will let you search the web using voice

Have you ever wondered, how it would feel if you say some magic words, like ‘Open Sesame‘ and a door opens for you? Well, not a door, but you can certainly search the information in Google search with a magical command! All you have to do is to open a new tab in Chrome, activate your computer’s mic and say ‘OK Google’. Google will listen to your next words (keywords to search) and bring the information you were searching for, in front of you.

This is no magic, but a new feature that is available in the stable version of Chrome 35. Google has published a blog about the Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS on May 20, 2014. In this blog, you will find details about other features of Chrome 35 along with this voice search feature. Google had a ‘voice search’ option even before; however, users needed to click the mic icon in the search window for that. But with OK Google, all you have to do is, click on the mic icon and sayEnable “OK Google”.

The Unknown Social Media Tricks

We all have been using social media apps for a long time now, so the limits and delimits are pretty much known to everybody. But, looks like not all the delimits are known to everyone like the history on the Facebook or the hacker protection initiative by the Snapchat. Not only on social media apps, there are some apps which people will not believe exist.  So read on to find out about the tricks on the websites as compiled by The Richest.

# Instagram’s ‘Direct Chat’: Instagram’s answer to the photo messaging services is the Direct Chat. This feature allows us to send a single photo or 

a video in the app to a specific person or a group. Each Conversation on this feature starts off with a picture and about 15 people on the group can comment on the photos in the section. This feature can be accessed from the Instagram’s home page.

# Hello Spy: Worried about your loved ones or your friends’ whereabouts? Hello spy, a monitoring and tracking software would be of some relief for it. The software once installed on the other person’s phone allows you to record the calls made or received by them, giving you the access of their contacts, GPS locations and many more features in a clear organized format. This App is available for iOS and Android.

Facebook Tweaks Privacy Setting For New Users

Bowing to users’ demands to change its default privacy setting, the popular social media site Facebook has announced that it would give a privacy checkup to its nearly 1.28 billion users worldwide. Anyone joining Facebook now will only share posts with friends and family, unless they choose to make their information open to everyone online, according to a Facebook post.

Microsoft Windows 8 Banned By Chinese Government

In a move that caught Microsoft offguard, the Chinese government has issued a notice that  agencies are to forego purchasing Windows 8 and installing the software on any new government devices. The notice that was officially sent out is titled “Agreement to supply information about the class of energy-saving products complement the mandatory tender notice“.

If that reads a little awkward to you, ask Google Translate, as the original page is in Chinese. In any case, the announcement highlights energy-saving products, but Windows 8 is specifically mentioned as item #5: “all computer products are not allowed to install Windows 8 operating system.”

Chinese news outlet Xinhua looks back to the termination of support for Windows XP as a reason for the ban on Windows 8.

Download The Latest Malwarebytes Antimalware Update

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware is able to detect and remove malware, which the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware does this by monitoring every process and then stops a malicious process before it even is able to start.

Some Key Features of Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware:

Light speed quick scanning.  Ability to perform full scans for all drives.  Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Protection Module. (requires registration)  Database updates released daily.  Quarantine to hold threats and restore them at your convenience.  Ignore list for both the scanner and Protection Module.  Settings to enhance your Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware performance.  A small list of extra utilities to help remove malware manually.  Multi-lingual support.  Works together with other anti-malware utilities.  Command line support for quick scanning.  Context menu integration to scan files on demand.

In this latest update to the massively popular protection programme, the following changes and updates have been made:

Track Consignments ( Registered Mail, Speed Post, Electronic Money Order, etc )

India Post Online Tracking facility

India Post’s online tracking allows you to access tracking information and confirm the delivery of your item by using the tracking number assigned to you at the time of Booking. You can find the tracking number on the Postal receipt handed over to you at the Post office Counter at the time of booking.

What can be Tracked

• Speed post (Domestic EMS)
• International EMS
• Electronic Money Order (eMO)
• Registered Mail
• Express Parcel
• Electronic Value Payable Parcel (eVPP)

How it works

The tracking system is updated periodically to provide you with the most current information available about the location and status of your item. You'll be able to find out the following:

Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 with Bing, a new edition of Windows

Today generally many smaller devices like tablets running Windows have a higher price point, since the cost of the OS is high – although some economical versions of the devices are available too. Earlier, we were told that Windows will be free for OEM devices with screen size 9 inch or less. Then with the release of Windows 8.1 Update, the minimum system requirements were lowered to 1GB of RAM and 16GB of hard disk. With aggressive memory management and different installation options, Windows 8.1 Update can now take advantage of this and can provide more free space to users. Thus, taking all these factors into account, many devices specially tablets at lower price point running Windows 8.1, will be seen.

Windows 8.1 with Bing

Microsoft announced Windows 8.1 with Bing, a new edition of Windows. Many new lower-cost Windows devices are expected to be installed with Windows 8.1 with Bing. This will make it available to even greater number of customers and at a broader range of price points. This Windows 8.1 with Bing is a new version of Windows 8.1 available only to hardware manufacturers for devices that comes with pre-installed Windows. This new version of Windows appears to be the same as the Windows 8.1 Update version.