Why Should You Use Antivirus Software For Your Computer?

World is changing at a very fast pace and so does the computer and its technology. We all know computer is one of the biggest achievements of human brain. When it was invented no one would have thought that it would become an integral part of our day-to-day life/work. All of our information is now digital, whether it’s our bank-account, our income tax returns, confidential files or online reservation etc. With every new invention/discovery there are also people who just have interest in exploiting it out and stealing your information (these people are hackers). You will not like any one taking a look at them or stealing it without your knowledge. Most of us also use portable drive (pendrives, CD etc.) for sharing file, movies etc., but how can we trust it; that it is not infected with any virus, Trojans or any malware computer. And now give a Big thanks to internet it has become more easy for any hacker to compromise your computer from his place if we do not protect it. So, it becomes more important than before to protect your PC.

We can’t stop our self from using internet or any portable drive with our computer as it is a vast source of information and our many important works. Then what should we do? Well to protect you and your information from these greedy people Antivirus comes to your rescue. It is a small software which is specially designed to protect your information from these threats and keep your data secure. It scans your computer and monitors your activity closely on daily real-time basis. It is even highly recommended by computer manufacturer; even some manufacturer provides you with one on your new PC. If don’t have one then you can get one from nearby computer peripherals shop and does not cost big bucks on your pocket.

Tips for choosing an Antivirus:

1) Go for a premium (paid) one as free antivirus are just jokes on you by their makers and does not do any good for you. Sadly, In India people don’t understand it and mostly user prefer free version over paid one.

2) Keep your antivirus database up-to-date as new viruses are made every second and manufacturer update their database daily to protect you from them.

3) Before buying any antivirus do a thorough research to see which one protects you better as market is full of them and do not choose any paid one randomly as it about your money & protection.

4) Check for an upgrade of your antivirus by their manufacturer as there may be some bug fixes to your present antivirus (hackers even don’t lefts those security loops to compromise your system security).

Posted by Unknown on 19:29 in anti-virus, antivirus-software, apps, computer, computer-peripherals, news, security, software, virus

Homewebprofit.com Review - Legit or Scam

Internet is so big that one day or another we comes across a website which promises a great income while sitting in comfort of our home. On seeing the income which is shown there we get trapped in their web and do not think for a sec, whether the website is legit (true) or a scam.

Well to tell you the truth it is not so easy to make a good income online, you have to work hard there also. No one is interested to give you a handful of income for granted. Internet is full of ‘Work at home website’ and to tell you the truth most of them are just scam. To save you from getting trapped in a scam and wasting out your money, we have started this series of scambuster. In this we will help you to be away from scam website.

Few day back I was reading an article on a reputed Hindi Newspaper website and found an ad of one such website. When I clicked on the ad it took me to a website from where I was redirected to a website: homewebprofit.com

On seeing the money they were offering ($257/day) and reading that there ads are shown on: CNN, abc, MSNBC & US Today one will thought them to be a legit and will not think for sec to sign up for it.

Well I researched and found them to be another Scam website.

Why They are Scam:

1) There web page

If you read the whole page thoroughly you will find that their opening are available not in US and Canada (but why?) when the website (to show ads on) they are talking about are reputed US News website. The reason is simple they don’t want to get caught by these website.

2) Complains

When you Google this website ‘homewebprofit.com’ you can easily find a lot of complaints from people that they stole their money. Here is one such complain below:

3) Website Age

Well this one is a technical thing and most of the people care about it. I aksed its customer support and he have no answer to it. So, When I Whois (gives you the information about a website: Registration date, Registrar name, Expiry date and other info) it and got following info:

After all this one can easily say that 'homewebprofit.com' is just a scam. So don't waste your money over it.

What's your take over it let us know in comment below.

Posted by Unknown on 14:44 in data-entry, home-work, homewebprofit.com, legit, make-money, scam, security, work-from-home

How to Safe guard your twitter account.

Twitter account gets hacked on daily basis by hacker. We can hear about the twitter account hack of different organization and Individuals. Accounts may become compromised if you've entrusted your username and password to a malicious third-party application or website (we have discussed it here). It is the most popular and common way used by hacker, though there are other but this one is simple.

If you get in some trap like this and your twitter account get hacked. Then you should follow these simple steps to safe guard yourself in near future from this problem.

• change your password immediately from the Password tab in settings. Please select a strong password you haven't used before.
• Revoke access for any third-party application that you don't recognize.
• If a trusted external application uses your Twitter password, be sure to update your password in that application.
• Always check that your browser's address bar is on a https://twitter.com website before entering your password. Phishing sites often look just like Twitter, so check the URL before entering your login information.

• Scan your computer regularly for viruses and malware and keep your internet security suit updated. (See the case below how it helped in blocking fake twitter login page, see url)

• Avoid using websites or services that promise to get you lots of followers. These sites have been known to send spam updates and damage user accounts.

Posted by Unknown on 18:55 in security, twitter, twitter hack

How Easy is to Hack a Twitter Account

Many Twitter accounts get hacked on daily basis and in most of the cases it has been found that it is due to the negligence of the victim. There are many ways to hack into someone twitter account but the most common of all, which is being used by hackers, is sending a phishing link to the victim account. Due to many URL shorting service provider on the web it has become easier for hacker to send malicious links to the victim. Without knowing the original link, people click on the link which redirect them to a page that looks similar to twitter login page or Gmail login page or something similar page, when a person enters there login information on this page they do not login into their account but instead his/her account information get send to the hacker and there account gets hacked.

Let us show you how this happens.

• A person gets a direct message with a link into his/her account which looks similar to this.

• When a person clicks on the link he/she get redirected to a page which looks similar to twitter login page.

But carefully look at the URL/web address it is itwitier.com instead of twitter.com 

• Normally people don’t look at the URL and enters there login information. Which when clicked on Sign In button login information get send to the hacker and your twitter account gets hacked.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT GOT HACKED?

1. Check your direct message folder whether any message has been send from your account to another user which you have not send.
2. Check the tweets done by you whether there is any tweet which you have not done.
3. Review your approved connections on your Applications page at https://twitter.com/settings/applications. If you see any applications that you don't recognize, click the Revoke Access button.

So next time before clicking on any link or entering any login information check the URL. We have already discussed how to secure your account on twitter (to know click here).

Posted by Unknown on 18:48 in hack, security, twitter, twitter hack