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Provide Sight For The Visually Impaired With MySmartEye App. The Wonder of Sirefef Plunder - Microsoft Malware Protection Center. Sirefef, also known as ZeroAccess, is a malware platform for receiving and running malware modules.

The Wonder of Sirefef Plunder - Microsoft Malware Protection Center

Two prominent modules generate revenue for the cyber criminals, by mining for bitcoins and perpetrating click-fraud. Click-fraud is the deliberate misappropriation of ad revenue by generating online clicks that don’t originate from a potential customer or the rightful publisher. Flash Player Help. What a DDoS Attack Looks Like. What Is LOIC? Extensions. All translated pages may not be up to date - Main language remains English Apache OpenOffice Extensions OpenOffice makes it possible to develop independent 3rd-party extensions.

Extensions

The categories of extensions range from Basic libraries, packages with Java/JavaScript or Python macros to more sophisticated extensions in the form of UNO components implemented in Java, C++ or Python. Even the last category of extensions subdivides into general UNO components providing new implementations for existing functional areas, or specialized components like Calc Add-Ins, Add-Ons, DataPilots, Chart Add-Ins, or linguistic components (e.g. Spellchecker, Hyphenator or Thesaurus). The Extensions project provides You can join us at Translating these pages The Extension project has to be strongly bound to Native-Lang communities to relay any local third party development. How To Spot An Email Scam. Ten Free Tech Support Tools. Ten Portable Tech Support Software Utilities All of these handy programs are free, but they also share another important common factor.

Ten Free Tech Support Tools

They don't require any installation, because they're designed to be portable. The ability to run them directly from the USB drive is important for several reasons. First, on a badly infected system, sometimes you can't even install new software. 10 Most Amazing Google Search Tricks. Searching on Google can be a magical experience once you find out how to make your search queries efficient.

10 Most Amazing Google Search Tricks

By making efficient I mean using some tricks or the cheat sheet provided by Google itself to quickly find what you actually require. Having being hooked onto Google for a long time now, I have come across some amazing search tricks which can change the way you look at Google today. In this article I will list down the search tricks which I use quite frequently. How Facebook Is Using You to Annoy Your Friends (and How to Stop It) Safe Browsing: Thank you! Free Internet Faxing Services. Dump your fax machine, the Internet has made this dinosaur obsolete.

Free Internet Faxing Services

Think of the savings on toner, paper, and time when all you really need these days is a cell phone, PDA, or PC. I have a big list of sites for you that offer free Internet faxing services. Some of them are completely free, while others offer free or limited trials. Pick the online fax service that suits you best... Free Online Computer Scan - Online Software Inspector (OSI) Comprehensive List of Free AntiVirus 2013. Billions of dollars are spent every year on antivirus software alone by enterprise because they know that computer virus can cause a lot of down time and making the company lose money.

Comprehensive List of Free AntiVirus 2013

A computer virus can be programmed to do anything such as stealing sensitive information, locking up or slowing down the computer, data loss through corruption or deletion, and etc. With so many brands around and they all claim to be have the best detection and lightest in system resource, it is certainly not easy determining which is really the best. Linux Rescue CD: a help or a hinderance? In Emsisoft Lab by evandorp on October 20, 2012 | English EmailShare 0EmailShare Detect and get rid of malware without entering Windows, use a bootable Linux Rescue CD; it sounds like something that can make the life of anyone who needs to remove malware a lot easier.

Linux Rescue CD: a help or a hinderance?

The idea behind it? Comprehensive List of 26 Bootable Antivirus Rescue CDs for Offline Scanning. A rescue CD is an additional tool provided by most antivirus companies to assist in removing difficult-to-remove malware without booting in to Windows.

Comprehensive List of 26 Bootable Antivirus Rescue CDs for Offline Scanning

This is especially useful when the computer is so badly infected that Windows couldn’t be booted up, or is crawling really slowly and you can hardly run any diagnostic tools inside Windows to investigate and clean the virus. A huge advantage in using a rescue CD compared to the antivirus installed on your computer is the chances of a successful removal is much higher because the malware is inactive since Windows is not even loaded in the first place. Online Privacy. Wham—news of a data breach breaks.

Online Privacy

Updates flood the internet, accusations fly between parties, and everyone speculates. Why? How? What happens now? Amid the chaos and the hype, it can be difficult to get clear, accurate information about what’s really going on when a data breach occurs. Let’s get the story straight on why data breaches happen by looking at four common myths… Read More Not pretty! On Monday a serious vulnerability was reported in OpenSSL across the web. Update from Katherine Albrecht. Anomaly Radio received this reply from Dr.

Update from Katherine Albrecht

Albrecht regarding the future of her radioshow: Hi, Miles: I am deeply touched by your beautiful blog entry and the moment of silence you’re observing to honor the passing of my WTPRN show. Thank you so much. Lab Tests Reveal Top AntiVirus Programs. Every year, the folks at AV-Test, “the independent IT Security Institute,” issue six awards: three each for home and corporate products. The three categories are Protection (defense against infection), Repair (detection and repair of infections), and Usability (user-friendliness, system resource consumption). Annual ratings are the averages of each product’s bimonthly test scores.

This year’s winners in the Home category are as follows. Protection: F-Secure Internet Security; Repair: BitDefender Internet Security; Usability: Symantec Norton Internet Security. The scores for several of the categories were so close that they are actually virtual ties. Thunderbolt.pdf (application/pdf Object) Free Online Virus Scanner. Nine Free Cloud Backup Services. Free Cloud Storage Options Cloud storage is simply another name for online file storage. Keeping backups or working copies of important files in the cloud, instead of your hard drive, can give you peace of mind, as well as more convenient access to your files when you need them. As long as you have a computer (or in many cases even a mobile device) with internet access, you can access, edit, and share your files using cloud services. And if it's free, that's even better! Malware Protection Center.

Free People Finder Tools. How to Find People And Businesses Online The Internet is all about connections. After all, it consists entirely of connections between computers. But what's important about these connections is not the computers, but the people and businesses behind them. Disassembling the Woolworths Facebook scam. Who wants free stuff? C’mon, everybody wants a free lunch, right? Yes, yes they do and that’s precisely the trigger used in scams like this one. Recently I wrote about the mechanics of another Facebook scam where the “bait” was photos of a salacious school girl. How to report a computer crime: malware by email. Do you know how to report a computer crime? Or even who you would report it to? We looked at unauthorised email account access in the first of our series of articles on how to report a computer crime.

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