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Manually Update Windows Defender Definitions

Microsoft Windows Vista and 7 come with Windows Defender installed. You can also install it in Windows XP. Windows Defender is free software from Microsoft that helps protect your computer against many security threats. If you have a computer that does not have Internet access or automatic update is not working for you, then you can manually update the Windows Defender spyware definitions.

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Backup Your Firefox Profile Settings with FEBE

Mozilla Firefox has emerged as an extremely popular web browser for all the operating systems. It is always a good idea to keep a backup of Firefox settings in case you lose your data or your hard disk becomes corrupt. You can create a backup of all your Firefox settings using FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension). FEBE is itself an add-on for Firefox using which you can create a backup of all your installed add-ons and other profile settings.

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Remotely Logout from Your Facebook Account

Everyone seems to have a Facebook account these days. But you may jeopardize the security of your Facebook account if you login to your Facebook account on a public computer and forget to logout. Because you forget to logout, now everyone else can access your Facebook account from that computer. Do not worry, you can remotely logout from that device or computer easily.

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Download Your Information from Your Facebook Account

Facebook has become most popular social networking site. Many Facebook users upload their videos and pictures directly to their Facebook account in order to share them with their families and friends. If you lose the mobile device, which contained many photos and videos you took using that device, then you can download those pictures, videos and other information from the Facebook account.

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Enable Secure Browsing in Facebook through HTTPS

Facebook is the most popular social networking site. Facebook is making it more and more secure everyday. Now Facebook has added secure browsing through HTTPS connection whenever possible. This way the connection between your computer and the Facebook servers would become encrypted and nobody will be able to eavesdrop on the data being transferred between you and Facebook.

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Disable Switching to Secure Desktop for Elevation in Windows 7

Windows 7 asks you for elevation of access rights through the User Accounts Control (UAC) dialog, when you try to make any changes to system files or install a program. By default, the UAC dialog is shown on a second secure desktop window. This is annoying and can hang some media applications like DScaler. If you want, then you can easily disable this switching of UAC to secure desktop for elevation permissions.

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Disable User Password Expiration in Windows Vista

In Windows Vista, a user’s account password expires in forty-two days by default. After forty-two days, your user account password is reset and you are asked to change the password. Windows will warn you fourteen days before your password is to be expired. This is a great feature from the security point of view. But if you find this irritating, then you can disable the password expiration altogether.

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Get Free 2GB Online Backup from SpiderOak

SpiderOak is an online storage, backup and synchronization service. It provides an easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access and storage solution for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE). Although, it has many paid packages, you can get a free starter package – free lifetime 2GB online storage space. It provides its own client application to access the files but you can also access the files you have stored online using a web browser.

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Clean Malware Using eScan AntiVirus Toolkit Utility

If you feel that your computer is infected by some malware, then you can try cleaning it using the eScan Antivirus Toolkit Utility. The eScan Antivirus Toolkit is a free utility that enables you to scan and clean viruses, spyware, adware and any other malware that may have infected your computer. The eScan Antivirus Toolkit requires no installation and can be run directly from anywhere.

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