These days we receive a lot of fake emails claiming to be from sites likes eBay and PayPal. These fake emails often contain links to phishing web sites designed specially to steal your login data. Now Gmail has introduced a new feature called Authentication icon for verified senders which allows user to know the whether the senders email is trusted one.
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Improve power usage in Windows 7
Have you ever wondered how fast Windows 7 drains your notebook battery? Although it may be that you have a crappy quality notebook battery, yet you can try to optimize the power usage inside Windows 7 to maximize the battery life.
Read moreQuickly access Wikipedia in Google Chrome
Wikipedia has become very popular among students and all those looking for all kinds of information. If you are someone who looks up Wikipedia very often, then you can use the Wikipedia Companion extension in the Chrome browser to make your Wikipedia browsing much easier.
Read moreCreate a Sign-In seal for Yahoo! account
These days fraudsters setup a genuine looking site so that when you try to login to it, they can steal your login data. To secure your Yahoo! account from such phishing sites, you can use a Yahoo! Sign-In seal. A sign-in seal is a secret between the computer you set it up on and Yahoo!. So when you sign in to Yahoo! from your computer, your sign-in seal tells you that you’re seeing a genuine Yahoo! site, not a phishing site.
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To secure your Yahoo! account from phishing sites, you can use a Yahoo! Sign-In seal. We have earlier discussed how to create a Yahoo! sign-in seal. What if you want to remove a sign-in seal from your computer? Here is how to remove a Yahoo! sign-in seal.
Read moreCreate your own EICAR test virus automatically
We have earlier covered an article about how to test your antivirus using EICAR test virus. That article covers, how to manually create the EICAR test virus. In this article, we will show you how to use the EICAR Test tool to automatically create the file for you.
Read moreRecover a compromised Yahoo! e-mail account
If you use a weak password in your Yahoo! e-mail account, try to access it through a public computer (like from cyber cafe) or use a public Wi-Fi internet to access your Yahoo! e-mail account, then there is a possibility that your Yahoo! e-mail account might get hacked. If you think that your Yahoo! e-mail account has been compromised, then you can try to recover it using the Yahoo! account recovery wizard.
Read moreBackup your user profile in Windows 7
There is a possibility that your user profile might get corrupted and when you logon to Windows you get an error message telling you that your user profile might be corrupted. For one of those days, you should make a backup of your user profile files.
Read moreShow protected operating system files in Windows 7
Windows 7 hides important files and folders by default – they are called protected operating system files. These protected operating system files are not visible in the Windows Explorer. But you can change the settings to make Windows Explorer show these protected operating system files.
Read moreSet YouTube to play videos at high quality
If you are a regular user of YouTube and enjoy watching videos on YouTube, then you should set the default video playback quality to match your connection or for a better experience. You can change the settings in YouTube to play the videos either in low quality or in high quality (high-definition).
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