Some Important Security Tips for Internet banking:

Universal Defense:

§  Never logon to Internet Bank via an email link. Remember Bank couldn’t send you email with logon link.

§  Never logon to your internet bank account on public computer.

§  Check that the padlock at the bottom of the page shows that you are safe and secure websites.

§  Never answer to email that asks for your personal credit card/debit card or any account number and password. No bank will ask you for these details in an email.

§  Always use your Bank Account by typing Bank sites directly. If you don’t know the bank site, go and contact your bank personally they provide you all the details.

§  If someone call you as introduce them as Bank Employee and ask your bank account details, never expose them and report this to your bank personally.

§  If you fall casualty to an attack, act instantly to protect yourself. Alert your bank about the casualty.

§  Avoid opening you bank account on public computer or cyber café. If it’s so urgent then change the password immediately when you reach your home computer.

Password Related Tips:

§  Avoid you and your family name in password.

§  You login name and password should be different.

§  Avoid Dictionary words in any language because Hacker can guess your password by firing dictionary attacks.

§  Make your password Lengthy. Your password should be 8 or more than 8 characters.

§  Avoid Sequences or repeated characters – “123456” or “2222222”.

§  Combine your passwords with Letters, numbers, and symbols. Use both upper and lower characters.

§  Use the entire keyboard in your password. Don’t use most common characters.

§  Don’t reveal your password to others.

§  Avoid using online password storage.

§  Never written down the password to some notes, if this notes is lost then it’s easy for someone to guess your future password according to your previous password.

§  Don’t use password which is similar to your computer or other social networking sites because it’s easy to steal password from your computer and social networking sites.

§  Upgrade your antivirus and browser to new one.

§  While doing internet banking, change your browser mode to “private browsing”. This will delete your all cookies and files from your computer. All leading browser have this facility like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari.

§  Follow the bank policy, change your password every time when they promoted or you change your password every 10 days.

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PC Tips To Keep You And Your Online Computer Secure And Problem Free

Hi,
I have been using computer for years, here are some of the maintenance tips to take care of your PC/Computer/Laptop/Server so that it works without problems.
On Software Front:
1. Install an Antivirus – freeware or paid one, lots of them are there. Use virustotal.com service if you want to be almost 100% sure that the new file being used on your PC is virus free. Also keep your antivirus updated.
2. Install a Firewall – Free or commercial version, which ever you can afford, it will keep your PC safe from outside online attacks from hackers. Also keep the
3. Install Antispyware – Everyone hates being spied and so should your PC too. Better have two antispyware with one active at a time. Here I am referring to spyware that can do harm do your PC by monitoring your surfing habits, usernames and passwords, snooping your confidential data on your PC and then sending it all to someone without your knowledge. Don’t forget to keep your antispyware updated.
4. Install Antitrojanware – Hidden malicious program inside an attractive one to give remote access to someone, grab your password to allow someone to break in to your computer. Sometimes a single software pack can do most of the things, i.e. keep viruses, spyware, malware and trojans (hidden harmful codes that get activated on a particular day) away.



5. Install Antikeylogger – No one should come to know what usernames and passwords you typed on your online PC.
6. Install Application Software (browsers, FTP – File Transfer Client, Image editors, Word processors etc.) from reputed sources and not from any source as the file being installed can be infected.
7. Don’t use P2P and torrent clients to download illegal stuff from Net. There is something hidden in these files mostly to cause harm to your PC.
8. Be alert and don’t open emails and attachments from unknown persons.
9. Always buy licensed system software which the base for letting other software operate on it.
10. Ensure you have a backup software to take backups of your files. Also have your PC Create System Restore point automatically whenever installing something new. This will help you in coming back to a working computer state in case the new software malfunctions.
11. Defragment your hard disk to improve the rate it provides data from it. Defragmentation arranges the similar data in continuous way on your hard disk so that hard disk reading process doesn’t have to work a lot searching for the information to load a program or file etc.
12. Install screen savers or switch off monitor when you are not using it (going for half an hour break with some downloads happening in the background), use optimized setting for hard disk (should become idle when not in use) and other devices available in the CMOS setup. This will increase the life of the respective hardware as they should be used only when needed.
On Hardware Front:
1. Keep your computer clean externally – This will keep insects, flies away. Avoid drinking tea, coffee etc. while working on your PC.
2. Make sure that there are no gaps big enough in your PC for lizards, cockroaches etc. to go inside and piss on your PC electronics
3. Ensure that the interiors of PC are clean, i.e., dust free. If you can do the cleaning yourself do it at average of once in three months or get it done. The more the dust on the chips etc., the more are the chances of their failure!
4. Ensure computer back is at least 3 to 4 inches away from the wall so that its fans can throw out heat. Your computer must remain cool!
5. All the fans of the computer must work, use a software provided by the PC manufacturer to do so. Sometimes a fan that is making noises is likely to be fail soon, get it rectified soon.
6. If the place where the computer is being used is hot (above 25 degree Celsius), use an air conditioner. Don’t use a water cooler as water moisture can short circuit the electronics of PC.
7. Use a cable fixer to route cables properly, they should not hang and obstruct the way of the passers. Oh! it also makes your PC aesthetics good and less dust accumulation compared to them lying on the floor.
8. Use UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) to protect PC from over voltages and brownouts etc.
9. Use spike busters for the interfaces such as Ethernet cable and telephone cables etc. as they can sometimes carry high voltages due to some or other problem. None of the external interface can be trusted for always having a safe voltage, to be directly connected to your PC’s port.
10. Make sure that the power to the PC is correct (right earthing with leakage not more than 5V between Neutral and Earth) and provided via good quality of wires, sockets, plugs etc. If these are of bad quality then it can lead to electrical sparks and even fire.
11. Don’t fiddle with your PC components to repair a fault if you don’t know ABC of computer repair. Call someone who is Expert! I personally know of cases where people not knowing much about repair of PC have messed with their computer thinking that it’s minor problem and can be repaired easily. One of my friend burnt his PC CPU as he forgot to put back heat sink and fan on the CPU, It hardly took 5-10 seconds for CPU to get heated and give smoke. He finally ended in spending about $100 on its repair.



12. Buy quality repair parts and get repair done from professionals. Cheap computer parts can definitely save you money but can cost you more in the long run.
Buy ergonomically designed computer furniture and chair and have a proper posture, take breaks when working for hours continuously.
If you have some other tips to share with me from your experience, let me know as there are still many left, have covered only the main ones
Hope that these experienced tips helps some of my friends in keeping their PC healthy and secure online!
Connecting an Xbox 360 to a wireless router allows you to use Xbox Live without physically connecting your Xbox to a cable. Power up your Xbox system and the router, then plug the wireless networking adapter into the two slots at the Xbox's rear. Unplug any existing Ethernet cables and connect the USB connector to the port adjacent to the adapter. Use the system area of the Xbox dashboard to adjust your network settings. This should connect you to the wireless network.

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Task Manager Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator - Fix

Many times when working on a computer that has been infected with a virus, trojan, or piece of spyware I find myself with the Task Manager being disabled. Malware creators like to disable Task Manager so it makes solving the problem and removing the issue difficult.

If this happens you'll normally have to edit the Windows registry to fix the problem. A restriction has been placed on the user to not allow them to run Task Manager, this might be ok in an office environment where the IT department wants to control things, but in a home office this can cause major problems trying to fix a malware or virus issue.

Listed below you will find the many ways to reenable Task Manager along with an automatic method that works wonders.

To open the Task Manager, you normally would do one of the following:

• Press CTRL-ALT-DEL on the keyboard
• Press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC on the keyboard
• Right-click on a blank area on the start bar and choose Task Manager
• Click on Start, Run and type TASKMGR in the run box and press Enter

Sometimes instead of Task Manager opening you'll see the following screen. In these cases, you'll have to follow the methods below to re-enable access to the Task Manager.

First we'll begin with the various registry modification methods for correcting this problem.

Method 1 - Using the Group Policy Editor in Windows XP Professional

1. Click Start, Run, type gpedit.msc and click OK.
2. Under User Configuration, Click on the plus (+) next to Administrative Templates
3. Click on the plus (+) next tSystem, then click on Ctrl+Alt+Delete Options
4. Find Remove Task Manager in the right-hand pane and double click on it
5. Choose the option "Not Configured" and click Ok.
6. Close the Group Policy Window

Method 2: Change the Task Manager Option through the Run line

1. Click on Start, Run and type the following command exactly and press Enter

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableTaskMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Method 3: Change Task Manager through a Registry REG file

1. Click on Start, Run, and type Notepad and press Enter
2. Copy and paste the information between the dotted lines into Notepad and save it to your desktop as taskmanager.reg

------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableTaskMgr"=dword:00000000
-------------------------------------

3. Double click on the taskmanager.reg file to enter the information into the Windows registry

Method 4: Delete the restriction in the registry manually

1. Click on Start, Run, and type REGEDIT and press Enter
2. Navigate to the following branch
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies\ System
3. In the right pane, find and delete the value named DisableTaskMgr
4. Close the registry editor

Method 5: Download and Run FixTaskManager program 

1. Click on the following links and download the program FixTaskManagerto your Desktop
   
   Backup Location
2. Double-click on the file FixTaskManager on your desktop and run it

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How to remove new folder exe or regsvr exe or autorun inf virus

I want to tell you a story, two days back i got affected by this virus very badly as it eat up all my empty hard disk space of around 700 MB  .

I was surprised that my most reliable friend Avast, for the first time failed me in this war against viruses but then again avg and bitdiffender also failed against it. This virus is know popularly as regsvr.exe virus, or as new folder.exe virus and most people identify this one by seeing autorun.inf file on their pen drives, But trend micro identified it as WORM_DELF.FKZ. It is spreading mostly using pen drives as the medium.

Well, so here is the story of how i was able to kill the monster and reclaim my hard disk space.

Manual Process of removal

I prefer manual process simply because it gives me option to learn new things in the process.

So let’s start the process off reclaiming the turf that virus took over from us.

1. Cut The Supply Line
   1. Search for autorun.inf file. It is a read only file so you will have to change it to normal by right clicking the file , selecting the properties and un-check the read only option
   2. Open the file in notepad and delete everything and save the file.
   3. Now change the file status back to read onlymode so that the virus could not get access again.
   4. 
   5. Click start->run and type msconfig and click ok
   6. Go to startup tab look for regsvr and uncheck the option click OK.
   7. Click on Exit without Restart, cause there are still few things we need to do before we can restart the PC.
   8. Now go to control panel -> scheduled tasks, and delete the At1 task listed their.
2. Open The Gates Of Castle
   1. Click on start -> run and type gpedit.msc and click Ok.
   2. 
   3. If you are Windows XP Home Edition user you might not have gpedit.msc in that case download and install it from Windows XP Home Edition: gpedit.msc and then follow these steps.
      
   4. Go to users configuration->Administrative templates->system
   5. Find “prevent access to registry editing tools” and change the option to disable.
   6. 
   7. Once you do this you have registry access back.
3. Launch The Attack At Heart Of Castle
   1. Click on start->run and type regedit and click ok
   2. Go to edit->find and start the search for regsvr.exe,
   3. 
   4. Delete all the occurrence of regsvr.exe; remember to take a backup before deleting. KEEP IN MIND regsvr32.exe is not to be deleted. Delete regsvr.exe occurrences only.
   5. At one ore two places you will find it after explorer.exe in theses cases only delete the regsvr.exe part and not the whole part. E.g.Shell = “Explorer.exe regsvr.exe” the just delete the regsvr.exe and leave the explorer.exe
4. Seek And Destroy the enemy soldiers, no one should be left behind
   1. Click on start->search->for files and folders.
   2. Their click all files and folders
   3. Type “*.exe” as filename to search for
   4. Click on ‘when was it modified ‘ option andselect the specify date option
   5. Type from date as 1/31/2008 and also type To date as 1/31/2008
   6. 
   7. Now hit search and wait for all the exe’s to show up.
   8. Once search is over select all the exe files and shift+delete the files, caution must be taken so that you don’t delete the legitimate exe file that you have installed on 31^stJanuary.
   9. Also selecting lot of files together might make your computer unresponsive so delete them in small bunches.
   10. Also find and delete regsvr.exe, svchost .exe( notice an extra space between the svchost and .exe)
5. Time For Celebrations
   1. Now do a cold reboot (ie press the reboot button instead) and you are done.

I hope this information helps you win your own battle against this virus. Soon all antivirus programs will be able to automatically detect and clean this virus. Also i hope Avast finds a way to solve this issues.

As a side note i have found a little back dog( winpatrol ) that used to work perfectly on my old system. It was not their in my new PC, I have installed it again , as I want to stay ahead by forever closing the supply line of these virus. You can download it formWinpatrol website.

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How to Use Google search as Dictionary to find meanings

Friends,its a simple one among many of google tricks you need to know,
okay,when you're searching for a
word, Google will offer a link
to Web definitions of your
word,sometime you might noticed occasionally.This is Google's algorithm which redefines your search term ,we simply say it -hidden dictionary, a search of definitions on the Web. 

Lets consider you'd like to find out
what a word "skew" is? You could
search for define clew, and
most of the search results
would have some sort of
definition. However, this is really just a keyword search,
so some of the results might
be long articles on clews or
only mention the definition in
passing. 

Define: Your Search Term If you're really only
interested in finding a quick
dictionary style definition of
clew, use the syntax define: . The search in this case would
be define: clew . From that search, we can instantly see
that a clew is the lower corner
of a boat sail. The information is coming
from a variety of dictionary
related Web sites, and there's
a link to the full entry for
each Web site. Google also
provides links to related searches, such as "clew bay." 
You don't know the exact Spell? 
don't worry. Google will still
suggest you an alternate search for your term,
just as it does for regular Web
searches. If we type in define: skiw , Google helpfully asks
"Did you mean: define: skew."

Is this information useful ? Please share your comments! your known tricks too..

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