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This post is to say thank you to all the fans of Daily Blogg Tips with a recap of some of the most important dos and don’ts of Internet Security. Read on.


The first official post on our blog was live on October 19th, 2006. And since then, we have been diligently striving to keep you updated with the latest happenings in the computer security world. As we are just a couple of days away from welcoming yet another new year, we would like to thank all our fans, readers, and followers for their readership and contribution to this blog. And as a thank you note, we are recapping one of our most commented and read posts – The Dos and Don’ts of Internet Security. We hope that the following tips help enhance your digital experience for the coming year.

Dos and Don’ts of Internet Security

#1. While giving away personal or financial information on any website, check if its URL begins with ‘https’. Also look for the lock icon, which indicates that the connection is secure.

#2. Never shop online, make financial transactions or login into accounts over free, unsecured WiFi networks.

#3. Create long, unique, and hard to guess passwords. Never keep the same password for different online accounts.

#4. Enable Secure Browsing for your Facebook account.

#5. Keep your computer’s Firewall ON

#6. Avoid making your personal information public on social media sites and Internet in general.

#7. Avoid checking ‘Keep me logged in’ or ‘Remember me’ options on websites, especially on public computers.

#8. Use your primary email address to stay in touch with people you know or are acquainted with.

#9. Never use your official email address for social media sites.

#10. For social media sites, use an email address that you do not use for important communications.

#11. Tighten your privacy settings on Facebook so that only your friends are notified about your activity.

#12. Never use any of your personal information such as name, date of birth, address, etc., as your password.

#13. While you are online in a public setting such as a coffee shop, mall, airport, etc., watch your back to make sure no one’s snooping on you.

#14. Never trust emails asking for your personal or banking information. Be extra cautions against links or attachments in unknown or unwanted emails. Verify any such communication with the sender first.

#15. Do away with old accounts that you do not use anymore.

#16. Do not make your photos or videos public on social media sites. Keep them visible to friends you know, and your family.

#17. Never respond to pop up ads that may come up on your screen. Close such pop ups from the the task manager; press Alt+Ctrl+Delete.

#18. Before downloading any free software, research on the software and the website hosting it.

#19. Avoid visiting inappropriate websites or websites that you are not fully aware of.

#20. Beware of files with multiple extensions.

#21. Always log out of online accounts when you are done. This is especially important when you are using a public computer.

#22. Do not click or share posts on Facebook that claim to show any unusual content such as shocking videos or magical illusions. Verify such news from other sources.

#23. Access your bank’s website by manually typing its URL in the address bar.

#24. Do not click any links in emails to access your bank’s website.

#25. Keep your software and operating system up-to-date.

#26. Do not install software that comes as an attachment in emails.

#27. Always shop from reputed and know online stores.

#28. Update the Internet browsers and software on your computer.

#29. Use up-to-date security software that offers multilayered protection.

#30. Increase your awareness of cyber security and share the same with friends and family.

#31. Avoid online shopping on public computers or networks.

#32. If you are buying from an online website for the first time, do a little research about the site and go through its privacy policies.

#33. Change your Internet banking passwords at periodical intervals and never share them with anyone.

#34. Avoid saving your credit/debit card information on websites and web browsers.

#35. Never share your financial details on phone or email, even if the caller/sender seems genuine. Remember, people in cyberspace are not always what they seem to be.

#36. Avoid downloading software from unverified publishers.

#37. Always lock your computer when not in use. Do not leave it unattended, especially in public places.

#38. Keep passwords that have a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, special characters, and are at least 8 characters long.

#39. Avoid public networks for accessing websites that require you to sign in to access any information.

#40. If you store any critical information such as social security number, credit card number, bank account details, passwords, etc., in external storage devices, ensure that the data is encrypted.

#41. Accept friend requests only from people you know and have met with in person.

#42. Treat an online stranger in the same way as you would treat a stranger in the real world.

#43. If you suspect that a message from a friend is fraudulent or strange, call or meet the friend to discuss it.

#44. Protect your device with a screen lock. Turn the automatic screen lock function ON.

#45. Don’t root or jailbreak your device. It will make your device vulnerable to attackers.

#46. Install apps only from trusted and official sources.

#47. Turn OFF Wi-Fi, Location Services and Bluetooth when not in use.

#48. Avoid sending or saving personal & overly sensitive information on your mobile device.

#49. Avoid mobile apps that ask for unnecessary permissions.

#50. Install a mobile security app with features such as Anti-malware, Anti-theft, Call & SMS filter, Privacy Protection and Remote Device Management.

And that would be all for the top 50 dos and don’ts of Internet security that will protect you from online threats and hackers this year and the years to come. Have A Happy and Splendid New Year 2015!

Have you noticed when you try to work on several applications at once, such as email, internet, and word your computer has a minor stroke when flicking between them? This is because you don't have enough RAM. This is memory used by your PC to run the programs and can be easily upgraded (and quite cheaply) if you know where to look.
Spring clean your whole system using this built-in tool which looks for unnecessary large files.

DBT

The smartphone has a lot to do and the problem of why we ended up in front of the battery leads. If you think that your smartphone battery fast Tan is speaking, you can try these methods:

1. Keep it Turn Off

• Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

Turn on Wi-Fi only smartphone, when you want to use. Wi-Fi is also on going out of range, the phone looks for Wi-Fi signal and battery costs will be. Very rarely do people use GPS. Keep it to one of these. Keep it on all the time is also spent batteries. Wi-Fi is a way off: Settings-Wireless Settings-WiFi-off

• Animation

If the battery is the most important thing for you, then turn off the animation in all applications. Style will be reduced, but will increase battery life. Follow this method to: Settings-Developer Options-Drawing let go of all the animation either to reduce or Animation Scale.

• Mobile Data

Take the battery to be completely closed because the phone is not possible to charge, so be sure to Mobile Data Off. The phone will go on, the Internet will not work-related services.

• Location Services

The (Settings-Locations Services) to go into the box to remove the tick mark. Services will be on location, trying to track the location of the phone will spend the battery. When needed, you can location on the service for a while.

2. The lower the as you can These All

• Screen Brightness

Most battery eats screen. Screen, the bigger, the higher will be the bright and high resolution, the more power it needs. If your phone is the screen brightness to the auto mode, then use it, do not keep the brightness around 50 per cent. The battery will cost less. It is an advantage and that it will have less emphasis on your eyes. Especially in times of need such strong sunlight can increase the brightness when viewing photos or videos.

• Screen timeout

Screen timeout means- nothing of the screen will automatically light how long. The lower the screen timeout on your phone, the battery will last much longer. To reduce it to the phone, go to: Settings-Sound & Display-Screen timeout

• The use of cameras and video

When the phone's battery is low, then the deliberate use of camera and video. These two things will require power. When the phone began to feel more warm, to understand that the battery is being spent rapidly and now needs to rest.

3. Things to avoid

• Vibration

Ringtones to phone vibrates more than the voice has to be strong, so if you do not have to keep the phone on vibration mode. Disable it and hold. Follow this method to: Settings-Sound and Display-PhoneVibrate

• Live Wallpaper

Fish floating on the screen of the phone or any other live wallpaper to-use, then you should assume that the battery would cost too much. Instead of a dark color would be nice to wallpaper photos.

• Widgets

Widgets icon they are larger than normal size, which take up more room on the screen of your phone - like the weather or the Facebook and Twitter Widgets tell. Widgets automatically updated every battery feed themselves. Of application icons on the home screen of the phone Do not crowd. Sometimes use the app, do not keep them on the home screen, but went in the Open menu.

• Two Antivirus

Do not use the phone two Antivirus. Some people think that the two Antivirus will make their phone more secure, but it is not. It will make your phone battery will continue to be sluggish.

4. Check Always these things

• How much battery Use

Go to Phones Settings (Settings-Battery Use) to see which applications are spending so much battery. If the application without eating much battery, remove it from the phone.

• 2G or 3G and 4G mode

So much so that you do not have plans 3G mobile company and your phone is running on 3G mode. Which mode is running on the phone, to the Check (Settings-More Settings-Mobile Networks-Network Mode / Preferred network type) visit and are not using the 3G or 4G, 2G mode Bring it. 3G or 4G are used if, but to a place where 3G or 4G service may not go so similar 2G mode, the battery cost will not find the phone 3G signal.

5. focus on application

• Avoid unnecessary apps

These days is full of apps and even free, but that does not mean that you are downloading app poke. Download apps only work if you use some app is closed so you remove them from the phone. Downloading is easy to uninstall unnecessary applications, but what about those useless apps, which were already in the phone, but you do not ever use.

Android app version 4.0 and above has facilities Disable to: Settings-Application Manager-All tab. You do not use the app, press the Open button to Disable. If you do not see the option to Disable, then uninstall it before all the updates. Disable then try again. If you can not understand the service, they do not Disable, or the call may be wrong.

• Properly Close

Application by pressing the Home button will not stop, they just go in Background spend and keep the battery. By then hit the back button to close the app continue until the app to get out of. Or use the Exit button.

• Auto-update

Android phones are updated all day came App. Such updates to both the battery and data overshadowed. Auto Update to Off (Menu-Play Store-Settings-Auto Update apps) Go and Do not auto update set.

• Use bookmarks

(We also have to change the settings in the way, he has to call Android. Android phone may therefore also have different versions that your smartphone is a little different in the way of the process.)

A while ago on Tweak And Trick, I published an article on changing your processor name. But recently, Anil Kumar pointed out that the trick only changed the name temporarily.

After a user restarts his computer, the name reverted back to original which is obvious as each time Windows boots, it checks the connected hardware and updates the registry value automatically. So, changing the processor name using the earlier article did not have permanent results.

Thus, the alien processor name you had earlier again reverted back to the boring old one.

Problem: To, make the name change permanent, it was required to update the Processor Name String registry key every time Windows starts.

Solution: It is very easy to change your processor name permanently by creating a registry key and placing a shortcut to it in the Windows start up folder. To do so, just follow the steps given below:-


Steps :-
1.  Open Notepad.
2.  Copy and paste the exact code given below:-

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0]
"ProcessorNameString"="My Processor name 50000MHz"

To change the processor name, edit the part of the code given in blue. Also understand that \0 in the above code should only be present if Windows store your processor name at that location. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to the above mentioned keys to check whether or not to include the \0.

3.  Click on File Menu, click on Save As and select "All Types" in the Save as Type option. Save the file as Processor Name Change.reg or *.reg.

Windows Task Manager is used to view details about processes running on your computer. Since it can be used to terminate programs that are misbehaving or are viruses disguised in the form of harmless programs, most spyware and viruses disable it to prevent themselves from being closed through it. Some administrators also disable Task Manager to prevent users from closing important security programs like antiviruses and anti-malwares.

In such situations, running the Task Manager will give the "Task Manager has been disabled by Administrator" error. However, there are some techniques you can use to re-enable task manager and close those harmful programs manually. This article contains few such simple techniques you can use to regain access to Task Managing privileges.

Enable Task Manager from Registry in Windows 8, 7, XP or Vista

Registry Editor is an inbuilt Windows tool that is used to modify registry keys which tell Windows how it should work. A simple registry modification can be used to bypass the Task Manager block. To do so, just follow the steps:-

1. Click on Start. Go to Run. If you use Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows Vista, go to Search.
2. Type regedit and press Enter. Registry Editor will start. If Registry Editor is also disabled, you will first need to enable registry editing.
3. Through the left hand navigation pane, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\ Current Version\Policies\System. If the System key is not there, you will need to create it.
4. In the work area, locate "DisableTaskMgr". If this value is not there, you will need to create a new DWORD value called DisableTaskMgr. Double click on it. A window will pop up.
5. Enter its value data as 0 and press OK.
6. Close Registry Editor. If Task Manager is still disabled, restart your computer.

Enable Task Manager from the Group Policy Editor (Gpedit.msc)

Group Policy Editor is a feature in Windows which is used to edit local policy settings. It can also be used to enable Task Manager. To do so, just follow the steps given below:-

1. Open Start Menu. Windows XP users click on Run. Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Vista users, go to Search.
2. Type gpedit.msc and press Enter. Group Policy Editor Window will show up.
3. From the navigational pane at the left hand side, go to: User Configuration>Administrative Templates>System>Ctrl+Alt+Del Options.
4. In the work area, double click on "Remove Task Manager" and set its value to Disabled or Not Configured.
5. Restart your Computer or Log Off and Log back On to apply the changes.
6. Group Policy Editor is not available on home editions of Windows.

Enable Task Manager by Running a CMD Command

Command Prompt can also be used to directly enable Task Manager.

1. Open Notepad.
2. Copy the code given below and paste it.

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

Create a Registry(.reg) file for enabling Task Manager

If you are unfamiliar with manually editing the Registry, you can create a Registry file which will automatically modify the Registry Key to re-enable Task Managing. To create one such file:-

1. Open Notepad or any other text editor.
2. Copy the code given below and paste it as it is in it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] “DisableTaskMgr” =dword:00000000


      4.  Open the file by double clicking on it.
      5.  Registry Editor will ask you for confirmation. In the confirmation Window, click Yes.
      6.  Task Manager would immediately be accessible. If it is not, restart your computer.

Password leaks and targeted attacks are nothing new and the latest security bug related to a massive loss of passwords across the world is ‘Heartbleed’. This bug has received a lot of media coverage over the last few days, so there is a lot of confusion about what it is and what one needs to do to fix the issue.
This blog post aims to help you better understand what Heartbleed really is and what you need to do in order to secure your presence online. Heartbleed has affected about 17% (close to 500,000) of the web servers across the world, so there is a high chance that you are affected by this too. With that in mind, here’s what you need to know now.

Fact # 1: What exactly is Heartbleed?

Heartbleed is a security bug that affects servers that use OpenSSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology. When you log in to your email account, or make a financial transaction online, the server that hosts this activity is protected by the SSL technology, which is denoted by the symbol of the padlock near the address bar and the unmistakable presence of “HTTPS” as a prefix of the URL itself.
Heartbleed is a bug that afflicts this very protective measure and exposes information that SSL attempts to protect. What this means then, is that sensitive information like passwords, credit/debit card details and more are susceptible to this bug and can be stolen.

What this means is that there is nothing wrong with your PC or your antivirus software. This is an issue that needs to be dealt with by the people who run the websites that make use of SSL. Moreover, if you are surfing the Internet you will not be able to tell if a service you are using is affected by Hearbleed or not.

Fact # 2: Which websites and online services are affected?

While most of the sites that have been affected have taken corrective steps already, there are bound to be many more which are still working on it. If you use some of the following services then there is a high chance that your password and details may have been leaked.

Facebook	Gmail	Amazon	SoundCloud
Instagram	Yahoo Mail	Flickr	YouTube
Pinterest	Google	Minecraft	Wikipedia
Tumblr	GoDaddy	Netflix	Dropbox

As you can see, the list is huge. There are several more services that have been affected, so the potential damage here is substantial.

This online tool can also help you ascertain whether a particular URL is afflicted or not. If you carry out online banking transactions, then we highly recommend that you change your account passwords. Also, check this tool to see if your bank’s online portal is affected by Heartbleed or not.

Fact # 3: What do you need to do?

While there is nothing specific that you can do to combat Heartbleed, one major precaution you should take is change ALL your online passwords right away. This will ensure that if any of the services you use have been afflicted by Heartbleed, then at least your passwords will be safe. Apart from this, stay alert about any unusual activity on your accounts. If you feel something is out of the ordinary, take the necessary corrective steps as soon as possible. Moreover, spread the word about Heartbleed and inform your friends and family members as well.
WARNING: Be on the lookout for fake password reset emails

With such widespread activity occurring simultaneously with regards to password changes all over the world, this is bound to lead to several phishing emails about password resets. Be on the lookout for such emails and stay away from fake emails that ask you to change your passwords. Read here for some tips on how to recognize fake phishing emails.

Quick Heal will keep you updated about any further developments and news regarding Heartbleed, so keep checking back for more information.

From creating strong and unique passwords to avoiding phishing attacks, we have listed out some of the most essential dos and don’ts of Internet safety. Scroll down to see which ones you follow and which ones you don’t.

Dos and Don’ts of Internet Safety

#1. While giving away personal or financial information on any website, check if its URL begins with ‘https’. Also look for the lock icon, which indicates that the connection is secure.
#2. Never shop online, make financial transactions or login into accounts over free, unsecured WiFi networks.
#3. Create long, unique, and hard to guess passwords. Never keep the same password for different online accounts.
#4. Enable Secure Browsing for your Facebook account.
#5. Keep your computer’s Firewall ON
#6. Avoid making your personal information public on social media sites and Internet in general.
#7. Avoid checking ‘Keep me logged in’ or ‘Remember me’ options on websites, especially on public computers.
#8. Use your primary email address to stay in touch with people you know or are acquainted with.
#9. Never use your official email address for social media sites.
#10. For social media sites, use an email address that you do not use for important communications.
#11. Tighten your privacy settings on Facebook so that only your friends are notified about your activity.
#12. Never use any of your personal information such as name, date of birth, address, etc., as your password.
#13. While you are online in a public setting such as a coffee shop, mall, airport, etc., watch your back to make sure no one’s snooping on you.
#14. Never trust emails asking for your personal or banking information. Be extra cautions against links or attachments in unknown or unwanted emails. Verify any such communication with the sender first.
#15. Do away with old accounts that you do not use anymore.
#16. Do not make your photos or videos public on social media sites. Keep them visible to friends you know, and your family.
#17. Never respond to pop up ads that may come up on your screen. Close such pop ups from the the task manager; press Alt+Ctrl+Delete.
#18. Before downloading any free software, research on the software and the website hosting it.
#19. Avoid visiting inappropriate websites or websites that you are not fully aware of.
#20. Beware of files with multiple extensions.
#21. Always log out of online accounts when you are done. This is especially important when you are using a public computer.
#22. Do not click or share posts on Facebook that claim to show any unusual content such as shocking videos or magical illusions. Verify such news from other sources.
#23. Access your bank’s website by manually typing its URL in the address bar.
#24. Do not click any links in emails to access your bank’s website.
#25. Change your banking and other Internet account passwords at periodic intervals.
#26. Do not install software that comes as an attachment in emails.
#27. Always shop from reputed and know online stores.
#28. Update the Internet browsers and software on your computer.
#29. Use up-to-date security software that offers multilayered protection.
#30. Increase your awareness of cyber security and share the same with friends and family.
And that would be all for some of the important dos and don’ts that each one of us must follow to keep our online world safe, sound, and healthy.

Use the comment space below to leave us your choice for the following options:

a) You follow all of these dos and don’ts

b) You follow some of them

c) You follow none of them

d) You will start following them now