Monday, May 5, 2014

Clean Windows Registry and Speed up your PC

The Windows registry is not exposed, are protected at all times for maximum speed and performance. In addition to topics such as hardware, memory problems, incompatibility of device drivers and problems that can not be removed from the registry, but most of them do I have to deal with themes of Windows registry problems with the Windows registry. You have to be repaired, or as soon as possible to keep your computer updated and corrected effectively.

You can find many problems in the registry now and have to run again. All modern operating systems Windows, the registry database or registry stores all the configuration settings for the respective components in the computer system.

If you have a program to install add value to the registry and configuration settings in the installed application. But if the program is not fully the location and other information are furnished partially saved or corrupt manner, that many problems and issues register later purchased.

Another important reason is that when you remove programs from your computer, some of the residue remains in the Windows registry, and delete them gradually collect debris and create more unwanted records in the database. These elements generate a lot of problems such as slow computer later, blue screen error and many such cases in your system.

Another important factor is computer viruses and other malicious programs. The virus can cause great damage to the Windows registry. He has the potential, and that it was designed to the registry is damaged before you do anything else. The virus changes the basic registry entries so that the safety of things can not detect or catch it, and they can do, what role is actually exercised.

These three things or issues that are important for Windows, sometimes corrupt registry, and then the system creates more questions. For the latter reason, for example, virus removal, you are a good and effective virus protection to all malicious entries must be deleted from your system and registry, anti-virus software is usually not intended to restore the damaged Registry. Since a reliable registry cleaning software is not required.

All the many thousands of corrupt registry keys as empty, directories, file path, the class ID, interface, font, links and many other similar and undesirable elements necessary for safe and effective registry repair tool that really convinced that it takes to be removed from the registry without the system and other programs on your computer.

Use Necessary Software to Keep System Clean
There are many tools available on-line registry cleaner, but not all of them are very efficiently and reliably. Most of them just happened to be the best is, but they do not work, and they are ineffective. In this case, choose the best thing you can do is download a trial version of the software in a while and watch the results of the software will decide whether further action: to buy or use.

Get the free CCleaner (www.piriform.com/ccleaner) which is available for both Windows and MAC. It makes short work of cleaning up your system's temporary files. MAC users can also use OnyX (www.titanium.free.fr) which offers advanced cleaning options.

SpeedUpMyPC (www.uniblue.com/software/speedupmypc) is the updated and successful program, designed to clean and repair all the unwanted stuff from your computer in an efficient manner.

Defraggler (www.piriform.com/defraggler) is a great tool that offers the option to defrag the entire hard drive or just specific folder. It displays a drive map that shows how the space of your hard drive is utilized.

TuneUp Utilities (www.tune-up.com) as you install more programs, you might notice that your PC takes longer to boot up. This happens because many applications and services automatically initialize during the boot process. Tune Up Utilities can analyses your PC's boot up time and removes unnecessary startup programs. It even lets you individually select the programs you want to remove from startup. MAC users can do the same by going to System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items and removing applications that you do not want to open automatically when you log in.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Facebook hackers fooled into hacking their own accounts

A video post making the rounds on Facebook shows how to hack the highly popular social media website in order to gain access to accounts and other features – but really it is a scam that only results in users hacking their own accounts.

Last week, researchers with Symantec discovered the scam impacting users in India, according to a Wednesday blog post, which explains that the operators are using a variation of a trick known as self cross-site scripting, or self-XSS, that dates back to 2011.

It is a fairly simple strategy.

The video post links to code stored on Google Drive and states that, by pasting the code into the browser console window, the Facebook hack will be successful within a couple of hours, Satnam Narang, a researcher with Symantec Security Response, wrote in the blog.

What actually ends up happening is that the victim's Facebook account begins following and "liking" posts by the scammers, according to the blog, which adds that accounts also tag their friends in a comment on the original video post, in order to spread the scam.

“The code impacts any Facebook user around the world,” Narang told SCMagazine.com in a Thursday email correspondence, noting users in the U.S. may have been affected. “It just so happens that this particular campaign was launched in India. The code is geo-location agnostic.”

The code, which contains hints that the authors may have been Turkish, is fairly lengthy and complex, Narang said, but he explained that what it essentially does is utilize commands and requests made to Facebook in order to perform the specific actions, such as subscribing to a profile.

“This particular scam is specific to Facebook and cannot be used on other social media websites and services,” Narang said. “The goal here, for these scammers, is to inflate the 'likes' and follower counts for their company and brand pages and their own profiles on Facebook."

Narang added that Facebook disabled consoles in some browsers and gives users a choice to turn it back on.

Facebook launches anonymous login

Yesterday on F8 Conference, Facebook have made number of announcements. On those one is introducing Facebook Anonymous login feature. According to this feature, Facebook users will be able to log in to third party apps anonymously using their Facebook login. This will help users to log into there account without sharing their personal information.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg, explain the Anonymous Login tool as, many users did not feel comfortable sharing their details with an app that allowed Facebook login, without trying the app first. By selecting the “Log In Anonymously” option, users will now be able to log in to apps and services and ascertain whether the app is worth using and if it can be trusted with their details. If users are afraid that logging into a certain app will result in their friends being spammed with requests, then they can opt for the anonymous login. Doing so will ensure that the app developers do not get to see your identity or details and will only be able to do so once you choose to sign in to the app in a regular manner.

Another announcement that highlights Facebook’s attempts at improving user privacy also dealt with app logins. The social network will now allow users to see and control all data that an app requires when you’re logging in. The new login screen will allow users to uncheck any part of their data they don’t want the app to receive before actually logging in. The granularity of this means that users can (as an example) choose to let an app see their likes and email address but not their friends list and birthday. Users will also get a newly designed app control panel that gives them a better view of the apps they use and control their permissions.