Tech Salsa

When you deal with some confidential documents you tend to have some pdf files generated for this purpose because of the advantage of editing not possible and also because we can have it securer than other documents.

Recently, it was when I was dealing with my salary documents that I figured this issue that my pdf files were password protected. This was fine to me until I needed to share them with someone, the issue being, I couldn’t tell them my password.

Thus if you also want to share your encrypted pdf files with someone but don’t want to tell them the password then the best solution is to remove the password using a password remover and share it. There are lot of PDF password remover available online but all of them are shareware that means, you can only use the free versions for some time as a trial. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You must have come across, some time or later about this process running in your system called System Idle Process. Anyone who had used Windows XP must be knowing about it but recently I was asked by one of our readers who wanted to know about this process and why it is consuming so much CPU memory when other applications are hardly able to run.

So in case you also wish to find more about it, here are the details:

What is System Idle Process?

Geek definition: Every computer have a scheduler whose job is to schedule the jobs given to the system but here is one rule that it should follow, which is that [Read the rest of this entry...]

In the continuation of the articles on phishing scams here is another one that explains what is SMiShing and what you can do to stay protected. This is another type of phishing attack that is common now days and also the preferred use of fooling people.

What is Smishing?

Smishing is a form of phishing attack, combination of SMS and phishing as the mode of fraud is the Short Messaging Service (SMS) in this case. Also known as SMS Phishing (SMiShing) is the social engineering scam which the attackers use to attract the users. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Vishing, is also one of the types of Phishing attacks made using the practice of social engineering over the telephone system. Vishing, too follows the same principle of fooling people and gaining their important details like PIN and bank information.

Vishing is the combination of the terms “Voice” and “Phishing” as it incorporates the use of voice for phishing people. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You must have heard of what phishing attack is, in short, something that forces you to provide your confidential user login credentials which are then hacked and used for illegal use. Tabnabbing is a new type phishing attack that also makes use of the same principle that is stealing users’ login credentials.

The major difference between phishing and Tabnabbing is that while phishing, in some or the other way, forces you to provide the credentials, Tabnabbing makes use of the inattention of the user to capture the details. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You must have heard of many computer infections like malware, adware etc but ever heard what’s a Rogueware is? Yes, computer world have got this new type of malicious infection lately.

What is a Rogueware?
Rogueware, also known as Rogue security software is a new type of internet fraud that fools the users to buy some tool that helps in malicious code removal but in fact spreads more of it. The infection works in the similar way of fooling people and stealing them of their money. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It has been some time since Google have introduced this new feature of showing the page preview right from the Google search page. This is a good feature if you want to see how the website looks like before opening it from Google.

To see the preview you just need to hover your mouse over the arrow button beside the web page link on Google, and it will directly show you the preview of the page. The feature is good in some regards, but in case if this irritates you then here is how to disable or hide this preview feature in the Google search. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Registry is the main area of our computer that controls its proper working and some invalid changes in it can lead to unstable system. Thus it is very important to know which registry is being modified when you install any application.

We recommend you to backup your registry before making any changes to it, but there are occasions when some application access it and make some changes without your notice. This can be dangerous if the tool make the changes that can lead to unstable system. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you have been using a Windows system then you must have come across this situation some or the other time, that you have non-responsive process that needs to be terminated. Recently I had this program which wasn’t responding so I was required to terminate this process.

To terminate a process I opened the Task Manager but to my surprise I found that my Windows Task Manager was unable to terminate the process and showed this error message “Unable to terminate Process: the operation could not be completed” [Read the rest of this entry...]

Just like the most commonly used video formats we posted yesterday, we have the most common or popularly used audio formats used in today’s computers and devices for audio playback.

We have lot many audio formats and codecs used across the devices, thus here is a list explaining the most commonly used ones and their purpose: [Read the rest of this entry...]

There have been so many video formats used today for viewing the videos or movies in our systems that it has become difficult to remember each of them. Using the right codec for viewing movies is important.

Thought of sharing a list of the commonly used video formats which will help you to identify which codec is used when (in no particular order). You must have heard/used most of them, if not in case, then you can easily know which format is best to use on the following scenarios: [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you have some user accounts in your system having password then you must know how irritating it feels when you are asked to change the password after some time. Although it is a good practice to have one, but in case you work in a secure environment with trustworthy people then you might want to prevent this pop up message.

Most of us are not using Windows XP these days but there are some who still like it, thus for those here is the tip below to stop this password expiration message. [Read the rest of this entry...]