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Tip of the Week: Beware of Phishing

You must have heard about phishing these days, well in case you haven’t then we have more on this topic in this week’s Tip of the Week.

Phishing is a type of scam designed to steal your personal data (such as credit card numbers, account data, passwords or other valuable information) by masquerading as a trustworthy [...]

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Tip of the Week: How to use Internet Safely

In this week’s tip, we will share how to use the internet safely and effectively.

Inappropriate use of Internet is unsafe and can lead to several and big problems. It may result in loss of confidential data/Intellectual property, damage to critical internal systems and more. Some of the practices that can harm our system and confidentiality [...]

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Tip of the Week: How to Make Passwords Difficult to Guess

We are back with this Week’s Tip where we will learn few tips on how to make Passwords difficult to guess.
In our day to day lives we need to store our information and thus we require passwords for that, but here is how to make your passwords strong and difficult to guess.
Tips:
• Ensure that your password [...]

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Tip of the Week: Beware of Scareware

There are various different kinds of the malicious threats to the computer that remembering each of them is bit tedious. The threats include virus, malware, adware, Trojans but apart from these there is Scareware about which not everyone is aware of.

Scareware is a type of software that frightens you into downloading and purchasing certain rogue [...]

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Tip of the Week: Clean Computer Table

So when was the last time you cleaned up your computer table? It is the case of most of the people who do not clean their computer table tends to mess up all their important stuffs and thus lose out on it.
The common things that mess up your computer table are unorganized books, CDs, USB drives [...]

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Tip of the Week: Uninstall unwanted Programs

Despite of the busy schedule and the hectic day we are back with this week’s edition of Tip of the Week.
This week’s tip is to keep your system clean by uninstalling unwanted programs and applications from your computer.
Tip:
We have a habit of installing several programs in our computer don’t we? But with the passage of [...]

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How to Dispose Off a CD/DVD

We have lots of CD DVD disks with us, don’t we? Now what if you have burnt some important and secret data on the CDs but do not wish to use it in future?

No doubt, you should dump or dispose the CD but what is the best way to do that? Breaking a CD involves [...]

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Tip of the Week: Vacuum your CPU

So you have a CPU fan that is producing lot of noise or the CPU is getting heated a lot, whatever be the reason this week’s tip will solve your problems.
If you have not removed the dust from your computer for a long time now, do it this weekend. It is a good practice to [...]

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Format your Computer

Most of us do not like formatting their computer because of the data stored in it and the hard work involved in setting it up again.
In this edition of the Tip of the Week, we would learn the advantages of formatting the computer and why should you do it soon.
Advantages of Formatting the Computer:
1.    Formatting [...]

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Clean your Keyboard

So when was the last time you cleaned up your Keyboard? Due to constant use of the computer over the time your keyboard tends to get dirty with lots of smoke and dust around there.
Astonishingly, the keyboard can get so much dirty that it is believed your toilet seat is cleaner than it. So in [...]

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