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Risks with Anonymous Proxy Sites

We have opened many restricted sites through the Anonymous Proxy sites someday or the other without knowing the risks and security vulnerabilities involved in this.

There are loads and loads of anonymous proxy sites available which are used by many people who are unaware how unsafe it is to use this for our confidential data. Use [...]

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Block or Disable USB with PenyuUSB

These days almost every school or office has locked USB ports to disable the USB mass storage devices in order to protect from the spreading viruses.

The prime reason for the virus spread are the USB drives, so if you also want to protect your system from this virus spread or document theft then locking your [...]

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Never reuse the Same Password

We happen to sign up for so many services and accounts that it becomes a problem to remember all the passwords for each of them. To avoid this problem most people wish to keep the same password for all their accounts.

In this Tip of the Week, TS advises you to never keep the same password [...]

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Steps to Uninstall Folder Lock without Password

Folder Lock is a great utility used to protect our secret and confidential data in a folder under the password selected by us. The tool is of great use to us but the only thing with this software is that it requires the password while uninstalling.

This feature protects unauthorized uninstalling of the software but this [...]

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How to Change Admin Password in Windows

Forgetting your password isn’t just embarrassing, it’s a show stopper for your productivity. Suddenly a wall goes up between you and all of your documents, and you’re powerless to access them. Things get even worse if you don’t have the password for any admin account on the computer, because logging in is almost entirely impossible. [...]

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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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How to Recover and Reset Password in windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2K/NT

We tend to forget our Windows administrator login password. With no way to get into the system, you can’t even perform basic maintenance, let alone a thorough tune-up. Formatting is always an option, but we consider that a last resort. (Plus, guess who’s going to have to help reinstall all the programs lost after a [...]

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Password Protect your Computer Games

If you are a gaming freak having loads of computer games installed in your system then you would surely love this tip.
Sharing your games with someone else may not interest you, as you may like games that somebody else may not. But if you wish to protect your games installed on your machine with a [...]

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Password Protect .exe Application Files

Have some secret exe files that you don’t want it to be run by any one else? Then you can protect it with a password of your choice.

Empathy is a great portable application that can protect any executable file with a password of your choice. That means whenever any one tries to run the exe [...]

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Login to the XP Administrator account through Safe Mode

If you have forgotten your Administrator account password then there is no need to worry as there are several ways to login into the account.

Here are the two ways that you can use successfully:
1.    Change the password ( read http://techsalsa.com/break-or-reset-administrator-password-in-xp/ post of mine)
2.    Reveal the forgotten password ( read http://techsalsa.com/reveal-or-recover-xp-administrator-password-using-ophcrack/ post of mine)
But some of [...]

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