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Check if your website is clean from malware

If you want to confirm that your site is free from malware than Google Safe Browsing tool may help you. To use this tool, just append a URL to the end of  the following code and put it in address bar and hit enter http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site= For example, to test my site (beingpc), you would enter http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://beingpc.com/ Google... 

Pirates beware you may not be able to run Windows 7 any more

After the new Windows7 Update may be you will not be able to run your Windows 7 anymore if you have activated by OTHER means. Joe Williams writes in his post states that - We’ll be deploying a new update for Windows Activation Technologies, the set of built-in activation and validation components built into Windows 7. Called Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7, this update will detect... 

Indicators to check if an email from an employer/recruiter is a fraud/scam

If you checkout your SPAM folder than most of the mail you will see, are of JOB Recruitment and Cash lottery. Most of the time these mails goes directly to your SPAM box, but with now these people has adapted a new method, its email scam. There are two types of email scams – ‘phishing’ and ‘spoofing’. In both the cases, the ‘from address’ is forged to make it appear... 

How Forensic Department Check Your PC for Shutdown and Startup Log

Before we begin its better to know what an Event Viewer is, Event Viewer is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that enables you to browse and manage event logs. It is an indispensable tool for monitoring the health of systems and troubleshooting issues when they arise. Event Viewer enables you to perform the following tasks: View events from multiple event logs Save useful event filters... 

Safety Tips for Online Dating This Valentine’s Day

BitDefender®, an award-winning provider of innovative anti-malware security solutions, today cautioned online daters about the increased security risks associated with looking for love online this year and their unique susceptibility to identity theft and online scams. While there are many respectable and reliable e-dating services, online daters should be extremely careful when choosing the best... 

New IE Flaw – Turn Protected Mode On To Stay Safe

Microsoft warned yesterday that that a flaw in its Internet Explorer browser gives attackers access to files stored on a PC if the attackers know the name of the file they want to access. “Our investigation so far has shown that if a user is using a version of Internet Explorer that is not running in Protected Mode an attacker may be able to access files with an already known filename and location.... 

Get Panda Antivirus for free no license required

The Giveaways season has not finished yet. Today while surfing raymond I found a lot of Panda’s promotional software that you can download for free. (thanks SafeGuy) Panda Antivirus 2010 is a leading Antivirus with a large up to date virus definition. All of these following are direct download links. No need for license keys. simply download & install. Panda Antivirus 2010 version WOT promos: Get... 

Giveaway: Chance to win 3 License Key of Registry Booster 2010

We at beingPC always bring new Giveaways every now and then, we are back again with a nice giveaway. Registry Booster is the easy answer to all your Windows registry problems. This award winning software starts by conducting a deep scan of your registry, checking for file extension errors and other registry conflicts. Registry Booster will then repair or remove unused, corrupted and harmful files so... 

Scan your PC online for viruses

Well this post is for those kind of people who usually don’t install any antivirus program and also for those who uses antivirus for security. You may have seen that sometime your antivirus could not detect a virus/malware etc. but the other antivirus do that. So it seems difficult for you to uninstall your favorite antivirus program and install a new one, as two antivirus can not work simultaneously... 

Take Security Test – PC Security in your hands

Are you concerned with your PC Security, are you a security whizkid, So how about taking some tests and know how much you know about computer security. This will help you understand some basic and advanced concepts of Computer Security. The links given below will redirect you to a Security Wizards Page, there you can take your test and know how much you are good at Security related issues. There are...