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The Latest Threats in Cyber World

Trends indicate that some types of threats are growing faster and becoming more sophisticated. Here’s how you can protect your computer

According to Symantec’s latest findings about trends in security threats, online threats are becoming more advanced, while threats on the mobile platform and in virtual worlds are also increasing.

Online threat

While you’re online, bots such as Trojans or worms can be installed on your computer through a loophole in your software that you haven’t patched, through shareware you’ve downloaded, or through an e-mail attachment. A new method of distribution that is gaining importance is through small Java-based programs, such as interactive maps or videos, available for download on certain websites.

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Top 10 reasons why PCs crash U must Know ?

‘Fatal error: The system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications."’

You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Microsoft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening?

1. Hardware conflict

The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device.

For example, a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself.

If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the same IRQ number. When the user tries to use both devices at the same time, a crash can happen. The way to check if your computer has a hardware conflict is through the following route:

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Opera Software files complaint over Microsoft browser


Opera Software has filed a legal complaint to the European Commission against Microsoft over the companies web browser and how it is packaged with the operating system. As you may or may not have noticed, the Internet Explorer browser that comes with the Windows operating system has become part of the OS, and can’t really be removed or uninstalled. Because of this Opera Software is complaining that the tie Microsoft has between the OS and its IE browser is illegal since it does not give competing browsers a chance on the highly dominate Windows OS. Opera is also saying that Microsoft is hindering interoperability by not following the commonly accepted web standards.

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File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft


The File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks component allows computers on a network to access resources on other computers using a Microsoft network. This component is installed and enabled by default. It is enabled per connection using TCP/IP and is necessary to share local folders.
The File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks component is the equivalent of the Server service in Windows NT 4.0.
To share folders with other users on your network

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