Here is a youtube video, which shows step by step instructions on how to make beats on your computer easily with this amazing software to make beats.

Let me show some examples in the form of videos, which clearly show you how easy it is to make beats on your computer with this program.

Here is yet another video.

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• Data encryption and decryption is a cumbersome process and they do not have easy tools for it.
• They do not have time to add one more step into their already busy life.
• They do not want to add one more password to remember.
• They do not need it as “It” will not happen to them.

Whatever be the reason, but we suggest that you to seriously consider file and folder protection as a habit specially for protecting your sensitive data and information. You never know  when you may need it.

In case you are looking for a easy and simple tool for file and folder encryption, then you can try EncryptOnClick. It is a simple freeware tool, which allows you to encrypt and decrypt your files and folders with a simple click. The user interface is so simple that even a small child can operate it.

There are just boxes – Encrypt and Decrypt with just two options in each box – Files and Folders. Just choose whatever is your requirement and you are done. Simple.

However, this tool has its own weaknesses and demerits. And here they are…

EncryptOnClick quickly and easily locked our files from anyone without the password, but the program wasn’t without its faults. The biggest trouble spot was the fact that once the password is entered and the file is decrypted, it remains open permanently. This means users must physically find the file and set the password each time it is opened. Other downloads keep the file encrypted until told otherwise. Another area where this program didn’t meet the competition is its algorithm for encryption. More-advanced downloads offer a choice for users who wish to select the level of complexity their program is encrypted.

[Download EnrcyptOnClick]

Facebook has virtually broken all records of the popularity for a social networking site. With about 600 million users, all spending considerable time online on facebook, the success of Facebook is just unparalleled.

A lot of Facebook user use it to share their pics with friends and family members. And lot of them want to download faceboob pics from their own photo albums or their friends’ albums or even all pics, in which they have been tagged.

Downloading photos from Facebook can be a pain in the ass, if you are trying to download lots of pics at one go. You might need specialized facebook photo downloader tools to do the job because it may not be possible for you to download them all one by one.

fbDownloader is one such freeware application, which can do the job pretty easily with a few clicks. It is a desktop application, which has to be downloaded onto your desktop PC and your facebook account username and password are to be entered into it.

Features of fbDownloader – The freeware tool to Download Facebook Pics

fbDownloader is a pretty versatile application when it comes to downloading facebook photos. It allows you to…

• Download Facebook photos and albums
• Download the photos you tagged in
• Download Facebook tagged photos
• Download your friends’ photos
• Download Facebook friends’ photos

Here is a TekZilla video which reviews the basic functionality of fbDownloader.

[Download fbdownloader - freeware tool to Download Facebook Pics]

Malware and virus scanning is a real time requirement. Present day Malware scanners and antivirus software reside in the computer’s active memory and keep a watch on all sorts of suspicious activities and behaviors. They keep on comparing their database signatures with these activities and raise a flag as soon as they find some problems.

But none of them is perfect and despite the use of smartest and latest security and antivirus software, there is always a possibility that your computer gets infected with some sort of malware, which might sneak in penetrating the security wall.

In such cases, you might need something, which is called on-demand virus detection. They are one time virus scanners, which scan your system thoroughly for the presence of the malware and virus and take action accordingly. There are lots of them and you can find a lot of such portable malware scanners covered on this blog as well.

Microsoft Safety Scanner – The Latest Portable Malware Scanner

The Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It works with your existing antivirus software.

It is a portable malware scanner, which means that you do not need to install it on your machine. You can just download it and run it to scan your system. But you need to have the Administrator rights to use this malware scanner. It has three options like most other virus scanners. It allows you to do a quick scan, a full scan or a custom scan wherein you can select a file or folder to scan. It is about 70 MB is total download size and provides and quick alternative to your requirement of on-demand portable malware scanner.

However one important limitation of this online malware scanner is that this tool is not auto updating and it expires in a time period of 10 days. If you want to use it after 10 days, then you have to download it again and then only you can use it.

[Download Microsoft Safety Scanner - The Portable Malware Scanner]

This is only just one side of the story. The fact is that these cookies also serve to the benefits of the advertisers much more than to serve the user. The advertisers, with the help of these cookies, are able to identify a user’s online behavior and thus they are able to serve targeted advertisements, which mint money for them.

Many users make sure to delete these cookies from their browsers on a regular basis to ensure their online privacy protection. Deletion of the cookies is simple and most of the browsers allow you to delete all the cookies with simply a few clicks in your browser settings. Its easy.

But do you know that there are some cookies, which are hard to remove even with your browser settings. We are talking about Flash cookies, sometimes also known as Local Shared Objects, or LSO. They are real hard to get deleted from your systems and browser settings are simply incapable of removing them from your computer. Some of these Flash cookies are also know to re-create the http cookies, soon after you have deleted the http cookies.

How to Ensure Online Privacy Protection from Flash Cookies

If you are a Firefox user, then there is a simple addon, which is specifically developed for this purpose. Better Privacy Firefox Addon (download link given at the end of this post) just clears  the Flash cookies from your system on every browser shutdown. It is a simple install and forget type of script and works silently behind the screen ensuring to clean your system in the background without making any noise.

If you really care for a better online privacy protection then what is provided by usual browser settings, then try Better Privacy Firefox Addon.

[Download Better Privacy Firefox Addon]

What are Default Router Passwords

Broadband router manufacturers set up a default username and password within the firmware of their devices. This password and username can easily be changed by the user by simply changing the default settings of the device by connecting it o a computer and using a private IP like 192.168.1.1. In case the user forgets this changed username and password, there usually is a hardware reset button on the backside of the broadband router, which allows the user to change all the settings to the factory defaults and then one can access the settings by accessing it through the default password.

Ubee Modem Default Passwords

Well, the purpose of this post is to introduce to the visitors of PC Security, a Firefox addon, which allows you to run your favorite browser firefox in a sandbox mode. It is a different approach for your computer security. Sandboxing your browser allows you to surf the web, from a virtual area of your main system. Any changes, which are attempted by the downloaded files, scripts and processes running through the browser, are restricted to make any permanent changes to your actual operating system.

If, at any place you want to restore your settings to the previous instance, you can do that with just a few mouse clicks.

The Secure Browser uses virtualization technology to provide a safer web experience to users and organizations. When using the Secure Browser any changes or malicious files inadvertently downloaded from the Internet are contained within the secure browser, keeping the underlying OS and computer secure from hostile changes. Any changes resulting from browser activity may be quickly and easily reset to effectively “undo” such changes and return it to its initially installed state. This makes it much easier to clean a system and bring the user back to full productivity.

Features:

• Provides a virtualized and contained Firefox v3.6 Browser with Adobe Reader and Flash plug-ins
• Rapidly reset any changes made during normal use back to their initial state, enabling easy recovery from infections or attacks
• View statistics related to the number of processes detected and blocked
• Set white and black lists to limit access to known good sites, or prevent access to known bad sites to further limit the risk of attack and infection

Here is a nice Youtube video, which displays its important features.

[Download Dell KACE Secure Browser]

However, there are times, when even the most reliable service like Gmail goes down. It can potentially rock your boat. And imagine a situation, when you loose your Gmail account due to hacking or you forgetting your password or in some cases even Google forfeiting your account. What will you do? Do you have a backup plan ready? Can you survive in such a situation.

The solution lies in Gmail Backup.

Gmail backup is a freeware software, which allows you to take a back of your Gmail messages to your desktop and restore it as and when required. The email messages are backup up in the standard .eml format. You can backup all the messages within a specific date range or just download the newest ones (for future backups). The messages are named after their subject line, the sender and the date stamp, which makes it easier to search your backup folder for specific messages.

Gmail Backup provides a simple and straightforward interface and also supports command-line execution for automated backups. Requires IMAP access to be enabled in your Gmail account.

[Gmail Backup]

But many times users are unaware about the availability of secured connection https on a particular website. Some of the websites automatically redirect you to the encrypted page, but some of the websites do not do it for you automatically.

In such cases you have to type https:// specifically to reach the encryption enabled pages. And if you forget to use https:// then you are taken to the usual non-encrypted page.

How to Enforce Encrypted Access to Websites using https://

If you are using Firefox as a browser, then there is a simple firefox addon, Https Everywhere, which does the job automatically. It checks whether the https://version of the page you have requested, is available or not. If it is available, and it is identical to the webpage requested by you, then it automatically redirects your browser to the encrypted version.

This useful firefox addon is still in its beta and is currently available for a limited number of websites as given below.

• Google Search
• Wikipedia
• Twitter
• Facebook
• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• Paypal
• EFF
• Tor
• Ixquick

Compensating for the limited set of websites to be accessed, it allows you to write your own set of rules easily.

[Download Https Everywhere]

Passwords are like your keys to online security. It is a pity that despite understanding the need of strong passwords, most people still continue to use weak passwords.

Convenience of use and security are often at diagonally opposite ends, when it comes to web applications. People fall for convenience and avoid using strong passwords, because they do not want to get into the hassles of remembering strong passwords. But, we always give more importance to PC Security then convenience.

And in case, you want to have your cake and eat it too, then you always have the option of using a good password manager like Roboform.

Most Commonly Used Password List – Is Your Password There on the List?

Recently a popular website Rockyou.com was hacked to steal the passwords of several of its users, which landed on a few hacker’s fora. Imperva has published an analysis of the data and some of the findings are really interesting.

1. About 30% of users chose passwords whose length is equal or below six characters.
2. Moreover, almost 60% of users chose their passwords from a limited set of alpha-numeric characters.
3. Nearly 50% of users used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive digits, adjacent keyboard keys, and so on). The most common password among Rockyou.com account owners is “123456”.

Here is a list of the top 20 most commonly used passwords in the list.

How Such Lists of Most Commonly Used Passwords Help the Hackers

If a hacker would have used the list of the top 5000 passwords as a dictionary for brute force attack on Rockyou.com users, it would take only one attempt (per account) to guess 0.9% of the users passwords or a rate of one
success per 111 attempts.

Assuming an attacker with a DSL connection of 55KBPS upload rate and that each attempt is 0.5KB in size, it means that the attacker can have 110 attempts per second. At this rate, a hacker will gain access to one new account every second or just less than 17 minutes to compromise 1000 accounts.

And the problem is exponential. After the first wave of attacks, it would only take 116 attempts per account to compromise 5% of the accounts, 683 attempts to compromise 10% of accounts and about 5000 attempts to compromise 20% of accounts.

[Link to Complete Report (pdf)]