How to avoid Koobface virus

Friends are you using face book, my space, etc, beware of koobface virus, this is a virus which can take information from your desktop and send to unknown person, this virus is rapidly spreading world wide, in India this virus has affected thousands of computers, so India computer emergency response team asked the computer users to update the anti virus tool regularly, they also advised computer users not to open mails which come from unknown person. Mostly these mails will be in the name of websites like My Space, Face book, etc, as soon as you click on the link given in the mail, this virus will enter your registry and take your user ids and passwords which you enter in various websites, and this information will be sent to the unknown person.

To prevent this Koobface virus have a good anti virus tool with regular updates, enable your firewall settings so that once you enter a virus site it will reduce the penetration of spasm and malwares to your computer.

Know about malware:

My friend asked me what malware is, I said it’s a program which comes from external world to your computer and take away information from your computer. He asked me more details about this, I didn’t have any information about where are these malware come from and what are the types and how it theft the information. So when I browsed in net I came to know about a website in which we can get lot of information about this malware and the antivirus used to avoid this.

This website can provide all the malware exist in the internet world and types of malware. They provide from which place and IP it is generated and date from which it was in effect. They also provide the antivirus which will be effective on the specific malware. They provide complete details about the organizations which work on malwares.

The website is http://mtc.sri.com/. This is called as SRI International malware. Friends check out this and beware of malware, spam, etc,

Short Cut Keys- Part 2

CTRL+ A – to select the complete text or content in the page.
F3 – to find a file or folder
ALT+ ENTER – to view the properties of the selected folder.
ALT + F4 – to close the application which is open
ALT + SPACEBAR – to open the short cut key of the opened window
CTRL +F4 – to minimize the opened document.
F10 – to use the menu bar of the opened window.

Friends to check about Short cut keys in computer - part1 check out short cut.

How to Avoid H1N1

signs and symptoms of swine flu:
Fever, Cough, Sore Throat,Achs and Pain, Tiredness, Headsach, Loss of appitite, diarrhea and vomiting.

How does H1N1 spread:
this is highly contagious and highly air borne.H1N1 Flu viruses are spread mainly from person to person through coughing or sneezing of people with symptoms of influenza.Sometimes people may become infected by touching something with live flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose.

How to protect ourself from H1N1:
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue
in the trash after you use it.Wash your hands often with soap and water,
especially after you cough or sneeze.Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also
effective.Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

Change WIndows 7 OS to Windows XP

Microsoft is going to launch Windows 7 OS soon. To make this as a successful Operating system Microsoft decided to give an option such a way that a user can change Windows 7 OS to Windows XP at any time to execute the files which is not running in the latest Operating system. After executing the file operating system will be changed automatically to Normal Windows 7 OS.
Windows XP is considered as the successful OS among the operating systems, there are more that 6 crore users using this. Because of this successful OS, Windows Vista has not gained popularity. This made the Microsoft to think about the new OS which will be launched soon, to make Windows 7 as a user friendly OS they gave this option to change the mode from Windows 7 to XP. So this Operating system will catch the hearts of many XP users.
Even though this is good news for the XP users, they have restricted this XP mode only to Professional and Ultimate version of Windows 7, they are not going to give this in Home edition, So XP users will try to use professional edition rather using Home edition.