Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Check all facebook status history


Facebook status history tells our life story. We had come across many facebook status which tells our facebook friends story. As same as many facebook status tells our story and also sometimes it reminds us many interesting thing. I think now you are also thinking to check your facebook status history now. Yes you can, You can check all your facebook status history by an app. Its actually not an facebook app, Its a website which collects complete details of our facebook status and provide as by date. are you willing to check your first facebook status that you updated? Here we go, This article will explain you to check all your facebook status history.

How to Check all your facebook status history:

You can check all your facebook status history by a cool website. “Archived book” helps you to see all your facebook status. Just enter http://archivedbook.com in your address bar and go through it.
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How to identify fake facebook account



Using facebook has becoming more important one for every facebook users, Every facebook users getting connected with new facebook friends some are good, some are bad.  Today there are many ways to access facebook and can chat with friends 24 x 7 days. Facebook made many changes to comfort the users, and also there are many apps for the users to access facebook in a better and easy way. Facebook moving everything legitimately but many facebook users started to use facebook account in a bad way. Many hackers are hacking facebook account for fun or for their friends and breaking many facebook users privacy. Some other creating a facebook account in a girl name to cheat their friends or some other strangers. This sometimes let to a serious problems like money and also lets to murder. So before accepting anyone’s friend request it is better to check its a real account or fake facebook account. This article explains you How to identify fake facebook account.

Identify Fake Facebook account:

Check Profile Picture:

Its a very easy way to identify fake facebook account if that account profile is with some image other than any actors or stars. Just copy the image url (Right click on that image to get URL), Open Google image search and paste that url. If that image matches to any other facebook account, It will shows link of that profile. You can directly warn that profile. Google image search also shows the images from other websites. So if that profile is with any attractive girl photo check that photo in google.

Check Mutual Friends:

Check for mutual friends before accepting anyone’s friend request and ask your friend about that person. If they said anything wrong or your found anything suspiciously ignore it.

Check Profile Timeline:

A profile timeline simply says about that person. If there are no recent updates from that profile but there are many tags to any other status, surely that’s a fake account.  And also check the photos of that profile, If it is a fake account, you can found it easily.

Check Entire Profile:

  • Check their birthday, If it is with starting date or ending date of a month, It would be a fake account
  • Check number of friends in their friends list
  • Check for mobile number. If it is a female account and with contact number, its a fake account
Checking profile picture is the best way to identify fake facebook account. They as a second review check other details. Fake account can be identified easily if you analyze the timeline thoroughly. If you have any more ideas to identify fake facebook account, Give your valuable ideas in comments and make others to benefit.
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8 ways be safe from Phishing attacks



What is Phishing:

Phishing is one of hacking method which is oftenly used by black hats. Black Hats sends official looking email to their targets like mail from pay pal or any banking service or other money related organisations. They usually gives hyper link in a mail which directs to a webpage which looks like a original site and ask the victim to enter user name and password. These data are collected in their server and they use it to access a victim account. If you use online money transfer oftenly you must be aware of phishing. Here are some ways be safe from Hackers Phishing attacks.

8 ways be safe from Hackers Phishing attacks:

#1 Do not click on Hyper Links:

If you receive any e-mails which is from any official websites and it looks suspicious, Do not use the hyper link in the mail to log in into the account. Go to the official website by entering the link in the address bar and enter your user ID and password and check whether the mail is really from the website. If you found the mail is not from the official website do not response for that mail.

#2 Check for https:

Usually the webpage created by the hackers for phishing are without any httpps and also without secure lock icon. Before entering any confidential information like credit / debit card password in any website make sure you can see Https before the address of the website. Make sure Https (Not just Http) htpps are only very secured one. Check for Secure lock icon before the page url and double click on it to make sure the website is secured to enter confidential information.
For Example: Go to Facebook website, You can see both https and also secure lock icon in the url which ensures that facebook is safer to use and also to share confidential information.

#3 Avoid Pop-up Windows:

If any websites asked user name and password or any credit card password in a pop-up windows, Do not enter the details, Because it may be any hackers using phishing method to hack your account and access it. There is no way to check for security in pop-up windows. So do not enter any confidential information in pop-up windows even though it looks officially.

#4 Keep updated antivirus:

Now a days antivirus vendors providing their products which also checks for security in any webpage. As the rate of hacking is increasing antivirus vendors have included this feature in their product. So by keeping the anti virus up to date, It will easily detect any phishing website or any phishing tool and avoid us to use it.

Also See: Access Email without Internet Connection

#5 Use Anti-spam Software:

Anti-spam software reduce the hackers phishing attacks. Most of the phishing attacks are spams. so by using anti-spam software phishing can be avoided and it detects itself in email and move it to trash.

#6 Complain the Spam Mails:

If you receive any spam mails or if you found any mail suspicious that may be from hackers phishing attacks, Forward the mail to  spam@uce.gov or complain about that mail in www.ftc.gov.

#7 Use MBSA:

MBSA is Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer which helps to protect your system from phishing and also checks all patches up to date. This tool can be downloaded directly from Microsoft official website.

                                                           Download MBSA

#8 DNS Pharming Attacks:

This is a latest method used by hackers for Phishing attacks. They enter in DNS server rather than sending spam mails. If they poisoned DNS then they can redirect any webpage as their wish thus you may redirected to a fraudulent website which looks like an official webpage and they may get your personal confidential information. It is better to check for https and secure lock icon before entering any infromation.
Not only through spam mails and websites, Phishing method can also be done by using any software or apps like Gtalk, Yahoo messenger and more which looks like normal apps or software. So it is better to download any apps or software from official website rather than downloading from other sites.
Most of the victims being hacked because of their carelessness, So before entering into any website follow the 8 ways to be safe from Hackers Phishing attacks . If you are with more ways to avoid phishing attacks, Comment it below and help others to stay away from phishing.

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Pen drive virus – copy files without virus

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Pen drive virus always gives problems. Pen drive is the online device which helps to transfer files and also to take backup. To transfer a file we have to plugin the pendrive in another computer which may affected by virus. When your pen drive is plugged into a computer which was affected by virus, surely your pen drive will also affect by the virus. You can use antivirus to clear it, but it won’t remove the virus completely from the pen drive. The only way to remove the virus from the pen drive is formatting the pendrive. But by formatting the pen drive you may lose important files. So before formatting the pendrive you have to copy the files and transfer to local disk. If you open the removable hard disk folder surely the virus will affect your computer. There is nothing to worry you can copy the files from the pendrive without virus by using command prompt which does not allows the virus in computer. So it is a best way to copy the files from pendrive with virus to computer without making the computer to be affected by virus. This article will help you to 
copy files from pen drive and also to delete virus in pen drive. This will help to protect PC from pen drive virus.

Copy files without virus:-

To copy the files from pen drive without virus, first we have to perform two tasks
  1. Delete the virus in the folder
  2. copy the files

Pen drive virus:-How to delete virus using command Prompt:

To protect your pc from pen drive virus you can copy all the files using command prompt and format it.  But sometimes there is a chance for virus inside any folder in pen drive. So before copying the files it is better the look all the files in the pen drive and if virus found inside any folder you can delete it using command prompt.
  • Open Command Prompt and type the removable hard disk driver name. for example H:
  • “ATTRIB” is the best tool to check virus in any removable hard disk and also in flash drives
  • In the command prompt type  ”H: attrib”  and hit enter this will shows files and viruses in the pendrive. It is easy to identify virus in pendrive
  • Then type “attrib -s -h -r virus name” If the name of the virus is autorun.inf type ”attrib -s -h -r autorun.inf“ and hit enter this will makes the file as accessible in command prompt
  • If there is no more attributes in autorun.inf file you can delete it by using the command “del autorun.inf” Replace the autorun.inf file by your virus name
If you get any error as the file is using by some other application, Open task manager and stop that application.

Pen drive virus:-How to copy file using command prompt:

After deleting the virus from the folder in removable hard disk now you can copy the folder to your local disk using command prompt.
Open command prompt and type the removable hard disk driver name. For example H:
Then type “copy H:\File or Folder name D:\”  (D: is the destination folder in which you want to copy the files)
For Example  H:\cybertwitt.JPG D:\ 
To copy all the files in a folder type the folder path in command prompt for example: H:\Folder name hit enter then type “*.*(space) D:” (D is destination folder)
You all done. Now the file is copied to your local drive without virus.

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