cybers using keyloggers n stealing passwords

One of my friend's Wordpress blog has been deleted recently by some cyber guy. My friend always used the same cyber. Recently this cyber had a new employee. The two of them had a little quarrel n it seems this new employ used keyloggers at the cyber to get the passwords... and has now he has deleted the blog. Some other cybers are having keyloggers installed too.

"Keylogger is a software program or hardware device that is used to monitor and log each of the keys a user types into a computer keyboard" - actualspy

For all guys who are using cybers I'll give a tip to protect yourselves

Let’s say your password "welcome"

1. Click the password box, type some random keys. Select the entered random key with the mouse and type W. So u have entered the first letter of the password.
2. Click the password box, type arnd 3 random keys. Select these 3 letters with your mouse and type the next valid key of your password.

Continue in a similar way to finish typing the password. You can choose any number of random characters between your password.

So the keylogger will log something like:

ougtwswnhweljytlcughwomwdfte

OR

[click]ougtws[click]w[click]nhw[click]e[click]ljyt[click]lc[click]ug[click]hw[click]om[click]wdft[click]e

Note you can use unwanted mouse clicks so that a mouse click is recorded before the random letters. You can also experiment entering the password in the reverse order, infact any order.

This method can be used for entering the username too....

Hope cybers will stop this bad trend...

Image: SciFi blog

Safari for Windows

Safari the best browser for Mac has been released for windows yesterday.
I first tried safari last year from a friends mac and had searched the net to find a windows version. Well now its here.

Check it out guys. Its almost as good as Firefox.
Download Safari Here

TeraCopy - Copy files faster n easier

This is a nice app which increases copying of files between two disks at maximum possible speed.
The best thing I like abt this app is that when an error occurs it will skip that file n continue copying the others unlike in explorer the whole thing just terminates.
Check out this app it has some other features too.

Source: http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.asp

Beryl "Desktop Cube" Effect for Windows

If you are jealous of your geeky linux friends that have Beryl running under linux, you should check out Yod’m 3D, a small application for Windows XP / Vista that will give you a decent substitute for the “Desktop Cube” effect.

In the screenshot, you’ll notice a blue background. If you want to customize the background picture, you can change it from the options menu ( you can go to options menu by clicking Yod’m 3D tray icon and selecting options) . You can also change the cube transparency and zoom level from the options.

If you want each desktop to have it’s own wallpaper, you can change the wallpaper for that desktop by switching to the desktop and then set the wallpaper the normal windows way.

Apart from the cool 3D cube effect this application is useful since it provides 4 separate desktops.

Download Yod’m 3D

Use Any Pendrives or Memory Stick to Ready Boost Your Vista

ReadyBoost is a new feature in Microsoft's Windows Vista that uses flash memory on a USB 2.0 drive, SD card, CompactFlash, or other form of flash memory, in order to boost system performance.
Unfortunately, Vista refuses to use slower flash memory. well if you have any flash memory of 256mb or higher here's how to get around this limitation and use any USB stick or card you have to increase your computers memory.

1. First Plug your device in. cancel AutoPlay , and go to Computer in the start menu. When it pops up,right click your device and rename to a unique name, then again right-click the device and select properties.
2. select the Readyboost tab on the properties menu and check Do not retest this device. Click okay and unplug the device from your computer
3. Press winkey + R then type regedit and press enter. The registry window should load up.
   
   Using the left-hand pane, work your way through the following folders: HKLM (Local Machine) -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows NT -> CurrentVersion -> EMDMgmt. You'll have a list of USB devices the computer has encountered, one of which should be your USB stick.
   It will look some thing like this:
   _??_USBSTOR#Disk&Ven_&Prod_USB_DISK_Pro&Rev_PMAP#07571600003C&0# {53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}@R33F_2290012782
   where the red part should be the unique name that you used for the device.
   
   Here there's a few details you need to edit. Double click on Device Status and change the value to 2, then ok. Do the same for ReadSpeedKBs and WriteSpeedKBs, changing their values to both 1000. Exit the registry window.
4. Now insert the device back in and once again go to the device properties (Computer > Right-click on drive). If you look under the Readyboost Tab, you'll be able to now select Use this device. Success! Now enjoy your faster PC.