Now this time its a new fake PayPal email message spreading spam over the web. Its different from previous spam mail here it asks users to open a zipped file attached with the spam mail that is actually a worm that infects the recipient’s computer upon execution. In the message you get the explanation like that-

your PayPal accounts were hacked, and that some fraudulent activity may have occurred. As part of security measures, “PayPal” is asking users to review the “report” in the .ZIP file and then contact the company if anything unusual is discovered.

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As Social Networking website including MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Twitter,Windows Live Spaces and there are a lot of other services used by people to connect and share their personal information with other including photos, video and other type of information. People also use social networking websites to make new friends and expand their network of friends. As more and more people are using social networking websites for sharing their information with others, Hackers, spammers, virus writers, identity thieves, and other criminals see this as an easy medium to do their activities. Microsoft is committed to help it’s users to protect their data and in this series they have publishes 10 social networking safety tips on their website.

1. Use caution when you click links that you receive in messages from your friends on your social Web site. Treat links in messages on these sites as you would links in e-mail messages. (For more information, see Approach links in e-mail with caution.)
2. Don’t trust that a message is really from who it says it’s from. Hackers can break into accounts and send messages that look like they’re from your friends, but aren’t. If you suspect that a message is fraudulent, use an alternate method to contact your friend to find out. This includes invitations to join new social networks.
3. To avoid giving away e-mail addresses of your friends, do not allow social networking services to scan your e-mail address book. When you join a new social network, you might receive an offer to enter your e-mail address and password to find out who else is on the network. The site might use this information to send e-mail messages to everyone in your contact list or even everyone you’ve ever sent an e-mail message to with that e-mail address. Social networking sites should explain that they’re going to do this, but some do not.
4. Type the address of your social networking site directly into your browser or use your personal bookmarks. If you click a link to your site through e-mail or another Web site, you might be entering your account name and password into a fake site where your personal information could be stolen.
5. Be selective about who you accept as a friend on a social network. Identity thieves might create fake profiles in order to get information from you. This is known as social engineering.
6. Choose your social network carefully. Evaluate the site that you plan to use and make sure you understand the privacy policy. Find out if the site monitors content that people post. You will be providing personal information to this Web site, so use the same criteria that you would to select a site where you enter your credit card.
7. Assume what you write on a social networking site is permanent. Even if you can delete your account, anyone on the Internet can easily print the information or save it to a computer.
8. Be careful about installing extras on your site. Many social networking sites allow you to download third-party applications that let you do more with your personal page. Criminals sometimes use these applications in order to steal your personal information. To download and use third-party applications safely, take the same safety precautions that you take with any other program or file you download from the Web. For more information, see Before you download files, help protect your computer.
9. Think twice before you use social networking sites at work. For more information, see Be careful with social networking sites, especially at work.
10. Talk to your kids about social networking. If you’re a parent of children who use social networking sites, see How to help your kids use social Web sites more safely.

BookmarkG is an another bookmarking service but the difference is that is allows users to create their own group, invite friends, and begin adding links with tags, ratings, and metadata that can be searched. The services is very useful and offers a lot of new features but all of them are not presented in a user friendly manners.

BookmarkG has no browser integration, users has to manually enter the url for bookmarking, it also does not have any option for importing bookmarks from browsers as well as from other bookmarking services. Inviting people is also a tough task, users has to enter the email addresses their is no option to import contacts from existing E-Mail addresses.

As I see  BookmarkG is just started and over a period of time they will add some more new features and try to make it more user friendly as compare to the current version of BookmarkG.

When kids use computer and specially internet they present a unique security risk. Parents has to do something that make their Internet browsing safe and at the same they have to protect their data. By following some simple steps parents can easily make kids internet browsing safe and also they will be able protect kids personal data also.

Implement parental control: Remember no other tool or software is a replacement of paternal controls. Some ISP provide paternal Tool software but if this is not the case then you can also purchase any good paternal tool. Some Internet Explorer also include some paternal controls that help you to allow or block some websites and these settings can also be made password protected. To find those options, click Tools on your menu bar, select Internet Options, choose the Content tab, and click the Enable button under Content Advisor.

Partitioning Computer into Separate Accounts: All modern operating system allow you to create different user accounts. It’s always a good idea to separate user accounts for each user instead of using administrator account all the time. To protect your computer malicious software’s, malwares and from other online threats it’s always a good idea to have a separate account for kids with minimum privileges.

Keep Personal Information Protected: It’s really important to keep personal information protected while browsing over the internet. This rule applies for both parents as well as for children’s also. Parents has to tell their children’s that never ever give their real name, address, phone number, the name of their school or a picture of themselves to anyone they meet online.

Frequently Check Internet Browsing History: Checking Internet browsing history an easy way to monitor your kids online activities and while checking Internet browsing history also tell your kids why you are doing this and talk about potential online danger.

Understand Social Network Websites: Tech your children’s that people online are not always who they say they are. Attackers using social networking websites to spread spam and other malicious programs. Some Social networking websites including Facebook, MySopace and Orkut offer privacy feature that help users to hide their identity over all these social networking websites.

To find Cookies folder on Windows Vista system click Start, type

C:\Users\Lincoln\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low,

and then press Enter. That should take you to the real Cookies folder. Once you’ve found it, you can make it easily accessible:

To Access Cookies folder in Windows XP just type “Cookies” in run window.

Sometimes finding a good Website hosting provider becomes a very difficult task because when you search over the Internet you will find a good number of websites comes and show that they can host your website but you never know which web hosts are good and which are bad. I think instead of directly searching the web hosting provider company we first have to check with some authenticate web hosting rating company because this gives a fair amount of idea which web hosting providers are good or bad.I find it’s really a time saving task if you find a good web hosting rating provider because it gives you in depth analysis of several web hosting providers, some of them might offer web hosting tutorials and many other options. Web hosting tutorials are really good for new web masters. Now comes  to some other issues also often we search for cheap web hosting or with any other key words what they basically mean is really important. So for most of web hosting search key words I find that webhostingrating’s article section is really good.

As searching over their web site I find this Website is really good although they are building the web hosting providers directory. They are also having one web hosting awards section there they give awards according to following categories

• Best Budget Hosting: Globat.com
• Best Blog Hosting: Globat.com
• Best Forum Hosting: InMotion Hosting Inc.
• Best Unix Hosting: InMotion Hosting Inc.
• Best Windows Hosting: InMotion Hosting Inc.
• Best PHP Hosting: Globat.com
• Best Email Hosting: Globat.com
• Best E-commerce Hosting: InMotion Hosting Inc.
• Best Multi-Domain Hosting:
• Best VPS Hosting:
• Best Reseller Hosting:
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Overall the site looks good but I would like to suggest them only include those menu items that have some content instead of just trying to making a long menu list.

Thanks to  webhostingrating Website and jimmac for image.

It happens with most of the computer users their machine suddenly shutdown and restart fine without showing any error message or valid reason. This happens because of overheating. If your PC frequently shuts down, instantly without showing any error then you may need to replace the power supply. PC monitors the CPU temperature so in case of overheating it shutdown the machine to prevent from any harm for CPU, because it is a vital combination of delicate circuits. An easy way to check current CPU temperature is, in the my computer properties go to CPU World but it’s only available in Vista. A free program for all the users is derived by Alfredo Milani Comparetti’s SpeedFan, displays in system tray to fine-tune the heat and balance the power.

Few steps when you face problem like that

• Check fans of CPU are spinning smoothly or not, if not then make your PC free of dust and clean air vents and also check isn’t any wire or cable blocking the fan.
• Make sure all the fans of CPU should work properly. When the PC off Spray compressed moisture-free air into the vents to remove dust.
• After all still facing the same problem then take it to professional, other than overheating it may be the driver fault so keep updating your drivers.

Visit these sites when your media player goes on strike.

YouTube Help Center: In case of troubleshooting it is too quick to recommend that you un-install and then re-install the Adobe Flash Player (going through instructional video).everyone think that it is the simpler and surest way to cure all type of minor malfunction/glitches, but here I would start with the simpler steps the site suggests, like restart your browser, accessing the page using another browser then clear your browser cache.

Here I recommend you to clear your browser cache it can cure a range of page loading woes. In Firefox, click Tools > Clear Private Data, check the “Cache” option and rest uncheck, and click the “Clear Private Data Now” button. In Internet Explorer, click Tools > Delete Browsing History, and click the “Delete files” button next to Temporary Internet Files

Adobe offers a Shockwave Player support FAQ site is specific to Windows XP and others that describe various error messages, along with info on troubleshooting topics.You’ll find the latest version of the Flash Player on the Adobe Download Center. The company’s Flash Support Center is intended for Flash developers.

Apple iTunes for Windows :Apple provides separate pages to troubleshoot iTune video on Windows Vista and windows XP/2000 . it contains “unexpected quits, freezes, and launch issues” on this page for Vista and this page for XP/2000

Apple QuickTime for Windows: If you see an animated QuickTime logo in bottom right corner on QuickTime Troubleshooting site it means Apple’s Media Player is installed and functioning.

Troubleshooting Windows Media Player 11: Microsoft’s has its own troubleshooting website for the media player .It contains separate section for Most Popular/Common Questions, Self Help Options, Technical Support Options, standard FAQ’s on playing DVD’s, ripping MP3’s and finding the installing codec’s.

In typical Microsoft fashion there is separate WMP FAQ page for Windows Vista and another troubleshooting page that focuses on problems when using the player in XP and for good measure a Knowledge-Base article is troubleshooting resources

Most of the company has its own support site that provide some pages to handle and cure the problems like installing QuickTime for Windows, to enable Flash content in QuickTime movies, to view streamed files behind a firewall, and diagnosing audio-playback problems (for iTunes also).

Tweetake is another Twitter application that allows twitter users to take backup of Followers, Friends, Tweets or everything that you want to take as backup. To take backup of your tweets Tweetake ask your twitter username and password after that it will take your tweets backup according to the user choice.

Why to use Tweetake?

• Twitter may lose followers again like it did in June / July.
• You may change your Twitter name and want to re-follow the people you were following, and contact the people who were following you.
• You may want to refer to a Tweet that you sent more than 90 days ago (the longest twitter keeps Tweets for).
• You may just like backing things up, ‘just in case’, like us.

Most people use their Visa card for online purchasing, form filling and for banking purpose. Verified by Visa is a new way to add safety when you buy online. Adding a password to your existing Visa card, Verified by Visa ensures that only you can use your Visa card online. It’s easy to activate for your existing Visa card, and it’s free.

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After you activate your Visa Powered card you ensure that no one can use your Visa Card