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How To Protect Your Settings From Being Changed By The Virus Or Trojans
How To Protect Your Settings From Being Changed By The Virus Or TrojansJuly 10, 2026PC Hacks / Security / System PerformanceOne feature that many of of the Viruses and Trojans have in similar is that after their installation, they begin to change the system’s configurations and registry keys in order to hide and breed. This is possible because, in general most of the users operate their windows with administrator privileges , thus helping the virus to spread throughout the system by not having a permit limitation. The best method to protect your system from the configuration changes made by the Virus or Trojans is to work without administrator permissions but this change of approach is difficult to instill among users. So, assuming that most work will continue with the privileged user, we must find an alternative to protect the user even working in administrator mode. This protection is offered by free software ” WinLockLess ” , which must run with administrator privileges. It provides complete protection against the registry changes. The method of employment is very easy. Choose those aspects that you want to protect and press the Activate Changes button, and thus you will have them all protected . It Will Protect Your System In Two Modes :  Image Courtesy by : Softonic 1. User Profile Protection: Protect the registry branches hanging from HKEY_CURRENT_USER . Contains: Protect “Run” current user: Affects the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Run Protect “Winlogon” current user: Affects HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows NT / CurrentVersion / Winlogon Protect Home Folder: Protects your home folder where application shortcuts are added. Protect RunOnce and RunOnceEx: Affects the keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnce and HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnceEx Protect Explorer User Policies: Affects HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / Explorer / Run Protect “Load” current user: Affects HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows 2. Protection of the entire system: Protect the registry branches hanging from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Contains : Protect “Winlogon” machine: Affects HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows NT / CurrentVersion / Winlogon Protect “Run” machine: Affects the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Run Protect “SafeBoot” (F8, safe mode): Affects SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / SafeBoot Protect RunOnce and RunOnceEx: Affects ramas HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnce y HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnceEx Protect Explorer Policies of the machine: It affects HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / Explorer / Run Protect common startup folder: Protect your home folder where application shortcuts are added. The application protects you from all well known viruses , including the famous police virus. So we strongly recommend its implementation to increase your system protection. [...]
Hide your IP Address And Stay One Step More Secure On The Internet
Hide your IP Address And Stay One Step More Secure On The InternetJuly 9, 2026PC Hacks / Security / Web GuidesOnline privacy is one of the most important aspect that you should consider. If you don’t then things could end up disastrous. Usually IP addresses are like your footprints, and often should not be known by the websites you visited or other users. So there are a number of methods to hide your IP address and thus making your online life a bit more secure. Also See: How To Find The IP Address Of Your Computer What Is An IP Address? It is your identity on the internet, which identifies your computer, smartphone, tablet, or anything else with which you are connected. As we always say ” If it’s on the internet, it isn’t private ” , Any server which you connect to, or any internet user can easily obtain your IP address. By using IP address they can obtain the data such as the country you live in, what browser you use, even know your Internet habits and also have a chance to know your computer’s IP address. If someone else knows all such details about you and your computer, then your security is truly under question.     How to Hide your IP Address ? There are several methods to hide your IP address in order to protect your privacy , but neither method is 100% effective only hinder your crawl. Here are the three methods to hide your IP address:   #1 Web-Proxies: This is the fastest and simplest method. No need to install anything on your computer or on your web browser. All you need to do is, just move on to any web-proxy website and enter the address that you want to access anonymously in the search bar. Now you will be redirected to your requested website by hiding your IP address. Many of these proxies allow additional settings, such as advertising, cookies or applications running on the website and many more. There are now many web proxies, both free and paid versions, some of them are: Ninja Cloak Free Proxy Server Anonymouse Proxyget   #2 Configure the proxy settings in the browser : Another method is to configure the proxy settings in your web browser. So by using this method you can directly use your web browser itself so as to hide your IP address. To do this you must access the settings of your browser and establish a web proxy of your choice. Another possibility to hide your IP using the browser is to install extensions that help us to maintain our privacy and security.   #3 Proxy software : These proxies have to be installed on your computer , and work the same way as any normal program. One of the best known software proxies is the ” TOR Project “, which besides being free, it is one of the most reliable and safe to hide in the network methods. TOR browser is also pretty popular and is being used by thousands of people worldwide. It is composed of a network of computers called nodes. When you connect to TOR, it follows a path through the various nodes and finally connect to the server, making it quite difficult to find the source as you can seamlessly connect to the network from a node located in any other country. Besides this, communications through the TOR network are encrypted , making it even more difficult. We don’t say its unchangeable but surely it isn’t going to give way to intruders so easily. [...]
Security Concerns Of Not Removing Metadata From Your Files
Security Concerns Of Not Removing Metadata From Your FilesJuly 6, 2026SecurityCurrently all office files and even images lead a series of hidden data called metadata. Through them you can extract information about who edits the document, its software version, if they access servers, etc. If you have not taken proper care about the metadata of your files then third parties may get a chance to use the information of your’s or your company’s. The presence of metadata makes it very easy to attack and sneak into your system. Also meta-data may even jeopardize your privacy. Today every user should know what meta-data is and how to remove them in order to restrict the third parties from attacking your system. If an office document has not deleted the corresponding metadata, then huge amounts of information can be extracted from them. This information can be from the username of a system to the version of software that performs the document. In addition to the Office documents, images also possess this meta-data, and by extracting this we can get a truly compromising information, such as geographic location , i.e, the exact place where you have taken the photo, or even recover the original shape and size of photos if that are modified. This is really dangerous, because with the technology that we have today and the number of photos that we have on social networks like Facebook , someone could easily know our geographical location in minutes after we upload a photo. Metadata: the beginning of the attack : One of the main methods used by hackers to steal information is metadata extraction. Using Internet search engines they can easily download all files of a company, either pdf, word, excel … and can extract information from them (unless the meta-data was deleted). By using a number of tools you can have a structural map of the internal network of a company. This may contain data related to users, servers to which they have access, software releases and operating systems and can even have some extract passwords. All this can be done through extraction of such meta-data is a way to get enough information, and therefore makes it easier to perform security attacks. How to extract metadata: There are number of programs that extract metadata from one or more files at once almost automatically . One of the best known application for the extraction of metadata is the FOCA . This program has been developed for 64 bit operating computers. It performs two tasks, one is meta-data extraction and next is network map formation with extracted metadata. This program is used by many specialized security professionals to perform penetration testing , and is also available for free, you can download it from their website. And Now, Its for you to decide if you are you going to continue publishing photos without deleting their metadata or not! [...]




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Easy Way To Monitor Your Computer Hardware In Detail
Easy Way To Monitor Your Computer Hardware In DetailJuly 10, 2026PC Guides / System PerformanceIn OnlineCmag, we’ve recently discussed about the methods of monitoring your graphics card and also explained you the way to know all the parameters of your microprocessor and other hardware but these tools are designed to display information that is only for monitoring. If you are interested in dealing with real-time data such as the temperature of your microprocessor or graphics card, operating speed of the fans and also in knowing their maximum and minimum values, you need a monitoring application and one of the simplest but complete one is the ” Hardware Monitor “. which can be downloaded at the end of this article. HWMonitor – Simplest Way To Monitor Your Computer Hardware : This application is really easy to use and interpret, it has only one main screen where all data related to your computer hardware is displayed, it will show the current value, minimum value and the maximum value reached for each and every component. There is nothing more to explain about this application, it promises to be a hardware monitor system in real time for your Windows operating system and meets the expectations plus it is also free. So if you are interested in knowing everything about your computer hardware, then we recommend this tool for you. Download | Hardware Monitor [...]
How To Protect Your Settings From Being Changed By The Virus Or Trojans
How To Protect Your Settings From Being Changed By The Virus Or TrojansJuly 10, 2026PC Hacks / Security / System PerformanceOne feature that many of of the Viruses and Trojans have in similar is that after their installation, they begin to change the system’s configurations and registry keys in order to hide and breed. This is possible because, in general most of the users operate their windows with administrator privileges , thus helping the virus to spread throughout the system by not having a permit limitation. The best method to protect your system from the configuration changes made by the Virus or Trojans is to work without administrator permissions but this change of approach is difficult to instill among users. So, assuming that most work will continue with the privileged user, we must find an alternative to protect the user even working in administrator mode. This protection is offered by free software ” WinLockLess ” , which must run with administrator privileges. It provides complete protection against the registry changes. The method of employment is very easy. Choose those aspects that you want to protect and press the Activate Changes button, and thus you will have them all protected . It Will Protect Your System In Two Modes :  Image Courtesy by : Softonic 1. User Profile Protection: Protect the registry branches hanging from HKEY_CURRENT_USER . Contains: Protect “Run” current user: Affects the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Run Protect “Winlogon” current user: Affects HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows NT / CurrentVersion / Winlogon Protect Home Folder: Protects your home folder where application shortcuts are added. Protect RunOnce and RunOnceEx: Affects the keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnce and HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnceEx Protect Explorer User Policies: Affects HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / Explorer / Run Protect “Load” current user: Affects HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows 2. Protection of the entire system: Protect the registry branches hanging from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Contains : Protect “Winlogon” machine: Affects HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows NT / CurrentVersion / Winlogon Protect “Run” machine: Affects the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Run Protect “SafeBoot” (F8, safe mode): Affects SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / SafeBoot Protect RunOnce and RunOnceEx: Affects ramas HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnce y HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/RunOnceEx Protect Explorer Policies of the machine: It affects HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Policies / Explorer / Run Protect common startup folder: Protect your home folder where application shortcuts are added. The application protects you from all well known viruses , including the famous police virus. So we strongly recommend its implementation to increase your system protection. [...]
Hide your IP Address And Stay One Step More Secure On The Internet
Hide your IP Address And Stay One Step More Secure On The InternetJuly 9, 2026PC Hacks / Security / Web GuidesOnline privacy is one of the most important aspect that you should consider. If you don’t then things could end up disastrous. Usually IP addresses are like your footprints, and often should not be known by the websites you visited or other users. So there are a number of methods to hide your IP address and thus making your online life a bit more secure. Also See: How To Find The IP Address Of Your Computer What Is An IP Address? It is your identity on the internet, which identifies your computer, smartphone, tablet, or anything else with which you are connected. As we always say ” If it’s on the internet, it isn’t private ” , Any server which you connect to, or any internet user can easily obtain your IP address. By using IP address they can obtain the data such as the country you live in, what browser you use, even know your Internet habits and also have a chance to know your computer’s IP address. If someone else knows all such details about you and your computer, then your security is truly under question.     How to Hide your IP Address ? There are several methods to hide your IP address in order to protect your privacy , but neither method is 100% effective only hinder your crawl. Here are the three methods to hide your IP address:   #1 Web-Proxies: This is the fastest and simplest method. No need to install anything on your computer or on your web browser. All you need to do is, just move on to any web-proxy website and enter the address that you want to access anonymously in the search bar. Now you will be redirected to your requested website by hiding your IP address. Many of these proxies allow additional settings, such as advertising, cookies or applications running on the website and many more. There are now many web proxies, both free and paid versions, some of them are: Ninja Cloak Free Proxy Server Anonymouse Proxyget   #2 Configure the proxy settings in the browser : Another method is to configure the proxy settings in your web browser. So by using this method you can directly use your web browser itself so as to hide your IP address. To do this you must access the settings of your browser and establish a web proxy of your choice. Another possibility to hide your IP using the browser is to install extensions that help us to maintain our privacy and security.   #3 Proxy software : These proxies have to be installed on your computer , and work the same way as any normal program. One of the best known software proxies is the ” TOR Project “, which besides being free, it is one of the most reliable and safe to hide in the network methods. TOR browser is also pretty popular and is being used by thousands of people worldwide. It is composed of a network of computers called nodes. When you connect to TOR, it follows a path through the various nodes and finally connect to the server, making it quite difficult to find the source as you can seamlessly connect to the network from a node located in any other country. Besides this, communications through the TOR network are encrypted , making it even more difficult. We don’t say its unchangeable but surely it isn’t going to give way to intruders so easily. [...]