How to Save Yourself from the My First Video Virus on Facebook

If you have been affected by the 'My First Video' virus on Facebook, this post is just for you. A small change in the settings of Facebook and Google Chrome you can save yourself from this virus. The virus automatically sends a message to a friend asking them to click upon a video link to which a virus is attached. It is not the first time the Facebook has been attacked by a virus. A similar virus has previously attacked many Facebook accounts.

How is this virus a harmful one?

The 'my first video' virus automatically sends mesaage to people in your friendlist through your account without your consent. And, wgen the other user tries to watch the video, the virus enters into his acount too and the process repeats. Also, the user find himself unable to logout from his account from that computer. Also, in many cases, there have been complains of some non conventional post to ones account.

It Also Stops You From Changing Your Accounts Password

This virus captures your account in such a way that you cannot logout from your account and, even, you cannot change your facebook account's password. The virus not only affects your Facebook account, but also your Pc on which you used your account. This is the reason the user cannot change the accounts password through that PC.

The video link opens a Chrome Extension Page

The 'my first video' virus works through an extension. Chrome Extension works just like a smartphone app that is used on a PC. Any person who click on the 'My First Video' link, a new webpage opens in front of him. The webpage doesn't contains any video, but an extension that automatically gets uploaded on your chrome. According to the cyber experts, the virus not only affects your computer, but also collects information of the websites you visit.

How to check these harmful Extensions

Recognising these harmful extension is too easy. For this, go to Google Chrome settings. Here, on the left side, below history, there is an option of extension. When you click on this option, a list of all the extensions installed over the chrome appears. If you see any extension you don't remember installing, that may be the virus extension. Clicking over the detail, it will show you the details of accessibility of that extension. You can also disable and delete that extension from here.

Be Aware of The Apps on the Facebook

Along with the game apps, there are a lot of apps on Facebook, that not only tells the marriage date of person, but also the number of kids they are gonna have. Even they tells you some intresting facts about your previous or next life. But, these apps are famous for deleting users data, sharing personal information with advertising companies and posting on user's page without their consent.

Protection is not hard

User can check lists of apps using Facebook login. You can go into the Facebook setting and can delete these apps. Just go in the settings. Here, when scrolled down, there is an option of apps. Clicking on this option, comes a list of apps that have logged in through your Facebook Account. Clicking on each app tells you the level to which the app can look into your account. The harmful apps can be removed by clicking on the cross sign beside it.

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WhatsApp Encryption: All You Need To Know

After adding the feature to share files over WhatsApp, the developers have now added a new and probably the best feature to WhatsApp. The end-to-end encryption. This feature will ensure that the user's messages are only read by the person for whom the message is meant to be. The messages can't be read by anyone else, not by WhatsApp, not any cyber criminal, not even by any law enforcement agency.

Jan Koum, one of the founders of WhatsApp made the announcement regarding this over his Facebook page saying that the company has been working on this feature for the last two years. "We’ve been working for the past two years to give people better security over their conversations on WhatsApp… People deserve security. It makes it possible for us to connect with our loved ones. It gives us the confidence to speak our minds. It allows us to communicate sensitive information with colleagues, friends, and others. We’re glad to do our part in keeping people’s information out of the hands of hackers and cyber-criminals"-Jan Koum.

So, what does the end-to-end means, and, how exactly it works on WhatsApp?
WhatsApp encryption uses ' The Signal Protocol'. It has been designed by Open Whisper Systems.
Explaining, WhatsApp says that "once the session is established, clients do not need to rebuild a new session with each other until the existing session state is lost through an external event such as an app reinstall or device change." Explaining how the messages are encrypted, WhatsApp said- "clients exchange messages that are protected with a Message Key using AES256 in CBC mode for encryption and HMAC-SHA256 for authentication. The Message Key changes for each message transmitted, and is ephemeral, such that the Message Key used to encrypt a message cannot be reconstructed from the session.” It also says that calls, large file attachments are also end-to-end encrypted. One drawback of this feature is that it may cause the delivery of messages a bit late.

Users should know that this feature is enabled by default in WhatsApp. so, if you have the latest app installed on your smartphone, then your chats are already been encrypted. Unlike Telegram, the encryption cannot be specialized for time required, i.e. you can't turn off this feature.

Users should also know that they need to be on same version of the software to use this feature. so, if you and your friend have recently updated their software and you chat with him/her you will see a message saying "Messages you send to this chat and calls are now secured with end-to-end encryption. Tap for more info." when you tap on the message, a pop up menu that will explain about the end-to-end encryption. To verify if the encryption is working good, the user needs to click over the verify button. This will take the user to a page with a QR code and a string of 60 numbers.
And if your friend is near you, scan their QR code with your phone with the given option. if the code matches, a green tick comes and you are good to go.

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LG Optimus Vu: A Step Towards Challenging Samsung's Supremacy

Although, Samsung is now the leading mobile company in today’s scenario, with its different flagships such as Samsung Galaxy Note II with improved form factor with a stellar hardware upgrade in respect to its previous version “Note”, the rivals are already nipping at the company’s heel. We are to look here at two new quad-core phablets and see if they are any near to compete with the Note II

LG Optimus Vu

Whenever we think of  Phablets, a large screen comes in our mind, but the LG’s flagship ‘Vu’ is just humongous. This is mainly due to its squarer 4:3 screen. The diagonal measurement of phone screens is 5 inches; so this proportion is always going to make for a wider display while compared to other 5-inch devices that use the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio.

    

PROS

The Phablet’s big screen gives the user a delightful experience while reading or browsing your favourite websites. Even in the direct sun, the Phablet gives no hindrance. Photos, games and movies are rendered withrich colour complexion and optimum saruration. With this, the 4:3 aspect ratio causes not that good experience with the widescreen videos. Still, the Optimus Vu provides great overall performance, playing full HD videos smoothly, easy and unhindered support of high definition games, and, with these, seemless multitasking. The camera is capable of good clicks. And the video recording is mind blowing- with a powerful microphone that captures clear audio with less ambient disturbances

CONS

The phone is just too wide, so, cumbersome to hold during the phone calls. There's a shortcut button on the top of the Phablet that lets us access Notes, the app where we can pen notes quickly with the associated stylus. But, the dilemma is, the phone does not have a slot to carry the stylus. And the last, the Vu doesn't delivergood battery backup, lasting less than 10 hours in the day.

The Phablet has the price of abour Rs. 29,000 in India.

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How To Perform System Recovery.....!!!!

Sometimes your system stops working as it used to be and you just want to get the previous setup/configuration of your system as it was when you purchased it. But, you don’t have any idea how to do so. So here is something for you guys.

First of all, you should check whether you have a recovery drive on your system or not. Sometimes, the company gives you a recovery disk, but now a days, companies provide with an inbuilt recovery drive. This drive contains a recovery folder which is inaccessible to you when you click at it. But, if you really want to do the system recovery, here are the steps for this-

§  Restart your system and press esc button before the window starts loading.

§  A black screen comes in view (in case of Hp systems and laptops)

§  This black screen contains many option, like system information, system diagnostics, boot device options, BIOS setup, and, system recovery.

§  Press the required button to choose the system recovery

§  Continue accordingly for the recovery process

The main thing to be kept in mind is that, if you attempt to perform the system recovery, you will lose all the data saved on your system, as the data recovery deletes all the data entered by you after you have bought the system.

To save yourself form losing your data you can make backup discs of your data.

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