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hi all i want to know what a fire wall is? usha :confused:

im trying to understand what exactly a computer virus is. is it a text file inside another file? im really confused. how are they written? stuff like that

I've been hacked or invaded somehow. I am no longer the user adminstrator and the control panel is not on the start menu. I can't access the control panel to reset the user account. I am the only account on the computer and the name is simply "user". If the internet service is connected the computer shuts down in 1 minute after startup. If I...

Hi everyone, I got an email I am 90% sure is spam or virus. However the attachment is a pdf. Can a pdf contain a virus? My antivirus didn't pick up anything. I don't want to open it only to find it infects my system. Mary

i have encountered a problem in my system with "w32.dizan.d" virus. give me a solution for get rid out of it. one of my word document file has been changed from .doc to .scr. help me out to get back my word document file.

hi can any suggest any tool to remove bloodhound packed.jmp virus.i tried many but i was not able

Before this evening when I came home and found an odd page showing on my desktop, my pc ran okay...not great. It is a new emachine, only purchased it in 5/2010, but there have been issues with it. I believe someone, maybe someone I know, has hacked my system. Anyway, I don't know for certain, but it seems quite odd that while up to several hours...

System affected by Trojan horse virus. Anti-virus is having in the system but it is detecting the virus but not removing the virus... Tell some antivirus to remove it.... when the system is logged on, the notification will that there is a virus each time i am deleting the virus but its coming again and again ... and so the system is slow...

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has ever heard of a virus that infects the search history of google. Such as: history that is showing up in google that someone's husband swears that he didn't look at. Is it possible for words or phrases to show up in google history that someone didn't previously look at. Thanks for your help!

My pc got spyware from usb device i scanned it with avg & malwarebytes..but they shows no infection on it.. but when i copied data from it there are some pop-ups coming on screen. .i tried full scan but still its there..!! Thanks :)

Hi Bytes Community, I don't have a problem with my computer, but my family's main computer is having some issues. It is an HP Pavilion desktop running Windows XP. The computer has a nasty redirect virus that I cannot seem to get rid of. It affects both Firefox and Internet Explorer on that computer. Whenever you try to do a search in Google,...

I mean, I understand the gist of it to go something like: Browser receives certificate from server Browser then queries that this certificate is valid The two swap encryption keys for deciphering the encrypted data Of course it's a little more involved than that, and I may be wrong in my understanding (please correct me, if so). But what...

WINE(windows program loader) is the software for running windows programs in linux platform my doubt is by installing such a kind of software will my ubuntu become vulnerable to viruses (.exe files) because it is used to execute windows .exe files so will my ubuntu also gets affected? please help thanks in advance

A file named "clientConfig.sqlite" of zero bytes is created everywhere in my computer. I m using windows7 Is this Virus or something else...

I have a safe-mail account and I am not able to access it because of a password problem, they will not respond to my request for a temporary password. How can I get some action to resolve this problem?

Hi all, I am facing a problem in my pen drive.When i am putting any DVD RIP file in my pen drive the file has corrupted after some time.But scanning with Symantac antivirus pen drive has not shown any virus in it. Please help. Writam.

I want to protect my zip file's contents. Like, i want to make a zip file which can be used(extract) by all but no one can delete, edit contents of it. So there there any way to do it. Like, putting any kind of locking, password, etc. Thanks in advance...

Hello, if I encrypt my DB in my web site and someone made sql injection successfuly to my web site. If he is looking for my data base that are encrypt, does he can see it decrypt? Thanks and sorry about my english.

How virus spyware and other malware are infecting a computer? Some said don’t click any unknown link or browse any unknown sites. Some said not to connect others pen drive with computer. I am just confused.

hi, i've full disk/system encrypted my linux xubuntu through native encryption setup when installing. i'd now like to add to this an outer volume, making my current one hidden. i'd also like to boot the less-hidden volume run XP. is this possible without wiping the entire harddrive again? the standard option in truecrypt seems to be to create...

hi, I have different email accounts and I dont like to log into my accounts again and again to read emails. So to save my time i want to use "Incredimail". So using Incredimail will create any problem. Can anyone hack my account if i use this software.

Every time when I plugin USB drive, pops and says virus detected, I did clean with online tool from trendmicro.com, again after few days if I insert USB drive, samething?. Isn't virus get clean with tool?. after I did clean with tool, if I do again, can't find any, but appears back after few days, why?

Hi Bytes Community, I was wondering how most of you keep track of all of your usernames and passwords? I probably have 15 to 25 accounts on the internet with different usernames and passwords. I also own a website design company, and I need a way to keep track of all of my client username and passwords for hosting account, domain name...

Hello to all you security experts out there, My website is hosted on a particular shared hosting server, run by some big company; let's not get into which one. Suffice to say, it's a typical cPanel account on a LAMP stack. The server (not my domain, but the server itself) possesses an SSL security certificate, and I can connect to the server...

Hello Every One, I have a dedicated server, and i want get my private informations from my bank. The server of my bank already have HTTPS, signed by VeriSign, Inc. RC4 128B. So i want use PHP/cURL to connect safely and get my private informations from bank server. I know that i should use CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,...