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Some Of The Best Malware Removal Tools For Windows

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Despite the different cares and concerns we take, our computers often get infected with various malware from the internet. These days the internet is facing a lot many malware issues and WannaCry is among the most recent one happened that you might be aware of if you. So, nowhere in this article, we are going to give you a list of some of the best malware removal tools.

Malwarebytes Anti-malware

This is the software that probably comes to anyone’s mind when they first think of malware protection. The popularity it has got is purely based on its functioning and its ability to protect the devices from malware and not because of the publicity they do. The software simply does all its malware picking activity and all you need to do is just clicking on the scan option.

Malwarebytes Anti-malware can be considered as the best tool if you wish to remove the malware from your computer or PC. The tool even helps you in protecting your PC from malware.

Bitdefender Internet Security

This is another one of the most simple to try and really useful malware removal tools. The tool comes with a multi-layer ransomware protection layer that helps your PC to stay away from the malware and even helps you in keeping your files safe. The Bitdefender Internet Security even comes with a Bitdefender VPN using which you can surf the web without revealing your identity.

Avira Antivirus

This is another one in our list of some of the best malware removal tools. The free version of this application even gives you some really useful features. The tool provides you required protection for your PC from ransomware and malware. You can stay free as it even helps you in protecting your PC from Trojans, spyware.

Avast, Kaspersky is also some of the other tools that can help you in keeping your files safe, secure and your PC protected from malware and ransomware threats.

How To Stop Autoplay Videos In Various Websites, And Apps

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Autoplay feature might be the most annoying feature for many. While we are going through the website, the auto-playing videos will be a disturbance and wastage of data. As we scroll through the various posts, the videos will be playing automatically. Today we are going to learn the various ways to stop the auto-playing videos on various websites.

Disabling Autoplay Videos

On Chrome Browser:

Launch Chrome and in the Address Bar type: chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy and hit Enter. That will bring you directly to the flag that you need to change. From the drop-down box, change the setting from Default to “Document user activation is required” and relaunch the browser.

Twitter:

To stop autoplay videos on Twitter, there are some simple settings. On the web, you need to go to your account settings, and there

Settings>Account>Video Tweets>Autoplay videos

Uncheck that option to disable the autoplay feature.

Facebook:

To disable this feature in your desktop, you need to Settings>Videos>Now select the desired option for autoplay videos from the drop-down menu.

To stop autoplay in your Facebook Android application, you just need to go to

Settings>Video Auto-Play>Now pick your desired autoplay setting.

Instagram:

To stop autoplay videos in your mobile’s Instagram application there is a simple process. It can be done very easily. You just need to go to

Hamburger menu>Cellular data use> Use less data

YouTube:

While you play a video on YouTube, you will see some video suggestions on the right of your screen. There at the top of them, you will find the autoplay option. If the option is enabled it will be in blue color, disable it and that is it you are done.

Thus this autoplay feature can be enabled and disabled very easily by modifying some of our simple settings. Hope you like them and they are useful to you.

Some Of The Best Encrypted Email Services That You Can Make Use Of

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Gmail, which is the most popular mailing service is rich in its features, but even it lacks something which is the most required and desired feature the mail encryption. If privacy is your main concern, then here is a list of some of the useful encrypted email services.

Encrypted Email Services

ProtonMail:

Even though it has been founded by the CERN research facility in Switzerland in 2013, it has been made available to the public just from the last year. And it is by far the most popular encrypted email service. And it can be accessed by the website and it even available in the form of Android and iOS mobile apps. This service supports end-to-end encryption, which means the messages get encrypted from the moment they leave your device to the moment they reach the intended receiver. ProtonMail even has two-factor authentication browser-side decryption.

CounterMail:

It is based on a custom squirrel email interface. It is another most useful and secured, privacy-focused web email service. And it is one of the oldest and very well-known encrypted mailing services available. It offers end-to-end encryption as all its competitive services do. It even comes with some outstanding features that make it unique and separates it from its competitors. CounterMail stores messages and other data in the RAM and no on the computer’s disk, which makes it even inaccessible to computer forensics.

Tutanota:

In the world of encrypted emails, this one is the new entry. And within a very short period of time, it has gained a respected name in the world of encrypted emails. Tutanota is also available in the form of Android and iOS apps. It is very much similar to the ProtonMail service and its interface is even the same as it. It uses an open-source encryption algorithm and has been independently verified by cybersecurity professionals.

How To Customize Your Mouse Actions In Windows 10

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Mouse or the trackpad whatever we use to navigate the cursor over the computer screen which is one of the very important actions, the main focus will be definitely on the cursor and its actions. Not many of us know the different ways of customizing the cursor actions, so we thought of present you some really simple and easy customizations that you can try.  So, learn how to customize your mouse actions down here.

Some Simple Mouse Settings

You can make use of the shortcut Windows + I to open the settings menu and then navigate to devices, then tap on the mouse. There you can find a few options for some of your basic mouse actions, you can choose your primary button, the mouse wheel actions, and few more which you can customize according to your wish.

Advanced Settings

In the earlier menu settings window, right at the bottom, you will find the advanced option which you can click to access further custom settings where you can change the speed of the cursor and the double click speed.

You have also got a CheckLock feature that allows you to do the drag and drop actions without actually holding the mouse button and you can just click the primary button by placing the cursor on the file or folder and then clicking for one time when you wish to release it. So, enable this CheckLock option in your mouse’s advanced options and get ready to enjoy this feature.

Customize Pointer And Pointer Options, Mouse Actions

The mouse options even allow the users to custom their mouse pointer and pointer options, if you feel bored of the same pointer symbol, you can get a new one and even customize it with many other symbols from the internet.

In the mouse properties window, click on pointers tab where you can find these options which you can customize.

In the same way, you will also find various another tab called wheel, where you can customize and set up vertical scrolling if you find a need for it.

So, do try these things out and use your mouse options to the fullest.

How to synchronize Google Drive with your PC

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All the data you have on your PCs and laptops can be very much important to you and you cannot think of losing them. Many of us use backup services or various cloud storage services for saving data. The best-known cloud storage services include Google Drive, One Drive.

The one thing that is annoying about cloud storage is the efforts needed to upload the data. How about this upload happening automatically, sounds great right. Let us now learn how to automate the PC with cloud storage.

As Google Drive is the most used cloud storage, we are using it here

  • To begin with, you must be having Backup and Sync tool downloaded and installed on your device. Make sure you download the version that is compatible with your device
  • After installing, just grant a few permissions that the application will ask for proceeding further
  • Then fill in a few login details to get inside your Drive
  • Now, under the various sections of the application, you have to select whether you wish to sync data between your PC devices and Drive or just between PC and your Drive
  • The Backup and Sync tool will go on to do backup and synchronize until you close it

You can now find all your content automatically backup up into Google Photos or Drive whichever option you have selected. So, keep the app running and you don’t have to do anything else.