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A Few Tools That Can Help You To Beat Ransomware

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Even though we use antivirus software and programs for our devices and systems, no antivirus tool can be 100% secure. One of the biggest common issues faced by home users, businesses, and enterprises is the ransomware. It is highly difficult to fight with it, but not impossible remember.

Ransomware infection is something that scans for specific file extensions in your system and encrypts the files by locking them and the user can’t be able to open them until he/she pays the ransom amount which is usually in the form of bitcoins.

Now let us know about some strong antivirus tools that have the ability to protect your system from these ransomware attacks.

Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2017

This tool has won the Best Virus detection award continuously for six years. It protects the system files, documents, pictures, music and videos from any unauthorized attacks.

Overall, it is a great tool to defend your system from any such attacks.

Trend Micro Antivirus+ Security 2017

While the earlier tool focuses on protecting some specific files and folders, this program moves forward and prevents the modification of folders, behavioral analysis, file backup, restoring. It even has a hotline number that anyone can call.

Avast Free Antivirus 2017

It is one of the best free antivirus programs available. It has various features like scanning of active malware, behavior-based detection, blocking of malicious URLs and much more.

This one cannot be better than the previous tools which protect from ransom attacks but is much better than an unsecured system.

 Cybereason RansomFree

This is a free tool that you can use alongside your existing virus security solution for protecting your system from ransom attacks. It places bait files in the locations where the ransom attackers often begin the encryption process.

Microsoft EMET

Microsoft EMET is the Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit that offers some extra layer of protection for the Windows users. It is not a magic wand, but it is designed to disrupt some of the most common attacks.

Kaspersky Anti-Ransomware Tool

It is a free tool and works completely like the other ransom attack blocking tools as we discussed earlier. This tool runs in the background protecting your system from any kind of malicious activity, monitors your system’s behavioral patterns.

How To Free Up Your RAM Space Hogged By Your Google Chrome

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Chrome the most popular browser and the most widely used browser is very much known for hogging memory. This can make your device go slow, to avoid this you can follow some simple tips and thus make chrome’s RAM usage at a minimum level. Follow these simple things and free up RAM space on your device

Web browsing has become more complex than people give it credit for. Think about it: When you’re using a computer, most of what you do takes place in your browser, from opening tabs to watching videos and using web apps or extensions that integrate with the rest of your machine. That’s a lot of stuff.

Steps To Free Up RAM Space

  • Temporarily closing your tabs can help you a lot. You can make use of a variety of extensions to suspend the tabs and stop them from using up your RAM
  • Selectively suspend tabs by using come awesome Google chrome extensions like OneTab, TooManyTabs
  • If you are not in a way to choose and suspend the tabs then let Chrome choose for you, some apps like TabMemFree, TabWrangler will help you to suspend the unused tabs for you.
  • Enable text mode in Google Chrome as it would load all the web pages in text mode which saves a lot of memory. This will remove texts and other extras from the website.
  • Read mode helps you in case you want to view images, this mode will strip out flash and ads out of the web pages.
  • Clean up your Chrome extensions and unwanted extras.
  • Always keep your Chrome updated.
  • Clear up your cache regularly

These tips will help to free up RAM, try these and your browser should work fine. Clear out some space in RAM and then you will be able to do the task of browsing really quick and fast without any kind of lags.

You Can Now Recharge Your Prepaid Phone from Google Search

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With the new feature from Google, it has now become easier to recharge prepaid mobiles here in India. You can recharge your prepaid SIM cards right from Google Search on your Android smartphone. The mobile operators that are in support of Google as of now include Airtel, Vodafone-Idea, Jio, and BSNL.

There are plenty of ways to recharge your phone’s prepaid plan and some of them are USSD codes, official apps, and bank clients. But Google thinks it can do better, and it’s now bringing another way to top up your plan in India.

The company has announced the ability to browse for and purchase prepaid phone plans via Google Search on Android.

To use the feature, you need to just perform a Google search query. It can be something like “Prepaid mobile recharge” or “SIM recharge”. In doing so, you will see a “Mobile Recharge” section in the search results where you get the option to enter your mobile number, operator, and circle.

When you are done with filling in all the details in the fields, you need to tap on Browse Plans button to view the available plans. Similar to dedicated mobile recharge applications, you will be shown the popular, full talk time, 4G/3G/2G data, special recharge, roaming, top-up, and recommended plans in their respective sections.

You can further choose and browse the options accordingly and get the recharge done.

Some Of The Tech News Digests That You Must Give A Check

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You must very much be able to stay updated with the tech news from the world of technology through ComputerEra. But you may not be able to or interested towards learning the whole news as it may take a lot of your time, so here are some of the tech news digests that will give you a quick tech digest or podcast. Do check them out for sure.

Techmeme Ride Home

This is a news digest platform that will give you a 15-20 minutes duration and it will have the tech news highlights that can give you an idea of the tech news of the day. If you are going to work or to home back from work, then you can catch up all the tech news that has happened in the day. This podcast can be accessed through RSS feed on any podcast applications.

Morning Reader

Morning Reader is another really useful and interestingly curated news app with a simple and clean interface. It shows you the headlines from only a single source. It presents the news by picking the best news source for you. Morning Reader has got a separate section for various important sections of technology news like the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. You can make use of the web app or even create a shortcut in your mobile or even have the application downloaded.

Tech News Weekly

Tech News Weekly is another most essential and useful podcast for tech geeks. This team now has got a weekly tech podcast that has got a twist. It is all about taking a deep dive into the biggest tech news of the week. This will definitely be a great option for those who don’t have time to check the tech news every day.

TechBites

This is another useful one in our list of the tech news digests with a two-fold approach to the daily technological news. It curates the best news from different tech sources and creates a full homepage with the information of tech news that you may need or want to know.

So, don’t miss trying out these sources. Stay updated with technology.

Google Photos Is Coming Up With A Zoom In Feature For Videos Soon

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Google Photos is probably the best way to store photos up in the cloud. However, it never lets users zoom in on videos while they’re playing. In the latest Google Photos update on Android, it seems that the ability to zoom on videos is finally in the works.

Obviously, one could only watch videos without the ability to pinch to zoom before now, but that, of course, would soon change. After it is being launched, the users will be able to zoom in on a particular section of a video and get a clearer view.

The roll-out date of this new feature is not clear at the moment but it gladdens the heart to know that Google Photos is adding another useful feature to an already impressive list.

A couple of weeks ago, Google Photos welcomed a lot of good features since it was launched, which ranks it among the very best in the category. Google is testing image markup that will enable you to draw on your pictures.

The image markup feature will allow you to draw and doodle over your pictures the same way it is being done on Snapchat. From the first look at the feature, it seems you will be able to draw with a marker or brushes.

In its current state, Google Photos won’t respond to pinch-to-zoom gestures while playing a video in either portrait or landscape orientation. As seen in the GIF below, that will soon change when the app is updated to support zooming in on a video to close in on a specific area of the shot.  While this probably won’t be useful in all cases, we can see it being handy for videos of a concert or similar situations.