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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 the 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 with 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 like we discussed earlier. This tool runs in the background protecting your system from any kind of malicious activities, monitors your system’s behavioral patterns.

How To Enable New Gmail User Interface Instantly In Your Gmail

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Google has started to roll out its new user interface for its users. Through this new interface and updated design Google has been offering its users a brand-new material facelift, dedicated task pane, integration with applications like Keep. These changes have been rolled out by Google in different phases.  So, if you are one among the users who is looking forward towards using these features, then here is how you can get the new Gmail user interface enabled. Follow the below steps. 

First of all, to begin with the process, you need to sign in to your Gmail account.

Then click on the gear icon on the top right corner of the mailbox window.

Then you will find an option Try new Gmail, just click on it and you will be able to witness the new user interface.

If you would ever again want to go back to the old and regular Gmail UI, then click on the gear icon and then tap on the ‘go back to classic gmail’ option.

Enabling New UI in GSuite

If you are using a GSuite account and would like to enable the new user interface in there. You will first be needing permission of the administrator and if you are an administrator, then you can follow these steps.

Just head over to the admin console, then under the settings ‘new gmail early adopter program’. Change the selection to ‘allow my users access to the new Gmail UI and features.

Once you are done, then the users in your GSuite can simply enable the new Gmail user interface by going and enabling it in the settings.

Try this new Gmail UI and experience the new interface and look.

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 with 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.

Desktop Users Can Now Enjoy Wikipedia Page Previews

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Wikipedia has been quite a popular and widely used online encyclopedia that has tonnes of information on a various range of topics. It is impossible not to find any information you need in Wikipedia. This popular informative platform has recently introduced a new feature or update for its users which let them view page previews without actually clicking the link. Wikipedia page previews feature allows the users to actually view page previews of the links without actually going inside the links.

But it is known that Wikipedia is one of the most invaluable resources and may not be relied on always.

Wikipedia has a lot of entries on anything and everything you can think of. And many of the pages in Wikipedia contain links to other Wikipedia pages which until now we used to click and discover to know what is the link related to, but now with this recent update rolling your mouse cursor over the link will actually allow you to take preview of link and then you can actually decide whether to visit the link or not.

As of now, this feature is exclusively offered to the desktop users. If you think this page previews feature is more annoying than useful for you, then you are also given the choice of disabling it. You just need to open the page preview, then click on the settings cog, hit the disable option and save the changes.

We hope you utilize and enjoy this new Wikipedia page previews feature.

Now You Have Windows Defender For Google Chrome

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Ever since the release of the Windows 10 operating system, the one such a feature that is grabbing the attention of everyone who is interested in technology and softwares is the Microsoft Edge browser. It is probably one unique browser and the up gradation of the internet explorer from the previous versions of the Windows operating system. Microsoft has recently launched its Microsoft Windows defender browser protection. This one is already a part of the Microsoft Edge browser but the Chrome browser users may find it difficult in shifting the browser which doesn’t seem useful at all.

Microsoft Edge browser do promise to give its users some amazing features but it is not worth shifting from the Chrome definitely. Many users prefer Chrome as their default browser and with the kind of facilities and features that the browser has been offering, no one can leave it behind just for something secure. So, Windows has finally come up with an extension that helps the Chrome browser users to stay safe online and protect themselves from the threats prone online.

With this extension, Microsoft introduced anti-malware technology for the users. You need to get the Windows Defender browser protection extension enabled on your device. This tool helps you by checking the websites that are visiting for any kind of malicious data with the list of the malicious URLs that Microsoft has got with it.

This extension even helps you in protecting yourself from any kind of phishing attempts by various kinds of websites that may trick you into getting hold of your personal data. This Windows Defender browser protection extension even helps you in staying away from websites that host malware that prompt you to download.

But unfortunately you need to leave your privacy to get this security, Microsoft will be able to view your browsing history in real time. So, think about it before you go for it.