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With the advent of microprocessors, personal computers flooded into every one's home. Every year more and more people started to buy PCs. Then came the time of the internet revolution and every thing started to become available online. We can now control our bank accounts, shop online what ever we want, meet family and friends and interact with everyone else in this vast cyber universe.

Despite all this ease we get, there is still some hassle and this hassle is the security threat that internet poses to us. Every day new viruses, trojans, malwares, spywares and worms are born out of no where. All this malicious things harm our PCs either knowingly or unknowingly.

But when there are bad people trying to harm the goodness we can avail, its nature's rule that some better, good people are created to counter their efforts. We have these good software engineers with us to help us fight against cyber crimes.

Here in this post let me now tell some things on removing a Trojan Virus. Trojan viruses actually are malicious pieces of softwares that mostly spread unknowingly into your PC. There are a class of internet viruses that spread into your PC in a way as that they pretend to be useful to you PC and when you download them unknowingly, they just create havoc in you PC.

Trojan viruses spread from files which people download from websites allowing download of illegal content or through popups mostly that are windows security update. It is stronly advisable that you stay away from such websites in the first place how ever even if you still are infected. then you can get it removed via some good trojan remover.

You remove a trojan virus either manually or through an automatic trojan terminator. But the right software must be used to do so. Symantec has a good data base about all the latest trojans and how to remove them using there antivirus updates. You can get tons of information from there.

How ever here is a good article which you can read to get rid of trojan viruses

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N97 Smart Phone

June 16th 2009 14:49

Nokia is the next big thing in the IT industry after may be IBM and Intel, as these are the two major companies that literally took over the computer industry completely and still are the major players. Similarly Nokia is the brand that took over the mobile industry and by all means it really is the leader in it.

After Nokia launched its N-series phones, the concept of a mobile entered into a new dimension as now with these phones you just don't have mobile in your hand but a very powerful computer that you can control. So enhancing this innovation in mobile making, Nokia recently introduced the N97 smart phone, which is yet another of those powerful N-series phones with even more capabilities then the previous hot seller, N96.

The phone consists of a Symbian OS 9.4 with Nokia S60 Fifth Edition UI N97 and a large, 640×360-pixel, 3.5-inch, TFT Touchscreen, with 16,777,216 colors, resistive touch, separate touch foil and touch feedback. Just like windows vista you can add widgets to you home screen and drag and move them according to the way you want them to appear.

The keyboard is a conventional QWERTY keyboard with the screen adjusted to a very fine angle to make typing and working easy. It has many multimedia built in application to suit you need and comes with a 5 mega pixel camera. It has a internal memory of 32 GB and an expandable SD memory slot.

The phone is compatible with all connectivity technologies like EDGE,3G,GPRS and wireless LAN which can be used in your office,home or places where there is wireless connectivity. It has its own version of office to make your work easy, you can also have conference call with a camera present at the front of the screen. Overall it is a mini laptop packed with all the features to suit you needs.

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How To Find IP?

May 29th 2009 17:32

It has been a long time since I posted some thing here in my tech blog probably because I am way to busy these days in my semester exams so keeping the blogs up to date is quite difficult. Nevertheless I am here to post some thing useful here in the blog. From the title it is quite evident that I will be telling you how to find your IP address.

Many of the people who use internet don't really know what an IP address is and aren't even bothered with its existence, while there are some other bunch of people who don't know what and IP address is but really want to know how to find it out so may be this post is for those guys, because people who really know what and IP address is do also know how to find it.

IP stands for Internet Protocol and it is the unique address assigned to you computer with in a network. You IP is very important for many people out there it also tells the location of a computer as to from where it is located.

There are two types of IPs one is the "Static IP" and the other is the "Dynamic IP" internet connection having static IPs are usually expensive and if you are to set up a server you have o get a static IP. Most ISPs (Internet Service Providers) give you a static IP that is automatically detected in you PC.

How To Find IP?

Actually finding IP is quite easy and doesn't require any expertise and the simplest method would be to find it through an online website that will tell you IP when you visit it.

The site is http://www.whatismyip.com/

Just click on the website to find out the the IP, but the IP displayed by such websites is the public IP assigned to you by your ISPs server.

To check your IP settings, manually with in your Local Area Network just follow the steps below:
1. Go to settings
2. Go to Network Connections
3. Open Local Area Network
4. Click on support above the window, it will display your IP configuration.

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Fiat 500

April 30th 2009 18:47

Fiat has been an old player in the European car market it was founded in 1899 having its origins in Italy. Fiat cars since there arrival in market, started to gain popularity and started to give tough time to other car making companies. Fiat is the largest car manufacturer in Italy and has factories around the world. It has a wide range of vehicles staring form compact cars to racing monsters. The well known Ferrari brand is also a part of this reputable organization.

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Oxygen Sensor

April 15th 2009 19:35

Oxygen sensor, as the name implies is a clever high-tech device which can measure the amount of oxygen in a sample or some area. This is a wonderful diagnostic device and can sense any oxygen proportions without any hassle.

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Jhonson & Jhonson Baby Shampoo Contains Unsafe Chemicals

March 20th 2009 17:52

Everybody knows the famous brand Jhonson & Jhonson and many of us have used their products in our childhood or are buying their baby products for our babies. I personally liked their baby shampoo and washed my hairs with it even when I became a teenager. But recently when I saw this strange news about their shampoo I was feeling really bad as I couldn't stop thinking that all these years I was putting some sort of poison on my hairs.

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Electronic Medical Records

February 28th 2009 19:21

Electronic Medical Records or in other words Personal Health Records is a software that has been growing really popular. Although it has been quite some time since its release in the market yet it took time before hospitals around the world started to adopt this software.

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Electricity With Hot Dry Rock Technology

February 17th 2009 17:50

A Turbine

Humanity has developed to an extent that in this modern world we cannot actually survive without the use of technology. Every gadget that exist around us make our life easier and with out them we can get frustrated or may be mentally sick. But of all these technologies, the mother technology without which we cannot even imagine to live is electricity

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LG Cookie

February 5th 2009 09:26

Mobile phones have created a havoc world wide, very recently we only new mobile phone a s a big bad bulky device that only people having strong muscles could carry. But with in a half a decade this bulky device changed into something no one had ever imagined and now it is completely a different thing all together,much powerful than the computers of the early 90's. Now there is even more room for development.

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USB Missile Launcher

January 27th 2009 19:15

These days USB devices are getting popular, not because they have crossed another high Giga byte mark rather they are getting popular because of a fun little USB toy introduced into the market. A number of USB makers have produced their own version of this future weapon.

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