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Jun
24
2024

How to Spot and Remove Agent Smith Malware on Android

What Is Agent Smith Malware? Agent Smith is a modular malware that exploits a series of Android vulnerabilities to replace legitimate existing apps with malicious imitation. The malicious app doesn’t steal data. Instead, apps replaced display a huge number of adverts to the user or steal credit from the device to pay for adverts already served. The malware carries the “Agent Smith” moniker, the same name as the infamous Matrix character who is characterized as a virus. The Ch.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Spot and Avoid Fake Virus and Malware Warnings

3 Most Common Fake Virus Warnings While fake virus alerts could theoretically crop up in any manner, history has shown that three types frequently appear. As such, if you can learn to spot these, you should be safe. 1. Website Advertisements Disguised as Virus Scanners Advertisement designers will sometimes resort to underhand tactics to persuade you to click. Some shady antivirus companies will get you to visit their website by showing you a fake alert. For example, the image above shows a w.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Disable Ad Tracking on iPhone and iOS Browsers

About Ad Tracking on Your iPhone Apple prides itself on protecting your privacy, but it still collects data about how you use your iPhone. Although Apple uses this data to show you targeted ads, it doesn’t share anything with third parties and keeps your data anonymous by removing any personal identifiers. After analyzing your data, Apple places you in a group with at least 5,000 similar people. Apple then delivers the same targeted ads to everyone in that group. Third-party advertisers,.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Directly Connect to a Raspberry Pi Without Internet

When You Might Use This Wirelessly connecting to a Raspberry Pi whether it has wireless networking enabled or is connected via Ethernet to your router is certainly more convenient. It’s almost certainly the preferred option, whether you’re at home, at school, or at a maker event. However, it isn’t ideal for every scenario. For instance, if you’re using your Pi with the camera module, you may like to take it outside, perhaps to capture some time-lapse photography. Witho.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Set Up a PayPal Account and Receive Money From Anyone

Why Should You Create a PayPal Account? Over the years PayPal has solidified itself as the de facto payment system for anyone doing business online. PayPal grew as it found a gap in the market between less advanced alternatives and greedy credit card processors. Much of this growth was fueled by eBay, which needed a cheap, convenient payment system. Sellers couldn’t afford credit card processing and buyers didn’t want to risk sharing their credit cards with strangers. PayPal offer.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Hide or Fake Your Location in Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge

What Is Geolocation? Geolocation pinpoints your location and then ties it to your web browser or other applications. Most services use the information from your IP address and connected network to match it with known locations. Browsers use geolocation for several different reasons. When you visit certain websites, you might notice a prompt that asks you to confirm whether the site can use your location. If you allow access, the site can use your location and provide information relevant to yo.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Create Your Own IRC Chat Channel

What is IRC? IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It’s a way of chatting via text to other people online. IRC has been around for over three decades. IRC was designed by Jarkko Oikarinen while working at the University of Oulu in Finland. It spun off from a bulletin board system to feature real-time discussions; it gave the ability to see other people’s messages appear immediately after they sent them and respond to them too. Oikarinen continued to develop IRC for some years, befor.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Copyright Your Photos

What Is Copyright? When you possess copyright of a photograph, that means that you have exclusive right to reproduce the work, to create derivative works based on it, to distribute copies, and to display it in public. In the United States, when you take a photograph, you automatically have the copyright of the image as soon as the shutter is released (as long as it isn’t a photo of an existing artistic work). However, this isn’t the case if you’ve been commissioned to take th.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Reduce Mobile Data Usage When Streaming Music

Reduce Mobile Data Usage on Spotify With a premium Spotify account, you can save playlists for offline listening. But if you aren’t sure whether Spotify Premium is worth it, you can still adjust the bitrate when streaming music to reduce data usage instead. Tap the Settings button (which looks like a cog), then go to Music Quality and select Low under the Streaming section. Your music will play at a bitrate of around 24 kbit/s, compared to Normal at 96 kbit/s and High at 160 kbit/s. You.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Download Windows Media Player 12 for Windows 10

Where Has Windows Media Player Gone? The quickest way to check if you have Windows Media Player 12 (the latest version) installed and enabled is to open the Start menu and search for it. It comes as an “optional feature” for the majority of Windows 10 versions. However, Microsoft now disables it by default, so there’s every chance your search will yield no results. There are also two versions of the operating system that don’t have it at all: Windows 10 N and Windows 1.

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