One of our readers asked a interesting question today, the readers basically asked us that he signs up for a lot of newsletters, however whenever he opens up them in Gmail, the images are hidden and he has to click on a link to show the images.

You know, the bad guys are always behind exploiting the scoop to their best abilities. Michael Jackson died (RIP) and everyone thronged the internet to confirm the news and find further leads. But it didn’t take the spammers long to capitalize on the massive interest in Michael Jackson. Security researchers have warned people, about the [...]

Microsoft has finally released their free anti virus solution codenamed “Morro” and AKA Microsoft Security Essentials to limited public beta users.

Cases of identity theft are increasing by each passing day. It is a fact that most such cases happen due to negligence of the victim and a careful approach to your online behavior can help you a lot for the prevention against Identity Theft. A few common factors, which cause good number of identity theft [...]

Over a period of time several users have asked us a question, the question relates to MD5 strings that are associated with file downloads, many users are usually clueless about this, so we finally decided to write a post that explains to users, what those MD5 strings mean, and what significance they have in order [...]

In an attempt to make your desktop look clean and more user friendly, Microsoft had decided to hide the file extensions by default a long way back. This means that if” a file is named as sample.doc, you will see the name as “sample”, and the extension .exe will remain hidden. But the OS knows [...]

A friend of mine recently emailed me (and others) and included a link in it, however I found the link to be suspicious and did not open it up. In the process I chatted with the friend who had sent me the email and asked him why he sent a bad link in the email, [...]

Quite recently we had told you about the Conficker Worm, which is set to exploit systems on April Fool’s day, however McAfee a popular antivirus software creator has released a Conficker remover called Stinger. To prepare for any trouble on April 1, McAfee now offers a special build of its standalone cleaning tool Stinger, which [...]

The latest news doing round of most part of the technology blogosphere is the availability of Windows 7 Transformation pack for Windows XP. However while trying to review the product, I came across a virus alert that may be a potential threat to your system, the Windows 7 Transformation Pack for Windows XP contains a [...]

Internet threats are increasing day by day and it is always advisable to have a good antivirus and spyware cleaner is definitely a good way to protect yourself from online threats. Though there are several spyware cleaner softwares out there, we definitely swear by a free spyware cleaner called Spyware Terminator. Also Read: Tips to [...]

Keyloggers are a very harmful malicious scripts, that capture keystrokes and spy on your private data and passwords. These programs maliciously install themselves, and run without the users being aware about it, making it a huge security threat. There are several methods to thwart keyloggers and many banks do provide users with a virtual keyboard [...]

Techie Buzz has a mix of people visiting us using browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer among others, however people using Internet Explorer are at a serious risk, because of a vulnerability being discovered in Microsoft’s default browser. The vulnerability in Internet explorer, can allow a attacker to take control of people’s [...]

There have been quire a lot of issues with Gmail account recently, and we had told you about a hacked Gmail account of our friend, along with steps on safekeeping your Gmail account from attackers. We also had told you about some Online security tips which can keep you safe on the Internet in general. [...]