Avast Free Mobile Security for Android - Not just an Antivirus!

Is your Android phone still unsecured ? or are you still paying for antivirus on your Android phone ? If your answer is yes for any one of these questions, you need to change something to something better, or even best !

Avast has come up with a full featured antivirus and anti-theft security for your Android phone, available for free. Yes, you really don't need to pay anything! If you are using Avast Free Antivirus on your PC, you will be aware of mighty power of it. Now this impressive security solution has been extended to your Android phone as well.

Recently, Avast purchased ITAgents, maker of Theft Aware, and has combined the best anti-theft solution of Theft Aware with Avast's award winning antivirus technologies to build Avast Free Mobile Security. Avast Free Mobile Security features many amazing features, which, even paid security doesn't provide.

Some of the amazing features of this app are listed below.

~ Antivirus - Perform on demand scan of all installed apps and memory card contents. You can also schedule scans.

~ App Manager - Know which apps are running on your phone, how much memory they are consuming, and their CPU load, with options to stop or uninstall a particular app.

~ Great User Interface - Easy to use and well formatted user interface.

~ SMS/Call filtering - Filter unwanted calls and messages, based on many parmeters.

~ Web Shield - Scans each  URL that loads on your browser and warns if they are malware infected.

~ Firewall - Stop hackers from running unhealthy apps to gain access to your phone. (works only on rooted phones)

~ Stealth Mode - Makes the app invisible, creating complexities for thieves to detect and remove.

~ SIM card change notification - Get notified when new unauthorised SIM card is inserted. (you can authorize SIM cards)

~ Remote Controlling features - Control your phone through SMS commands! On theft, activate Siren, lock the phone, locate phone location through Wi-Fi, GPS or mobile network, remotely wipe all the contents of your phone including SMS/MMS. You can remotely send SMS from your phone to another phone! All the anti-theft settings can also be changed remotely.

You can find the complete set of SMS commands here. Click here to download Avast Free Mobile Security. Still, what are you waiting for ?!

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Use tinyURL's Preview Feature to secure your Twitter Account !

Link shortners are now used extensively on web. They are good for websites with character limit, like Twitter. They are even useful outside twitter. But spammers and hackers are using this useful tool to trap novice users on social networking sites.

As I have seen, TinyURL is the most used link shortner by spammers and hackers. There is a strong reason for this! Have you ever noticed that, link shortend using TinyURL don't expand to original site on hovering your mouse cursor on it, but most of the other services do ?!

Yes, TinyURLs won't expand to original site on hovering mouse cursor, which helps hackers to hide the evil URLs from users ! Without knowledge, if you click on those links, you are inviting danger! After getting infamous for this cause, TinyURL has now taken steps to avoid this.

Now you can preview URL (or let us call it Web Address) of original site before going to that site. All you have to do is, go to tinyurl.com, click on 'preview feature' [found on left sidebar of the homepage] and click on 'click here to enable previews'. That's it, now, everytime when you click on a TinyURL link, you will be taken to TinyURL website and original link will be revealed. First of all, your browser cookies must be enabled.

Even though this doesn't secure your twitter account completely, it allows you to decide whether to go to the original website or not, thus reducing possible traps :)

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Beware of phishing on Twitter and Facebook !

I just got a direct message (DM) on twitter today and it was like, "Tell me if this blog is about you? http://tinyurl.com/6ccbp7w". The messages may be different, like, "This gotta be you in this picture?", but link remains same. At the first look itself, I found out it to be a spam. I had even seen such links on facebook. So I didn't click on that link.

But when I looked at my timeline, I saw many people complaining about such DMs and this caught my interest. So I decided to take risk and click on that link. At first, I hovered the mouse cursor on that link, but that didn't expand to the original site. That confirmed it to be a spam [I just wonder why most of them use tinyurl, a URL shortner service]. But I had to take risk. So, I cleared all my browser cookies first to secure other services I use. Then I copied the link and pasted onto new tab and was ready to go.

Now I clicked on that link and it took me to a webpage looking similar to twitter login page [if you use Google Chrome, you will be warned before entering that page! Read my other post about why Google Chrome is the best web browser! ]. Everything what you see on twitter login page was present there, but for my wonder, the address of that webpage was http://itiwitter.com/twitterlogin/ !! Many novice and average internet users really think that it is twitter and just enter their username and password and click on sign in. If you do that, your twitter account would then be compromised !

When you click on sign in button, the data you entered will be then sent to a PHP script, hosted on some unknown server, for processing. That means, your username and password will be saved by that script and you will be redirected to original twitter as usual! You never come to know about the password theft! You may get this kind of messages from your friends. And if you get one, sadly, your friend's account has been compromised. Many of my fellow followers are already victims of this trick. After gaining access to your account, hackers may use your account to trick your followers with similar links, or they would completely lock your account from you!

Most of the evil hackers use social networking sites to trap users to give out their credentials. Reason is not a surprise, social networking sites are widespread and even a novice user can use them without any difficulty. So please avoid clicking on any such links and be safe on web :)


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Make Money Online - Truth and Lies !

Now a days, Money has become so important like never before. With the ever growing population, unemployment has also rocketted to sky. So, how would it be, if you can earn hundreds of dollars from home, just with your PC ? Sounds cool, right ?

Everyday when you go online, most of the websites will have advertisements like, earn $3000 - $8000 per day !, I made $500 today with my PC !, Become your own boss and earn dollars, ect. Some advertisers even use big names on the market like Google and advertise as "Google has paid me $173 today !". We have to believe, at least because of Google.

As your attention falls on such ads, you click on that link, after all everyone loves money [if it comes with feasibility of working at home, who don't ?]. Then you reach a website which promises to help you make money. They show you proofs, reviews and thousands of positive comments. When you come to know that many world famous news channels and websites have quoted out these Home based Jobs, you are ready to give it a try !

So, as a first step, they ask you to pay some money,around $30. Who do really care for an initial investment of $30, when you can earn thousands of dollars later in time ? You will pay that money, they give you an ebook to study, which is said to reveal secrets of Internet Marketing. But once you read the ebook, you will come to know that it is a fraud !

Then what happened to all the proofs you saw ?! Sorry, but the proofs what you had seen before were not legimate ! Positive reviews and comments ?!! All these are just a part of the trick they played on you !! What you can do next ? NOTHING !!

There are many websites which offer you to take surveys from home and earn money. They promise to help you earn hundreds of dollars once you pay them enrollment fees of $20 or $30. If you simply pay with no second thought, you are trapped !

I'm not telling that you can't earn money from internet. You can, but never dream of $1000 (not even as a monthly pay !). You can earn from $1 to $4 a month from some websites. But I suggest you not to go for any such tasks. Better use the same time to learn something useful, that really pays you off. If any website promises you to earn a 3 figure income or more, truly it is a scam ! And if Google had such Jobs, why wouldn't they publish those ads on their own websites ?

A study has revealed that many American freelancers are working for as low as 25 cents per hour ! Have they gone mad to work for such a low income when they can earn lot of money just by taking surveys at home ? Remember one thing, truth is bitter to taste, umemployment is forcing them to work for such a low income. Money has a value. If you and me can earn in thousands without any special knowledge, there would have been no poverty on this earth.

Instead of losing your money on such scams, spend that money and time to learn something useful. If you are specialized in any work and have knowledge, you can earn money at any time of your life. Be safe, be happy :)


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You are under attack - Be safe on Twitter !

Recently, twitter has become a favorite places for evil hackers. Someone follows you and you simply follow back just because they follow you. Then you get a direct message like, "hey check out who is stalking you on Twitter, visit http://t.co/q4wjuZB install app, works great". If you simply click without a second thought, your account is now compromised !

Yes, there are many such tricks, which bots [yes, they are not actually people, but automated programs] use to exploit your twitter accounts. Link shortners are their weapons. Sometimes, someone unknown tweet you with a link. But that link actually allow the bot to access cookies stored in your browser ! That is really dangerous because, not only your twiiter account, but all the websites you might have visited like, facebook, tumblr,yahoomail, gmail, ect would be hacked !

Some of the most used tweets to trick you are listed below. [Few are harmless, but useless and just spam].

> Wow, getting TONS of followers from this program. Can't believe it, check it out http://bity.me/7Ni

> Become your own boss, work from home, part-time -- http://ez.cm/XWkUub

> I made $800 yesterday from pc, check out how http://crod.cz/2h quiting my job now lol

> hey check out who is stalking you on Twitter, visit http://krul.rs/cb install app, works great [Dangerous !!]

> i got cheap medication online without a prescription...http://tinyurl.com/5slk8kr

> http://bit.ly/nC0mcy [extremely dangerous !! This links to http://redirect.php/?cookies=true , that is to cookies in your browser ! It simply then redirects to a website named http://chroniccomissions.com/indext1.php and you never come to know about stolen cookies of your browser !!]

> OMFG! I just received a F R E E iPhone 4 from JUST submitting my email! Go to this site for yours: http://bity.me/3BO [ These kind of links normally take you to porn related websites !]

> I just received a F R E E MacBookPro from this site! Get yours here: http://twtr.me/17g :P



Avoid clicking on such links, if you encounter any. If someone tweet you and have no followers and followings, they are bots and block such accounts. Click only on the links tweeted by someone you trust and before clicking, hover your mouse cursor on the link to see where it redirects. If it just show the same link, click at your own risk !

If you get such Direct Messages or tweets, even from your friends, think your friend's account has been compromised ! So inform them about this before fighting with them. If your account is compromised but still have access to your account, change your password. If you have lost the access, create a new profile and report the old account as spam.[This has to be done at the expense of losing your followers !]

Prevention is better than cure. So be careful before clicking on such links. Be safe, be happy :)


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Say bye bye to passwords !

You probably have seen many sci-fi movies where iris recognition technology is used to gain access to solid secret files. It is kinda cool technology to watch on screen. How cool it would be if you, yes YOU can also use this technology to access your online accounts, say facebook profile ? You might say imagining is cool but it can't happen in near future. If so, you are wrong !!

Now, everyone can login to their facebook, paypal,gmail, or any other online accounts without the burden of remembering usernames & passwords ! Hoyos group, a New York based biometric security company has developed a small portable eye scanner called EyeLock, using which, you can gain access to any of your personal accounts just at the blink of your eyes. It is said to be the first iris-scanning device at the consumer end. This device would cost $100 and you could connect it to your personal computer.

Many government & financial institutions also use this technology to keep track of data. But at the consumer end, there was no such product. This place has been filled by EyeLock now and the company is confident that it will catch the minds of consumers easily. It has numerous advantages over password to have access to your account, mainly, security. No one else can fraud and access your account once you set up your account to work with EyeLock !!

When people can login to their facebook in a eye blink, who cares to remember the bloody passwords you tend to forget and which are not even near to unbreakable ? But you still need to wait till the device hit the market ;)

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