Web browser plugins are a main attack vector on today’s Internet. Especially outdated plugins increase the risk of becoming a victim of a successful attack. If you follow the news here on Ghacks.net or on other similar sites you may have noticed an increase in plugin vulnerabilities over the last years with Adobe leading the [...]
Youtube Introduces Subscriber Limit, Too Many Subscriptions Messages Appear
It is sometimes hard to keep up with all the change that is going on. Youtube recently introduced a subscriber limit for their users, in order to fight sub4sub spam. As you may know, it is possible to subscribe to users or channels on Youtube to receive information about new videos that they have uploaded [...]
Youtube Subscription Monitor For Google Chrome
Users can subscribe to channels or other users on Youtube, which has the effect that they will receive notifications in their account if a new video has been posted on the video portal. That’s a great way of keeping up to date with videos that are produced by specific users or channels, and to make [...]
Restore Music And Videos From Apple Devices To iTunes
A hard drive crash can put a big dent into a computer user’s music and video collection, if there are no backups. Sometimes though there are other possibilities on how to recover a music and video collection after a crash. One of those options is if part or all of the collection has been transferred [...]
50+ Helpful Keyboard Shortcuts for Hotmail
Microsoft’s Hotmail service is undergoing a period of expansion, with new features being added. As always happens this adds levels of complexity to the service but, recognising that many users still like to use their PCs using keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for instance, Microsoft have released a guide, which for some reason comes a [...]
Desktop Tray Launcher, Open Desktop Shortcuts From The Windows System Tray
Many Windows users have at least some files on the computer desktop. I for instance like to place temporary text files on it for fast access. Other users may place program shortcuts on the desktop or other files that they access regularly. The shortcuts and files become inaccessible if a window is on top of [...]
Adobe Reader 9.4 Download Available
Adobe has just released an update for their popular pdf reader Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, raising versions of the two programs to 9.4. Both program updates fix critical security vulnerabilities identified in Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and earlier, as well as Acrobat 9.3.4 and earlier. Vulnerabilities affect all supported operating systems, and users are encouraged [...]
Protect Firefox From Automatic Homepage And Search Provider Changes
There are quite a few programs in Windows that try to change a web browser’s homepage and search provider during installation. Popular programs that do that are ICQ, ZoneAlarm or ImgBurn among many others. Why are they trying to change the settings? Because they make money with it. It is one of the few options [...]
Enhance Firefox’s Unable To Connect Error Page
It happens from time to time that websites are not available. This can have a lot of reasons, of which many are temporary. The web server can experience a bigger load than usually, it might be a configuration error, a web hoster problem, problems on the route to the server the website is hosted on [...]