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July 2nd, 2018
by Quertime Team in Tutorials
What do you do if you found out your original article or part of web content from your blog is stolen and republished on another website without your consent? Would you keep silent or fight back? It’s quite common that whenever a blogger publish a great article online and a day later it is stolen by spam blogs (also known as splog) to reproduce or republish on their own sites without getting permission from the author of that article. The reason why they are doing this is pretty obvious: make easy money from ads and promote their affiliated websites.
As blogger, you should not underestimate the harmfulness brought by these spam blogs, not only they will significantly lower your blog ranking in search engines but also reduce your both web traffic and ad revenue. Now, if you’ve decided to fight with these notorious spam blogs, here’s our complete guide with many effective actions to be taken including file a DMCA complaint! Read more…
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July 2nd, 2018
by Quertime Team in Software
Spyware is one of the most serious online threats to Internet users. The tiny program, downloaded often without your permission and knowledge, can steal your credit card number and passwords, switch your homepage or redirect your web searches to unwanted sites. Adware, on the other hand, is advertising supported software which automatically plays, displays or downloads annoying advertisements to your computer. These advertisements slow down your computer performance. Some of them may come with integrated spyware such as keyloggers and other privacy-invasive software.
Fortunately, many powerful software are on the market today helping you to protect against a wide range of spyware and adware threats that can expose your confidential information and diminish your PC’s performance. Here are our top 16 Anti-Spyware and Adware Removal Programs. We hope you’ll find them useful! Read more…
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December 15th, 2016
by Quertime Team in Cyber Security
Have you ever wondered what is the worst password you can possibly choose? It’s “password”! “Password” ranks first on SplashData, the password management solution provider’s annual list of worst internet passwords based on millions of stolen passwords posted online by hackers. In the list, you’ll find that many passwords are sequential series of numbers and letters on the keyboard such as 123456 (ranked no.2) and qwerty (ranked no.4).
Some common names like “Ashley” and “Michael” and sports names such as “baseball” and “football” are also commonly used as easy-to-remember passwords. However what made me surprise was that “monkey” ranked no.6 on the list which is pretty hard to explain. Here’s the Top 40 most commonly hacked passwords you should never use. Read more…
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March 14th, 2017
by Quertime Team in Cyber Security
Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Scammers send a mass email to every address they can find. Typically the email will appear to come from a bank or financial institution, asking you to update your information for some reasons and providing a link that you can click to do so. Unfortunately, the link provided does not take you to the bank’s website. Instead, you’ll be submitting your information to a website run by the scammers.
Phishing scams are now a part of everyday life, we must always be careful of every sites we visit and link we click so that we don’t fall victim to phishing. Today we would like to share with you 3 useful ways to detect, prevent and stop phishing scams. Hope you can find them useful. Read more…
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January 9th, 2017
by Quertime Team in WordPress
If you are running a WordPress blog, security is something you should never ignore. I strongly suggest you spend some time considering the security aspect of you site, otherwise you are taking risk of all your efforts going down the drain. To keep your blog away from hackers, spams and malicious Internet agents, you have to make sure that you are always updated with the latest version of WordPress, and that’s the least thing you must do. You should also take serious steps toward your blog security by installing some plugins.
In today’s post, I would like to share with you 45 very effective security plugins to protect your WordPress blog. They’re each devised for different purposes, so you will get the best protection from each field. Remember, spending a few minutes on securing your blog can save you hours or even days of trouble later. Read more…
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January 9th, 2024
by Quertime Team in Web Tools
Without a doubt, having password is the most common way to protect your computer and any online accounts from being hacked by hackers. However, there’s a fine line between a strong password and one that’s easy to remember. A password that’s easy to remember is also easy to guess. If someone breaks into the network, they can easily break the password and steal every bit of data on your computer.
If you have any important online accounts such as email account and bank account that are protected by weak passwords, you better change it to a strong one with the correct length and complexity. To help you create a strong passwords with ease, below I’ve listed 7 websites that allow you to check the strength of your passwords for free. Prevention is better than cure, you better take action now! Read more…
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August 1st, 2018
by Quertime Team in Software
Setting a password is the most common way to protect your computer and important data from being accessed by others. If you are concerned about your data, make sure you’ve got the right security tools on hand to keep them private with a strong and hard to crack password. The practice will ensure that your important data is always safe in case you lose your notebook, USB drive or external hard disk.
In this article I would like to share with you 11 effective ways to password protect, encrypt or obscure files and folders from others who might use your computer. Hopefully you can find them useful! Read more…
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December 27th, 2016
by Quertime Team in Software
USB thumbdrives are commonly used to transfer files and data from desktop to laptop or from one system to another. However the fact is actively being exploited by criminals who have developed viruses, Trojans and worms which infect USB storage devices like pendrives, cameras and mobile phones. If your USB drive is infected with virus, not only you may lose the data in the storage, your computer hard disk may also get damaged in such a manner that it can’t be recovered back. To prevent this nightmare from happening below we’ve listed 14 Antivirus tools which will protect your computer against any infected USB flash drives. Just install any of them to protect both your USB drive and computer now!
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July 2nd, 2018
by Quertime Team in Web Browsers
Security and privacy have become our major concerns when choosing a web browser to use. Nobody wants to be tracked when surfing the net, expose to annoying adverts and banners or even become a victim as a result of being hacked. With Mozilla Firefox, many security and privacy addons can be used to keep browsing safe on the Internet and protect your computer from being infected by virus and malware. Here are some of the top Firefox security and privacy addons that you should install for safer browsing.
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July 2nd, 2018
by Quertime Team in Software
How many usernames and passwords you’ve got to remember in order to cope with your daily Internet’s life? These days, we all have a multitude of online passwords for email, social media, and even more critical accounts like banking accounts. However remembering passwords can be a difficult task to most of us. The good news is we have an option to make our life easier. In this roundup we will share some of the best free password managers and web form fillers that you can use to store your passwords securely. Now you don’t have to worry about forgetting your passwords result in time consuming retrieval anymore!
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December 1st, 2012
by Quertime Team in Web Browsers
Incognito browsing mode is one of the privacy features offered by Google Chrome. It lets you browse the web in the stealth mode. Any webpages that you open and files downloaded while you are in incognito mode won’t be recorded in your browsing and download histories. All new cookies will be deleted after you close the incognito windows. However, any changes you make to your Google Chrome bookmarks and general settings while in incognito mode are always saved, so you don’t have to worry about changing your settings each time you browse this way. Here’s how to enable incognito mode:
Updated on
December 1st, 2012
by Quertime Team in Social Media
Facebook groups are a great way to connect people with same interests all over the world. However sometimes you want to create a private group just for your friends or family members and you don’t want it accessible by other people. With the Facebook’s privacy setting for groups, you can hide not only the group’s activity, but also its existence.
Updated on
July 2nd, 2018
by Quertime Team in Mobile
Didn’t sign out your Gmail account at the office? Or you want to track unauthorized access to your Facebook account. With the Sign Me Out app installed on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, it gives you control of your Gmail and Facebook accounts by letting you know if someone else is accessing your account or you’ve left your account open anywhere and letting you close all open sessions.
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February 2nd, 2016
by Quertime Team in Web Development
Did you know that when you register a domain, all your personal information including your name, address, email address and phone number are immediately made available to anyone who wants to see them? That’s right. Your personal information is exposed to anyone, everyday, and anywhere.
Although your domain’s whois record cannot be hidden or deleted, you can protect it through some privacy services. What you can do is register your domain in the name of these proxy services so that their information will be made public instead of your personal information. Here are two popular whois privacy services available on the web. Read more…
Updated on
December 1st, 2012
by Quertime Team in Search Engines
Do you know that once you’ve signed in to your Google account, whatever searches you’ve done through Google search engine will be recorded in the Google Web History? You will be surprised how detailed the search record is. If you want to clear the search history due to your privacy concern, simply follow the step by step tutorials below to get it done.
