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A-Z Guide on Removing Unwanted Ads and Apps from Your Mac

September 1, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

Using a Mac has always been associated with advanced security and intactness to viruses, all kinds of malware, and cyber-crime. But times change, and Mac users increasingly face a variety of malicious threats and data theft cases. Nobody is immune to cyber-crime in the 21^st century, with hackers preying on your sensitive data and funds. Thus, it is imperative for every computer user to know more about malware, to learn how to scan their devices for viruses, and to find out how to remove ads on Mac (as they can also contain malicious code). Here we present an A-Z guide for everyone wishing to advance their Mac security. Read on to get the cutting-edge knowledge and skills for securing your devices and data.

Why Is Your Computer Showing Too Many Ads?

We live in the era of pop-up ads that attack mobile phone and desktop users alike. These notifications can take the form of commercials, special offers, alerts, notifications of winning a prize or lottery, etc. Many of them are phishing attacks on your browser organized by third-party ad providers, while some ads are a healthy response of your browser to your search preferences. So, when does getting ads become too much or too annoying?

· You visited too many shopping websites and clicked “Allow” on the bar asking for sending you pop-up notifications.

· You have some unwanted software or adware installed on the browser.

In the first case, you need to go to Settings and block the pop-up notifications from merchants. In the second case, your browser has been hijacked, and you need to take action to restore its healthy functioning.

Blocking Adware in Safari

Once you realize that the ads are getting too annoying, it’s high time to install an ad blocker. It is a program removing most types of ads from your browser and blocking dubious pop-up notices. To choose an ad blocker suiting your goals, consider either standalone software covering all ads on your computer or a customized add-on to your computer browser. Besides, there is a built-in ad blocker function in the Safari browser on Macs. Let’s consider each of the options in more detail.

Safari Ad Blocker

To block all incoming ads in your Safari browser, go to the “Security” settings in the section of “Safari preferences.” There, you should indicate that you want to block pop-ups and fraud warnings. Mac security settings allow getting alerts of visiting fraudulent websites, locking pop-up windows, and specifying the plug-in installation preferences. Another option is to double-check the “Extensions” section where the illicit adware may reside.

Standalone Software

If you’re using a third-party ad blocker program, first install it on your Mac and run it on the computer. By following the app’s instructions, you can customize the ad blocking preferences, indicating which ads you would like to receive, and which should be blocked.

Are Ads only Bothersome or Really Dangerous?

Internet commercials have long been considered the “necessary evil” as they help web resource creators sustain a regular revenue stream from advertisers, thus allowing them to provide valuable content to users for free. You can also enjoy some free resources online by only watching several ads, so is that bad?

Overall, there is nothing criminal about ads as such; the problem may be suspected if you see too many pop-up ads that worsen your browsing experience and distract you from the critical browser use goals. Besides, the red flag of something going wrong is seeing much irrelevant, even obscene advertising content, such as adult toys, dubious websites, etc. In such cases, you should suspect having some malicious adware on your Mac, which requires action.

Ad Blockers: A New Word in Mac Security?

There is no unanimous opinion about whether using an ad blocker to achieve complete blocking of ads is a good decision. On the one hand, you can avoid viewing distractive commercials, which speeds up and improves the browsing experience, at the same time securing you from the accidental installation of viruses and malware hiding in malicious ads. On the other hand, with so much shopping conducted online these days, you deprive yourself of an opportunity to receive customized suggestions based on intelligent analysis of your purchase intentions and preferences.

Besides, seeing no ads on free websites minimizes your support for website creators who earn from ads to deliver content to users for free. A tendency to block ads may soon transform into paid, subscription-based content access. Thus, it’s up to you to decide whether to spend a couple of minutes watching a short ad or paying for online content in other ways.

EaseUS MobiMover- A One-click Data Transfer Solution for Apple Users

October 25, 2017 by admin Leave a Comment

Have you ever changed phones? You would surely know then that transferring your data on the phone to your new phone is always a concern. Whenever someone buys a new iPhone, the first thought that cross their minds are “how to back-up the data”.

While Samsung galaxy has the smart switch app, how can iphone users transfer their data the easy way. EaseUS MobiMover, as the name suggests is software that can easily transfer and manage your iPhone data. This allows an easy export or import of data from your iPhone without any cost.

It doesn’t matter if your got a brand new iphone7 , iphone8 or x or plus model, the software should work for data transfers.

Itunes and Icloud could certainly help, but if you want an easy way transfering data , then this software will help you.

It exchanges information between two iOS devices, move content from iPhone/iPad to PC and conversely. Manage files and data within your iOS device.

Features

EaseUS MobiMover provides outstanding transferring and management’s features for iPhone devices.

The main features of this software are:

Transfer Features

Import variety of files from PC to iPhone device, without any cost.
Contacts, music, videos, books, photos any type of file can be imported.
Import and copy data in seconds.
Transferred files to iPhone or iPad are directly stored to Apple build in application.
Export contents to PC from iPhone for back-up, without any loss.
On a single click, transfers a complete content.
Save the file exported to PC in any customized location.
Automatically scan the files and rapidly export them.
Data can be moved by either choosing a file or a folder.

There are 3 iPhone data transfer types:

1. iOS to PC

2. iOS to iOS

3. PC to iOS

Management Features

iPhone contacts can be added, edited and saved on computer
All photos from the photo library can be deleted at once.
Notes and Calendars can be easily edited or deleted.
Safari bookmarks can be created and edited by management feature of the software.

Technical Specifications & System Requirements

The relative system requirements, device supported and technical specification for the working of EaseUS MobiMover software are:

Supported Apple Devices
iPhone	Version 4s, Ø 5, 5s Ø 6, 6s, 6 plus, 6s plus Ø 7, 7 plus Ø 8, 8 plus, X
iPad	Ø iPad mini 2, 3, 4 Ø iPad Air Ø iPad Air 2 Ø iPad Pro
Supported Windows
Windows	Ø 7 Ø 8 Ø 8.1 Ø 10
Supported iOS software
iOS	Ø 8 Ø 9 Ø 10.1 Ø 10.2 Ø 10.3 Ø 11
Supported Formats
Music	MP3, M4A, M4B, M4P, M4R, RM, WAV, WMA, MDI, AAC
Photos	JPG, BMP, ICON, TIFF, PNG, GIF
Videos	MP4, MOV, M4V, WMV, RM, MKV, AVI, FLV
Books	PDF, EPUB
Safari Bookmarks, Notes and Contacts	HTML

Easy to Use

The transfer and management of files between the iOS devices using EaseUS MobiMover software involves 3 easy steps. These steps are connection, selection and transfer of files as elaborated below.

With regards to execution, functionality and usefulness, only few can coordinate the proficiency of apple devices. It was only the absence of Bluetooth that caused little difficult in transferring any data. EaseUS MobiMover, a data transfer and management tool for Apple devices overcame this problem.

This iPhone transfer software, exchange contents on nothing out of pocket. It does not involve any complex operations and is easy to use. Provides you with the easiest and safest way to transfer data from an old iPhone to new one.

Movavi Screen Capture for Mac Review

February 20, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

At some point or other you’ve probably entertained the notion of recording videos directly from your Mac’s screen. It may be that there was something in particular that you wanted to capture, or it may have been that you heard about how you could record online video streams or Skype calls by doing so.

In any case – with screen capture software it is certainly possible to record video on Mac directly from your screen, and what you may not realize is that with the Movavi Screen Capture for Mac it is actually a whole lot easier than you probably ever imagined.

Intuitively Designed Screen capture Software

Nowadays the Movavi Screen Capture for Mac is extremely popular – and a lot of that popularity is due to the fact that it is designed to make screen capture an intuitive and user-friendly process. When you use it you won’t have to worry about being confronted with complicated menus or technical settings, and in fact it should just take you a couple of clicks to record the video footage you need.

Even saving your videos is simplified with the Movavi Screen Capture for Mac’s hundreds of presets that will help you to automatically use the best possible format and video settings for any device or platform you choose. The presets support mobile devices and popular online platforms such as Facebook and YouTube – so you should easily find what you need.

Complete Control

While it is undeniable that the focus of the Movavi Screen Capture for Mac is on making it easy to record videos, it also ensures that you will have full control over your screen capture.

It will let you set up the frame rate, capture area and audio source with a few simple clicks, and you can even choose to grab sound from microphones or third party MIDI devices if you want to. On top of that there is also a feature that will let you record keyboard and mouse actions – which will prove useful if and when you want to create video guides or tutorials.

After you set up your screen capture preferences, you can manage the recording effectively with the hotkey system of the Movavi Screen Capture for Mac. Assuming you need to step away from your Mac for whatever reason, you could set a timer so that the recording stops after a certain duration.

To put it quite simply, the Movavi Screen Capture for Mac is a comprehensive and yet easy to use software – and that blend is what makes it so unique.

Regardless of whether you’re a beginner or ‘power user’, it will give you the tools that you need to record video footage from your screen according to your exact specifications.

How secure is your Tablet or smartphone ?

November 15, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

With the popularity of android mobile phones and apple Iphones and tablets in the last couple of years, hackers and criminals are also shifting the focus from desktops to smart devices. Victims of malicious software is no more just desktops pcs but also smartphones and tablets with these devices can be exploited to gather their personal information.

Today’s smartphones are capable of doing so much more than the mobile phones of a few years ago and this has greatly extended range of capabilities has also seen the introduction of some new security risks.

Signs that your smartphone of tablet is infected

Is your phone bill bigger than normal?

Dropping a lot of calls?

Your Android or apple device may be infected with malware.

Significant changes in your download or upload patterns could be a sign that someone or something has control over your device

City Ranking of Malware threat in Australia

These cities are most susceptible to malware threats

The 1.Melbourne CBD ranks as the number one

2. Brisbane

3. Perth

4.Sydney

Research by internet security pioneer F-Secure reveals, amongst the suburbs, South Yarra – located just outside of the Melbourne CBD – ranks first, with 10% of all threats identified. Brisbane ranks second amongst the CBD areas in capital cities (14%), with Perth coming in at third (11%), followed by Sydney (9%).

It is said that malware and internet virus threats are mainly due to people having their devices infected with malware due to downloading of risky apps.

How to prevent malware from stealing your data

Scan all downloaded apps

Once your smart device is infected ,the virus or malware can take money from unwitting users who install infected apps.

Set up message barring

One common method is the app sends text messages to a premium rate number

Amongst other suburbs, 9% of malware threats were recorded in Sandgate, north of Brisbane; and 8% were identified in Merrylands, in Sydney’s west.

Ransomware

This is a nasty virus or malware that can be difficult to get rid off. Ransomware can lock access to a device until the user pays a ransom, usually by sending bitcoins to the attacker. Internationally.

For instance, a report from Trend Micro (PDF) includes a chart that shows a large spike in the amount of total Android malware.

The vast majority of malware detected in Australia is a type of malware that may be intrusive or inadvertently introduces privacy or security risks. Users typically accept the potential risk associated with the program, and elect to install and use the application.

Top 6 smartphone /tablet security tips are:

1. lock your device

2. set up message barring

3. use anti-theft protection

4. scrutinise permission requests

5. download only from trusted sources

6. scan downloaded apps

F-Secure’s suite of award-winning security products includes F-Secure SAFE, which protects users from online threats with automatic protection, and secures online banking transactions.

A variety of paid and free security apps are available in the Google Play Android app store or apple store to help prevent apps from doing bad things

Among other popular providers here is a list of some security software’s for you smart devices to keep it secure and clean

1. Lookout – https://www.lookout.com/

2. AVG Mobile security

3.Trend Micro –http://www.trendmicro.com/

4. McAfee - WaveSecure –https://www.wavesecure.com/

5.Kapersky Mobile security

6. Norton Mobile Security Lite

*Sources:

Australian Department of Defence http://www.defence.gov.au/defencenews/stories/2013/jan/0124.htm

Australian Payments Clearing Association http://apca.com.au/docs/fraud-statistics/Australian-payments-fraud-details-and-data-2014.pdf

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A little bird hacked Apple siri

December 2, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

An aussie It specialist has managed to hack the new apple ios with siri to make it do tasks at home like switching off lights , turning it on and opening web pages on a computer. The aussie “Marcus schappi” runs a IT company “Little Bird Company’”

Apple IOS4 S SIRI hacked

With this hack it opens the possibilities of creating new functions like

• With the help of a RFID board you could ask Siri where your keys are.

• With a temperature sensor you can ask what the temperature and humidity is.

• With a robotic vacuum cleaner you could ask Siri to clean the house

ipad or die pad – The optus , vodafone , telstra Ipad plans for australia

May 9, 2010 by admin 2 Comments

Ipad launch in Australia – May28th

The date is Friday May 28th , when the iPad will also launch in Australia along with Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Pre-orders can be placed at Apple.com.au from Monday, 10 May, with the device available from Apple’s online store and retail stores plus selected Apple resellers.

In Australia pricing starts at $629 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model, with the 32GB version at $759 and the 64GB model at $879. The entry-level 3G iPad (which also includes GPS and 16GB of storage) will land at $799; the 32GB model comes in at $929, with the flagship 64GB 3G iPad at $1,049.

Ipad Internet and Data plans

The competition between telecommunication carrier’s for a piece of Apple’s iPad action has begun, with Optus putting flat month-by-month 3G plans as well as prepaid plans on its iPad menu.

Optus plans for I-pad

Optus has confirmed to APC that it will offer a ‘made for iPad’ microSIM bundle with three month-by-month plans: $20 for 2GB, $30 for 3GB and $60 for 8GB. "Optus will also have prepaid as well as month-to-month data plans suitable for use with the iPad 3G" Optus spokeswoman Liz Greene told APC, with the promise that "we will provide further details of our iPad plans soon."

Telstra Plans for Ipad

Earlier today Telstra revealed its prepaid iPad Next G plans which cost $20 for 1GB, $30 for 3GB and $60 for 6GB on top of the initial $30 ‘Pre-Paid SIM for Apple iPad’ start kit which comes with 1GB (and a bonus 2GB if activated before June 30th). Telstra has not yet revealed if it will also offer month-by-month plans

The entry-level $20 pack comes with 1GB; $30 gets you a 3GB top-up; the mid-range $60 recharge comes with 6GB; $80 lands you 9GB, while the $100 top-up comes with 12GB (although we’re open to suggestions as how any iPad user could gobble up 12GB, or even 6GB, in just 30 days).

The pre-paid iPad microSIM starter pack will be sold at Telstra Stores and "selected partners". Recharges are available via Bpay or through purchasing vouchers at outlets including Telstra stores and dealers, Australia Post, Target, Big W, Dick Smith, Woolworths, Safeway, Coles Fone Zone, K Mart, Retravision and Newslink newsagencies.

Vodafone plans for apple Ipad

VHA partner networks Vodafone and 3 have revealed they will offer a range of mobile broadband plans for the 3G iPad.

The new Month by Month plans offer the value of a contract with complete flexibility of not being locked into a long term commitment.

Available on both Vodafone and 3, mobile broadband can be purchased for as little as $15 per month. This low monthly cost allows the download of 1GB of data. The Month by Month plans are also available at $29 (3GB), $39 (6GB) and $49 (8GB). Customers also have the option to either ‘BYO’ their own broadband modem or purchase a stylish USB modem internet stick for the low one-off cost of $79.