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On July 9 You May Lose Your Internet Connection [ Warning ]

Search giant Google has issued a warning to its millions of users that they could lose the ability to connect to the internet on July 9 due to a computer virus (DNSChanger malware).

The problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. After July 9, infected users won't be able to connect to the internet.Most victims don't even know their computers have been infected, although the malicious software probably has slowed their web surfing and disabled their antivirus software, making their machines more vulnerable to other problems. The malicious DNS servers would give fake, malicious answers, altering user searches, and promoting fake and dangerous products. Because every web search starts with DNS, the malware showed users an altered version of the Internet. By following the FBI guidelines you can protect your data and continue to use the Internet after July 9.

 How Can I Protect Myself from DNS Changer Malware ?

 Visit FBI website and find out if your system is infected and find a solution to fix it. 

( This is a cross-post from various online  resources to alert and give awareness about the DNSChanger malware . I request you to share this post on Facebook and alert your friends too)
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Google pulls back New Gmail Chat Features



New chat design brought video, voice and group chat icons in IM window but was pulled back due to issues

Yesterday, Google had rolled out a spruced up Gmail chat interface that brought along Video Chat, Voice Chat and Group Chat shortcuts in Instant Message window. Later, Google discovered issues with new chat design that impacted small number of Google Apps users and hence pulled back the new chat interface. The video, voice and group chat settings already existed but in the menu at the bottom of each chat window.

On the official Gmail Blog, Josh Teague, User Experience Designer at Google, noted that new chat design in Gmail had caused issues with Google Apps users. Hence the chat design update has been pulled back from Gmail and would be rolled out again next week or so after fixing it.

Just ensure that you've downloaded and installed the Voice and Video chat plugin from Google. Stay tuned to your Gmail Inboxes as the new chat design can drop in any time.

Microsoft Urges Users to Upgrade to IE 8



Microsoft is urging web users to upgrade from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8 which was released in March this year. Now, with the holiday season just around the corner, Microsoft says users should upgrade to IE 8 for "safer" shopping. Also, a live bookmark webslice showing a website in small pane for eBay was released for this season specifically.

As per Net Applications' statistics for November 2009, IE 6 continues to be the widely used web browser followed by IE 8 and then IE 7. New browser versions from rivals Mozilla Firefox, Apple's Safari, Google Chrome and Opera are slowly but steadily gaining the market share.

Microsoft itself admitted the security flaws in IE 6 and IE 7 web browsers recently and hence urges users to upgrade. Nonetheless, just like we need to upgrade from obsolete or old technology, we've got to upgrade the browsers too. Earlier, this year, popular video sharing website YouTube dropped support for IE 6 as well in order to keep up with emerging web standards.

This is the video that asks used to upgrade their web browsers from IE6:


To download IE 8 for your system, head to this link. Note that Windows 7 bundles the IE 8 browser by default.  However, we hope Microsoft has passed on the message to several banking websites and other folks as quite a few Indian banking and government services websites support IE 6 only. If you're into online banking, make sure the bank's website supports other browsers. If not, better make an account with a bank that keeps head to head with technology.