Thursday, October 1, 2015

Top 5 whatsapp tricks and tips for Android Phones/Tablet

WHATS-APP TRICKS AND TIPS:



The Whats-app is most loved messaging platform by all the smartphone users, it gained lot of attention since then they are acquired by Facebook, so any of them use as simple messaging platform, but we can do lot of things other than that, while some are still not aware about it, i list the top 10 Whats-app tricks and tips that you learn and make your Whats-app experience more enjoyable. 

 

TOP 5 WHATS-APP TRICKS AND TIPS YOU SHOULD KNOW:


1. You Can Hide The Last Seen Option:
  • Before you need ti install some third party apps to get hide from someone, now whats-app itself provides the options to set your privacy.
  • Go to the settings>account>privacy>last seen.
  • choose the option and it decides that whom you are going to hide the last seen option.

2. Lock Whats-app With Password:
  • Everyone needs some privacy as whats-app has no security layers people can easily access and read your conversations.
  • If you need to set a password to your whats-app, download the  Whatsapp Lock app and make secure your messages.    

 3. Create Shortcuts To Important Contacts:
  • Long press a contact (or) group in whats-app on android devices, a window will popup .
  • Select the conversation shortcut and this shortcut can be created for any group or contacts.
  • If you are an APPLE user install the app iTapWA to get this feature, it also had photo editing and action scheduler features.

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4. Create Shortcuts To Important Contacts:
  • If you are using latest version, this option is available to you.
  • Go to Settings>Account privacy and Profile Photo and Set Nobody, your profile picture will be invisible.

5.Change Phone Number Linked With Whats-app:

  • If you need to change Sim card and use Whats-app, first uninstall and install the app.
  • Now go to Setting>Account>Change number, enter the old and new numbers.
  • After verifying your number, all your messages will be migrated.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Best Way to Uninstall Epic Scale Malware

What is Epic Scale?

Epic Scale, a Bitcoin Mining software uses computer’s idle time to do genomics research, protein folding, image rendering, crypt-currency mining, and much more. From revenue, majority of the profits given to charities like Watsi (life-changing surgeries), and Immunity Project (free HIV vaccine).

What is Bitcoin?

The crypt-currency offering users almost completely anonymous transactions online, the traditional-likely currency on black market. Read more about What is Bitcoin? and What is Bitcoin Network? from Wikipedia.

According to Epic Scale Official website regarding user privacy,

“We deeply respect your privacy and do not track any of your personal identifiable information. We never collect or sell your personal information. We solely use your unused CPU when your computer is not active.”

Computer Slow? Recently installed or updated uTorrent? Epic Scale, a Bitcoin Mining Software bundled with uTorrent client. When system idle, Epic Scale utilizes idle CPU resource for external purpose. You can seen it’s cpu usage in Task Manager. Is slowing down computers performance, you need to uninstall or remove epic scale from computer. Even you can opt-out install Epic Scale when installing uTorrent client by deselect in custom installation.

Even Epic Scale is a good ware, it may slow down your system performance. If Epic Scale installed on your computer without your knowledge, follow below Epic Scale removal steps.

Presently, Bitcoin Trojan on while around internet and infecting users computer and turns computers Into Bitcoin Mining Machines. Read McAfee article about Facebook Trojan Bitcoin Mining, how trojan turns computer into Bitcoin Mining Machine.

Even if didn’t install Epic Scale, looks for Bitcoin Trojan on your computer and remove it. As long as you not aware about Bitcoin Mining trojan eats up your computer resources and earn money for its malware author. The symptom of Bitcoin Miner Trojan in infected machine is system slowness even when computer on idle, means not running any software.

As of dated 2015, 10th march according to uTorrent forum, Epic Scale offer on hold.



Uninstall Epic Scale

To uninstall epic scale from Windows, follow the below standard Windows uninstall procedure;

Open the Control Panel, by press Win+R, type appwiz.cpl and press enter.
In Programs & Features, select Epic Scale, right click and choose Uninstall. Sometimes, you didn’t found epic scale in list may be installation bug error or it won’t installed on your system.
Follow the Epic Scale uninstall prompts.
If you didn’t find Epic Scale on programs and features? try remove epic scale by download & run epic scale removal tool.

Download Epic Scale removal tool, once downloaded from official Epic Scale website. Run UninstallEpicScale.exe and follow prompts to completely remove Epic Scale from Windows.

Note: Epic Scale removal tool detected as Risk ware by major anti-malware program. See Virus Total scan report of Epic Scale removal tool in this page.


Some of malware detection name of Epic Scale-
  • Riskware/BitCoinMiner
  • Win32/EpicScale.A
  • Win32.Application.Agent.F9WKOV
  • RiskTool.Win64.BitCoinMiner.rr
  • Artemis!23D1B30C22A8
  • Win32/Virus.RiskTool.e98
  • TROJ_GEN.R0C1H07C715