Software

16 September 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Email Spoofing

Email spoofing is a very big trouble for the internet users since long. Emails with forged headers, where the senders name are altered to make it seem like it came from some other source is called a spoof email. The activity is thus called email spoofing. This can cause a great deal of trouble to anyone because it might make the email receiver to actually believe that the email came from the original source. So if the one sending the spoof email has some basic details about the person he is sending the email to, he can use filthy tricks to make a lot out of it.

07 September 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Bit Torrent-An Introduction

Bit Torrent is a peer to peer file sharing system. When it comes to large amount of data, bit torrent’s name comes first. It is a unique file sharing system in which a peer downloading the data also uploads it simultaneously. Due to this reason it provides higher download speeds than most of the P2P softwares.

05 September 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Protect yourself from spams and spammers

Email addresses are usually collected from chat rooms, websites, Trojans and newsletters as well, but one amazing thing is that most of the spams are sent to invalid email addresses. Most spams have links to websites and it is said that 99.68 % of those websites are hosted in only five countries worldwide. So with the exponential increase in the number of spams and spammers it has become imperative that everyone get conscious about keeping themselves miles away from spams.