Friday, August 17, 2007

Protect your password in cyber cafe and on public computers:


Some time or the other, you must have used cyber dafe or public computers to access internet or mail. Public computers are most prone to password hacking. Anyone can simply install a keylogger software to hack your password. Keylogging is one of the most insidious threats to a user's personal information. Passwords, credit card numbers etc. It is now very easy for the keylogger to harvest passwords. Each and every keystroke (whatever you type on the keyboard) gets recorded in the keylogger software and the person installing it can easily view what you have typd in. For example, if you go to hotmail.com and check your mails. Say your ID is aaabbbccc @ hotmail . com and password is snoopy2. the keylogger software records your usename and password in its log file as


Risky isnt it???!!!

There's solution to this problem and you can easily fool the hacker. The keylogger software sees and records everything, but it doesn't understand what it sees. It does not know what to do with keys that are typed anywhere other than the password or user name fields. So, between successive keys of the password if you enter random keys, the keylogger software wont ever come to konw where you typed in what.. In the process of recording the keys, the string that the keylogger receives will contain the password, but embedded in so much random junk that discovering it is infeasible. So... 1.Go to hotmail.com or yahoo.com or any of the site where you need to insert a password or PIN. 2.Type in your user ID. 3. Type in the first characterof the password. 4. Click on the address bar in the internet explorer or Firefox. Type in some 3/4 random charachters. 5. Again go to password field and type in the second character of the password.And probably third too. 6. Again go to the addressbar and type in a few mroe random character. 7. Back to the password field and the next characters of the password. Keep on repeating the process till you type in the full password in the password field. Instead of the password snoopy2 the keylogger now gets: hotmail.comspqmlainsdgsosdgfsodgfdpuouuyhdg2 Here a total of 26 random characters have been inserted among the 7 characters of the actual password!!! No doubt it takes a little bit of more time than the usual process, but you're safe and secure that way!!!

PhoneTray Dialup




Yes, you can stay online without missing important calls when you are using dial-up internet! PhoneTray Dialup will notify you when someone is calling while you are online. You can choose to take the call or ignore the call. With PhoneTray you can put internet on hold and answer incoming calls without disconnecting from the internet. Plus, you get full-featured Caller ID software that shows and speaks callers name and number, logs all your incoming calls, blocks unwanted calls and zaps telemarketers.




Get phone calls when online





PhoneTray Dialup lets you receive and screen phone calls while you are online. The program uses your V.92 modem and Call Waiting service from your phone company to detect an incoming call. If you have Caller ID on Call Waiting, also called Call Waiting ID or Visual Call Waiting, PhoneTray will show the caller's name and number, so you can decide if you want to answer the call or ignore it. If your internet provider supports Modem-on-Hold, you can put internet on hold, take a call and continue browsing after you finish talking. Other Internet Call Waiting services like AOLCallAlert, CallWave, Pagoo or BuzMe transfer your calls to their call centers. They know who's calling you and can subject your callers to advertisement. PhoneTray Dialup doesn't transfer your calls anywhere. It uses your modem to get Caller ID information supplied by your phone company. So your privacy is protected and you are in complete control of your calls!

Know who is calling when online and offline

PhoneTray uses your modem to identify the callers before you answer the phone. You must subscribe to the Caller ID service from your phone company and have a Caller ID capable modem. PhoneTray shows a balloon with the caller's name and number. The program also announces incoming calls using text-to-speech engine. You can set a different ringtone for each caller or type of callers. 20 ringtones are included with the program plus you can use any wav file.

Keep a complete history of your incoming calls
PhoneTray logs all incoming calls received while you are online or offline. It keeps the date, time, name and phone number of each call. You can view a complete call history or calls received today, this week or this month. You can select what type of calls you want to see - all calls, local calls, long distance calls etc. Call history is stored in a standard CSV file and can be edited and exported to other programs using Microsoft Excel.

Protect your privacy

Privacy Manager allows you to configure how PhoneTray handles incoming calls. For example, you can set PhoneTray to automatically answer all calls from private (blocked) numbers after first ring and play a message telling the caller to unblock his/her number. PhoneTray can block calls from specific numbers or reject any other type of unwanted calls (blocked number, out of area etc.) by answering and playing selected message. Several useful messages are included with PhoneTray. You can also record your own wav files and use them with the program. If you don't want to be bothered by late calls you can set your "quiet time" and PhoneTray will block all calls during that time. Important numbers can be marked so they ring through anytime. All Privacy Manager settings including names and numbers are stored in a standard CSV file and can be imported from or exported to other programs using Microsoft Excel


PhoneTray can automatically 'zap' telemarketers with a special 'number disconnected' tone. After receiving this tone telemarketer's computer will delete your number from its database. The program can play Federal 'do-not-call' warning forcing telemarketers to remove you from their calling lists - by law! You can set the program to reject unwanted calls manually or automatically after selected number of rings. If you select to zap the calls manually the program pop-ups a dialog and lets you decide if you want to zap this call or not.

System Requirements: * Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 or Windows Vista * V.92 Modem (more info) * Call Waiting service from your phone company * Call Waiting Caller ID service recommended

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