Satyam CEO's wife email fraud!!!

Hi All, first of all a simple question! How does it feel when a CEO (in this case Ex-CEO) emails you for financial help or asks for your bank account to transfer money?? Feeling blessed!! Sounds similar?? 

Well this post is actually related to such "money transfer" emails with a twist! This has the name of Ramalinga Raju and her wife asking for your bank account! The "money transfer" trick finally percolated to the Indian scenario. WOW.

The email read:

Namaskar,
My name is Radha  Ramalinga,I am the wife of B. Suryanarayana Raju Ramalinga,the younger brother of Byrraju Ramalinga Raju,former chairman,founder and owner of Satyam Computers.

I do have a proposal for you,which would be of immense financial benefits to you and I.

My husband and his brother are currently in big trouble in India,I need your assistance to help me move some funds from Holland to India  or anywhere where it would at least be of some help to our family.

I would give you more details of this proposal if you show yourself willing to take on it,I assure you that you would most certainly be compensated but please I would kindly request you to keep this matter confidential.

I am currently here in the UK where it is a bit safe for me and my kids.
You can reach me on my personal email id which is apdream1@gmail.com

Yours sincerely,
R.Ramalinga

Namaskar, Yours sincerely etc etc are well included to pretend as if it came with a honest intention but the user forgot to take care of the email ID. Poor fellow!

Do find a screenshot of the original mail below!

This is just an precaution to all not to take any action on such mails.

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Play songs according to your mood!!

Got a good news, Happy... Under pressure, Instrumentals... something bad happened, Sad... or enjoying the rain, feeling Nostalgic or Romantic.. Whatever may be the mood be there's always songs associated with it.

At times we really feel listening to them, but consider a typical example, You just returned from a cool engaging walk with your mate, feeling like cherishing the moments through soft, silent soothing songs when all of a sudden after the current track ends starts a hip hop fast paced regional song.. Feeling disturbed, even I would be.

Well of late technology has been able to recognize (nearly) songs according to the beats, flow and accordingly predict songs for the mood you select.. Happy, Sad, Romantic.. But again you cant get a proper free stable version of it. (if you are able to find one, lemme know :)

So lets Do-It-Ourselves and that too with your favorite media player.

Idea: Renaming the "Genres" or "Album" ID3 tag name to the desired Mood according to the song.

To do this:

Step 1: we go to http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html and download the free utility for tag editing. This can be done through any media player also but for most of the players its limited to tagging one song at a time and this soft allows to tag multiple songs at a time saving your time and lot of anxiety.

Step 2: Its a easy-to-use software. decide on the moods you want like.. Party, Sad, Happy, Romantic, Instrumentals etc. This being done, change the fields ("Genres" or "Album") accordingly and save the file/s (most important).

Step 3: Once set import your music collection to the MP3 Tag and then select-and-tag the songs according to the mood. Tag either "Album" or "Genres" field. Like, Its its a soothing calm romantic one, set it as romantic.

Step 4: Once this is done.. Thats it.. Alls Well. Import the songs according to "Genres" or "Album" you have selected and play them.

Now you will have only music playing according to the mood set.

You can also copy the songs to your portable media player too and hear to them on-the-go.

Queries.. Shoot them to me.

Something trying to fool your system on April 1st.. BEWARE.

Time for another web attack! Though security firms affirm that no new systems would be attacked this April 1st, but its always good to stay alarmed!


Do follow the one I wrote one year back... The written things are old.. but the dangers are still fresh..
Goto http://techdb.blogspot.com/2009/03/dont-let-malwares-fool-you-on-april-1st.html and protect your online entity..


You can also visit this link (http://www.symantec.com/norton/theme.jsp?themeid=conficker_worm) for more updates on this worm!


Wishing a happy and safe computing.

Utilities to install after a fresh Windows flushover!!

Hello all, I am back from hibernation.. 
Thinking of formatting your system because of that unruly, nasty virus issue, or system being slow, file errors.. etc etc!

Formatting OS once a year (or two) is a good practice. It keeps your system flushed off of all the slowness etc issues.

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I am pretty sure once the formatting is over one finds himself in a tornado of confusion which software to install (unless you keep a note of it).
Well TechDatabase presents an extensive guide to the most important and essential utilities to install once a fresh install is done! and that too all of them are opensource/free.

So lets start!!
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Utility 1. Motherboard utilities

This is the most important set of utilities one needs to install before thinking of installing anything else. This includes the drivers for Video, Audio, LAN, Chipset among others.!

Utility 2. Any hardware specific drivers

Like those of Sound/Video card, Modem etc. This is pretty important like Utility 1.

Utility 3. Antivirus
Get that dusty Antivirus cd out from the rack (if you bought one) or download the free version you rely on like Avast (www.avast.com) or AVG (www.free.avg.com) etc.

Utility 4. AntiSpyware
Install Antispyware apps you rely just after the antivirus install (no specific reason though!!). Get Spybot (www.safer-networking.org), MalwareBytes (www.malwarebytes.org) etc.

Utility 5. Firewall
This install is as important as having a lock to your house. Install firewall compulsorily. Get Comodo Free (www.comodo.com), ZoneAlarm Freewww.zonealarm.com) etc.

Utility 6. Internet Browsing Apps
Needless to go deep into this point. Install Firefox (www.mozilla.com/firefox) or Opera (www.opera.com) or Chrome (www.google.com/chrome) according to your taste (If you have internet!)

Utility 6. Download Accelerators
Next is to install your favorite download accelerator/s. to pump up the downloads. Get FDM (www.freedownloadmanager.org), Orbit (www.orbitdownloader.com) etc.

Utility 7. PDF Reader
Installing cumbersome and heavy app for this task is meaningless.. Get a lighter one. Install Foxit Reader (www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader).

Utility 8. System Cleaners
This is another important set of apps to install to keep your system running smooth and slow-free. Get CCleaner (www.ccleaner.com), Disk Cleaner (www.diskcleaner.nl) etc.

Utility 9. USB Protection apps
With the invasion of USB devices on our daily lives also comes the risks attached to them. Eradicate them by using USB Manager.

Utility 10. Audio/Video Players and Codec packs.
The serious installations are over!! Time to enjoy the lighter side of computing. Get your favo media players, Winamp (www.winamp.com), VLC (www.videolan.org), KMPlayer (www.kmplayer.en.softonic.com) etc.

Thats on my list..
Got anything else.. post it here.
Comments/queries - shoot them too.

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