Gmail : Attaching Zip files is failing

While attaching some zip files today for sending through Gmail, I was stunned to know that gmail is not accepting the zip files and is generating an error "XXXXXXXX.zip contains an executable file. For security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of file."

The rar and 7z files are going without any fuss

Is Google paralyzed again by some software bug or a Anon ?

Scan Your Android Mobile

Important : Please Read

Guys I am sharing the link for the antivirus scanner as this is free.

Please don't consider that I am promoting it. I would appreciate if you can send me your experiences either by comments or by email.

The Android mobiles are ridden with various malware , sometimes in the disguise of an application which even the user is not aware of. The MobileSecurity software by TrendMicro offers a free scan for the Android platform based mobiles. 

Note that this 'll just do a scan and give you the results. It may not remove the malware from your Android device. If after scan you find any malware, you can email me the details or put the malware details here in comments. I'll try my best to provide you a solution as soon as possible.

Bugs in Life

While doing some updates ,my Ubuntu system crashed. Later the internet search yielded that there is a known bug in wine for 64-bit Ubuntu. Ha ...bug debug bug debug...
The term BUG has always been fascinating and because the bugs cause the giants - IBM, MS , ORACLE and tiny's - humans to have sleepless nights ; while the humans are bitten by bedbugs, the software bugs infest the giants :).
Sometimes bugs also create headline , The Facebook Bug , The Love Bug, The SMS Bug

It seems the life whole is buggy : bed bugs to body bugs, hardware to software bugs.
How the bugs came to life in digital world is a buggy story and is being debugged but here is an interesting link "The Origin of The Term Bug". Bugs are not going away , they are here to stay so...

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Cyber Crime Awareness : The Business of Illegal Data

Crime is directly proportional to the Money : More the money , more is the size of the crime and that has been true since centuries. Here is one great video INTERESTING & SCARING from Marc Goodman.

The Business of Illegal Data

Watch it with eyes open , And you 'll know that its not probably you who is playing with the computer but the computer who might be playing with you.
Do's & Dont's

1. Never buy/download any software unless you are completely sure that the software is genuine and not cracked or a demo software from a wild website. Always download demo software's from reputed websites. Use McAfee's SiteAdvisor or AVG LinkScanner to see whether the site is clean and has a digital repo.
Always keep your antivirus and operating system updated. Surf internet using a user account.

2. Never undress while your PC, laptop or tablet is on and connected to internet. You may find yourself becoming popular in a video floating on internet while someone is making money by selling your clips.

3. Ensure that your digital storage : whether email, pen-drive, laptop, tablet etc.; is secure from theft and hacking. Cyber thieves will just sell every digital piece on internet if it has any value for example your digital photos, your personal information (identity) if it is stored on it which usually is, your email passwords, your credit card or banking information and of course the device which has been stolen. The cost of device is nothing as compared to the trauma you might have to undergo if you land up in a digital cyber mess because of your "interesting photos" or misuse of your identity.

4. Do not put up any personal information in your documents. Whenever you create documents, some meta information gets embedded in your files such as computer name, user name, location of the document i.e directory name etc. Imagine if you are using your City name, your organization room and your name as computer name, directory name and user name. Armed with this info , somebody can really take on you. Also never share your vocation information on social networking sites. Coupled with a bad password . this could be quite dangerous, your digital footprints are much more valuable than you can think off. Bad people can always hack into your account or create a digital identity of you while you are on vacation and may not be accessing your public profiles. The information can be used for phishing attacks.

Scary but true : You are your own cyber enemy , if you have dumped too much of your information on social networking sites.

Windows Search : Pain in the ?SS

Once upon a time, Windows search was just beautiful tool that was really helpful in locating files based on certain set of criteria such as part of file name, search string , size etc. Windows 7 search does not has this facility and searching is a real pain in ?ss if search is based on a string of characters or words in a file. However you can go to the following links to add some real cool software's to save yourself from the pain of searching files based on any criteria that you want to define.
1. Copernic Desktop Search
2. Everything (Download) and Tutorial
3. Google Desktop Search (Now a dead Project)
4. Locate32 and Screenshots

Know more tools, kindly submit the links in comments.

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Prevent Email harvesting from websites

Spammers use various email harvesting softwares to collect email addresses from websites. Than thee email addresses are used to :
1. Send Spam, unsolicited mail.
2. Spread viruses and malwares.
3. Identity Theft
4. Phishing attacks.

The best way to prevent Email harvesting is to use
1. Captcha to display contact email address.
2. Use an image instead of text to display the email address.
3. Use a javascript to obfuscate the email address.