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Tips
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Email Scams - What to Avoid
One of the most common ways for a computer to become ...
One of the most common email scams is official looking emails asking
for personal information such as a credit card number, social-security
number, or password for your isp account. You may also have emails
sent from administrators from top retailers such as eBay and Amazon
asking for your account details and password. These type of email
scams are becoming more and more common. The solution is simple,
never send your personal details for anything by email. Companies
such as Amazon or banks like HSBC will never ask you to send personal
details by email. So if you do get an email asking for personal
details just send an email to that company such as Amazon asking
if the request was genuine or a scam.
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Scanning email attachments
One of the most common ways for a computer ....
One of the most common ways for a computer to become infected by
a virus is by email attachments. Many spam email messages include
attachments which contain viruses. So therefore you should always
scan an email attachment for viruses before downloading or viewing
it. Many free email services such as Yahoo's include an attachments
virus scanner but not all. Outlook Express is one email package
where downloading an attachment with a virus is very easy.
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Find website owner information
It is possible to find the registar or owner of a website .....
It is possible to find the registar or owner of a website quite
easily on the web. The company which stores all owner information
about websites in the UK is Nominet.
So you can do a whois search on this website and find all the registar
information. A whois search is very easy to perform, all you to
do is type in the website url and Nominet will do all the rest.
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Case sensitivity and URLs
Remember that when typing a URL .....
Website URLs such as,
http://www.internet-guide.co.uk/INDEX.HTML
and
http://www.internet-guide.co.uk/index.htm
are not the same because URLs in Internet Explorer are case sensitive.
This means that if you have been given a URL and are getting a 404
access error it may be because you havent typed the URL correctly.
Remember they are case sensitive, especially on Unix hosts.
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Dont Shout
When posting in forums and newsgroups its generally ....
Whenever creating an email, website page, posting on a forum, usenet
etc. it is important not to use capital letters. Most users equate
using capital letter like "DON'T SHOUT" as shouting and
may not appreciate you using them. Most people also find it much
harder to read passages of text written in capital letters. Therefore
it is seen as better netiquette not to use capital letters.
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Tired of changing your Email
address
If you are changing isp's ...
If you are changing isp's on a regular basis or logging into different
pc's from work and home then you may found you are using 2 or more
email addresses. Too avoid this you can get a free email address
from websites such as yahoo and mail and log into it from any pc
at any location. The downside to this maybe that the free email
addresses get spammed alot, the service may do down, and security
may be a little lax.
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Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Surf
With Internet Explorer 6 ....
With Internet Explorer 6 it is possible to surf pages you have
visted by using the cursor keys on your keyboard. All you need to
do is press the ALT key while pressing the left-arrow key to the
previous web page and right-arrow key to go to the next page. Email
Internet Guide if you have any other useful key combinations to
surf the Internet.
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Switching in-game to windows
After messing with the config file ...
Question: After messing with the config file to change my
name when I use alt+tab or windows key I cant minimise my game online
any more.
Answer: Try doing as follows:
Alt-Enter to switch from the game to windowed mode...
then alt tab between programs.
It's been known to not work otherwise.
If that still doesn't work then turn off programs such as winamp.
The winamp skin can sometimes interfere with desktop display.
You can't Alt-Tab between your game and the windows program when
running the game fullscreen. At least pretty sure I've never been
able to. To test if you can you could also try to just have CoD
*fullscreen* and notepad open and try to Alt-Tab then, probably
won't work though.
Best to only switch when running CoD in windowed mode though.
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