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Google has teamed with up Asus this time to bring you an intelligent and powerful WiFi router. This is second in line from Google’s Wi-Fi router family after the TP-LINK and promises you of the performance never experienced before.

Teaming up with the company that claimed to build the world’s fastest WiFi router, Asus, Google has introduced a new line of WiFi routers that will make the blank spots in your home disappear. Second member in the family of OnHub (previous one was TP-LINK) promises you the services unprecedented.
OnHub comes with new innovations like wave control which lets you boost the WiFi speed for a particular device with just a wave of your hand over the router. The cylindrical shaped OnHub easily blends with the aesthetics of your house as well.

Google has also announced that the performance oriented software updates for Asus OnHub will come next week which will let the router select different combinations of the antennas to give the best signal to your devices, depending on their location in the house.

If all your lifehacks of boosting the WiFi signal failed, and the regular technical methods for improving WiFi performance didn’t work either, then Google’s OnHub could be a the answer.

For $219.99 the Asus OnHub will be available for pre-orders from select stores. Watch and learn more about the Asus OnHub on the OnHub platform.

Wh
en shopping around for a new anti-virus software, you will likely run into a no-cost version of the software that promises to be as capable as the paid products. If one is to rate anti-virus application categories into various levels, you will notice that the no-cost applications are listed at the bottom. Although free software can be tempting, they are not as efficient as paid software; this tends to apply to all types of software and not just antivirus protection. One visual irritation with free anti-virus software, is the certainty that each program will display advertisements. In addition, the most frustrating thing you will experience when using free antivirus programs, is the lack of support. Funded programs commonly offer wide technical support, allowing you to contact someone via e-mail, phone or message.

Basic Definitions

Although anti-virus software has evolved and is now able to eliminate emerging malware, the term antivirus stayed. The term anti-malware, would now accurately define the software’s functionality. To get an idea of the common types of malware out there, we have constructed a list of malware types.

Spyware

This software is designed to secretly obtain personal data.

Ransomware

This unique version of malware infects your computer, confines entry to your computer system—perhaps preventing you from browsing the internet or accessing the hard drive—and then demands that you pay money to the malware designer.

Worms

This kind of malicious program is designed to replicate itself quickly and spread to other PCs, often via the local network.

Trojan Virus

Trojans are different from worms, mainly because they are not developed to replicate themselves. Instead, Trojans are designed to trick you into installing them, allowing them to cause data loss, theft and sometimes total-system damage.

Rootkits

A rootkit is a furtive type of malware that hides itself by typical methods of detection, and allows persisted privileged access to a computer system. As a requirement from the hacker, the rootkit makes an attempt to gain administrator access on your computer. The malware then hides so it cannot be detected.

Okay, now we have all the basics covered, let’s check out the list of amazing antivirus protection:-

1) Bit Defender



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Bitdefender includes matching essential features such as scheduled scans, email protection, anti-spyware services. In addition, Bitdefender helps you by safeguarding you from scammers and comes with a free credit monitoring service. You can get additional information about the free credit monitoring services via the Bitdefender website.

With its high efficiency, display of useful functions, solid support and superb experience, Bitdefender is a fantastic antivirus software. With its performance, it arguably surpasses the competition. Bitdefender’s antivirus software includes features that are commonly reserved for detailed internet security suites. In addition, if you ever experience a malware destroying your system, Bitdefender’s assistance staff are there to help you 24/7.

2) Kaspersky


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It has no rival when it comes to searching for and destroying malware – even if the malware is known or recently created. It does not slow the speed of your system to any calculable degree. Furthermore, it does not make mistakes when it decides which files are safe and which are harmful. Kaspersky’s security program even includes a lot more features than a few others in its category. For example, some of Kaspersky’s rivals have no anti-phishing and no instant detection of detachable hardware or media products.

However, an essential function of Kaspersky antivirus is its ability to detect, restrict and remove viruses.

Furthermore, it goes beyond being an antivirus software by providing security from all malware, most notably spyware, rootkits, security intrusions and screen lockers. It also consists of a virtual keyboard, allowing it to protect you computer from a form of malware called a key-logger. In addition to its anti-malware features, the antivirus offers anti-phishing—that means it informs you when a web page is not safe to access—and it prevents you from accessing web pages that are known to contain malicious software.

3) McAfee


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Although it does not claim it to be a complete online protection package, McAfee does include a generous set of features. In a test conducted by AV-security, the software got exposed to a hundred and thirty-eight trials of zero-day vulnerabilities; McAfee stopped all of them. But that’s not all; it also discovered some nineteen thousand additional viruses lurking on the web. As with any antivirus, McAfee gives its users full control over scanning and one can also choose real-time protection of everything, or you can simply set its limit to programs and individual files. However, by adding the full protection suite, or as they call it the “total protection” plan, one can gain the means to guard your identity and block spam and dangerous emails.

4) Norton


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Norton Security allows you to guard up to five gadgets and PC’s (in total) with a solitary package. This can be managed from the owners online account with additional technical online support. But it doesn’t stop there, from the daily protection of various malware, this product also protects you from phishing attempts. During the different tests conducted by respected software companies, Norton Security also accomplished perfect protection and functionality scores. It accomplished this with seldom perceptible affects on system functionality. By eliminating the tiered steps strategy of buyers-grade protection products, Norton Security offers all non-commercial end users with protection that is far above a standard entry antivirus application.

5) Avira


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The results of this antivirus – in terms of its ability to block attacks – accurately detects threats without confusing the right documents and programs for the bad ones. Avira, and the rest of the anti-malware programs, made no errors when correctly identifying safe files and web pages. None of them mixed up dangerous files and malicious websites with secure ones. However, in the tests created to measure the virus protections impact on system performance, Avira slowed down the machines. Furthermore, for any user based outside of Europe, if you are in need of customer support, a long distance call must be made. Lastly, whereas most of the market products cover more than one device with a single license, Avira’s only supports one PC with a single license.

Current Security;

By now, most of our internet usage is utilizing 1024-bit encryption for the passing of the Diffie-Hellman. We also use VPN, SSH, HTTPS, to encrypt our information in messages.
The Diffie-Hellman protocol is actually a method in which is used by two computers in order to generate a privately shared key in order to exchange information on an unsecure channel.
The decryption of this encryption level should take one full year as well as several hundred thousands of dollars.

VPN, shorted for Virtual Private Network, is in fact a network in which is constructed by using other public wires, commonly the internet uses. This connects to a private network that is set up by a company that has an “internal” network. This aids in protecting your computers by making your computer appear to be in another location.

Secure Shell, known as SSH, is also referred to as a Secure Socket Shell. This is a Unix based command line interface in which network engineers use to securely access remote computers. This is also used by network administrators in order to gain access and control web space as well as remote control of servers.

Lastly, HTTPS, shortened for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secured, ensures the secure socket layer and/or transport layer security (TLS) and performs as a sublayer in which lays underneath a regular HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). The HTTPS not only encrypts the page requested by users, it also decrypts the page as it returns from the web server.

Current Threat;

By now, everyone knows of the NSA, as well as other governing agencies and spies, are working in order to not only track our every move but to also listen in on our conversations and personal emails. We can see the newest removal of our basic rights, when the NSA designed and developed the Data Center of Utah, as seen here. For the past, x-amount of decades, our governing agencies has been violating

Edward Snowden, a famous and world known whistleblower, has performed revelations in the year of 2013. Now the NSA has a new system in which has decrypted over one trillion private and secured messages across the internet world-wide.

By now, it is no doubt that any one doesn’t know about our beloved NSA spying on us. As the “investigations” of both public and private connections have been violated for decades now. Now, the NSA has the powers to break the encryption on over one trillion devices worldwide with Internet connection. We can see, from the National Security Act of 1947, that the Act in fact contained a specific ban upon intelligence operatives from performing their tasks domestically. We can also see that in Article II, Section 3, that there are clearly established and well defined procedures that need to take place in order for the government to perform “eavesdropping” upon the Citizens of America. You can read upon the original National Security Act of 1947 here.

As our technology progresses along in time, our mobile technology is known to have tracking devices in them. The tracking devices are reported to aid you in the even in which you get lost, or you require the local law enforcement agencies.

New Threat;

While our National Security Act of 1947 has entitled the Citizens of America with privacy from the spying government, we understand that our government does not care about our rights. And the NSA uses proclaims they are just looking for acts of terrorism.

While the NSA and other governing agencies and spies are lurking in the darkness, the NSA has been working on something much larger. In fact, the NSA has spent one full year as well as over three hundred million dollars on the investigation and decryption of over one trillion secured and encrypted connections from all over the world.

During the ACM Conference which was based upon Computer and Communications has presented a paper in which discusses the advances of even the most plausible theory upon how our government was able to break into some of the world’s most widespread encryption services found upon the internet.

Please, feel free to read their paper here.
While reading their work, we are able to see that the NSA has in fact exploited our common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key encryption. This key encryption is also one of the most common forms of exchanging encrypted messages over the uses of an untrusted web channels.
While the Diffie-Hellman encryption key is supposed to be one of the most safe and secure form of encryption as this method is supposed to take a few hundred years to complete the decryption. Not to mention the financial support it would require.

On that note, the most serious vulnerability from the NSA as well as other governing spies, have actually decrypted the Diffie-Hellman Key exchange. This is now allowing our governing agencies the power to spy and eavesdrop upon our secure connections. The government has access to over a trillion encrypted devices that are connected to the internet. The NSA had set up an eleven-billion-dollar budget just covered the research and still had financial support left over.

This is also the preciously reason in which other privacy advocates has been attempting to push the website developers world-wide into utilizing virtual private network applications. Using the VPNA as well as cryptographic software allows for a more secured connection between devices, that even our government would have to invest more time and money into. However, using those methods would then invoke major website connections to redevelop, or simply transfer, their existing website onto the VPNA and then encrypt their website using their preferred methods of cryptography.

Protecting Yourself;

The government may be gaining access to our encryption messages, there are still a number of ways to protect yourself online.

The first way is to completely abandon the cloud services. Even professional IT experts have resisted the little urge to “host” their programs and data onto a public cloud storage system. The NSA is able to be “sitting” at a tier one ISP watch list. This will allow them to watch your data go by and on its way onto the Cloud Server.

While most of the population by now is used to the Texting services found on any mobile device, I strongly recommend the immediate halt on all of your text messaging as well as instant messaging applications. When you send a message, it typically goes to a server where it is kept, and then from the server it is sent to the preferred contact you have chosen. While there is not much you can do to make your texting services safer and more secure, you can control the security of your instant messaging. This is done by utilizing your own personal IM services combined with your own XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol).

Everyone uses email, so encrypt all of your emails that you send. This can be accomplished by using services such as PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) as well as S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). These are actually very difficult to use, and the people in which you send your emails to must also use the same S/MIME services.

One of the most common ways of “hiding” is to hide your web browsing usage. By using SSL (Secured Socket Layer) is a good idea. Yes, the NSA has broken the SSL, but it is still a very good idea to practice. One way you can do this is by installing an HTTPS Everywhere extension on your browser. HTTPS Everywhere is only available on Google Chrome as well as Mozilla FireFox.
Using the Tor Network and tools by using the Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) can be used on your current choice of operating system such as Microsoft Windows, Linux Ubuntu, and Apple iOS. When you are using Tor, this allows your connections to be private and secure wherever you gain access to.
Another great form of protecting yourself is to close all firewall applications. This can include your calendar, clocks, recording services, etc. You can also take advantage of Incognito Mode, which is aimed to allow you to surf the internet anonymously.

This one is a bit dramatic and probably harsh to some, but the best line of security is to quit all of your social media networks completely. Starting with Facebook is the worst social network of them all, as Facebook holds onto all of your data.

However, the only real way to be completely secure about your internet privacy is to have a fundamental alteration upon our laws and how we are enforcing privacy laws.

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Windows 10 is one of most talked about topics on various online forums. Microsoft is leaving no stone unturned to achieve its goal of 1 billion Windows 10 devices. But, free Windows 10 for real? Well, for how long?

According to an update to the Windows Lifestyle Fact Sheet, Microsoft has said that free Windows 10 comes with ten years of free support. In its update, Microsoft has said that it will provide “mainstream security” support until 2020 and “extended security” support until 2025.