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A Phisher gets hold of your email id with your password. Then he opens your mail account and composes a mail as if you are writing and mails to all your contacts. It will read as if your are stuck in a in a remote location and without money and require money urgently. The mail will request the contacts to deposit a sum in a particular bank account. If your email friend is wise enough, he will contact you by phone. Even if a few of gullible friends deposit the money 'You' have requested in 'your' account, the phisher has profited from your friends.

Possible routes to give aways of your passwords etc., are cyber cafes

It is dangerous to open email accounts and or make money transfers or make purchase of various merchandises or tickets in cyber cafes. Some of these cyber cafe operators load a invisible program which secretly record all your keyboard strokes and names of the sites visited by you. This program will give away all your critical data like email address with password, Credit or Debit card no with PI Nnumber.

An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
And a keyboard was on a piano!
Memory was something that you lost with age
A hard drive was a trip on the road
Cutting, you did with a pocket knife,
Pasting, you did with glue.
The Web was where a spider lived
And a virus was the flu!

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If you have been in IT industry too long these are your symptoms:

1.) U use phrases like "No issues" and "Value addition" in everyday parlance. For e.g. When talking about your doodhwalla, U say, "His milk does zero value addition to my health but he is the only guy around so no issues"*
2.) Ur prime source of entertainment is the forwards send to U by friends whose faces U can't remember.
3.) U drink more tea or coffee than water.
4.) U keep trying to shut down your home computer by pressing Ctrl+Alt+ Del (used to lock office comps)
5.) When your mobile rings at home, U rush outside to receive the call.
6.) When U make calls at home, U accidentally dial "0"to get an outside line.
7.) U haven't played Solitaire with real cards in years.
8.) Ur last crush was a girl in HR, your current crush is the new girl in HR and all your crushes in the future will be girls in HR.
9.) U spend the entire day reading forwards, smoking cigarettes, drinking tea/coffee and playing T.T. and then complain about the late working hours.
10.) Ur important 'meetings' usually comprise two or three people max, including you.
11) U secretly prepare for CAT only to find your PL sitting behind you at the exam.
13.) U keep pressing Ctrl+Enter wondering why your gmail is not going.
14.) U email your mate who works at the desk next to U.
15.) As U read this list, U r thinking of sending it to your friends who are also in IT.
16.) U r too busy to notice there was no line no. 12
17.) U r not sure so u scroll back check it .
18.) And now u r smiling!!!!

Am sure u did steps 16 to 18

Can u guess whats this???

Its a hard disk used in 1956...
The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956 ... Start appreciating your 4 GB pen drive.

Try this and create the icon to lock the machine on your desktop

1. Right click an empty spot on the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut.
2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, copy the following into the 'Type the location' of the item text box:"rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation" remove quotes while typing.
3. Click Next.
4. In "Type a name for this shortcut", type LOCK and Click Finish.
5. Now just click on that icon to lock your computer without pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del.

• Google Chrome will use special tabs.
• The browser has an address bar with auto-completion features.
• As a default homepage Chrome presents you with a kind of “speed dial” feature, similar to the one of Opera.
• Chrome has a privacy mode; Google says you can create an “incognito” window “and nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.”
• Web applications can be launched in their own browser window without address bar and tool bar.
• To fight malware and phishing attempts, Chrome is constantly downloading lists of harmful sites.

* If you messed up your life, you could press "Ctrl, Alt, Delete" and start all over!
* To get your daily exercise, just click on "run";
* If you needed a break from life, click on suspend.
* Hit "any key" to continue life when ready.
* To get even with the neighbors, turn up the sound blaster.
* To add/remove someone in your life, click settings and control panel.
* To improve your appearance, just adjust the display settings.
* If life gets too noisy, turn off the speakers.
* When you lose your car keys, click on find.
* "Help" with the chores is just a click away.
* Auto insurance wouldn't be necessary.
* You would use your diskette to recover from a crash.
* And, we could click on "SEND NOW" and a Pizza would be on it's way!

Girls and Windows

Both have a great UI.
Both consume large resources and do less work.
Both crash unexpectedly.
Both are not easily portable on different architectures (environment).
Both can't work on low resource architectures (environment)
Both are costly to maintain.
Both give mostly unexpected outputs.
Boths working often contradicts with their documentation.
Both are easily prone to viruses (rumors and doubts) (and they (viruses) do spread very fast in windows based networks).
In spite of all above disadvantages, both are liked

Boys and Linux

Both have an average UI.
Both are robust.
Both are highly secure.
Both can be easily modified to support new concepts/features.
Both are highly efficient.
Both are easily portable to any architecture (environment) no matter how low are resources.
You can easily guess the output for your input (in Linux just open its code, for boys they are mostly transparent by nature).
Both provide large support for development (work environment).
Both are poorly documented

The answer goes back to the glory days of floppy discs and DOS. The early DOS operating system designated two drives, A and B, strictly for floppy drives. Why? Because many early computers didn't have native hard drives -- they booted from Drive A, and ran applications from Drive B.Later, as computers came with hard drives, the second floppy drive became a useless appendage -- the computer equivalent of an appendix. To avoid confusion during the evolutionary window when computers with new hard drives coexisted beside computers with two floppies, the hard drives were given the "C" slot. Technically speaking, the "computer" isn't missing the B drive, it's just that later Microsoft operating systems have omitted it as unnecessary.

* User who does not smoke and has no pets - Clean the computer every five months.
* User who does not smoke and has pets - Clean the computer every four months.
* User who smokes but has no pets - Clean the computer every three months.
* User who smokes and has pets - Clean the computer every two months.
* Business with clean office environment - Clean the computers every five months.
* Business with clean office environment; however, multiple users use each computer - Clean the computer every three months.
* Business that is a factory environment or allows smoking - Clean the computer every two months.
* School computers with young adult users - Clean the computer every three months.
* School computers with pre-teen users - Clean the computer every month. In some cases, this may need to be weekly or daily

If u opened up the case of the original Macintosh, u will find 47 signatures one for each member of Apple's Macintosh division as of 1982.

The most expensive game ever developed was "ShenMue" for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.

Here is an easy home remedy, which might give you the desired results. Rub a small amount of toothpaste on the scratch and polish the CD with a soft cloth and any petroleum-based polishing solution (like clear shoe polish). Squirt a drop of Brasso and wipe it with a clean cloth.
Technology to the rescue :
There are many softwares available on the net, which enable the recovery of the CD data. BadCopy Pro is one such software, which can be used to recover destroyed data and files from a range of media.
Just a few clicks is all it requires to recover the disc from almost all kind of damage situation; be it corrupted, lost data, unreadable or defective.
DiskDoctors is another popular company, which offers both software and solutions to recover data from a scratched CDs and DVDs.

Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don't work:

20. "That's weird..."
19. "It's never done that before."
18. "It worked yesterday."
17. "How is that possible?"
16. "It must be a hardware problem."
15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"
14. "There is something funky in your data."
13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
12. "You must have the wrong version."
11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."
10. "I can't test everything!"
9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."
8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."
7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel?
4. "You can't use that version on your system."
3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
And the Number One Reply by Programmers when their programs don't work:
Guess.............
Guess..............
Come on, even u say it .........
Guess.............

1. "It works on my machine"