Business Compromise Scams Instead of spending countless wasteful hours Phishing or spamming the company accounts and ending up with nothing, this technique seems to be working just fine for the hacker community, because even a small turnover results in hefty profits. A successful BEC attack is one that results in successful intrusion into the victim’s business system, unrestricted access to employee credentials, and substantial financial loss for the company....

What are Layout Guides in Publisher Layout Guides is a feature that helps you to align objects in a publication. The Layout Guide feature is consists of Built-in ruler Guides, Add Horizontal Ruler Guides, Add Vertical Ruler Guides, Ruler Guides, and Grid and Baseline Guides. How to use Layout Guides in Publisher Open Microsoft Publisher. On the Page Design tab in the Layout group, click the Guides button. In the drop-down list, click any of the Built-in styles in the list....

Account Protection in Windows 11/10 The Account Protection area in Windows 11/10, is one of the seven sections included in Windows Security, to protect your device and let you specify how you want your device protected. The seven sections in Windows Security are: Virus & threat protectionAccount protectionFirewall & network protectionApp & browser controlDevice securityDevice performance & healthFamily options. The Account Protection section contains settings for your protection. The Account Protection area can be hidden from users....

In short, Cybersquatters register domain names containing trademarked terms, with a view to making an illegal profit from them or to misuse it, whereas Typosquatters register domain names using misspelled words or large popular websites, with malicious intent. What is Cybersquatting In the early days when websites were just blooming, web users understood the need for businesses to have a website. Many business houses, including reputed companies, did not set up websites....

What is an Enablement Package? You must have noticed that when you manually download and install a feature update using Settings, it takes a lot of time sometimes hours. Thus, to reduce the Update downtime and other issues that users face, the enablement package came into existence which works great, and it might continue for other latest versions in the future. It is just a small update package having the size in KBs....

What is GPU Computing? A Graphics Processing Unit or GPU in short is used as a co-processor along with the CPU for heavy tasks and computing. Generally, GPUs are used to accelerate or speed up memory-intensive tasks such as image or video processing, rendering, or gaming. GPU has become a necessity to perform such tasks as it has numerous cores and superior memory bandwidth. Not only is GPU used in memory-intensive tasks, but they are gradually used in performing scientific computing jobs....

What is Program in Startup tab in Task Manager? Any unknown Program entries in Startup tab in Task Manager in Windows 11/10 are most likely caused if both of the following conditions are true: The startup entry refers to an invalid or non-existent file under the Program Files folder.The registry value data corresponding to that startup entry is not enclosed within double quotes. To identify the Program entries in the Startup tab and get rid of the entries, proceed as follows:...

What is Quantum Computing? There are some problems so difficult, so incredibly vast, that even if all the computers in the world worked collectively they would fail to solve it. Quantum computers for this reason are being developed to try and solve problems quicker than classical computers such as tablets, smartphones and laptops. This rationale has prodded Microsoft to develop a quantum computing research facility – ‘Station Q‘ on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara....

What is Sedlauncher.exe? The Sedlauncher.exe file is pushed to the system along with the Windows Update KB4023057 and its purpose is to optimize the speed of the Windows Update Service components in the operating system. However, many users have reported that the process associated with the file causes high disk utilization instead. Is Sedlauncher.exe a virus? The original file for Sedlauncher.exe is not a virus; it is a Windows system file....

What is splwow64.exe process on Windows 11/10 As shown on the lead-in image above, the Background processes section where the splwow64.exe process is listed, details programs that probably aren’t visible on your desktop. These include processes installed by other programs, such as self-update utilities, Windows components, and “suspended” Windows Store apps. We will discuss this topic in this section under the following subheadings: What is splwow64.exe in Task Manager and why is it running?...

A VPN creates a secure tunnel through which the data is sent and received by your system. In other words, all the data that your device sends and receives remains encrypted. This is the reason why organizations provide a VPN connection to their employees for internet surfing. Because a VPN encrypts your data and sends it through a secure VPN server, you may experience slow internet speed in some cases....

It‘s probably not possible to download the data, but at least you can view it, then determine what you want to do with the information at hand. How to see Windows Defender Offline scan results If you are looking to view the Windows Defender Offline scan results or log, then this information should help a great deal in your quest. 1] Support One of the easiest ways to locate the log file for Windows Defender is to navigate to the following location and snoop around- That’s the easiest way, but it doesn’t show everything you might need, so we’re going to discuss other ways....

Windows File Explorer will not run in elevated mode The problem is caused by the fact that User Account Control can only elevate an application to a higher token when it is launching a new process. It cannot elevate an existing process. Windows Explorer was not designed to follow the User Account Control Guidelines for applications that “expect” to run in both contexts: Standard user context and Administrator context. CMD.exe utility is an example of an application designed to follow User Account Control Guidelines to be run in Standard user context and Administrator context....

Windows 10 Rollback Utility Windows 10 Rollback Utility is a suite of automated PC diagnostic, repair & recovery software. Once you’ve downloaded the utility on a PC, all you have to do is copy it to a USB, CD, or DVD and start up the PC, that you want to roll back to the older version of the Windows. One main characteristic of the tool is it does not merely allow the user to revert back to the older version of the Windows OS, but also helps users protect their PC from automatically updating to Windows 10 in the future....

According to Microsoft, the AMD RAID drivers are playing spoilsport and thus they had to temporarily block the update. This problem is prominent on Windows 10 systems with AMD Ryzen or AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors. The AMD RAID driver which supports the SATA or NVMe is responsible for the issue. Please note that if a user attempts to a Windows Update upgrade from Windows 10 v1809 to v1903 the update will be blocked....

New Features in Windows 10 v1903 Here is the list followed by complete details of Windows 10 v1903 features- 1] Blurred Background on Login Screen: The acrylic effect is making its way to login-screen. The background will look blur, to increase focus on the login-task. You can enable it or disable the blur using Group Policy Editor or Windows Registry. 2] Search & Cortana are no longer together It looks like Microsoft has realized that there is no point in forcing people to use Cortana to search....

What is the difference between Windows 10 and Windows 11? Windows 11 has all the features, power, and security of Windows 10. The primary difference appears to be a redesigned desktop and the Settings menu. But apart from this, there are several other new features under the hood. In this article, I will be discussing with you some of the key, new features that will be introduced in Windows 11. While several features have been Deprecated or Removed in Windows 11, it ships with many new exciting features!...

The tough part about these situations is there is no fixed reason it happens. It can be because of a permission issue or storage problem or installation issue. Possibilities are immense. That said, in this post, we will suggest some solutions to the problem where Windows 11/10 apps open and close immediately. Here we will talk about both the classic programs and the UWP Apps. The UWP apps include games as well....

File compression is usually done to keep files and folders in a relatively smaller size to cope up with lesser disk space or to save some disk space. At times, Windows starts compressing your files and folders automatically which you might not want. This can be because your PC is running out of space. Another element that can be responsible for it is that the auto-compression on folders or drives might be enabled due to some unknown factors....

Second Monitor not detected in Windows 11/10 Before you begin, make sure that your Windows has all the latest Windows Updates installed, your second monitor hardware is working, and you have properly set up the dual monitors. It is one of the common problems with all external monitors and happens even when you set up a third monitor. You will need a clear understanding of the technical parts of Windows and an administrator account....