Archive for September, 2008

Virtual Keyboard: essential for safe online transactions

Virtual keyboards are become essential and integral part of online security feature for bank transactions, stock trading etc. Keyloggers are spreaded everyehere in the Internet which includes spywares and trojans that can easily capture the key-strokes made by uses. User name and passwords of your e-mail or  bank account details are highly vulnerable to these attacks when you are entering through conventional keyboards. Periodic cleaning and scanning can remove most of these threats but it may not be able to trace a new threat whose definition is not available with your spyware software. To do away with such frauds, some banks have introduced the concept of Virtual Keyboard to protect your account or card information and password (IPINs) from getting hacked. Virtual Keypad is an online application, which substitutes the actual physical keyboard with a mouse. When you click on the virtual keyboard option at the time of net banking, the monitor flashes a keyboard on your screen. You have to use the mouse to click on the relevant keys to sign into your net banking ID.


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Get the look and feel of Chrome with Firefox

Google Chrome web browser has arrived in beta form. I tested the browser on the first day of release.  Good,clean, nice interface, looks faster and comparable with other browsers.  It is still under experimental stage and many of our favourite plugins like java and flash may not work properly in this beta release. Firefox is my favourite browser and I will not be shifting to another browser for time being.  Google Chrome browser interface is so attractive and I was trying to get a similar skin for my  Firefox. Fortunately Mozilla team has developed a theme  ‘chromifox’ which resembles Google Chrome. It is a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and is inspired by the appearance of the Google Chrome web browser.

If you like to have the look and feel of Google Chrome browser with Firefox, then download chromifox extrension which is an addon to your exisiting firefox. Chromifox has got the meaning that “coat of Chrome for Firefox”.