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History Of Viruses, Their Evolution And Sophistication, A TED Talk

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Did you know that the world’s first Computer Virus was created 25 years back and it had the complete details of its creators including address and contact details? No, I am not kidding and infact name of the virus was Brain.A a computer boot secotr virus and it was created by two brothers based out of Pakistan 🙂 There is a nice video, pretty recent one delivered by Mikko Hypponen  at one of the TED events that took place in July, this year at Edinburgh. Enjoy the video and know about the history of viruses, their evolution and their sophistication in the form of Stuxnet!


Source: Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net

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Autostart the Private Browsing in Firefox

How to Autostart Private Browsing in Firefox in 5 simple steps

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Private Browsing as explained in the earlier article ensures that none of the browser history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files are stored by the browser. In a way it conceals you online activity carried out using the browser. Here is how you can enable Firefox browser to auto start in Private Browsing mode:

Autostart the Private Browsing in Firefox

  1. Open Firefox
  2. Type “about:config” in the address bar
  3. Type Private in filter. Preference relating to Private browsing is displayed below
  4. Right Click on the browser.privatebrowsing.autostart and select Toggle. Values are now set to user defined & true
  5. Bingo! Firefox now starts every session of your browsing activity in Private Browsing Mode. Rest is not history 🙂