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How to Create a BigRock.com Account

Several months ago, Answerable.com changed its name to BigRock.com. If you had an existing Answerable.com account before the name change, I believe your account would have been automatically converted to a BigRock.com account.

I still had some domain names registered big rock com How to Create a BigRock.com Account with Answerable.com that I sell from time to time, so these were moved to BigRock.com automatically. And since my buyers usually don’t have a BigRock.com account, they would always ask me how to create one.

If you check the BigRock.com website, it doesn’t tell you how to create an account. It’s probably because they want you to buy a domain name or another service before you can create an account.

So here is the procedure for anyone who is wondering how to to create a BigRock.com account.

You do not need to buy a domain name or any BigRock.com services to create a BigRock.com account.

To create a BigRock.com account:

    1. Go to https://www.bigrock.in/login.php. The BigRock.com login page appears.
    2. Fill out the New Customer Registration form on the left side of the page.
    3. Click Register. BigRock.com sends a confirmation email message to the email address that you specified in the New Customer Registration form.
    4. Check your email inbox for the confirmation email message from BigRock.com.
    5. If your confirmation email has arrived, you can start using your new BigRock.com account.
    6. Go back to https://www.bigrock.in/login.php.
    7. Enter your user name and password in the Existing Customers form on the right side of the page to log on to your account.

That’s it. You have completed creating a BigRock.com account. Yay!

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Gmail Phishing Email

I just received this phishing email in my Gmail account. It masquerades as an email warning from the Gmail team about a database upgrade.

If you received the same email message, please do not reply. It is NOT from Gmail and your Gmail account will not be deleted if you do not reply. Do not provide any information to the sender. The best thing to do is to mark the message as spam in your Gmail account.

Here’s the email message. Notice that it’s full of grammatical and capitalization errors — typical of spam, scam, and phishing emails.

**************************************************************************
This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by New Google Mail-SeCure
for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer viruses.
**************************************************************************
Our Spam protector Team are working hard to add new features and make improvements on our Web-based system, so we might also ask for your comments and suggestions periodically. Now we want to delete some accounts due to anonymous registration of Accounts.

Your account needs to be verified otherwise it will be “Disabled” and “Deleted” permanently if your details are not received within 72hours for Verification. Please click the “Reply” and email us the details below for Verification purposes that you truly own this Account.

*Name :
*Email ID :
*Password :
*Date of Birth :
*Occupation :
*Country of Origin:
*Alternative Email :

Your data is safe with us! Your information will be safely delivered directly to our Account disability Prevention experts and handled in a secure environment

Thanks for using our Services.
**************************************************************************

Again, do not reply to this email. Just mark it as spam in your Gmail account.

Phishing Message Header

The email header, if you’re interested.


Delivered-To: myemail@gmail.com
Received: by 10.213.25.133 with SMTP id z5cs2804ebb; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:14:39 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.68.36.99 with SMTP id p3mr41107810pbj.61.1317183278081;
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:14:38 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path:
Received: from p3plwbeout15-01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtp15-01-2.prod.phx3.secureserver.net. [173.201.193.34])
by mx.google.com with SMTP id h3si1011258pbg.156.2011.09.27.21.14.37;
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:14:38 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 173.201.193.34 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of officebox@sri-lankasgoogle.com) client-ip=173.201.193.34;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 173.201.193.34 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of officebox@sri-lankasgoogle.com) smtp.mail=officebox@sri-lankasgoogle.com
Received: (qmail 6500 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2011 04:14:37 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (173.201.193.116)
by p3plwbeout15-01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with SMTP; 28 Sep 2011 04:14:37 -0000
Received: (qmail 6075 invoked by uid 99); 28 Sep 2011 04:14:21 -0000
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
X-Originating-IP: 41.30.55.83
User-Agent: Web-Based Email 5.6.02
Message-Id:
From: "Gmail"
X-Sender: officebox@sri-lankasgoogle.com
Reply-To: "Gmail"
To: system-admins@google.com
Subject: Data-Base Improvement =?UTF-8?Q?Updates=E2=80=8F?=
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:14:20 -0700
Mime-Version: 1.0

Notice that the return address (Return-Path) is officebox@sri-lankasgoogle.com, which is not a Google-owned email address. I did a WHOIS check on sri-lankasgoogle.com, and it turns out it was registered just a few hours ago (September 27, 2011). The WHOIS check returned the following information on the registrant:

Registrant:
Nicolas Anelka gomenkudasainy@gmail.com
300 Pine Avenue
New York, New York 10019
United States

Domain Name: SRI-LANKASGOOGLE.COM
Created on: 27-Sep-11
Expires on: 27-Sep-12
Last Updated on: 27-Sep-11

Administrative Contact:
Anelka, Nicolas gomenkudasainy@gmail.com
300 Pine Avenue
New York, New York 10019
United States
8887174801 Fax –

Technical Contact:
Anelka, Nicolas gomenkudasainy@gmail.com
300 Pine Avenue
New York, New York 10019
United States
8887174801 Fax –

Domain servers in listed order:
NS49.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS50.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

The Internet is full of scammers. Stay safe.

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List of WordPress Theme Marketplaces

Despite the abundance of WordPress themes out there, I still have a hard time picking WP themes to use on my websites. There are a lot of good theme developers out there. But I personally think it’s too troublesome to go to their respective websites to check out their theme offerings.

I think the easiest way to find a good theme is to go to WordPress theme marketplaces. These marketplace sites are websites that function as WordPress theme selling platforms for theme developers.

Here are some of the WP theme marketplace websites that I know of (some of which I have already used to purchase WordPress themes):

  • themeforest.net
  • mojothemes.com
  • woothemes.com
  • themegarden.com
  • wonderthemes.com
  • fresherimage.com
  • templatemonster.com

If you know of any other good ones, please let me know by leaving a comment below and I will add them to this list of theme marketplaces.

fresherimage.com

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How to Uninstall Trend Micro Vault

I don’t know about you, but I get annoyed when I have icons or shortcuts on the Windows Desktop for applications that I never use. Especially if the icon cannot be easily removed by dragging it to the Recycle Bin. This was the case with the Trend Micro Vault icon on my Windows Desktop.

After weeks of suffering the sight of this ugly (in a figurative sense) icon, I finally found a way to remove it and uninstall TM Vault, which I have no use for. Here’s how I did it.

To uninstall Trend Micro Vault

  1. Open the Windows command prompt. You can do this by clicking the Windows orb on Windows 7/Windows Vista or the Start button on Windows XP, then clicking Run, and then entering cmd into the Run dialog box.
  2. When the command prompt window appears, enter cd (change directory) to switch to the root directory (usually C:\).
  3. Change directory to the TM RemoteFileLock directory by entering the following command (you can just copy and paste this command to your command prompt):
    cd C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\TrendSecure\RemoteFileLock
  4. When you get to C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\TrendSecure\RemoteFileLock\, enter the following command:
    FileLockSetup.exe /uninst. 

    This is the command that uninstalls or removes TM Vault. If you’re wondering what your command prompt should look like after you run this command, see the screen shot below.

    After you enter that command, the prompt will display C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\TrendSecure\RemoteFileLock\, which makes it look like nothing happened. Don’t be alarmed. Your command probably executed successfully, but they just forgot to add a confirmation message.

  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Check your Windows Desktop. The Trend Micro Vault icon should no longer be there and your Windows Desktop is back to its lovely, pristine self (unless, of course, you saved a bunch of shortcuts there).

You have completed uninstalling Trend Micro Vault from your computer. Hooray!

If you tried these steps, let me know if it worked for you or not. Also, if you have questions, just leave a comment.

how to uninstall trend micro vault How to Uninstall Trend Micro Vault

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How to Hide Your Facebook Wall

Hide your Facebook Wall? Why would you want to do that, you might ask.

Simple. Because I do not want to share the details of my life with the entire world. Some details, yes, maybe — like my favorite color, name of my first pet, et cetera. But not everything. And I don’t believe that just because I make a living on the Internet doesn’t mean I have to give up my privacy.

Procedure for Hiding Your Facebook Wall

To hide your Facebook Wall from “Everyone” (meaning people who are not your Facebook friends), perform the steps below. If you want to understand what each option means, please read the next section.

  1. Log on to your Facebook account.
  2. On the menu at the top-right, click Account > Privacy Settings.
  3. In the Sharing on Facebook section, click the Customize settings link below the table. The Customize settings page appears.
  4. In the Things I share section, select Friends Only for all settings. These settings include Posts by me, Family, Relationship, Interested in, et cetera.
  5. Click the Preview My Profile button on the upper-right corner of the page. The page refreshes, and then you see how your profile looks like to someone who is not your Facebook friend.

That’s it. You have completed hiding your Wall from non-friends.

If you want only your friends to see your Wall and other things that you share, your Privacy Settings page should look like the image below (click to enlarge).

hide facebook wall How to Hide Your Facebook Wall

Again, the steps above are for hiding your Wall from everyone who is not your Facebook friend. If you want to understand what the other options are (Everyone, Friends of Friends, and Customize), read the section below.

Four Options for Customizing Who Can View What You Share on Facebook

Before how we go into hiding your Wall, let’s look at what your privacy options are. When you configure your privacy settings on Facebook, there are four options to choose from:

  • Everyone: If you select this option, everyone (as in everyone, including the driver of your son’s school bus, your boss, your ex-girlfriend from hell, and any potential stalker within the 100 mile radius of your home or office) will be able to see the things that you share on Facebook. Even those who are not your friends on Facebook.
    IS THIS PRIVACY OPTION FOR YOU? If you want someone to stalk you, you should select this option.
  • Friends of Friends:  If you select this option, the friends of your Facebook friends will be able to see what you share on Facebook. Unless these friends of friends are your friends, too. In which case they will be your friends, not friends of friends, right? Confusing, I know. The point is that people you do not know (friends of your Facebook friends) will still see what you share, even though they may not be complete strangers.
    IS THIS PRIVACY OPTION FOR YOU? If you have a crush on a friend of your friend and you’re too shy to make a move and you believe in fate and all, this is the recommended option for you.
  • Friends Only: If you select this option, only the people whom you have added as friends on Facebook will see what you share. This is the option that affords the most privacy. If you want an option that’s even more private, maybe you shouldn’t have a Facebook account.
    IS THIS PRIVACY OPTION FOR YOU? If you don’t want to be stalked or you don’t have a crush on anybody, this is the recommended option for you. Seriously though, if you want only your friends to see what you share, select this option.
  • Customize: This is a option that lets you specify the people who you want to have access to what you share. It’s a little complicated. And if you like complicated things, this is probably the best option for you. For example, you want to share some things with friends, but not with certain friends. Too complicated for me. If you don’t want a friend to see what you share, maybe he or she isn’t really your friend and  you shouldn’t have added him or her. You can still “unfriend” that person, if you want.  But that’s just me.

I get asked this question a lot by my friends (like I’m a Facebook expert). So I thought I’d share it here so others who want to put some privacy back into their online social life can do so.

If you have questions or if you think this post helped you, please leave a comment.

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