The Tech Diary of an IT support geek

In this post, I will show you how to create a virus to restart the computer at every startup. That is, upon infection, the computer will get restarted every time the system is booted. As a result, the computer will become inoperable as it reboots again as soon as the desktop is loaded.For this, the virus needs to be executed only once and from then on, it will carry out rest of the operation on … [Read more...]

Caller ID spoofing is the act of making the telephone network to display any desired (fake) incoming number on the recipient’s Caller ID display unit instead of the original one. With this, it is possible to make a call appear to have come from any phone number that the caller wishes.Have you ever wondered to know how to perform this? Well, read on to discover more information on how to spoof … [Read more...]

Just when we thought that BlackBerry was dead and gone, or perhaps on its last breath, the BlackBerry Corporation (formerly known as Research In Motion) released a new series of handsets at the beginning of the year with the latest version of their OS the BlackBerry 10 OS. As soon as the set was released the initial worldwide reception was enough to get just about any BlackBerry critic to admit … [Read more...]

A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a 12-character unique identifier assigned to a specific piece of hardware such as the network adapter of your WiFi device. In simple words, a MAC address can be used to uniquely identify your Android phone on the Internet or the local network.Spoofing MAC Address on Android DevicesEven though MAC address is embedded on the hardware device during … [Read more...]

Many Internet users are familiar with how their Internet browsers store websites they visit, however many are surprised to learn that Google also stores all search queries done on google.com when logged in to your Google account. To clear this web history follow the steps below. Open Google.com. In the top right corner of the screen click Settings and then Google Account settings. Note: If you're … [Read more...]

Below are some quick Microsoft Windows 7 Taskbar tips that can help you be more productive.Program propertiesHolding down Shift and right-clicking an icon on the taskbar shows the properties for that program.Quickly open new instance of programHold down the Shift key and click any icon on the taskbar to open a new instance of that program. For example, if you had an Internet Explorer Window open, … [Read more...]