Polina Lisovskaya

5G and it’s possible effect on our lives

ByPolina LisovskayaDecember 7, 2020

5G networks are declared as an amazing technology that can allow us to use different options of ultra high speed connection. The biggest 5G network in the world is located in China, where people can feel the 5G effect in summer 2020. But a lot of problems were uncovered

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How to Report a False Positive Detection?

ByPolina LisovskayaMarch 1, 2019

If you are sure that the file is safe, but Gridinsoft Anti-Malware detects it as a threat, you can report a false positive. There are two kinds of submission channels in the program: manual and auto. – Manual False Positive Submission Channel: there is a form on our

ByPolina LisovskayaOctober 2, 2018

Public Wi-Fi networks can be met literally anywhere. You get your morning coffee in the nearest café – it has its own Wi-Fi, having lunch in a local fast-food restaurant – it has large labels on every table telling you that there is a public Wi-Fi connection in

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Who stands behind cyberattacks? Top 5 types of attackers

ByPolina LisovskayaAugust 17, 2018

When accessing the internet, we are often introduced to seemingly wonderful websites, which we think would assist us with our internet surfing, and we often fall into the trap of thinking that these websites are save to use. In addition to that, it is advisable to us to

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8 Signs Your PC Might Be a Botnet and How To Remove It

ByPolina LisovskayaAugust 10, 2018

Botnet attacks have been around for a long time but are becoming increasingly more sophisticated. So far in past years, there have been several high-profile cases that illustrate the power of botnets. Through the global ‘Pony’ botnet attack, for instance, criminals stole

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How to clean space on your Windows computer?

ByPolina LisovskayaAugust 7, 2018

Nothing is more annoying than receiving a notification about your device’s storage being full. You delete some software, your favourite music, some memorable pictures but, still the storage seems to remain full. It is definitely a hair pulling moment. But, you can solve this

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How can you enhance the security of your browser?

ByPolina LisovskayaJuly 27, 2018

Which is the most secure Web browser? Google Chrome? Mozilla Firefox? Microsoft’s Edge? It’s a simple question but the answer is quite complicated. Five years back a poll was carried out and results shows security-conscious browser users overwhelmingly voted Firefox as the

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How To Fix a Computer That Randomly Restarts

ByPolina LisovskayaJuly 20, 2018

Modern computers have working stability that is much higher than the stability of the computers in the late ‘90s – early ‘00s. Nonetheless, nasty bugs sometimes make us frenzy, because they make the working process problematic. Besides the BSODs and malicious software,

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Google faces record $5 billion fine in EU, ordered to remove Chrome from Android

ByPolina LisovskayaJuly 19, 2018

Google breached EU competition rules while requiring to preinstall its apps on Android phones. The impending decision from the EU watchdog has come to pass: Google has been fined a record €4.3 billion ($5.1 billion) for abusing the Android operating system’s dominance in the

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This password-stealing malware just added a new way to infect your PC

ByPolina LisovskayaJuly 9, 2018

Spam emails are still the most popular way of virus distribution. Read carefully to avoid a new spam attack! A powerful form of malware which can be used to distribute threats including Trojans, ransomware and malicious cryptocurrency mining software has been updated with a