Don't Use Your Antivirus’ Browser Extensions: They Can Actually Make You Less Safe

Did You Know? The Nigerian Army has one of the most complicated inventories of any standing army on earth; thanks to years of dealing with different suppliers and manufacturers, their army maintains at least 82 different weapons systems and 194 different ammunition types, with 62 different categories, all from 14 different manufacturers from across the world. Geek Trivia Before The Apple Store, There Was A Chain Of Unofficial Apple Retail Locations Known As? Mac Branches → Newton Sources → Woz Bars → Lisa Lounges → Advertisement Download Online Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking - FREE Video Training Course No longer will money have dominion over our ability to learn. Anyone who wants to become a penetration tester, now has the opportunity to learn to do so with this free course. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Change Windows’ Default Currency from Dollars to Euros How to Unlock Your Android Phone’s Bootloader, the Official Way Don’t Use Your Antivirus' Browser Extensions: They Can Actually Make You Less Safe How to Play Multiplayer LAN Games with a Single Minecraft Account How to Add and Manage Bookmarks on Safari for iPhone How to Enable and Disable Field Shading in Word 18 Things You May Not Have Known Google Photos Can Do Can You Move a Windows Installation to Another Computer? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Electronic Pickpocketing Electronic Pickpocketing refers to the process of using card readers and other wireless RFID-enabled technology to “skim” credit card information from individuals carrying debit, credit, or ATM cards with embedded RFID chips in public places without their knowledge. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Will Today's Kids Be Stumped by the Technology of the Future? Children who grew up in a time of rapid innovation may be better equipped to learn how to use new devices later in life—or they might be as resistant to new tech as many seniors are today. [The Atlantic] Why Do iPhones Suddenly Die in the Cold? The iPhone was not designed for this kind of weather. Literally. [Motherboard] The better way to board an airplane (Video) The way we board airplanes make no sense. Tests have shown that boarding the plane back-to-front is much slower than the alternatives. Check out this quick video to find out why. [YouTube] Why Snow Shoveling is an Unusually Deadly Type of Exercise When winter storms hit the simple act of clearing out driveways and sidewalks can prove deadly for people unused to the kind of unique exercise shoveling presents. [Atlas Obscura] Comcast and Charter may soon control 70% of 25Mbps Internet subscriptions If Charter Communications is allowed to buy cable rivals Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Bright House Networks (BHN), just two Internet service providers could control about 70 percent of the nation's 25Mbps-and-up broadband subscriptions. [ArsTechnica] How to Change Windows’ Default Currency from Dollars to Euros When dealing with currency in Windows and Windows programs, such as Excel, Windows uses its default currency symbol. If you want to use a different symbol (say, Euros instead of Dollars), it's easy to change using a setting in Window's Control Panel. Read This Article → How to Unlock Your Android Phone’s Bootloader, the Official Way Unlocking your Android phone’s bootloader is the first step to rooting and flashing custom ROMs. And, contrary to popular belief, it’s actually fully supported on many phones. Here’s how to unlock your bootloader the official way. Read This Article → Don’t Use Your Antivirus' Browser Extensions: They Can Actually Make You Less Safe Most antivirus programs–or “security suites”, as they call themselves–want you to install their browser extensions. They promise these toolbars will help keep you safe online, but they usually just exist to make the company some money. Worse yet, these extensions are often hideously vulnerable to attack. Read This Article → How to Play Multiplayer LAN Games with a Single Minecraft Account So you want to play Minecraft with your family, but you only have one account. You won’t be able to play online, but with a few tweaks to the configuration files, you should all be able to play over the network together at home with no extra accounts necessary. Read This Article → How to Add and Manage Bookmarks on Safari for iPhone iCloud will sync all the bookmarks you create in Safari on your Mac to your iPad or iPhone, and vice-versa. But bookmarks aren’t quite as simple and obvious on the iPhone as they are on the Mac. Here’s how to create and manage them on iOS. Read This Article → How to Enable and Disable Field Shading in Word Fields in Word are bits of code that are placeholders for data that changes. For example, when you insert page numbers into the header or footer of a document, Word actually creates a field that inserts the correct page number on each page. Read This Article → 18 Things You May Not Have Known Google Photos Can Do Google Photos may seem like a simple image hosting service, but it’s actually quite powerful. Google Photos bridges the gap between cloud storage, image hosting, and image sharing services, giving stiff competition to Flickr, iCloud, Dropbox, and OneDrive. Read This Article → Can You Move a Windows Installation to Another Computer? If you recently built or bought a new PC, you may be wondering if you can just transfer your old hard drive into the new computer–thus migrating your entire installation in one fell swoop. But it’s not as easy as it seems. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Online Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking - FREE Video Training Course No longer will money have dominion over our ability to learn. Anyone who wants to become a penetration tester, now has the opportunity to learn to do so with this free course. Click here to download