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Want your name to be in History books!! with little spare money, you can!!

It took great action like an innovation, blood shed etc., to have ones name recorded in Human history often backed by great purpose. Now you have such opportunity... naming a species after you, while conserving the nature. Rainforest Trust , a US-based nonprofit environmental organization, inviting bidders to name 8 animals and 4 Orchids, with all proceeds going towards environmental conversation. This Blue eyed  ECUADORIAN FROG  is going to be called ________________ This  COLOMBIAN ORCHID  is going to be called ________________ This  ECUADORIAN FOREST MOUSE  is going to be called ________________ This  COLOMBIAN FROG  with unusual leopard-like coloration  is going to be called ________________ This  ORCHID  from  Colombian cloud forest  is going to be called ________________ This  PANAMANIAN SALAMANDER with tiny legs and big eyes  is going to be called ____________...

BitDefender flags Tiworker.exe as ransomeware

On 11/23, Bitdefender flagged Tiworker.exe as manifesting ransomware behavior TiWorker.exe, (Windows Module Installer Worker) , is a system process related to Windows Update.  When I checked, there is a failed windows security update . When i retried to install the security update, BitDefender thrown same error. It makes me believe this update is doing something, which BitDefender is flagging as Ransomeware behavior 2018-11 Security update  is addressing security vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash player. More details of Security advisory Microsoft released can be found  Adobe Security Bulletin  APSB18-44 :  More details of the vulnarability itself can be found here Essentially this vulnerability if not addressed, will allow Remote code execution through adobe flash player version  31.0.0.148 and earlier running on windows  desktops , Linux or Mac. To know which version of flash you are running, go to adobe website her...

How I chose my Next BEST mobile device ( OnePlus 6T, Nokia 7.1, Motorola One, MI A2)

How I chose my Next BEST mobile device 60% Reasoning and 40% Economics  This is for rational thinkers... If you are kind of person who makes decisions based on emotions, this will sound boring to you. Like many of you, The first question come to my mind is "why do i need to change my phone." I am using Nexus 6 , which is released in November 2014. Its a great phone with Snapdragon 805 processor, 3GB of RAM, 13MP front and 2 MP Selfie camera, supports wireless charging and water resistant. It was release with Android 5 (Lollipop) and ended its upgrade life with Android 7.1.1 and last security patch applied on November 2017. But its a great phone. Probably one of the best phone i used till to date. Thanks to XDA developers it can be up gradable to Android Pie   using custom ROM. Its been 4 years since I bought this phone and during these years, I was tempted a lot by the new phones coming to the market. Every time poking the question should I buy a new one or hol...