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Windows 10 October 2018 Update Conflicts With Specific Intel Drivers

Microsoft’s operating system update, Windows 10 October 2018 Update, is already the company’s worst release to date, according to many reports from both IT specialists and regular users. After the update rolled out, it began to come to light the multitude of bugs it contained, culminating with the error that deleted the personal files of some users.

In the middle of this month, Microsoft released a supposed version that corrected these bugs, but others have remained untouched and are still causing a lot of problems for users. Facing with this humiliating situation, Microsoft has chosen to block the Windows 10 October 2018 Update for some users because of some conflict with specific audio drivers of the computers that upgraded to the new version.

Some users have witnessed that the sound on their computers shuts down unexpectedly, while others have observed that their screens turn darker with no apparent reasons. Also, the most unfortunate users are still experiencing the deletion of personal files caused by Windows 10 October 2018 Update, although they installed the patch that supposedly fixes this issue.

Windows 10 October 2018 Update Still Causing Problems For Users

Microsoft has come out to report on some compatibility problems between its Windows 10 October 2018 Update with several Intel drivers released in September. The giant tech company points out that these activate functions that are not compatible with Windows and therefore cause the failures.

Those affected drivers include versions 24.20.100.6344 and 24.20.100.6345, which cause Microsoft to be blocking the Windows 10 October 2018 Update on specific computers, as well as advising users to contact technical support to disable the incompatibility. To find out if your computer is affected by this issues, you have to go to the Device Manager, display the Screen Adapters tab, right-click on the Intel drivers and click Properties.

There you must check the version of the driver and, if you find one of the before-mentioned ones, contact Microsoft for help.

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Tech

Can You Get Malware and Virus Through SHAREit?

SHAREit is the most popular cross-platform file sharing app for Android and iOS, as well as for Windows and Mac. With SHAREit, users can send and receive all types of files without a hassle. But, since it’s a file sharing app, it raised some concerns for some users who wonder whether they are at risk of infecting their devices or not. So, can you get malware and virus through SHAREit?

SHAREit is considered the fastest file sharing app on the Internet, and, when considering its popularity on official app stores such as Google Play Store and iOS App Store, we have to believe that. In reality, it depends on your Internet connection, no matter what people would say. However, it’s an excellent app, and it allows us to send and receive images, videos, documents, installation packs, wallpapers, and anything else.

Also, SHAREit comes with a builtin video player that runs videos and movies smoothly, along with a music player that permits us to access our favorite music without the need to download it.

Can You Get Malware and Virus Through SHAREit?

First, you should know that SHAREit itself is not a malware or spyware. It’s a clean application, available for mobile devices on both Android’s Google Play Store and iOS App Store, as well as on Windows 10 and Mac. However, it’s a file sharing app, so you’ll expose your devices to potentially-infected files that you receive from others.

To avoid getting malware and virus through SHAREit, always have a running antivirus on your device whenever you download something via this filesharing app. However, you should only be worrying about viruses and malware programs if receiving a potentially-infected file from a device running the same OS as yours since an Android virus, for example, won’t work on iOS, or vice-versa.

In conclusion, SHAREit app is clean and safe, but the files you receive through it might be infected so always have antivirus software running to avoid contaminating your device.

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Tech

MX Player 1.10.23 Is Now Available on Google Play Store

MX Player is by far the best video player for Android devices. It boasts a lot of features and comes with support for virtually any video format and subtitles. It’s so appreciated and popular that it got 4.5 stars out of 5 on Google Play Store (out of about 7 million reviews) and totaled more than 500 million downloads on Android’s official app store. Now, MX Player 1.10.23 is available with new features and improvements.

A couple of days ago, J2 Interactive, MX Player’s devs, launched the new MX Player version for Android, which is available on Google Play Store since yesterday.

MX Player is an excellent video player for Android. It comes with a user-friendly interface, pleasing to the eye, allowing users to access all the app’s functions quickly. You can also watch videos in fullscreen mode with MX Players and make use of the intuitive playback control. Besides, this excellent video player supports almost all the video formats in the world, such as FLV, AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MOVE, MKV, and more than 12 subtitle formats, including SUB, IDX, SMI, and TXT.

MX Player 1.10.23 Is Now Available on Google Play Store

Launched a couple of days ago by J2 Interactive, the new MX Player 1.10.23 version is available on Google Play Store since yesterday. The new version brings some exciting new features and improvements.

J2 Interactive decided to add support for PLS playlists and to implement an auto-reconnection feature to allow MX Player to connect again to the network streams whenever the playback fails before the end of the stream. Also, the new MX Player 1.10.23 version comes with several fixes, including the crashes caused by the accessibility services on the opensubtitles.org login screen.

Besides all that, MX Player 1.10.23 also comes with improved stability and performance. To enjoy this excellent video player, which thanks to the latest update just got better than ever, download it from Google Play Store.

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Vidmate and Tubemate Are The Most Appreciated Video Downloaders For Android

There many streaming services online, both free and paid, but all of the big ones have the same issue that annoys many users. Namely, they do not offer the possibility to save your favorite videos to watch them offline whenever you want. While it’s evident that streaming services are not allowing users to download videos because of the copyright policies, some users don’t agree and opt for using third-party apps to download content. Vidmate and Tubemate are the most appreciated and popular video downloaders for Android.

Together, Vidmate and Tubemate exceed 500 million downloads and installs. Have you ever wondered why these apps are so popular and appreciated? Let’s find out why!

Vidmate and Tubemate Permit Users To Download Their Favorite Videos

As we’ve already established, major streaming services do not allow their members to download content due to copyright policies. Luckily, downloading videos from sites like DailyMotion, Vimeo, LiveLeak, and many others is possible thanks to some third-party apps that are specially designed to accomplish this task.

Vidmate and Tubemate are just the most appreciated video downloader for Android. Besides them, there is also Snaptube which is almost as great as Vidmate, for example, but is not as popular as that.

Both Tubemate and Vidmate Are Flexible and Very Straightforward

Vidmate and Tubemate allow users to download video content in virtually all the popular formats, such as FLV, MP4, MPEG, MOV, and MKV, among others, while they also permit us to download only the soundtracks of our favorite videos so that we can also grow our music library using these applications.

Also, these video downloaders are boasting very user-friendly interfaces so that even those less tech-savvy users can make use of Vidmate and Tubemate.

Watch TV Series and Live TV With Vidmate and Tubemate

Vidmate and Tubemate are both more than just some simple video downloaders. They both come with inbuilt media players allowing users to watch TV series from various sources. Besides, Vidmate is also offering about 200 live TV channels that are accessible directly from the app.

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Crypto News

Crypto Exchanges With No Gas Limit Set On Ethereum (ETH) Transactions Are Vulnerable To Cyber Attacks

On November 21st, researchers revealed a vulnerability in crypto exchange platforms with no gas limit established for outgoing transactions related to Ethereum (ETH) smart contracts. According to a Level K publication, since November 9th, several crypto exchanges have been alerted about this security flaw that could empty their hot wallets by the permanent collection of commissions or gas in Ethereum network.

Level K explained that this is because, in smart contracts (from tokens ERC20, tokens ERC721 like CryptoKitties and others), the receiving addresses are the ones that arbitrarily set the gas limit to carry out a transaction, which is paid by its initiators, in this case, the crypto exchange platforms.

When cryptocurrency exchanges have not established a well-defined gas limit for Ethereum (ETH) smart contracts, malicious users can set high gas costs to process their transactions and withdraw more funds than necessary from the hot wallet used by the exchange platforms. This scenario could be even worse if a crypto trading platform does not have KYC standards.

Crypto Exchange Platforms With No Gas Limit Set On Ethereum (ETH) Transactions Are Vulnerable ToCyber Attacks

Many cryptocurrency exchanges allow the withdrawal of Ethereum (ETH) to arbitrary addresses with no gas limit. Since sending ETH to a contract address performs its backup function, attackers can make these crypto exchange platforms pay for commissions. That allows cyberattackers to force exchange platforms to burn their own Ethereum (ETH) at high transaction costs. Hackers can even benefit economically by using GasTokens.

Keep in mind that GasToken is a smart contract that could be used to further exploit this vulnerability by conducting a “profitable attack.” GasToken functions as a gas bank, the fundamental resource for transactions in the Ethereum network. So, users can buy representative GasToken and store them when this resource is at low prices.

Also, through GasToken, users can benefit from Ethereum (ETH) storage rebate. This rebate only applies to contract transactions, when these remove storage elements that otherwise must be housed in the blockchain. The advantage of this type of reimbursement is that it can represent up to half of the gas in a contract transaction.

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