Safe downloads Malware free, no cost to you

As a courtesy for visiting my site, I will give you a chance to receive free software that is malware-free. Don't click on anything, but wait for the loading bar to load.
LibreOffice, an open-source alternative to MS Office: 
https://bju.box.com/agood764-LibreOffice-86

MalwareBytes, an antivirus software that gives you a free trial for a while
https://bju.box.com/agood764-MalwareBytes
MalwareBytes Premium key code information when your free trial expires
https://bju.box.com/agood764-MB-Key
Microsoft Security Essentials, typical Windows anti-malware defense
https://bju.box.com/agood764-MS-Sec-Essnt
Ye Olde Spybot WITH teatimer for free
https://bju.box.com/agood764-Spybot-Old
Sudo for Windows. Works like Linux's sudo to raise your rights with little danger. SuRun from SourceForge
https://bju.box.com/SuRun

 And I hope that the links work!

Anyway, the best advice is at least some advice, right?
RULES OF USING THE INTERNET
1. Don't click on ads. Ever. Try to block them as much as you can.
2. Don't download and install things without reading everything that the installer is spewing out. If you don't read it, then the possibility of your already having malware is increased.
3. Don't download from shady websites.
4. Don't save your passwords. If you have to, write them down on paper and store them in a secure place.
5. Don't give anybody your personal information, unless you absolutely know for sure that it is a site that you trust.
6. If something on a website is giving you a prompt that something about your computer isn't good enough, shrug it off. It's just an ad that people use to get their malware on your computer. Making you feel bad about your computer, and insisting that you need this particular thing in order to proceed is a trap. Ignore the ever-so-tempting big download buttons. Chances are, your computer doesn't need that particular piece of crap-ridden software.
7. Definitely get adblockers on all of your browsers. This makes it much simpler to avoid most annoying ads. Also avoid the ads on google whenever you do a google search. They are labelled as ads with a little yellow blob. Nice, huh? So avoid those at all costs.
8. Don't use internet explorer. Use a different browser such as Firefox or Chrome/Chromium. Firefox is the fastest, and usually catches something when the page wants to redirect to somewhere else.
9. When you want to try something that you downloaded out, and you don't want to sacrifice windows, use a virtual machine with windows installed on it, and sacrifice the virtual windows if you have to. This is a good way to find out what will happen when you install a questionable piece of software. Windows 7 (32-bit or x86) will work on VM (but Windows XP is faster on VM), and you can try it for a "limited" amount of time, but you can take snapshots of it and revert back to the first day if you want. You can take a snapshot of it right before you install the software in question, and revert back to before it was ever installed.
10. Definitely get some anti-malware just in case. And more than one. It's not worth the risk. If one doesn't catch the virus, the other probably will.

11. If all else fails, and you are frustrated with viruses and how slow your computer is, install the Linux OS and kill Windows. Linux usually works right out of the box, so don't worry too much because Google is there when you are at a loss. www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop and fedoraproject.org are the best and biggest Linux distributions (distros). This is a better way to use your old Windows XP computer:  put ubuntu linux or fedora linux with it. There are many other flavors that aren't as common as those two such as red hat, linux mint, gentoo linux, arch linux, puppy linux, and Debian. I recommend using Linux Mint because it is similar to Windows in general, and can be made to run some Windows applications through WINE (wine is not an emulator) program loader (sudo apt-get install wine OR su yum install wine) and PlayOnLinux (sudo apt-get install PlayOnLinux OR su yum install PlayOnLinux). You can even make linux look like mac.


Linux is a discouraging target for those who write malware. www.whylinuxisbetter.net is fairly accurate about linux.

Focusing the Human Mind

Some people have trouble with focusing. I am writing this blog to suggest a few tips to help improve your focus. There are several steps to achieve the ultimate focusing abilities.

First off, you have to conquer your fears. Override the dreams that you have-- take over them. Conquering the fear of falling from great heights in those nightmares can turn them into better dreams. For this example, think of flying when you fall. After months of doing this exercise (turning nightmares into better dreams), you may find that you can control your dreams because you can think in them.

The second exercise sounds simple, hard, and impossible. Try thinking of nothing. Absolutely nothing. Clear all those thoughts out, calm your mind, and relax. Let all that you perceive flow through you at the moment. Don't even think about interpreting it. Do this when your mind tends to wander. Clear your mind, and think on one thing, which you can really focus on. Such practice further improves focusing abilities.

The third exercise involves the physical part of your being. Relax all those joints. That's right, your ankles, too. I have found that having relaxed ankles reduces the chances of swelling when your ankle is rolled or twisted. Use flowing gestures with your arms throughout the day (but do it naturally like a snake does. If you don't know, take your lessons from snakes because they have naturally flowing movement), even when doing something typical like picking up a cup. Sudden moves and sounds scare animals, so this is good practice in that category. According to the subject of focus, BOTH your mind and your body have to be focused. Try some karate or something because it involves physical discipline and improves your focus. (Personally, I think taking something like karate increases your kinesthetic learning ability, so that you learn by the movements of your body.)

There are also outside influences to focus. Caffeine is one of them. It has kept people awake, and has led some to sleep. Mint gum can clear the cavities in your head, also helping you to stay alert. Sleep, of course, is a no-brainer. If you are incredibly tired, you will have the hardest time focusing because you could fall asleep while trying your best to focus on someone who is speaking in a lecture. It also does not help when the speaker has a soothing voice, reminding you of mother when she comforted you to sleep. Definitely get enough sleep. Catch up on it if you can ;)

So if this does not help you with your focus, you need to work harder at it. It works for me, and it might work for you. Go ahead and claim that this post is bogus. I don't care what other people think is true because not everybody knows everything (though some have wished that they did. some have acted like they did, but that is besides the point). I also would appreciate feedback, but keep rude, crude and cussing language out of it because I don't want to see it. And please, please, if you are to argue, to keep your arguments valid.

~Hinata~

Think, guys! I have hope for Windows 9

Dear Windows Developers,

Considering that many people I know have been very frustrated with their Windows 8 laptops because the way that the OS is set up is very confusing. You don't start out at the desktop, but at a menu with tiles, from which one can choose to run the desktop as an application. Thankfully, this frustration is slightly abated with the release of 8.1. But people still have windows 8 on laptops. As netbooks and tablets, the ire isn't quite flying because it is expected. Now I am seeing the increasing popularity of what I like to call "fablets" which are the cross between a phone and a tablet. I have seen both a Nexxus and a Galaxy heading that direction. Apple was already there.

Let me clarify something for the whole world. No operating system is malware-proof. You are foolish if you believe, even for a minute, that the operating system that you have cannot be tampered with. Windows is a big, bullseye target for all the malware out there on the internet. People are out there, wrapping seemingly harmless programs in a bunch of junk. Not even Macs are completely safe. Apples get worms, even if they are a smaller target than Windows. The near-non-existent target is the best choice, Linux.

If windows had the same security and ease associated with Linux, then I would not have been sorely disappointed at how easily something could harm your computer. Linux is open-source, and has more eyes watching it, and suggesting improvements. It also HAS to keep up the updates and patches, and has to ship them out quickly-- these patches often improve security because people have complained about it. If they don't keep up the updates and security, then they would be out of donations because people would only donate if it were a good thing. Ever heard of anybody giving money because of how pleased they are at how bad it is? Ever heard of a Linux virus? (Linux users say LOLZ, but there still is risk). It does help to be a little paranoid. I have three malware scanners on my Windows and one on Linux on a dual-booted computer. I run all of them after installing something from the internet, and declining all of the crap that comes with the program you want. Also, you aren't forced to restart your computer every time Windows wants because of updates, installations, or the Screens of Death. Linux could stay on for years and not need to restart, even with updates (small wonder the world mainly uses Linux for their servers). You aren't stuck in an update screen and being forced to wait for ages for windows to install updates 3 of 118. I do wish for Windows to improve their command prompt or the special command prompt "Silverlight" so that one could install local packages through it. A line like "sudo apt-get install malwarebytes" would be greatly appreciated instead of searching the internet and downloading and installing something like Malwarebytes from an obscure web site with a shady reputation. I also want the registry to be less fragile, for the system to use chroots so stuff only stays where it is supposed to, and not anywhere else. Also, I would like the manufacturers to keep making laptops with the disk drives, but make them light. CDs aren't quite outdated yet! Without disk drives, users are more tempted to download stuff from the internet, hence more chance of bad stuff. Even getting ISO mounters can come with malware, let alone the ISO itself.

For example, one of my friends has a Windows 8 laptop with no disk drive. All USBs, but no disk drive. She had a drawing tablet thing that she wanted to install, and she had only a CD for the driver. She was pretty much forced to download it off of the internet and install it. She wanted to make sure that everything would work correctly. I popped her driver disk into the CD drive of my laptop, copied it into ISO form, and both copied and burned it onto her flashdrive. Of course, I had to install an ISO mounter from the internet that I had used on my computer onto her computer, but I had previously scanned the installation file for the ISO mounter several times before for viruses. An error kept occurring that wouldn't let the driver install. *sigh* so much for that brilliant idea. Do you now see why CDs are not outdated yet? Think of a USB ROM that function similar to disks. Why didn't you think of that, Windows? Just have a USB ROM come in the mail to install your new piece of hardware. And I remember when we had the floppy floppies that were about 6 in. long.

So, Windows Developers, I am only desiring that Windows 9 become like Linux's cousin OS, but compatible with almost everything. And please, stop trying to make money off of viruses. It really bothers people when they have to pay for Norton crap that was pre-installed after the free trial expired. Or McAffee. Anyway, put better stuff for the right-out-of-the-box happiness because programs like Internet Explorer are really stupid. Stop making other programs so dependent on it. Try to make your programs free-standing or "mobile" as some people call it.

Since Visual Studio is out there (and one can get it for free), people could make their own viruses in Visual Basic. Google is there to help them gather the information in order to program the virus. I may be a little wrong about this point, that people could get the express version of Visual Basic for a free trial long enough to program a virus (a well-thought out process, which requires previous experience or education or VirtualBox, in which you could save a computer's state right after you install Visual Basic Express, and revert to that state as soon as your trial expires. Infinite time, basically).

And don't try to make any backdoors to infiltrate and steal information from naive and innocent people. It isn't right.

~Hinata~