macOS has built-in firewalls which offer protection from harmful and malicious incoming traffic from the internet or other computer networks. In case you wish to use any third-party application, then you need to disable the firewall. Later on, you can also enable the firewall on your Mac if you are worried about the system security. Here’s how to disable the firewall on Mac.

Steps for Disabling the Firewall on Mac OS X 10.6

•    Press on the Apple menu by going to the taskbar.

•    Choose the System Preferences option.

•    Select the View option.

•    After that, choose the Security option after the System Preferences option start showing on display.

•    Press on the Firewall option.

•    Choose the Stop option so that you can turn off the firewall. You will get the “Firewall: Off” option on the display on top of the stop option.

•    Choose the advanced firewall option in case you wish to modify the firewall before turning it off. Here are the steps mentioned below to complete this procedure:

1.    Press on the Advanced option below the Firewall tab

2.    Insert tick symbol in the “Block all incoming connections” option. You can stop all the connections but do not stop them which are compulsory for the system to work correctly.

3.    These steps stop all the share features like file and folder sharing, screen sharing, that are the functions already have into the “Sharing System Preferences” window.

4.    Insert tick symbol into the “Automatically allow signed software to receive incoming connections.”

5. In case you wish to permit all the applications to share files and folder over a Network.

6.    Place a mark in the “Enable stealth mode” checkbox to decline the requests from the unauthorized program.

7.    Click on the plus or minus options for adding or deleting particular apps from the Mac firewall.

•    Press on the OK option for saving the changes you had made in settings.

Steps for Disabling the Firewall on Mac OS X 10.5

•    Tap on the Apple menu provided in the top left-hand side of the display.

•    Press on the System Preferences option.

•    Press on the View button.

•    After that, choose the Security option once the System Preferences window starts showing on display.

•    Tap on the Firewall option.

•    Choose the radio option given next to “Allow all incoming connections” checkbox to turn off the firewall.

•    Press on the OK button for applying the change you have made in settings.

Source :- http://advisornorton.com/how-to-disable-firewall-on-mac/

Kellie minton  arrived on the cyber security scene in the early 2000s when virus and malware were still new and slowly evolving. Her longtime affair with writing with an interest in the cybersecurity industry, combined with her IT degree, has contributed to experience several aspects of security suite industry such as blogging at norton.com/setup.

As wireless routers has just one IP address and the wireless clients can not be connected to it directly via the NAT process, one can call the wireless router a firewall. Let’s explore the process of disabling the wireless router firewall.

How to Find the Router’s IP Address on Windows PC?

•    Launch the Start menu.

•    Enter cmd into the Start menu.

•    You have to right-click on the Command Prompt option.

•    Press on the Run as administrator option.

•    Tap on the Yes button.

•    Enter ipconfig / all into the Command Prompt window.

•    Click on the Enter button.

•    Find the “Default Gateway” IP address. It is located below the “Wireless LAN Adapter Wi-Fi” title. You will get the IP address to the right-hand side of the screen.

•    The IP address looks like 169.247.1.6.

•    Now, you have to type the IP address of the Wi-Fi router.

How to Find the Router’s IP Address on Mac?

•    Press on the Apple symbol. It is located in the upper left-hand side of the Mac display. After clicking on this symbol, it will open the Apple menu window.

•    Press on the System Preferences option. You will get this option near the upper side of the pull-down Apple menu.

•    Press on the Network button. It resembles a violet, round shape symbol given in the third column.

•    Press on the Advanced button. You will get this near the end right-hand column of the screen.

•    Tap on the TCP/IP option. It is located at the upper side of the Advanced screen.

•    Find the “Router” IP address. You will get the IP address number near to the “Router” on this webpage.

•    You will get the IP address number something just like this: 136.357.2.9

•    After that, type the IP address of the Wi-Fi router.

How to Turn Off the Router’s Firewall?

•    Type the IP address of the Wi-Fi router into the browsing software. Press on the address box given at the end of the browsing software.

•    Enter the “Default Gateway” or “Router” IP address.

•    Tap on the Enter button for the Windows PC users.

•    Click on the Return button for Mac users.

•    Type the password of the Wi-Fi router.

•    Find and press on the Advanced settings button.

•    Find and tap on the Firewall button.

•    Press on the Disable button.

•    Tap on the OK button.

Source :- http://www-mcafeeactivate.support/blog/how-to-disable-a-wireless-router-firewall/

Kellie minton is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

There are many channels and YouTubers on YouTube; everyone loves to upload videos on their channel. Are you also one of them? Many users don’t know much about the video settings. You can view and change many settings for your videos, including title, description, thumbnails, privacy, language and more. Here is how to view and manage settings of your uploaded videos.

How to find your uploaded videos

1.    Launch a ‘Browser.’

2.    Enter address ‘www.youtube.com’ in the URL field.

3.    Press ‘Enter’ to open YouTube.

4.    Check you’re signed in with your account or not.

5.    If not, click ‘Sign In’ at the top-right side of the window.

6.    When Sign in page open, enter your sign in email or phone in the respective field.

7.    Click the ‘Next’ button.

8.    On the next page, type your ‘Password.’

9.    And click ‘Sign In’ button.

10.    After signing in, your profile picture or initials of your account name in a circular icon appears near the top-right corner.

11.    Click on your ‘Profile’ icon.

12.    In the profile dropdown menu, click ‘YouTube Studio (Beta).

13.    YouTube Studio Beta page opens on your screen.

14.    Click on ‘Videos’ on the left side menu.

15.    Your uploaded videos list appears the screen with the privacy, views, likes, dislikes, and comments.

16.    Click on a ‘Video’ to view more details about the video.

17.    Click the ‘Analytics’ option in the left menu.

18.    Now, click the tabs (Overview, Reach Viewers, Interest Viewers, or Build and Audience) to view the information you want to see.

19.    Click the ‘Back Arrow’ to return to the uploaded video list.

This way you can view details of other videos in the list.

How to edit settings of an uploaded video

1.    Open ‘YouTube Studio (Beta)’ page. Check above steps to open ”YouTube Studio’ page.

2.    Click on ‘Videos’ on the left side menu.

3.    Now, click a video in the uploaded video list you want to manage the settings of.

•    To edit the name: Click the ‘Title’ box at the top to change the title of the video.

•    To edit description: Click the ‘Description’ box to add or change the descriptions of the video.

•    To edit thumbnail: Click the ‘Thumbnail’ box to add or select a new thumbnail for the video. If you want to add thumbnail or image of your choice, click ‘Custom thumbnail.’ You can add an image of size lower than 2 MB.

•    To edit tags: Click the ‘Tag’ box at the bottom to add or remove tags. You can add many tags as you want, use comma to add multiple tags.

•    To edit privacy(Visibility): Click the ‘Visibility’ box on the left side to change the privacy of the video. There are three privacy options, you can choose for your video, Public, Private, and Unlisted.

•    For more advanced settings, click the ‘Advanced’ tab. In the advanced settings, you can view or edit the recording date, location, category, language, settings for comments, set age restriction, and many more.

4.    Click ‘SAVE’ button to save the changes you’ve made in the video settings.

The changes you’ve done will apply to the video. If you want to edit the settings for more videos, select the video from the list and use the same procedure.

Source :- http://1mcafee.uk/blog/how-to-view-and-manage-settings-of-uploaded-videos-on-youtube/

Kellie minton is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate, and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

While Youtube offers endless entertainment, it is not always suitable for children. Luckily, you can block YouTube from your kid’s phone. Read on and find the process of blocking YouTube on iOS and Android.

How to block YouTube completely on iPhone or iPad

Remove the YouTube app from the device:

YouTube app is the first and easiest way to access YouTube in a device. If the app is also on your iPhone, uninstall it.

1.    Find the YouTube app icon on the home screen.

2.    Tap and hold down the YouTube app icon from some seconds.

3.    Remove your finger when the apps start wiggling.

4.    Tap on the small ‘X’ appears on the icon.

5.    Tap the ‘Delete’ option, when prompted.

YouTube app will uninstall from your iOS device. After uninstalling the app, it can still be accessed from the browsers. To block completely, you need to block it from there too.

Block YouTube app from reinstalling on an iOS device:

1.    Go to the ‘Settings’ of your iPhone.

2.    Find ‘General’ and tap on it.

3.    Tap ‘Restrictions’ in the middle of general settings.

4.    Insert your restrictions passcode. If the restrictions are not enabled, then tap ‘Enable Restrictions’ and set the passcode.

5.    Now, scroll through the listed options and find ‘Installing Apps.’

6.    Disable (White) the ‘Installing Apps’ switch.

Now, no one can download or install YouTube on your device without your permission, not only YouTube a single app can’t be installed.

Blocking YouTube from all browsers of an iOS device:

1.    Go to the ‘Settings’ of your iPhone.

2.    Find ‘General’ and tap on it.

3.    Tap ‘Restrictions’ in the middle of general settings.

4.    Insert your restrictions passcode.

5.    Go to the ‘ALLOW CONTENT’ section.

6.    Select ‘Websites.’

7.    Tap on ‘Limit Adult Content’ option.

8.    Under ‘NEVER ALLOW,’ select ‘Add a Website…’

9.    In the Website field, type the URL ‘www.youtube.com.’

10.    Then tap ‘Done’ on your screen keyboard.

11.    Close ‘Settings’.

YouTube is now blocked in all the web browsers of your iPhone or iPad. Hence, it is completely blocked from your iOS device.

How to block YouTube completely on an Android device

You need to install some apps to disable YouTube completely in your Android device. Download ‘BlockSite’ to block YouTube app and site. Search for the app on Google Play Store you’ll easily find them. After installing the app, follow these steps.

1.    Open ‘BlockSite’ app.

2.    Turn on Accessibility for the BlockSite in Android settings.

3.    After that, tap ‘+’ button.

4.    In the Web address field, type the address ‘www.youtube.com.’

5.    Tap the ‘Check’ icon.

6.    Again, tap ‘+’ button.

7.    Switch to ‘App’ tab.

8.    Find ‘YouTube’ and select it.

YouTube app and website both are blocked in your Android device. Now open the ‘Norton Lock’ app, password protect both the apps with the screen instructions.

Source :- https://mcafee-activate-en.com/how-to-block-youtube-on-a-mobile/

Kellie minton is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate, and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

If you’re running a YouTube channel or commenting on the videos, your name with your profile picture will appear on the comment. YouTube is directly linked with the Google account. Therefore, if you don’t have any profile picture on Google account, your comment will also show with a blank profile picture. Want to add a photo or change your old YouTube profile picture, here is how.

You have two options to change the YouTube profile picture, either open Google account and update it from there or change directly from YouTube. The methods given below are to update profile picture right from YouTube.

How to add or change the profile picture of your YouTube account

On PC or Mac:

1.    Launch a web browser.

2.    Go to ‘www.youtube.com.’

3.    If ‘SIGN IN’ option is appearing at the top-right side of the page, then you need to sign in with your YouTube account.

4.    Select your Google account or enter your YouTube account email address and password.

5.    After login, click the ‘Profile’ icon.

6.    Click ‘Settings’ in the account menu.

7.    Click on blue color ‘Edit on Google’ text. The option is next to your account name at the top of the settings page.

8.    You’ll see the ‘About Me’ page of Google account on your screen.

9.    Now, click the round ‘Camera/Profile picture’ icon in the middle of the page.

10.    Pick a Photo window will pop up on the screen, here you can choose an image to set as your YouTube profile picture.

11.    Click the first ‘Upload Photo’ square to open the file browser.

12.    Navigate to the folder contain the images.

13.    Click the image you want to use as a profile picture.

14.    Click ‘Open.’

15.    Click the ‘Done’ button at the top right corner of the pop-up.

The image you selected will get applied as the profile picture of your Google as well as YouTube account.

On Android:

1.    Open app drawer or Google apps folder.

2.    Launch the ‘Google’ app.

3.    Open ‘… More’ tab from the bottom.

4.    Click your ‘Google accounts’ name at the top of the menu.

5.    Select the Google account linked with the YouTube account you want to change the profile picture of.

6.    If the account is not listed, click ‘Add another account’ and sign in into it.

7.    Click on the big ‘Manage Google Account’ button.

8.    Open the ‘Personal info’ tab.

9.    Click ‘PHOTO’ at the top of the menu.

10.    Click the round ‘Camera/Profile picture’ icon.

11.    Pick a Photo window will pop up on the screen, here you can choose an image to set as your YouTube profile picture.

12.    Click the first ‘Upload Photo’ square to open your device storage.

13.    Click ‘Capture image’ to take a photo or tap ‘Files’ to select a picture from your gallery.

14.    Click ‘Allow,’ if Google asks for access.

15.    Click ‘Done’ to upload the picture.

The image you selected will get applied as the profile picture of your Google as well as YouTube account.

On iOS:

1.    Open the ‘Google’ app.

2.    Tap ‘… More’ tab at the bottom menu.

3.    Tap on your account name and email.

4.    Select the Google account linked with the YouTube account you want to change the profile picture of.

5.    If the account is not listed, click ‘Add another account’ and sign in into it.

6.    Tap on the big ‘Manage Google Account’ button.

7.    Select ‘PHOTO’ in the personal info tab.

8.    Tap on ‘Camera/Profile picture’ icon.

9.    Select a photo or tap on ‘Upload Photo’ for more option.

10.    Select ‘Capture image’ or ‘Files’.

11.    Capture or select an image from the device gallery.

12.    Tap ‘Done’ to upload.

The image you selected will get applied as the profile picture of your Google as well as YouTube account.

Source :- http://norton-norton.uk/how-to-update-your-youtube-account-profile-picture/

Kellie minton  arrived on the cyber security scene in the early 2000s when virus and malware were still new and slowly evolving. Her longtime affair with writing with an interest in the cybersecurity industry, combined with her IT degree, has contributed to experience several aspects of security suite industry such as blogging at norton.com/setup.

Most of the laptop systems have an in-built webcam, and by using the laptop camera, you can take a photo easily. In case you are using Windows 10, then you do not need to download a third-party application to capture a picture. Here’s how to take a photo with your laptop.

Steps for Taking a Photo with Your Laptop on Windows PC

•    Ensure that the system should support a webcam. In case your laptop supports a webcam as most of them do, then you can capture a picture by using a laptop camera.

•    In case your laptop does not supports a webcam, then you will have to start installing a webcam on the device before moving to the next step.

•    Go to the Start menu. Press on the Windows symbol given in the end left-hand side of the display.

•    Enter camera into the search bar. Now, it will find the Camera application on the laptop, that will permit you to capture a picture through the laptop camera.

•    Press on the Camera application. It resembles a white color camera symbol located at the upper side of the Start menu. After clicking on it, the camera application gets open on the laptop.

•    Let the system camera gets enable. When your laptop camera gets enabled, the light starts spearing on the screen. You will get the image of yourself in the camera application.

•    You have to place the camera on the object of which you wish to capture the picture. Now, you will get the picture which you have captured on display.

•    Press the “Capture” option. You will get the camera symbol at the end of the Camera application. After clicking on this option, it will capture a picture and store it to the Photographs application on the system.

Steps for Taking a Photo with Your Laptop on Mac

•    Go to the Spotlight. Press on the magnifying glass symbol given in the upper right-hand side of the display.

•    Enter photo booth into Spotlight. It will find the Photo Booth application on the Mac.

•    Press on the Photo Booth application. You will get this app on the upper side under the Spotlight text field. It will open the Photo Booth application on the Mac.

•    Let the system camera to get enable. You will get an olive color light once the system camera is enabled.

•    Now, you need to put the camera on any scenery of which you wish to take a picture.

•    Press on the “Capture” option. It resembles a red and white camera symbol given at the end of the webpage. Once you click on the option, it will capture a photo and save the captured picture to the Photo application on the Mac.

Source :- http://advisornorton.com/how-to-take-a-photo-with-your-laptop/

Kellie minton  arrived on the cyber security scene in the early 2000s when virus and malware were still new and slowly evolving. Her longtime affair with writing with an interest in the cybersecurity industry, combined with her IT degree, has contributed to experience several aspects of security suite industry such as blogging at norton.com/setup .

The process of sharing your internet connection is very easy. You can pair your Windows PC to the internet connection and start sharing an internet connection with another system in the local area network. You can also share multiple internet connections to multiple systems by using Windows sharing function. Here’s how to share your internet connection.

How to Share an Internet Connection in Windows PC?

•    Configure home networking devices. If you wish to share an internet connection by using Home network, then you will be needed a different layout instead of a wireless network standard. Here are the basic layouts mentioned below:

1.    Pair the system which is sharing the internet connection to the wireless broadband modem through Ethernet or mobile hotspot by using Universal Serial Bus.

2.    In case you are pairing the wireless broadband modem to the network host through Ethernet, and you should have two Ethernet sockets.

•    Go to the Network and internet menu given on the system. You can launch this menu by clicking on the Windows and R keys together and entering  {{kbd|ncpa.cpl.

•    You have to right-click on the electrical adapters which are paired to the Wi-Fi network. It will bet the wireless broadband modem or Universal Serial Bus hotspot. Ensure that you are working on the electrical adapter which is paired to the internet connection.

•    Choose the Properties option and after that, tap on the Sharing button.

•    Go through the “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection” checkbox.

•    Press on the Apple button to save the changes you had made.

•    Tap on the Settings option to turn on the particular services. It is essential in case other systems want to access FTP, email, and other particular services.

•    Go through the checkbox for the particular service you wish to turn on.

•    Go to the wireless router configuration webpage. After the host system is completed its setting up process, you have to configure your home router to permit for creating a pass-through connection.

•    You do not have to work on the alternate configuration.

•    Go to the Internet Settings webpage given on the wireless broadband router.

•    Make sure that the “IP Address” column gets to change into “Get Automatically” column.

•    You need to pair the other systems to the wireless broadband router.

•    In case you are paring through Ethernet, then pair other systems to the LAN sockets on the wireless broadband router.

•    In case you are paring the router wirelessly, then you need to pair to the wireless broadband router.

Source :- http://www-mcafeeactivate.support/blog/how-to-share-your-internet-connection/

Kellie minton is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate , and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.