Jared Burrows Blog

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

How to remove accounts connected to your Google account

Go to:

https://profiles.google.com/u/0/connectedaccounts

From here you can easily de-select all the associated accounts that Google has found.

Go to:

https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens?hl=en_US

From here you can easily de-select all the associated accounts that are actually connected to your account.

How to remove your Photo from Youtube

Go to:

http://www.youtube.com/account_advanced

Click on Rename > Check "I understand that my channel will be renamed." > Click Rename Channel

This will simply revert your Youtube account back to the way it should be. It should remove the Google+ photo as well as other information.

How to remove your Google+ +1's

Go to plus.google.com > Click on Profile > Click on "+1's"

From here, simply remove all the unwanted "+1's"

How to turn off Windows Sharing Options - prevent intrusions

Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Advanced sharing settings

From here, you can simply un-check Network Discovery, File and Printer sharing and Public folder sharing.

How to turn off Windows UAC(User Account Control)

Start > Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety > UAC

From here, you can simply turn off UAC

How to turn off IPV6

Method #1

Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Wireless Connection uncheck ipv6

From here, you can simply turn off IPV6.

Method #2

Start > regedit.exe > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > services > TCPIP6 > Parameters key new DWORD, DisabledComponents, val = 0

How to turn off Windows Remote Desktop - prevent intrusions

Start > Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced System Settings

From here, you can simply un-check remote desktop.

How to disable the SNMPD service

Check to see if it running:

sudo netstat -tupln

Open this configuration file:

sudo nano /etc/default/snmpd

Change the 'yes' to the 'no' and restart the service, disabling it.

SNMPDRUN=no