Nearly 80% of emails which circulate in the world are spams. Without any international legislation which would make it possible to fight effectively against the spammers, there is no reason that this percentage drops.
The only parade thus resides in the increasingly strict filters imposed by the software and the waiters of transport. And that will have a concrete influence on working and the contents of Newsletters. The UIT (International Telecommunication Union) tries to set up legislative, technical and educational solutions to fight against the junk emails (spams) on a world level, but the task is far from being simple. In the United States for example, the spammers are more or less protected by a law "antispam" (sic!) from 2003 which, under the document in proof of the free trade, leaves them practically the free hands to continue...
But the market will not wait until a legislation is set up to adapt to this invasion of offers of Viagra, of Rolex at unbeatable prices, financial investments not to miss, without forgetting the widow of the late president of the Nigerian Oil Company who needs assistance to leave his 120 billion dollars the country. The adaptation of the behaviors of the consumers and the new solutions antispam will have a direct influence on the possibilities of marketing which were established these last years around the messages with format HTML (which integrate a page-setting and images).
Firstly, more and more, the companies configure their filters anti-sp@m not to more let pass from the messages which contain bonds on images placed on external waiters (potentially a bond activated by a collaborator can bring on a virus). Secondly, the last software of transport customer (Thunderbird, Outlook, Eudora, etc) is also configured automatically not to more post the images contained in the messages.
It will be with the user to expressly activate this possibility for each new message. But how much people will try hard of it? Moreover, in order to fight against the "phishing" (which consists in deluding the users with a bond which does not bring on the good site), certain software inform if a hidden bond does not correspond to the address which indicated in the message. What reduces considerably confidence of the users and by there the rate of click.
The reasons for which a message would not be delivered or is not posted are numerous. Between the filters antispam of the suppliers of access, the waiters of email which are subscribed with the black list of SpamCop, the installation by the consumers of third software (Norton AntiSpam, McAfee SpamKiller, etc) and to finish the filters of the software of transport which becomes increasingly strict. The Posting of the Images The filters which block the images will oblige the specialists in marketing by e-mail to privilege more and more this good old man format text.
Page-settings will be certainly lighter in order to be able to integrate images which appear in the message as an enclosure and posted either on an external waiter. That makes it possible to guarantee a correct posting, even in the software of transport which does not post them automatically any more. It is always astonishing to note that certain sendings use images to post the most critical information (the title, the promotional offer, etc). Not only the consumers certainly will not try hard to click on the button "To post the images" and will never know which was this exceptional offer which was proposed to them. Moreover, one message which contains little real text vis-a-vis the images is highly likely to be made identify like spam and never not be delivered.
The lack of external images (and the absence of automatic posting) will have an influence on the "reporting" of the statistics of opening of the messages. It is often an external image which is used to enter the rate of opening of the messages when one uses a solution of e-mail sending. The Posting of the Bonds The bonds which are posted in the messages also will become elements of which account should be held. The programs of transport start to integrate filters known as "ScamWatch" which inform the user if a bond of destination does not correspond to that which is posted.
It is thus necessary particularly to pay attention to the manner of writing the bonds, because let us not forget that in the majority of the cases, the bonds initially bring on the waiter of the person receiving benefits in order to be able to enter the clicks before redirecting the visitor on the final page.With the generalization of the filters of this type, it will be increasingly difficult to generate bonds which bring confidence to the users, but who will allow also "monitorer" the rate of click. Solutions Unfortunately, few services in line of marketing by e-mail integrate these restrictions in their manner of sending the messages.
They continue to propose solutions of messages to format HTML which place images and bonds which pass by their waiters. The effort was especially put on control antisp@m of the structure of the messages (contained textual) and on the negotiations with the principal suppliers of access to appear on the "white lists" (shippers which are authorized to pass through the filters). They should start to adapt their tools so that the solutions are imbricated around the waiter of email of the customer and his Web server. To use the waiters of the company makes it possible to sign the shipper clearly, to correctly authenticate the message by the filters antisp@m and to propose bonds "of confidence" in the messages.
The recognition of the transmitter, the correct posting of the images and the bonds become as essential in the success of a campaign as the formulation of the message itself. By observing these rules, marketing by e-mail still has beautiful days in front of him, because it represents, towards and counters all, one of the interactive methods which offers the best rate of return.
By: Mike Francis
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Does Your PC Have Worms?
Worms aren't just for dogs anymore. Find out how to inoculate your computer against these nasty parasites.
What Are Worms?
Worms are descended from viruses and are even nastier. Just as ever stronger doses of pesticide breed ever more resilient locusts, better and better anti-spyware software bred ever more devious viruses.
Finally, some virus designers stopped having their creations infect and take over files the way real viruses infect and take over cells. Instead, they created programs that could stand on their own and cause plenty of trouble without the help of any other software applications. Just worms are independent organisms that can infect a host directly, so do computer worms infect computers directly.
What Do Worms Do?
Worm designers are often even more sinister than virus designers, since worm designers are not just vandals. Worm designers often use their creations to achieve specific goals:
Backdoor creation. Worms often try to set up another kind of malware, a backdoor. A backdoor is a hidden opening in your network connection that lets the worm send data out and take data in. Practically speaking, the data it's sending out are often spam emails, and the data it takes in are instructions on spam emails to send.
Denial of service attack. Some worm designers really are vandals rather than profit-hungry con artists sending spam. But their vandalism can be more targeted. They use worms to send out numerous requests to remote computers, such as web servers, in order to overwhelm them and therefore shut them down. This is called a denial of service attack.
Spyware, Trojan, adware, and virus installation. Worms are often used simply to unleash other forms of malware on a computer that might otherwise block them.
Information theft and fraud.Worms can multitask in order to set up spyware that gathers sensitive information--often financial information--and then set up backdoors, Trojans, viruses, or dialers to disseminate the stolen data.
How Do Worms End Up on a PC?
Worms enter PCs just as viruses, spyware and other malware do: any way they can! Some favorite points of entry for worms:
Websites can actually download software to your computer without you realizing it. This software includes not only worms, but also spyware, adware, viruses, and other malware. These malware programs find their way into websites either by the deliberate design of the site owner or because hackers have installed the software on the website's server.
Peer-to-peer file-sharing networkscontain many nice-enough-looking files that are really worms. One of the sneakiest disguises is a filename that indicates the spyware is really a video of a beautiful actress.
Email, the favored route of viruses, can still be exploited by Spyware. But since new email programs usually block the automatic opening of file attachments, this is less of a problem than it used to be.
Any internet connection inevitably lets data flow both in and out, and so is vulnerable to attacks by worms.
How Do You Get Rid of Worms?
There's really only one good way to make sure your computer is rid of worms: scan it with multiple antivirus and anti-spyware programs using a full-system scan. Worms are tricky, so anything less than a full-system scan might let them escape. Worse, with new worms coming out all the time, some antivirus and anti-spyware packages may not even know about a new worm until after its wreaking havoc on your machine. That's why you should try using more than one antivirus program and more than one anti-spyware program to increase your odds of successfully detecting the malware.
Don't have more than one anti-spyware and antivirus software? You'd better start downloading. After all, worms won't take excuses.
By: John Pawlett
Credit:www.goarticles.com
What Are Worms?
Worms are descended from viruses and are even nastier. Just as ever stronger doses of pesticide breed ever more resilient locusts, better and better anti-spyware software bred ever more devious viruses.
Finally, some virus designers stopped having their creations infect and take over files the way real viruses infect and take over cells. Instead, they created programs that could stand on their own and cause plenty of trouble without the help of any other software applications. Just worms are independent organisms that can infect a host directly, so do computer worms infect computers directly.
What Do Worms Do?
Worm designers are often even more sinister than virus designers, since worm designers are not just vandals. Worm designers often use their creations to achieve specific goals:
Backdoor creation. Worms often try to set up another kind of malware, a backdoor. A backdoor is a hidden opening in your network connection that lets the worm send data out and take data in. Practically speaking, the data it's sending out are often spam emails, and the data it takes in are instructions on spam emails to send.
Denial of service attack. Some worm designers really are vandals rather than profit-hungry con artists sending spam. But their vandalism can be more targeted. They use worms to send out numerous requests to remote computers, such as web servers, in order to overwhelm them and therefore shut them down. This is called a denial of service attack.
Spyware, Trojan, adware, and virus installation. Worms are often used simply to unleash other forms of malware on a computer that might otherwise block them.
Information theft and fraud.Worms can multitask in order to set up spyware that gathers sensitive information--often financial information--and then set up backdoors, Trojans, viruses, or dialers to disseminate the stolen data.
How Do Worms End Up on a PC?
Worms enter PCs just as viruses, spyware and other malware do: any way they can! Some favorite points of entry for worms:
Websites can actually download software to your computer without you realizing it. This software includes not only worms, but also spyware, adware, viruses, and other malware. These malware programs find their way into websites either by the deliberate design of the site owner or because hackers have installed the software on the website's server.
Peer-to-peer file-sharing networkscontain many nice-enough-looking files that are really worms. One of the sneakiest disguises is a filename that indicates the spyware is really a video of a beautiful actress.
Email, the favored route of viruses, can still be exploited by Spyware. But since new email programs usually block the automatic opening of file attachments, this is less of a problem than it used to be.
Any internet connection inevitably lets data flow both in and out, and so is vulnerable to attacks by worms.
How Do You Get Rid of Worms?
There's really only one good way to make sure your computer is rid of worms: scan it with multiple antivirus and anti-spyware programs using a full-system scan. Worms are tricky, so anything less than a full-system scan might let them escape. Worse, with new worms coming out all the time, some antivirus and anti-spyware packages may not even know about a new worm until after its wreaking havoc on your machine. That's why you should try using more than one antivirus program and more than one anti-spyware program to increase your odds of successfully detecting the malware.
Don't have more than one anti-spyware and antivirus software? You'd better start downloading. After all, worms won't take excuses.
By: John Pawlett
Credit:www.goarticles.com
The Ads Behind Male Enhancement Pills - A Straight-up Review.
For some strange reason, though I am not a male I keep getting spam advertisements for male enhancement pills in my email. Every once in a while I wonder from where these spam advertisements originate and just who decides what the target audience is. For sure I don't have any emails or in my blog that would imply that I am interested in male enhancement pills though I receive a lot of mail suggesting that I desperately need this stuff.
In order to combat these advertisements for male enhancement pills, I have tried a number of my anti spam tactics. In spite of my efforts to try and "remove me from mailing list" link, I often at the end find myself frustrated by not being able to promptly remove myself from the mailing list. Time and again I am quickly and conveniently removed from the male enhancement pills advertiser's mailing list, but sometimes this may not turn to be a good thing. I discovered that whenever I remove myself from advertising list for male enhancement pills; I end up getting even more spam from other companies selling the same product. Now I am not sure if the companies are affiliated and my anti spam tactics are backfiring on me. Yet I still get annoyed with the barrage of spam in my email for male enhancement pills even if majority of the advertisements end up in my junk folder.
Of course, it is a good practice to check your junk mail folder occasionally just incase you may be missing any messages that you actually want. At times those messages may be blocked by your anti spam feature that puts them in a junk folder and you may miss important messages. I simply don't like the idea of checking my junk mail to find a lot of embarrassing spam for male enhancement pills.
Several of these clever advertisements for male enhancement pills wind up in my regular email folder. I report those as junk mail to the server. While there are other times when I find a number of advertisements on a single day for the pills and it can be quite embarrassing.
Sure, I care what other people think. I can't help it. But I simply dread the idea of someone passing up by my computer and seeing a bunch of advertisements for male enhancement pills. For sure, they may even think that I requested the information. What's more is that even if I would have been interested in the male enhancement pills, I would like a little discretion.
Currently my way out is to just keep deleting. I'll keep requesting that I be taken off of the mailing lists and I will keep on using my anti spam features to combat the advertisements, but I would really just like to find the source, or sources, and very frankly let them know that I don't have a penis neither do I really need any enhancements!
By: Linda E. Joy
Credit:www.goarticles.com
In order to combat these advertisements for male enhancement pills, I have tried a number of my anti spam tactics. In spite of my efforts to try and "remove me from mailing list" link, I often at the end find myself frustrated by not being able to promptly remove myself from the mailing list. Time and again I am quickly and conveniently removed from the male enhancement pills advertiser's mailing list, but sometimes this may not turn to be a good thing. I discovered that whenever I remove myself from advertising list for male enhancement pills; I end up getting even more spam from other companies selling the same product. Now I am not sure if the companies are affiliated and my anti spam tactics are backfiring on me. Yet I still get annoyed with the barrage of spam in my email for male enhancement pills even if majority of the advertisements end up in my junk folder.
Of course, it is a good practice to check your junk mail folder occasionally just incase you may be missing any messages that you actually want. At times those messages may be blocked by your anti spam feature that puts them in a junk folder and you may miss important messages. I simply don't like the idea of checking my junk mail to find a lot of embarrassing spam for male enhancement pills.
Several of these clever advertisements for male enhancement pills wind up in my regular email folder. I report those as junk mail to the server. While there are other times when I find a number of advertisements on a single day for the pills and it can be quite embarrassing.
Sure, I care what other people think. I can't help it. But I simply dread the idea of someone passing up by my computer and seeing a bunch of advertisements for male enhancement pills. For sure, they may even think that I requested the information. What's more is that even if I would have been interested in the male enhancement pills, I would like a little discretion.
Currently my way out is to just keep deleting. I'll keep requesting that I be taken off of the mailing lists and I will keep on using my anti spam features to combat the advertisements, but I would really just like to find the source, or sources, and very frankly let them know that I don't have a penis neither do I really need any enhancements!
By: Linda E. Joy
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Basic Steps for Home Business Success
When you make the decision to earn income from the internet you will need to go through a set up process to be ready for your home business.
Following are the basic steps in setting up for home business success.
1. Attitude
The key to your home business success is your attitude.
Treat your home business like a business.
This is critical whether you are working part-time or full-time. One of my colleagues is a mother who works from home around her family. She has always put her family first whilst at the same time developing her home business. She says, "I work part-time, but I have a full-time attitude."
Put another way, "If you have a hobby attitude you will have a hobby income, if you have a home business attitude you will have a home business income."
You can be successful working part-time and you can be successful working full-time but it is highly unlikely that you will be successful working in your "spare time".
2. Working Environment
A space that you can call your own, free from distractions for your scheduled time.
A comfortable chair and organized desk. Stationery supplies as required. For example:
- pens - highlighters - stapler - hole punch - sticky tape - note book(s) - a simple filing system - ring binders - manilla folders
Consider the value of a broadband connection. Your time is valuable and a broadband connection can allow you to get more done in a given time frame.
3. Schedule
Develop a schedule that works for you, your family (or "significant others") and your home business. When you allot a block of time for work then use that time for work. Equally important is to schedule time for your other commitments - family time, self education ( reading, listening and viewing), "health time" (exercise, cooking and eating), and leisure time. During these other times don't work. After all if one of the reasons to work from home is to spend more time with your family then you don't want your working at home time to consume your family time.
You are working for yourself and your schedule (by your choice) is your "boss". When you have people calling you or dropping around unexpectedly or maybe out-of-town visitors may want to catch up with you then you need to make a choice. Are you committed to your own home business success? What will be your choice in these situations? Only you can decide what is important to you.
In a family environment you may need to negotiate with your partner and children to have your home business time agreed upon, during which you will not be interrupted. Put this schedule prominently somewhere so all family members are aware of your work schedule.
4. Describe Your Home Business
Be able to describe your home business concisely; a powerful one or two sentence description that someone can repeat in describing your home business to others. A unique and memorable tag line can also be invaluable for promoting your home business.
5. Know Your Product or Service
Once you have selected your product or service to sell, it may or may not be something that you use yourself but you need to know your product intimately. If you are selling ebooks then know the content and its value. If you are selling software then use it know it "inside out". You will develop a reputation of providing quality information and because of your product knowledge you can become the preferred supplier.
It is not practical to use certain products (for example a woman may choose to sell man's shoes or vice versa) in which case the seller won't be a product user, however the seller can still know the benefits and features of the product intimately.
6. Administration
Use good record keeping practices.
This may involve a consultation with a tax advisor who can let you know about the optimal way to set up your financial records and what records need to be kept. Your advisor will also recommend record keeping systems and you can find out what software may simplify this aspect of your home business. Additionally your obtain advice on the best arrangement for your bank accounts. You will most likely be advised to have a separate bank account.
You will also need to keep track of your various logins, usernames and passwords. A very handy little software tool for this is Treepad available as either the free Lite version (without password protection) or the commercial Plus or Biz versions. http://www.treepad.com
There are other useful tools for this also from a simple paper notebook to free and commercial password keepers. One popular solution is Roboform that will remember your login details and can automatically fill out your login and other registration forms. http://www.roboform.com
7. Computer Protection
Your computer is the lifeline to your home business dealings and must be protected including the data that is stored.
You need a virus scanner, personal firewall, anti-spyware and anti-adware and preferably an email scanner with the ability to delete suspect of spam email from the server before it is downloaded to your computer.
Some suggestions are:
AVG Anti-Virus: http://www.grisoft.com Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org Microsoft Anti-Spyware: www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx Adaware: http://www.lavasoft.com/ Mailwasher Email Scanner: http://www.mailwasher.net
8. A Domain Name
You will most likely need a domain name for your home business and one cost effective registrar is GoDaddy, http://www.godaddy.com.
9. Payment Processing
You will need a way to process credit cards; that may be using services such as: - PayPal https://www.paypal.com - Storm Pay http://www.stormpay.com - 2 Checkout http://www.2checkout.com - Clickbank http://www.clickbank.com or others.
This is the most economical way to get started. Once your home business picks up you may need to look into your own merchant account for credit card transactions.
Consideration may also be given to other forms of online currency such as eGold http://www.egold.com
10. Email accounts
Once you have your own domain you can use an associated email account. This can further assist in the promotion of your home business and promotes a more professional business image.
As a final comment on continuing in your internet home business, conduct your home business ethically, provide extraordinary service and be proud to put your name to the products or services that you are selling and you will be on track to developing a sustainable long term internet home business.
By: John Pawlett
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Following are the basic steps in setting up for home business success.
1. Attitude
The key to your home business success is your attitude.
Treat your home business like a business.
This is critical whether you are working part-time or full-time. One of my colleagues is a mother who works from home around her family. She has always put her family first whilst at the same time developing her home business. She says, "I work part-time, but I have a full-time attitude."
Put another way, "If you have a hobby attitude you will have a hobby income, if you have a home business attitude you will have a home business income."
You can be successful working part-time and you can be successful working full-time but it is highly unlikely that you will be successful working in your "spare time".
2. Working Environment
A space that you can call your own, free from distractions for your scheduled time.
A comfortable chair and organized desk. Stationery supplies as required. For example:
- pens - highlighters - stapler - hole punch - sticky tape - note book(s) - a simple filing system - ring binders - manilla folders
Consider the value of a broadband connection. Your time is valuable and a broadband connection can allow you to get more done in a given time frame.
3. Schedule
Develop a schedule that works for you, your family (or "significant others") and your home business. When you allot a block of time for work then use that time for work. Equally important is to schedule time for your other commitments - family time, self education ( reading, listening and viewing), "health time" (exercise, cooking and eating), and leisure time. During these other times don't work. After all if one of the reasons to work from home is to spend more time with your family then you don't want your working at home time to consume your family time.
You are working for yourself and your schedule (by your choice) is your "boss". When you have people calling you or dropping around unexpectedly or maybe out-of-town visitors may want to catch up with you then you need to make a choice. Are you committed to your own home business success? What will be your choice in these situations? Only you can decide what is important to you.
In a family environment you may need to negotiate with your partner and children to have your home business time agreed upon, during which you will not be interrupted. Put this schedule prominently somewhere so all family members are aware of your work schedule.
4. Describe Your Home Business
Be able to describe your home business concisely; a powerful one or two sentence description that someone can repeat in describing your home business to others. A unique and memorable tag line can also be invaluable for promoting your home business.
5. Know Your Product or Service
Once you have selected your product or service to sell, it may or may not be something that you use yourself but you need to know your product intimately. If you are selling ebooks then know the content and its value. If you are selling software then use it know it "inside out". You will develop a reputation of providing quality information and because of your product knowledge you can become the preferred supplier.
It is not practical to use certain products (for example a woman may choose to sell man's shoes or vice versa) in which case the seller won't be a product user, however the seller can still know the benefits and features of the product intimately.
6. Administration
Use good record keeping practices.
This may involve a consultation with a tax advisor who can let you know about the optimal way to set up your financial records and what records need to be kept. Your advisor will also recommend record keeping systems and you can find out what software may simplify this aspect of your home business. Additionally your obtain advice on the best arrangement for your bank accounts. You will most likely be advised to have a separate bank account.
You will also need to keep track of your various logins, usernames and passwords. A very handy little software tool for this is Treepad available as either the free Lite version (without password protection) or the commercial Plus or Biz versions. http://www.treepad.com
There are other useful tools for this also from a simple paper notebook to free and commercial password keepers. One popular solution is Roboform that will remember your login details and can automatically fill out your login and other registration forms. http://www.roboform.com
7. Computer Protection
Your computer is the lifeline to your home business dealings and must be protected including the data that is stored.
You need a virus scanner, personal firewall, anti-spyware and anti-adware and preferably an email scanner with the ability to delete suspect of spam email from the server before it is downloaded to your computer.
Some suggestions are:
AVG Anti-Virus: http://www.grisoft.com Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org Microsoft Anti-Spyware: www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx Adaware: http://www.lavasoft.com/ Mailwasher Email Scanner: http://www.mailwasher.net
8. A Domain Name
You will most likely need a domain name for your home business and one cost effective registrar is GoDaddy, http://www.godaddy.com.
9. Payment Processing
You will need a way to process credit cards; that may be using services such as: - PayPal https://www.paypal.com - Storm Pay http://www.stormpay.com - 2 Checkout http://www.2checkout.com - Clickbank http://www.clickbank.com or others.
This is the most economical way to get started. Once your home business picks up you may need to look into your own merchant account for credit card transactions.
Consideration may also be given to other forms of online currency such as eGold http://www.egold.com
10. Email accounts
Once you have your own domain you can use an associated email account. This can further assist in the promotion of your home business and promotes a more professional business image.
As a final comment on continuing in your internet home business, conduct your home business ethically, provide extraordinary service and be proud to put your name to the products or services that you are selling and you will be on track to developing a sustainable long term internet home business.
By: John Pawlett
Credit:www.goarticles.com
10 Things Every Home Based Business Owner Needs
When you make the decision to earn income from the internet you will need to go through a set up process to be ready for business.
Following are the basic steps in setting up for home business success.
1. Attitude
The key to your business success is your attitude.
Treat your business like a business.
This is critical whether you are working part-time or full-time. One of my colleagues is a mother who works from home around her family. She has always put her family first whilst at the same time developing her business. She says, "I work part-time, but I have a full-time attitude."
Put another way, "If you have a hobby attitude you will have a hobby income, if you have a business attitude you will have a business income."
You can be successful working part-time and you can be successful working full-time but it is highly unlikely that you will be successful working in your "spare time".
2. Working Environment
A space that you can call your own, free from distractions for your scheduled time.
A comfortable chair and organized desk. Stationery supplies as required. For example:
- pens - highlighters - stapler - hole punch - sticky tape - note book(s) - a simple filing system - ring binders - manilla folders
Consider the value of a broadband connection. Your time is valuable and a broadband connection can allow you to get more done in a given time frame.
3. Schedule
Develop a schedule that works for you, your family (or "significant others") and your business. When you allot a block of time for work then use that time for work. Equally important is to schedule time for your other commitments - family time, self education ( reading, listening and viewing), "health time" (exercise, cooking and eating), and leisure time. During these other times don't work. After all if one of the reasons to work from home is to spend more time with your family then you don't want your working at home time to consume your family time.
You are working for yourself and your schedule (by your choice) is your "boss". When you have people calling you or dropping around unexpectedly or maybe out-of-town visitors may want to catch up with you then you need to make a choice. Are you committed to your own business success? What will be your choice in these situations? Only you can decide what is important to you.
In a family environment you may need to negotiate with your partner and children to have your business time agreed upon, during which you will not be interrupted. Put this schedule prominently somewhere so all family members are aware of your work schedule.
4. Describe Your Business
Be able to describe your business concisely; a powerful one or two sentence description that someone can repeat in describing your business to others. A unique and memorable tag line can also be invaluable for promoting your business.
5. Know Your Product or Service
Once you have selected your product or service to sell, it may or may not be something that you use yourself but you need to know your product intimately. If you are selling ebooks then know the content and its value. If you are selling software then use it know it "inside out". You will develop a reputation of providing quality information and because of your product knowledge you can become the preferred supplier.
It is not practical to use certain products (for example a woman may choose to sell man's shoes or vice versa) in which case the seller won't be a product user, however the seller can still know the benefits and features of the product intimately.
6. Administration
Use good record keeping practices.
This may involve a consultation with a tax advisor who can let you know about the optimal way to set up your financial records and what records need to be kept. Your advisor will also recommend record keeping systems and you can find out what software may simplify this aspect of your business. Additionally your obtain advice on the best arrangement for your bank accounts. You will most likely be advised to have a separate bank account.
You will also need to keep track of your various logins, usernames and passwords. A very handy little software tool for this is Treepad available as either the free Lite version (without password protection) or the commercial Plus or Biz versions.
There are other useful tools for this also from a simple paper notebook to free and commercial password keepers. One popular solution is Roboform that will remember your login details and can automatically fill out your login and other registration forms.
7. Computer Protection
Your computer is the lifeline to your business dealings and must be protected including the data that is stored.
You need a virus scanner, personal firewall, anti-spyware and anti-adware and preferably an email scanner with the ability to delete suspect of spam email from the server before it is downloaded to your computer.
8. A Domain Name
You will most likely need a domain name for your business and one cost effective registrar is GoDaddy, http://www.godaddy.com.
9. Payment Processing
You will need a way to process credit cards; that may be using services such as: - PayPal https://www.paypal.com - Storm Pay http://www.stormpay.com - 2 Checkout http://www.2checkout.com - Clickbank http://www.clickbank.com or others.
This is the most economical way to get started. Once your business picks up you may need to look into your own merchant account for credit card transactions.
Consideration may also be given to other forms of online currency such as eGold http://www.egold.com
10. Email accounts
Once you have your own domain you can use an associated email account. This can further assist in the promotion of your business and promotes a more professional business image.
As a final comment on continuing in your internet business, conduct your business ethically, provide extraordinary service and be proud to put your name to the products or services that you are selling and you will be on track to developing a sustainable long term internet business.
By: John Pawlett
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Following are the basic steps in setting up for home business success.
1. Attitude
The key to your business success is your attitude.
Treat your business like a business.
This is critical whether you are working part-time or full-time. One of my colleagues is a mother who works from home around her family. She has always put her family first whilst at the same time developing her business. She says, "I work part-time, but I have a full-time attitude."
Put another way, "If you have a hobby attitude you will have a hobby income, if you have a business attitude you will have a business income."
You can be successful working part-time and you can be successful working full-time but it is highly unlikely that you will be successful working in your "spare time".
2. Working Environment
A space that you can call your own, free from distractions for your scheduled time.
A comfortable chair and organized desk. Stationery supplies as required. For example:
- pens - highlighters - stapler - hole punch - sticky tape - note book(s) - a simple filing system - ring binders - manilla folders
Consider the value of a broadband connection. Your time is valuable and a broadband connection can allow you to get more done in a given time frame.
3. Schedule
Develop a schedule that works for you, your family (or "significant others") and your business. When you allot a block of time for work then use that time for work. Equally important is to schedule time for your other commitments - family time, self education ( reading, listening and viewing), "health time" (exercise, cooking and eating), and leisure time. During these other times don't work. After all if one of the reasons to work from home is to spend more time with your family then you don't want your working at home time to consume your family time.
You are working for yourself and your schedule (by your choice) is your "boss". When you have people calling you or dropping around unexpectedly or maybe out-of-town visitors may want to catch up with you then you need to make a choice. Are you committed to your own business success? What will be your choice in these situations? Only you can decide what is important to you.
In a family environment you may need to negotiate with your partner and children to have your business time agreed upon, during which you will not be interrupted. Put this schedule prominently somewhere so all family members are aware of your work schedule.
4. Describe Your Business
Be able to describe your business concisely; a powerful one or two sentence description that someone can repeat in describing your business to others. A unique and memorable tag line can also be invaluable for promoting your business.
5. Know Your Product or Service
Once you have selected your product or service to sell, it may or may not be something that you use yourself but you need to know your product intimately. If you are selling ebooks then know the content and its value. If you are selling software then use it know it "inside out". You will develop a reputation of providing quality information and because of your product knowledge you can become the preferred supplier.
It is not practical to use certain products (for example a woman may choose to sell man's shoes or vice versa) in which case the seller won't be a product user, however the seller can still know the benefits and features of the product intimately.
6. Administration
Use good record keeping practices.
This may involve a consultation with a tax advisor who can let you know about the optimal way to set up your financial records and what records need to be kept. Your advisor will also recommend record keeping systems and you can find out what software may simplify this aspect of your business. Additionally your obtain advice on the best arrangement for your bank accounts. You will most likely be advised to have a separate bank account.
You will also need to keep track of your various logins, usernames and passwords. A very handy little software tool for this is Treepad available as either the free Lite version (without password protection) or the commercial Plus or Biz versions.
There are other useful tools for this also from a simple paper notebook to free and commercial password keepers. One popular solution is Roboform that will remember your login details and can automatically fill out your login and other registration forms.
7. Computer Protection
Your computer is the lifeline to your business dealings and must be protected including the data that is stored.
You need a virus scanner, personal firewall, anti-spyware and anti-adware and preferably an email scanner with the ability to delete suspect of spam email from the server before it is downloaded to your computer.
8. A Domain Name
You will most likely need a domain name for your business and one cost effective registrar is GoDaddy, http://www.godaddy.com.
9. Payment Processing
You will need a way to process credit cards; that may be using services such as: - PayPal https://www.paypal.com - Storm Pay http://www.stormpay.com - 2 Checkout http://www.2checkout.com - Clickbank http://www.clickbank.com or others.
This is the most economical way to get started. Once your business picks up you may need to look into your own merchant account for credit card transactions.
Consideration may also be given to other forms of online currency such as eGold http://www.egold.com
10. Email accounts
Once you have your own domain you can use an associated email account. This can further assist in the promotion of your business and promotes a more professional business image.
As a final comment on continuing in your internet business, conduct your business ethically, provide extraordinary service and be proud to put your name to the products or services that you are selling and you will be on track to developing a sustainable long term internet business.
By: John Pawlett
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Where To Find Quality AntiVirus Software At Reasonable Price
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite
Kaspersky® Personal Security Suite is a program package specifically developed to provide comprehensive protection from all types of malicious programs for personal computers running under the Windows operating system. This solution prevents the infiltration of viruses, worms, spyware, adware and other malicious programs via potential penetration paths, provides protection against unauthorized access attempts, and includes anti-spam components.
Protection against viruses
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite offers continuous control over all sources of virus penetration into a computer, including email, the Internet, removable devices, etc. This application protects in real-time by scanning all files as they are executed, created or copied. It also offers multi-tier antivirus protection of email, including scanning all incoming and outgoing messages and email databases. The solution can scan over 1200 formats of archived and compressed files and disinfect files in ZIP, CAB, RAR and ARJ formats.
This program is extremely easy to configure and allows users to select one of the three predefined levels of protection. The convenient interface enables users to control all antivirus components and to configure the computer's security system depending upon the user's needs.
Protection against potentially hostile software
With Kaspersky Personal Security Suite the user's computer can be protected not only against malicious software, but also against potentially hostile programs, including software for the remote harvesting of data and controlling the victim computer (spyware), programs that automatically establish modem connections with pay sites (dialers), programs that redirect users to obscene content sites (pornware), etc. Detection of such software is provided by scanning the computer using the extended antivirus databases.
Extended databases protect against adware and spyware ? the latest threats that endanger your computer. Kaspersky Personal Security Suite makes it possible for you to surf the Internet with confidence, secure in the knowledge that your computer is secured against malware of all types.
Protection against hacker attacks and information theft
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite provides reliable protection of the computer's data against hacker attacks. The application is extremely easy to install and configure. The user can choose from five predefined security levels, each based on its own list of rules, from disabling protection to completely blocking network access. The intrusion detection system (IDS) is capable of detecting and successfully repelling the most common network attacks. This is achieved by continually filtering all incoming and outgoing traffic. The program can also detect attempts to scan ports, which often precede network attacks, and blocks further communication with the computer attempting the attack. Kaspersky Personal Security Suite ensures uninterrupted control of application activity and analyzes data packets sent or received by the computer, thereby regulating Internet access of programs installed on the computer and preventing possible data theft.
Protection against spam
By using a multi-tier system for scanning email traffic, Kaspersky Personal Security Suite protects users from receiving unsolicited emails (e.g., spam). Messages are filtered using unique linguistic algorithms, as well as using a number of typical email attributes. As much as 95% of spam is detected, while the proportion of messages mistakenly identified as spam does not exceed 0.01%. The anti-spam component automatically integrates into Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express mail programs during installation, and is easily configured and controlled using tools which are integrated with the mail client's control panel. Unwanted messages are sorted and broken up into several categories, and the user can define further actions to be performed by the solution on messages in each category.
Support for mobile users
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite has a number of features making it convenient for mobile users. If an Internet connection is lost or interrupted, the program will automatically continue downloading the antivirus database updates whenever the connection is restored, so that the user will not lose the part of the updates which has already been downloaded. The size of hourly antivirus database updates is 150 KB, while daily updates of the lexical signature databases used for filtering spam have an average size of 300 KB. The system can be used in Stealth Mode, which reliably protects computers that have remote network connections by making them ?invisible?. When the system is in Stealth Mode, no network activity is allowed except that initiated by the user.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal
Best Protection from malware
Your PC is under constant attack by viruses, Trojans, Internet-worms and other malware. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal monitors all virus entry points leaving you with a clean and safe machine.
Easy of use
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal now includes a redesigned interface supported by new architecture. The program is simple to install and use. You only need to choose from three levels of protection and your PC is completely safe.
Protection from riskware
Today, adware, spyware and other malware threaten your security as much as classic viruses. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal secures your PC against these new threats as well as traditional viruses.
Two-tier email protection
Email is the most typical source of virus infection. We check and cure both incoming and outgoing mail in real-time. We even scan and clean your mailbases. Your email is always safe!
Cleans and cures compressed files
Virus writers now hide their dirty tricks in compressed files. But our program is ready for this. We detect viruses in over 700 compressed file formats and disinfect and cure ZIP, ZRJ, CAB and RAR files.
New virus definitions every 3 hours
New viruses appear every day! Kaspersky Labs protects you with 8 daily antivirus database updates automatically downloaded via the Internet. New epidemics are no threat to you.
Mobile user support
Virus definitions are delivered regardless of how often you connect and disconnect. Your mobile devices are protected!
Round-the-clock technical support
Should you have any questions about viruses or about installing and using Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal, our customer support staff will answer them any time of the day or night.
F-PROT AntiVirus for Home Users
Tired of clunky AV programs that slow down your computer and constantly interfere with your work or when you send email? F-PROT AntiVirus for Windowsis legendary for their high security, streamlined efficiency and very low resource consumption. F-PROT for Windows runs as good on Win XP Pro as it does on Win98. Many millions have chosen F-PROT worldwide so why not try F-PROT for you home computer? F-PROT will keep your computer secure and keep out of your way.
Shield AntiVirus
The Shield AntiVirus? provides essential virus protection in Windows, emails, scripts, compressed files and macros. Powerful yet easy to use, The Shield AV accurately detects and repairs viruses BEFORE they infect your computer. It is distinguished from the other Antivirus tools by its high-speed scanning capability and low system resources required to run. The Shield AV also scans and cleans email messages on a real time basis before they ever reach your computer.
Shield AV monitors all the paths that are vulnerable to infection for an Internet user. It detects and removes any virus or malicious codes when you download a file from the Internet. It provides you with a safe Internet working environment.
You'll also get PCSecurityShield's top-shelf customer and technical support for FREE. You can contact us by phone or email at no extra charge. The Shield AntiVirus now comes with Easy Installer, to make download and installation simpler than ever before.
FEATURES INCLUDE:
Powerful virus scanning of Email and Mailbox Check-up Functions
Shield AV enables you to scan attachments and detect viruses while you are receiving emails, on a real-time basis. Shield AV scans your email messages as they are downloaded from the POP3 server or Microsoft Exchange server. Virus-infected attachments are stopped before they even reach your computer.
Integrates on the Tool Bar of Microsoft Outlook.
It enables users to scan emails and edit the configuration for Shield AV. If Microsoft Outlook is used as your mail client, Shield AV provide on-demand scanning of local folders of infected attachments.
Supports various compressed files
Shield AV supports ZIP, ARJ (JAR), LHA, RAR, CAB, ACE, ZOO, GZIP (GZ), TAR, Z, TGZ, TAZ and more. Viruses in multi-compressed files are also detected/repaired. Computer viruses in compressed files of email attachments will also be stopped as Shield AV supports UUENCODE and/or MIME.
Enhanced Emergency Disks
You can create Emergency Disks to boot up your computer and eliminate viruses in emergency situations. Shield AV support FAT and/or NTFS file system and allows you to create the disk for DOS scanning.
Enhanced Update Function
Shield AV supports FTP and HTTP protocol so that you can update your engine even if you are using a firewall or proxy. Shield AV also offers an Automatic Update notice function that analyses your recent update patterns, as well as a Scheduled Update function for you to update your engine regularly. You may now update your engine with just one click.
Support Various Operating Systems and Multi Language Selection
Your Shield AV supports all Windows based platforms, including Windows 95/98/Me/2000 Professional/NT (Workstations)/XP. It recognizes English and other languages automatically.
MacRobot for Office 2000/IE 5.0 or higher
MacRobot, which is an exclusive macro virus-monitoring module, has been greatly enhanced to operate as a plug-in for MS Office family. It automatically detects and removes macro viruses when you open an Office document in MS Office or Internet Explorer 5.0.
CUSTOMER COMMENTS:
"I have used Norton and McAfee, but The Shield is so much simpler and takes so much less system resources to run" - Howard, Westland, MI
"I had an installation question. I called, a live person actually answered, and The Shield virus protection -was running 2 minutes later" - Margo, Stamford, CT
Thank you for your quick and prompt response! I am glad to know I just invested my money into a company that cares! thanks again! - Keith - Davison, MI
Panda Antivirus 2007 English
The new Panda Antivirus 2007 makes protecting your computer as easy as possible, because it automatically blocks and removes all types of viruses and spyware so you can surf the Internet, send and receive email play games, download files, chat online... and relax. Plus, it's small and super-efficient, so your computer runs faster! And now, for each Panda Antivirus 2007 product purchase, you will obtain protection for up to 2 PC's!
Key Features
* Automatically detects and eliminates all types of viruses:
Viruses, worms, and Trojans have evolved and multiplied. Now they are designed to infect without you noticing. Panda Antivirus 2007 automatically detects and eliminates them to keep your PC virus-free. Forget about infections!
* Keeps your PC free from spyware:
The Internet is teeming with spy programs that can invade your privacy and steal information by secretly snooping on your online activity. Spyware can also slow down your PC, cause annoying and aggressive pop-up ads, and change your computer settings. Panda Antivirus 2007 detects and completely removes spyware and other annoying programs automatically. Safeguard your privacy!
* Protects against online fraud:
New sophisticated online fraud techniques emerge every day. These scams are designed to obtain your login details, account numbers and other data that can then be used to steal your money or identity. Panda Antivirus 2007 will keep you safe from these dangerous scams. Bank and shop online with complete peace of mind!
* Automatic daily updates:
The product is automatically updated, at least once a day, to protect you against viruses, spyware and other threats.
* Tech Support 24 hours a day -365 days a year:
Whenever you need it, our Tech Support experts and PandaLabs will provide a rapid response.
By: Joe Light
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Kaspersky® Personal Security Suite is a program package specifically developed to provide comprehensive protection from all types of malicious programs for personal computers running under the Windows operating system. This solution prevents the infiltration of viruses, worms, spyware, adware and other malicious programs via potential penetration paths, provides protection against unauthorized access attempts, and includes anti-spam components.
Protection against viruses
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite offers continuous control over all sources of virus penetration into a computer, including email, the Internet, removable devices, etc. This application protects in real-time by scanning all files as they are executed, created or copied. It also offers multi-tier antivirus protection of email, including scanning all incoming and outgoing messages and email databases. The solution can scan over 1200 formats of archived and compressed files and disinfect files in ZIP, CAB, RAR and ARJ formats.
This program is extremely easy to configure and allows users to select one of the three predefined levels of protection. The convenient interface enables users to control all antivirus components and to configure the computer's security system depending upon the user's needs.
Protection against potentially hostile software
With Kaspersky Personal Security Suite the user's computer can be protected not only against malicious software, but also against potentially hostile programs, including software for the remote harvesting of data and controlling the victim computer (spyware), programs that automatically establish modem connections with pay sites (dialers), programs that redirect users to obscene content sites (pornware), etc. Detection of such software is provided by scanning the computer using the extended antivirus databases.
Extended databases protect against adware and spyware ? the latest threats that endanger your computer. Kaspersky Personal Security Suite makes it possible for you to surf the Internet with confidence, secure in the knowledge that your computer is secured against malware of all types.
Protection against hacker attacks and information theft
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite provides reliable protection of the computer's data against hacker attacks. The application is extremely easy to install and configure. The user can choose from five predefined security levels, each based on its own list of rules, from disabling protection to completely blocking network access. The intrusion detection system (IDS) is capable of detecting and successfully repelling the most common network attacks. This is achieved by continually filtering all incoming and outgoing traffic. The program can also detect attempts to scan ports, which often precede network attacks, and blocks further communication with the computer attempting the attack. Kaspersky Personal Security Suite ensures uninterrupted control of application activity and analyzes data packets sent or received by the computer, thereby regulating Internet access of programs installed on the computer and preventing possible data theft.
Protection against spam
By using a multi-tier system for scanning email traffic, Kaspersky Personal Security Suite protects users from receiving unsolicited emails (e.g., spam). Messages are filtered using unique linguistic algorithms, as well as using a number of typical email attributes. As much as 95% of spam is detected, while the proportion of messages mistakenly identified as spam does not exceed 0.01%. The anti-spam component automatically integrates into Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express mail programs during installation, and is easily configured and controlled using tools which are integrated with the mail client's control panel. Unwanted messages are sorted and broken up into several categories, and the user can define further actions to be performed by the solution on messages in each category.
Support for mobile users
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite has a number of features making it convenient for mobile users. If an Internet connection is lost or interrupted, the program will automatically continue downloading the antivirus database updates whenever the connection is restored, so that the user will not lose the part of the updates which has already been downloaded. The size of hourly antivirus database updates is 150 KB, while daily updates of the lexical signature databases used for filtering spam have an average size of 300 KB. The system can be used in Stealth Mode, which reliably protects computers that have remote network connections by making them ?invisible?. When the system is in Stealth Mode, no network activity is allowed except that initiated by the user.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal
Best Protection from malware
Your PC is under constant attack by viruses, Trojans, Internet-worms and other malware. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal monitors all virus entry points leaving you with a clean and safe machine.
Easy of use
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal now includes a redesigned interface supported by new architecture. The program is simple to install and use. You only need to choose from three levels of protection and your PC is completely safe.
Protection from riskware
Today, adware, spyware and other malware threaten your security as much as classic viruses. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal secures your PC against these new threats as well as traditional viruses.
Two-tier email protection
Email is the most typical source of virus infection. We check and cure both incoming and outgoing mail in real-time. We even scan and clean your mailbases. Your email is always safe!
Cleans and cures compressed files
Virus writers now hide their dirty tricks in compressed files. But our program is ready for this. We detect viruses in over 700 compressed file formats and disinfect and cure ZIP, ZRJ, CAB and RAR files.
New virus definitions every 3 hours
New viruses appear every day! Kaspersky Labs protects you with 8 daily antivirus database updates automatically downloaded via the Internet. New epidemics are no threat to you.
Mobile user support
Virus definitions are delivered regardless of how often you connect and disconnect. Your mobile devices are protected!
Round-the-clock technical support
Should you have any questions about viruses or about installing and using Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal, our customer support staff will answer them any time of the day or night.
F-PROT AntiVirus for Home Users
Tired of clunky AV programs that slow down your computer and constantly interfere with your work or when you send email? F-PROT AntiVirus for Windowsis legendary for their high security, streamlined efficiency and very low resource consumption. F-PROT for Windows runs as good on Win XP Pro as it does on Win98. Many millions have chosen F-PROT worldwide so why not try F-PROT for you home computer? F-PROT will keep your computer secure and keep out of your way.
Shield AntiVirus
The Shield AntiVirus? provides essential virus protection in Windows, emails, scripts, compressed files and macros. Powerful yet easy to use, The Shield AV accurately detects and repairs viruses BEFORE they infect your computer. It is distinguished from the other Antivirus tools by its high-speed scanning capability and low system resources required to run. The Shield AV also scans and cleans email messages on a real time basis before they ever reach your computer.
Shield AV monitors all the paths that are vulnerable to infection for an Internet user. It detects and removes any virus or malicious codes when you download a file from the Internet. It provides you with a safe Internet working environment.
You'll also get PCSecurityShield's top-shelf customer and technical support for FREE. You can contact us by phone or email at no extra charge. The Shield AntiVirus now comes with Easy Installer, to make download and installation simpler than ever before.
FEATURES INCLUDE:
Powerful virus scanning of Email and Mailbox Check-up Functions
Shield AV enables you to scan attachments and detect viruses while you are receiving emails, on a real-time basis. Shield AV scans your email messages as they are downloaded from the POP3 server or Microsoft Exchange server. Virus-infected attachments are stopped before they even reach your computer.
Integrates on the Tool Bar of Microsoft Outlook.
It enables users to scan emails and edit the configuration for Shield AV. If Microsoft Outlook is used as your mail client, Shield AV provide on-demand scanning of local folders of infected attachments.
Supports various compressed files
Shield AV supports ZIP, ARJ (JAR), LHA, RAR, CAB, ACE, ZOO, GZIP (GZ), TAR, Z, TGZ, TAZ and more. Viruses in multi-compressed files are also detected/repaired. Computer viruses in compressed files of email attachments will also be stopped as Shield AV supports UUENCODE and/or MIME.
Enhanced Emergency Disks
You can create Emergency Disks to boot up your computer and eliminate viruses in emergency situations. Shield AV support FAT and/or NTFS file system and allows you to create the disk for DOS scanning.
Enhanced Update Function
Shield AV supports FTP and HTTP protocol so that you can update your engine even if you are using a firewall or proxy. Shield AV also offers an Automatic Update notice function that analyses your recent update patterns, as well as a Scheduled Update function for you to update your engine regularly. You may now update your engine with just one click.
Support Various Operating Systems and Multi Language Selection
Your Shield AV supports all Windows based platforms, including Windows 95/98/Me/2000 Professional/NT (Workstations)/XP. It recognizes English and other languages automatically.
MacRobot for Office 2000/IE 5.0 or higher
MacRobot, which is an exclusive macro virus-monitoring module, has been greatly enhanced to operate as a plug-in for MS Office family. It automatically detects and removes macro viruses when you open an Office document in MS Office or Internet Explorer 5.0.
CUSTOMER COMMENTS:
"I have used Norton and McAfee, but The Shield is so much simpler and takes so much less system resources to run" - Howard, Westland, MI
"I had an installation question. I called, a live person actually answered, and The Shield virus protection -was running 2 minutes later" - Margo, Stamford, CT
Thank you for your quick and prompt response! I am glad to know I just invested my money into a company that cares! thanks again! - Keith - Davison, MI
Panda Antivirus 2007 English
The new Panda Antivirus 2007 makes protecting your computer as easy as possible, because it automatically blocks and removes all types of viruses and spyware so you can surf the Internet, send and receive email play games, download files, chat online... and relax. Plus, it's small and super-efficient, so your computer runs faster! And now, for each Panda Antivirus 2007 product purchase, you will obtain protection for up to 2 PC's!
Key Features
* Automatically detects and eliminates all types of viruses:
Viruses, worms, and Trojans have evolved and multiplied. Now they are designed to infect without you noticing. Panda Antivirus 2007 automatically detects and eliminates them to keep your PC virus-free. Forget about infections!
* Keeps your PC free from spyware:
The Internet is teeming with spy programs that can invade your privacy and steal information by secretly snooping on your online activity. Spyware can also slow down your PC, cause annoying and aggressive pop-up ads, and change your computer settings. Panda Antivirus 2007 detects and completely removes spyware and other annoying programs automatically. Safeguard your privacy!
* Protects against online fraud:
New sophisticated online fraud techniques emerge every day. These scams are designed to obtain your login details, account numbers and other data that can then be used to steal your money or identity. Panda Antivirus 2007 will keep you safe from these dangerous scams. Bank and shop online with complete peace of mind!
* Automatic daily updates:
The product is automatically updated, at least once a day, to protect you against viruses, spyware and other threats.
* Tech Support 24 hours a day -365 days a year:
Whenever you need it, our Tech Support experts and PandaLabs will provide a rapid response.
By: Joe Light
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Dedicated Server Hosting
Unhappy with the level of service provided by your current hosting company and looking for a better option; then Hostlogic Plc is the answer. Hostlogic Plc provides dedicated server hosting which gives your business a cutting edge and is highly reliable. Their dedicated hosting is performance based and has set high standards in the hosting field.
Hostlogic's hosting services include hosted Microsoft exchange, hosted SharePoint services, live communication server and many more. It is the one stop shop for all your dedicated server hosting needs and make sure that you get most approporiate hosting services for your business requirements in an affordable manner. The main highlight of Hostlogic Plc is that it operates in a highly secured and redundant hosting network. This hosting network is capable enough of handling hundreds of thousands of web sites and millions of e-mails per day.
The Hostlogic network is fully layered with load-balanced front end servers, clustered back-end servers and fibre channel storage network. This ultimately ensures that your hosting applications are fully optimised and operate non-stop around the clock.
Hostlogic Plc's dedicated server hosting is accompanied with Dell Dedicated fault tolerant Servers as standard. This means full management service including patching and backup up to application level.
In addition, Hostlogic Plc offers to re-locate your web servers in their data centre with resilient internet bandwidth and power. This generally gives you remote power reboot facilities via a secure web browser.
Hostlogic Plc's dedicated server hosting is divided into three different types. Those three different types are as follows:
* Standard Windows Dedicated Server Hosting with 200GB space * Professional Windows Dedicated Server Hosting with 200GB space * Premium Windows Dedicated Server Hosting with 200GB space.
All these three types of dedicated server hosting are designed in such a way that the customer can choose one depending upon business needs and requirements.
Hostlogic Plc's dedicated server hosting is equipped with features such as:
* 100GB web space * Unlimited bandwidth traffic * Hi spec server with Pentium 4 2Ghz with 512MB ram * 2 Static IP addresses * Enterprise level fire walling * Anti-spam filtering * Anti-virus filtering
All these features are teamed with benefits such as:
* Considerable reduction in your IT maintenance and support costs * Significant increase in the performance and availability of your web site application * A reduction in your business traveling costs * Increase in sales by using Microsoft Shared Hosting platform together with their Internet Marketing services * Reduce your business risks by outsourcing your IT service infrastructure to them * They are experts at running 24x7 systems and will help increase your reliability and scalability.
Thus, if you are looking for dedicated server hosting, share point hosting and hosted exchange please visit www.hostlogic.co.uk
By: David Gabbitas
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Hostlogic's hosting services include hosted Microsoft exchange, hosted SharePoint services, live communication server and many more. It is the one stop shop for all your dedicated server hosting needs and make sure that you get most approporiate hosting services for your business requirements in an affordable manner. The main highlight of Hostlogic Plc is that it operates in a highly secured and redundant hosting network. This hosting network is capable enough of handling hundreds of thousands of web sites and millions of e-mails per day.
The Hostlogic network is fully layered with load-balanced front end servers, clustered back-end servers and fibre channel storage network. This ultimately ensures that your hosting applications are fully optimised and operate non-stop around the clock.
Hostlogic Plc's dedicated server hosting is accompanied with Dell Dedicated fault tolerant Servers as standard. This means full management service including patching and backup up to application level.
In addition, Hostlogic Plc offers to re-locate your web servers in their data centre with resilient internet bandwidth and power. This generally gives you remote power reboot facilities via a secure web browser.
Hostlogic Plc's dedicated server hosting is divided into three different types. Those three different types are as follows:
* Standard Windows Dedicated Server Hosting with 200GB space * Professional Windows Dedicated Server Hosting with 200GB space * Premium Windows Dedicated Server Hosting with 200GB space.
All these three types of dedicated server hosting are designed in such a way that the customer can choose one depending upon business needs and requirements.
Hostlogic Plc's dedicated server hosting is equipped with features such as:
* 100GB web space * Unlimited bandwidth traffic * Hi spec server with Pentium 4 2Ghz with 512MB ram * 2 Static IP addresses * Enterprise level fire walling * Anti-spam filtering * Anti-virus filtering
All these features are teamed with benefits such as:
* Considerable reduction in your IT maintenance and support costs * Significant increase in the performance and availability of your web site application * A reduction in your business traveling costs * Increase in sales by using Microsoft Shared Hosting platform together with their Internet Marketing services * Reduce your business risks by outsourcing your IT service infrastructure to them * They are experts at running 24x7 systems and will help increase your reliability and scalability.
Thus, if you are looking for dedicated server hosting, share point hosting and hosted exchange please visit www.hostlogic.co.uk
By: David Gabbitas
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Business Hosting
Hostlogic offers the complete span of hosting packages depending upon your choice and business needs. Their exhaustive business hosting packages are not only power packed and feature rich but are also easily affordable. In short, Hostlogic is the one stop shop for your business hosting.
If you are into online business then it is wise to have a hosting which is not only reliable but also performance based. And Hostlogic delivers in both of these key areas. Being the UK's leading business hosting providers they help in growing businesses with innovative solutions to increase productivity and reduce operating costs. This means you will be at a benefiting end and your business will prosper.
Their main aim is to provide high quality managed business hosting services to the UK SMB market place. Their business hosting package includes:
* 1 Microsoft Exchange Mailbox with a copy of Microsoft Outlook, web e-mail access, calendar, task list, and address book. Also the Windows Mobile 5.0 live that too fully synchronized * Windows Shared Hosting with 1 GB web space * Design of Customer Contact form for taking customer enquiries which are delivered to your Microsoft Outlook and Windows Mobile * Control Panel access with web statistics, so you can see how your campaign is performing * 2 domain registrations for 1 year * Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam included * Free Outlook & Outlook Web Access.
All these business hosting features are not only easily affordable but also take your online business to new heights.
In addition to the above, Hostlogic also provides complete business information storage solution. This includes Windows SharePoint hosting front end, for businesses that require offsite secure and redundant Enterprise level storage at SME pricing. Plus information sharing with powerful E-Mail control, Shared Outlook Calendar, Shared Contacts, Tasks and Public Folders to share your documents with your employees.
Thus, if you are looking for reliable business hosting or dedicated server hosting, exchange server hosting and server collocation then Hostlogic is the best place. As they offer all these features in an affordable way.
By: David Gabbitas
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If you are into online business then it is wise to have a hosting which is not only reliable but also performance based. And Hostlogic delivers in both of these key areas. Being the UK's leading business hosting providers they help in growing businesses with innovative solutions to increase productivity and reduce operating costs. This means you will be at a benefiting end and your business will prosper.
Their main aim is to provide high quality managed business hosting services to the UK SMB market place. Their business hosting package includes:
* 1 Microsoft Exchange Mailbox with a copy of Microsoft Outlook, web e-mail access, calendar, task list, and address book. Also the Windows Mobile 5.0 live that too fully synchronized * Windows Shared Hosting with 1 GB web space * Design of Customer Contact form for taking customer enquiries which are delivered to your Microsoft Outlook and Windows Mobile * Control Panel access with web statistics, so you can see how your campaign is performing * 2 domain registrations for 1 year * Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam included * Free Outlook & Outlook Web Access.
All these business hosting features are not only easily affordable but also take your online business to new heights.
In addition to the above, Hostlogic also provides complete business information storage solution. This includes Windows SharePoint hosting front end, for businesses that require offsite secure and redundant Enterprise level storage at SME pricing. Plus information sharing with powerful E-Mail control, Shared Outlook Calendar, Shared Contacts, Tasks and Public Folders to share your documents with your employees.
Thus, if you are looking for reliable business hosting or dedicated server hosting, exchange server hosting and server collocation then Hostlogic is the best place. As they offer all these features in an affordable way.
By: David Gabbitas
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Software For Blocking Spam Mail
You would think at first that blocking spam mail is as easy as it sounds (it does not even sound so easy at all). But everytime you read an article about blocking spam mail you end up reading it for over five times just to be able to actually understand what it means or what it is saying. You can ask for explanations from those who are experts on the subject, but you end up asking a whole new batch of questions for you did not get anything the first time he or she explained.
Why not seek help from certain tools to block that spam mail that just destroys your day everytime you open you inbox? There are lots of software out there that can do wonders for your electronic mail address when you open it. These software will block those spam mail for you.
You can browse through the Internet to be able to find a website that tackles spam blocking software. For instance, SpamBayes is a project that focuses on the development of a Bayesian anti-spam filter. This said filter is not like the other filters that you have probably heard of. The difference between SpamBayes and other filtering software is that SpamBayes emphasizes on testing newer and more recently produced approaches for scoring messages.
Another software is the K9, which is an application that filters electronic mail. This works together with your regular POP3 email program. K9 automatically classifies specific incoming mails into spam, junk mail, and mail that are not considered junk mail. The mails that are not junk mail are submitted into the non-spam category without any necessity of keeping lots and lots of rules or updates that disturb you constantly.
The MailWasher is of extreme power when it comes to email checkin. It has an effective spam elimination process, which is not possessed by other spam blocking software. The MailWasher is usually purchased because it is considered to be a "safe" way in preventing unwanted mails and viruses before they get a chance to enter your computer's hard drive.
The Spamihilator is a combination of the words spam and annihilator. With this said, you probably do not need any further explanation for it comes to be so obvious just what the Spamihilator does. It is a program that scrutinizes and observes your email while downloading form a specific server and also erases any messages that are unwanted.
A spam blocking software that tackles a more secure approach is the Spam-Aid. Compared to other tools, it just checks specific mail for characteristics that will categorize them into non-spam. Contrary to what other software do, which is to check mail for spam traits, Spam-Aid does the exact opposite. This tool also lets you control whose messages you can receive. If you do not want to receive mail from that person you used to date back in high school, then just filter.
EmC has the skills you have long been looking for. It does so well in combining blocking, with comprehensive spam mail detection. It includes a basic antivirus scan engine, which protects your computer from any malicious file attachments. If you have kids who are coming of age, and are somewhat starting to get curious, you should install the EmC into their drives to avoid them getting the wrong idea.
Instead of driving yourself crazy trying to block spam on your own, you can just download and then install the aforementioned spam blocking software. Doing so will shoo those junk mails away.
By: Low Jeremy
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Why not seek help from certain tools to block that spam mail that just destroys your day everytime you open you inbox? There are lots of software out there that can do wonders for your electronic mail address when you open it. These software will block those spam mail for you.
You can browse through the Internet to be able to find a website that tackles spam blocking software. For instance, SpamBayes is a project that focuses on the development of a Bayesian anti-spam filter. This said filter is not like the other filters that you have probably heard of. The difference between SpamBayes and other filtering software is that SpamBayes emphasizes on testing newer and more recently produced approaches for scoring messages.
Another software is the K9, which is an application that filters electronic mail. This works together with your regular POP3 email program. K9 automatically classifies specific incoming mails into spam, junk mail, and mail that are not considered junk mail. The mails that are not junk mail are submitted into the non-spam category without any necessity of keeping lots and lots of rules or updates that disturb you constantly.
The MailWasher is of extreme power when it comes to email checkin. It has an effective spam elimination process, which is not possessed by other spam blocking software. The MailWasher is usually purchased because it is considered to be a "safe" way in preventing unwanted mails and viruses before they get a chance to enter your computer's hard drive.
The Spamihilator is a combination of the words spam and annihilator. With this said, you probably do not need any further explanation for it comes to be so obvious just what the Spamihilator does. It is a program that scrutinizes and observes your email while downloading form a specific server and also erases any messages that are unwanted.
A spam blocking software that tackles a more secure approach is the Spam-Aid. Compared to other tools, it just checks specific mail for characteristics that will categorize them into non-spam. Contrary to what other software do, which is to check mail for spam traits, Spam-Aid does the exact opposite. This tool also lets you control whose messages you can receive. If you do not want to receive mail from that person you used to date back in high school, then just filter.
EmC has the skills you have long been looking for. It does so well in combining blocking, with comprehensive spam mail detection. It includes a basic antivirus scan engine, which protects your computer from any malicious file attachments. If you have kids who are coming of age, and are somewhat starting to get curious, you should install the EmC into their drives to avoid them getting the wrong idea.
Instead of driving yourself crazy trying to block spam on your own, you can just download and then install the aforementioned spam blocking software. Doing so will shoo those junk mails away.
By: Low Jeremy
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Helpful Software To Combat Spam
You would think that it is very easy to discuss blocking spam. But still, you find yourself scratching your head and staring at the ceiling everytime you give it a try. Why not make use of tools and certain utilities, which are very easy to use, that can do so well in eliminating unsolicited junk mail from your inbox?
You can try using SpamBayes. SpamBayes is a project that is concentrated on working on the development of a Bayesian anti-spam filter. Do not mistake this filter for another copy of other similar projects for this filter is different. The main difference between SpamBayes and other filtering projects is the emphasis on testing newer and more recently released approaches to scoring messages.
K9 is an application, which also filters electronic mail, which works in conjunction with your regular everyday POP3 emial program. It automatically puts into classification certain incoming mails into spam, or junk mail, and mail that are not junk mail into non-spam, without any requirement of maintaining lots and lots of rules or constant updates to be downloaded.
The MailWasher is an extremely powerful email checker that has effective spam elimination. This is believed to be a "safe" method, or tool, in stopping unwanted emails and viruses before they get inside your hard drive.
Another spam blocking software is the Spamihilator. In case you had not noticed, the Spamihilator is derived from the combination of spam and the word annihilator. With this said, it just has to be very effective, given its name. Indeed it is effective, for it is a program that examines and observes your electronic mails while downloading from a certain server and also deletes unwanted messages that advertise almost everything on the planet.
Spam-Aid, on the other hand, takes a more secure and opposite approach, compared to other spam blocking software. Instead of checking a certain email for spam characteristics, which is the method done by other tools, it just checks a specific mail for non-spam characteristics. Most email users want to get mail only from the people that they are acquainted with, to avoid any psychotic motives. Spam-Aid lets you determine whose messages can be received, either from people who are already in your address book or your old buddies.
EmC is very skilled in combining blocking with comprehensive spam mail detection, and is also inclusive of a basic antivirus scan engine that protects you from those malicious file attachments as well.
Instead of racking your head trying to figure things out on your own, it is a lot better to just download or install these said spam blocking tools and you will find it very easy to say goodbye to those junk mail that you have hated ever since.
By: Low Jeremy
Credit:www.goarticles.com
You can try using SpamBayes. SpamBayes is a project that is concentrated on working on the development of a Bayesian anti-spam filter. Do not mistake this filter for another copy of other similar projects for this filter is different. The main difference between SpamBayes and other filtering projects is the emphasis on testing newer and more recently released approaches to scoring messages.
K9 is an application, which also filters electronic mail, which works in conjunction with your regular everyday POP3 emial program. It automatically puts into classification certain incoming mails into spam, or junk mail, and mail that are not junk mail into non-spam, without any requirement of maintaining lots and lots of rules or constant updates to be downloaded.
The MailWasher is an extremely powerful email checker that has effective spam elimination. This is believed to be a "safe" method, or tool, in stopping unwanted emails and viruses before they get inside your hard drive.
Another spam blocking software is the Spamihilator. In case you had not noticed, the Spamihilator is derived from the combination of spam and the word annihilator. With this said, it just has to be very effective, given its name. Indeed it is effective, for it is a program that examines and observes your electronic mails while downloading from a certain server and also deletes unwanted messages that advertise almost everything on the planet.
Spam-Aid, on the other hand, takes a more secure and opposite approach, compared to other spam blocking software. Instead of checking a certain email for spam characteristics, which is the method done by other tools, it just checks a specific mail for non-spam characteristics. Most email users want to get mail only from the people that they are acquainted with, to avoid any psychotic motives. Spam-Aid lets you determine whose messages can be received, either from people who are already in your address book or your old buddies.
EmC is very skilled in combining blocking with comprehensive spam mail detection, and is also inclusive of a basic antivirus scan engine that protects you from those malicious file attachments as well.
Instead of racking your head trying to figure things out on your own, it is a lot better to just download or install these said spam blocking tools and you will find it very easy to say goodbye to those junk mail that you have hated ever since.
By: Low Jeremy
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@Mail Launches Open-Source Webmail Version
@Mail Launches Open-Source Webmail Version @Mail, one of the world's leading providers of Messaging Platforms, will soon launch its Open-source version of its highly successful @Mail webmail application, the first open-source webmail application that includes video-mail support. Designed to deliver next generation webmail functionality in a lightweight webmail client for existing pop3/imap accounts.
"Open source is the future, and companies adopting Linux and the open-source future won't be left behind in the pre-Microsoft / proprietary software model" says Ben Duncan, the Founder of @Mail, reflecting that changing attitudes, requirements and technology mean PHP adoption is growing both in enterprise and non-business environments around the globe. The @Mail Open-source release is a clear-headed response to market forces, customer needs and a growing demand for viable, quality open-source solutions.
With the well established success of the commercial version of @Mail, also built on Open-source protocols, this fully open-source webmail release represents a significant paradigm shift in traditional revenue-generating models. However Ben Duncan quoted "we could not see a future in only supporting a proprietary software model; open-source software is the future and companies not adopting it will be left behind ..." Naturally there are the anticipated marketing, branding and awareness raising benefits deriving from the release, but significantly these open-source models of distribution and development represent a necessary response to changing expectations and ideologies surrounding software ownership, development and usage. This step also allows strong links to the collective resources of the open-source community.
As part of the latest @Mail 4.X series, the Open-source version features:- * New Ajax WebMail interface for a quick and intuitive Webmail experience * Improved Online Scheduler with Free/Busy support * New Port of @Mail to Windows with increased reliability for mission critical services * Improved Anti-Spam support utilizing the Spamassassin engine * Improved Mail server backend for performance and stability * New live Spell-check for Webmail interface * Upgraded Outlook Sync Utility Support * Any many more features ...
Plus it boasts the new Video mail as a first for any Open-Source webmail application. For customers looking for a lightweight and simple webmail alternative Ben Duncan says this open-source release will be "attractive to small companies/isp's and personal users looking for a professional Ajax/webmail client" and is anticipated to break new ground in driving @Mail further into the marketplace as a strong contender for quality communication and collaboration solutions.
@Mail employs a clean, attractive, user-friendly interface that's sets it well apart from the typical open-source crowd and stands in a league of its own. The user-interface is slick, professional and what you would expect from a professional commercial application rather than an Open-source one. Its only comparable competition when it comes to interface design would be from products like Roundcube. This also represents a significant shift in commercial thinking by giving away a product that is first-class in its design and technology without any immediate revenue compensation.
@Mail is paving the way for innovation in commercial application development and distribution by incorporating open-source options into its distribution model and even releasing new features such as video mail in its OS offering. The first to market with Vmail in an Open-source webmail application, and the first-to-market with its approach to open-source distribution. @Mail believes time will tell as these decisions will produce a viable ROI to facilitate ongoing commercial and open-source development and their goals remain clear and unchanged; to continue developing and supporting a stable, free, Open Source webmail solution.
By: John Garrett
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"Open source is the future, and companies adopting Linux and the open-source future won't be left behind in the pre-Microsoft / proprietary software model" says Ben Duncan, the Founder of @Mail, reflecting that changing attitudes, requirements and technology mean PHP adoption is growing both in enterprise and non-business environments around the globe. The @Mail Open-source release is a clear-headed response to market forces, customer needs and a growing demand for viable, quality open-source solutions.
With the well established success of the commercial version of @Mail, also built on Open-source protocols, this fully open-source webmail release represents a significant paradigm shift in traditional revenue-generating models. However Ben Duncan quoted "we could not see a future in only supporting a proprietary software model; open-source software is the future and companies not adopting it will be left behind ..." Naturally there are the anticipated marketing, branding and awareness raising benefits deriving from the release, but significantly these open-source models of distribution and development represent a necessary response to changing expectations and ideologies surrounding software ownership, development and usage. This step also allows strong links to the collective resources of the open-source community.
As part of the latest @Mail 4.X series, the Open-source version features:- * New Ajax WebMail interface for a quick and intuitive Webmail experience * Improved Online Scheduler with Free/Busy support * New Port of @Mail to Windows with increased reliability for mission critical services * Improved Anti-Spam support utilizing the Spamassassin engine * Improved Mail server backend for performance and stability * New live Spell-check for Webmail interface * Upgraded Outlook Sync Utility Support * Any many more features ...
Plus it boasts the new Video mail as a first for any Open-Source webmail application. For customers looking for a lightweight and simple webmail alternative Ben Duncan says this open-source release will be "attractive to small companies/isp's and personal users looking for a professional Ajax/webmail client" and is anticipated to break new ground in driving @Mail further into the marketplace as a strong contender for quality communication and collaboration solutions.
@Mail employs a clean, attractive, user-friendly interface that's sets it well apart from the typical open-source crowd and stands in a league of its own. The user-interface is slick, professional and what you would expect from a professional commercial application rather than an Open-source one. Its only comparable competition when it comes to interface design would be from products like Roundcube. This also represents a significant shift in commercial thinking by giving away a product that is first-class in its design and technology without any immediate revenue compensation.
@Mail is paving the way for innovation in commercial application development and distribution by incorporating open-source options into its distribution model and even releasing new features such as video mail in its OS offering. The first to market with Vmail in an Open-source webmail application, and the first-to-market with its approach to open-source distribution. @Mail believes time will tell as these decisions will produce a viable ROI to facilitate ongoing commercial and open-source development and their goals remain clear and unchanged; to continue developing and supporting a stable, free, Open Source webmail solution.
By: John Garrett
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A Good Affordable Australian Web Hosting Service Provider Will Have This Email Feature
If you are looking for an affordable Australian web hosting service provider, then there are certain features that you must consider. Read on to discover these features.
Q - I live in Australia and I'm looking for a good affordable Australian web hosting service provider. What are the features that I need to look for?
A - The most common features are speed, reliability and good technical support. But there is also a feature that good affordable Australian web hosting service provider will have and that features is email feature called spam protection. A good affordable Australian web hosting service provider should have anti-spam software that will protect your inbox from spam to a large extent. Since your email address will be posted on your website, a good affordable Australian web hosting service provider should be able to protect your email address from those who want to spam you to death. An advice to you is that you should continue your search if you cannot find an affordable Australian web hosting service provider that will protect your email address from spam.
There is no good affordable Australian web hosting service provider that will tolerate individuals who want to use their server to send out spam emails. You should run away from any affordable Australian web hosting service provider that allows individuals to send out spam emails. Conclusion:
A good affordable Australian web hosting service provider must be able to protect your email address or addresses from spam.
By: Sam Ayodeji
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Q - I live in Australia and I'm looking for a good affordable Australian web hosting service provider. What are the features that I need to look for?
A - The most common features are speed, reliability and good technical support. But there is also a feature that good affordable Australian web hosting service provider will have and that features is email feature called spam protection. A good affordable Australian web hosting service provider should have anti-spam software that will protect your inbox from spam to a large extent. Since your email address will be posted on your website, a good affordable Australian web hosting service provider should be able to protect your email address from those who want to spam you to death. An advice to you is that you should continue your search if you cannot find an affordable Australian web hosting service provider that will protect your email address from spam.
There is no good affordable Australian web hosting service provider that will tolerate individuals who want to use their server to send out spam emails. You should run away from any affordable Australian web hosting service provider that allows individuals to send out spam emails. Conclusion:
A good affordable Australian web hosting service provider must be able to protect your email address or addresses from spam.
By: Sam Ayodeji
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Reliable Web Hosting Services & Solutions
Making your website available to the web today is no big deal. No matter what type of website you operate rather, an ecommerce website or a static website, a business website or personal website, what good would it do if you did not have reliable web hosting services & solutions.
Whether you are a small/medium-sized company or want to flourish globally, the Internet offers distinct scope for improvement that you have never thought possible. Your successful online presence is an integral part of your company/business that is sure to benefit you in terms of reduced operating costs, wider market penetration and increased sales. But to leverage this technology and achieve your business goals, you need a reliable Web hosting companywhich is not only well-versed in the business of technology, but also understands the technology of business operations in today's fast-changing technocratic & computing environment.
Before looking for a web hosting company, you should look at the USP's offered by them. USP's like WORLD CLASS DATA CENTRE RACKSPACE WINDOWS .NET SERVER 2003, COLD FUSION, LINUX ES 3.0 & E-MAIL HOSTING, HI-END SERVERS, CISCO POWERED HARDWARE FIREWALL, RAID 1 AKA MIRRORING, BACKUP & LEGATO BACKUP AGENT, H-SPHERE CONTROL PANEL, ANTI SPAM & ANTI VIRUS.
A Web Hosting companyshould offer high-end services and solutions that are totally secure, extremely reliable and completely scalable. The hosting company should specialize in Windows .NET SERVER 2003, Cold Fusion, LINUX ES 3.0 and E-mail hosting - guaranteeing complete customer satisfaction and round-the-clock technical support in the process.
From Online Support Ticket to personal assistance, a reliable web hosting company is focused on delivering FREE, FAST and PROFESSIONAL help regarding any problem and/or query you may have 24/7. The technical support team should always be ready to solve your Web hosting problems and answer your questions.
One of the industry leaders operating from India, Olive Web Hosting Company have catered to 500-plus global clients across major business verticals and industry platforms. For Reliable web hosting solutions, contact www.olivewebhosting.com now!
By: jumphigher
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Whether you are a small/medium-sized company or want to flourish globally, the Internet offers distinct scope for improvement that you have never thought possible. Your successful online presence is an integral part of your company/business that is sure to benefit you in terms of reduced operating costs, wider market penetration and increased sales. But to leverage this technology and achieve your business goals, you need a reliable Web hosting companywhich is not only well-versed in the business of technology, but also understands the technology of business operations in today's fast-changing technocratic & computing environment.
Before looking for a web hosting company, you should look at the USP's offered by them. USP's like WORLD CLASS DATA CENTRE RACKSPACE WINDOWS .NET SERVER 2003, COLD FUSION, LINUX ES 3.0 & E-MAIL HOSTING, HI-END SERVERS, CISCO POWERED HARDWARE FIREWALL, RAID 1 AKA MIRRORING, BACKUP & LEGATO BACKUP AGENT, H-SPHERE CONTROL PANEL, ANTI SPAM & ANTI VIRUS.
A Web Hosting companyshould offer high-end services and solutions that are totally secure, extremely reliable and completely scalable. The hosting company should specialize in Windows .NET SERVER 2003, Cold Fusion, LINUX ES 3.0 and E-mail hosting - guaranteeing complete customer satisfaction and round-the-clock technical support in the process.
From Online Support Ticket to personal assistance, a reliable web hosting company is focused on delivering FREE, FAST and PROFESSIONAL help regarding any problem and/or query you may have 24/7. The technical support team should always be ready to solve your Web hosting problems and answer your questions.
One of the industry leaders operating from India, Olive Web Hosting Company have catered to 500-plus global clients across major business verticals and industry platforms. For Reliable web hosting solutions, contact www.olivewebhosting.com now!
By: jumphigher
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Anti Spam techniques
Anti-spam techniques The US Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Committee (CIAC) has provided specific countermeasures against electronic mail spamming.
Some popular methods for filtering and refusing spam include e-mail filtering based on the content of the e-mail, DNS-based blackhole lists (DNSBL), greylisting, spamtraps, enforcing technical requirements, checksumming systems to detect bulk email, and by putting some sort of cost on the sender via a Proof-of-work system or a micropayment. Each method has strengths and weaknesses and each is controversial due to its weaknesses.
Detecting spam based on the content of the e-mail, either by detecting keywords such as "viagra" or by statistical means are very popular. They can be very accurate when they are correctly tuned to the types of legitimate email that an individual gets, but they can also make mistakes such as detecting the keyword "cialis" in the word "specialist". The content also doesn't determine whether the email was either unsolicited or bulk, the two key features of spam. So, if a friend sends you a joke that mentions "viagra", content filters can easily mark it as being spam even though it is both solicited and not bulk.
The most popular DNSBLs are lists of IP addresses of known spammers, open relays, zombie spammers etc.
Spamtraps are often email addresses that were never valid or have been invalid for a long time that are used to collect spam. An effective spamtrap is not announced and is only found by dictionary attacks or by pulling addresses off hidden webpages. For a spamtrap to remain effective the address must never be given to anyone. Some black lists, such as spamcop, use spamtraps to catch spammers and blacklist them.
Enforcing technical requirements of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) can be used to block mail coming from systems that are not compliant with the RFC standards. A lot of spammers use poorly written software or are unable to comply with the standards because they do not have legitimate control of the computer sending spam (zombie computer). So by setting restrictions on the mail transfer agent (MTA) a mail administrator can reduce spam significantly. In many situations, simply requiring a valid fully qualified domain name (FQDN) in the SMTP's EHLO (extended hello) statement is enough to block 25% of incoming spam.
Obfuscating message content Many spam-filtering techniques work by searching for patterns in the headers or bodies of messages. For instance, a user may decide that all e-mail he or she receives with the word "Viagra" in the subject line is spam, and instruct her mail program to automatically delete all such messages. To defeat such filters, the spammer may intentionally misspell commonly-filtered words or insert other characters, as in the following examples:
V1agra Via'gra V I A G R A Vaigra \ /iagra Vi@graa The principle of this method is to leave the word readable to humans (whose pattern-recognition skills make them adept at picking out the true meaning of misspelled words), but not recognizable to a literally-minded computer program. This is effective up to a point. Eventually, filter patterns become generic enough to recognize the word "Viagra" no matter how misspelled -- or else they target the obfuscation methods themselves, such as insertion of punctuation into unusual places in a word.
(Note: Using most common variations, it is possible to spell "Viagra" in over 1,300,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways.)
HTML-based e-mail gives the spammer more tools to obfuscate text. Inserting HTML comments between letters can foil some filters, as can including text made invisible by setting the font color to white on a white background, or shrinking the font size to the smallest fine print.
Another common ploy involves presenting the text as an image, which is either sent along or loaded from a remote server. This can be foiled by not permitting an e-mail-program to load images.
As Bayesian filtering has become popular as a spam-filtering technique, spammers have started using methods to weaken it. To a rough approximation, Bayesian filters rely on word probabilities. If a message contains many words which are only used in spam, and few which are never used in spam, it is likely to be spam. To weaken Bayesian filters, some spammers, alongside the sales pitch, now include lines of irrelevant, random words, in a technique known as Bayesian poisoning. A variant on this tactic may be borrowed from the Usenet abuser known as "Hipcrime" -- to include passages from books taken from Project Gutenberg, or nonsense sentences generated with "dissociated press" algorithms. Randomly generated phrases can create spamoetry (spam poetry) or spam art.
After these nonsense subject lines were recognized as spam, the next trend in spam subjects started: Biblical passages. A program much like Mark V Shaney is fed Bible passages and chops them up into segments. The reasoning is that this text, very different from the writing style of today, will confuse both humans and spam filters.
Another method used to masquerade spam as legitimate messages is the use of autogenerated sender names in the From: field, ranging from realistic ones such as "Jackie F. Bird" to (either by mistake or intentionally) bizarre attention-grabbing names such as "Sloppiest U. Epiglottis" or "Attentively E. Behavioral". Return addresses are also routinely auto-generated
By: Sakuraba
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Some popular methods for filtering and refusing spam include e-mail filtering based on the content of the e-mail, DNS-based blackhole lists (DNSBL), greylisting, spamtraps, enforcing technical requirements, checksumming systems to detect bulk email, and by putting some sort of cost on the sender via a Proof-of-work system or a micropayment. Each method has strengths and weaknesses and each is controversial due to its weaknesses.
Detecting spam based on the content of the e-mail, either by detecting keywords such as "viagra" or by statistical means are very popular. They can be very accurate when they are correctly tuned to the types of legitimate email that an individual gets, but they can also make mistakes such as detecting the keyword "cialis" in the word "specialist". The content also doesn't determine whether the email was either unsolicited or bulk, the two key features of spam. So, if a friend sends you a joke that mentions "viagra", content filters can easily mark it as being spam even though it is both solicited and not bulk.
The most popular DNSBLs are lists of IP addresses of known spammers, open relays, zombie spammers etc.
Spamtraps are often email addresses that were never valid or have been invalid for a long time that are used to collect spam. An effective spamtrap is not announced and is only found by dictionary attacks or by pulling addresses off hidden webpages. For a spamtrap to remain effective the address must never be given to anyone. Some black lists, such as spamcop, use spamtraps to catch spammers and blacklist them.
Enforcing technical requirements of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) can be used to block mail coming from systems that are not compliant with the RFC standards. A lot of spammers use poorly written software or are unable to comply with the standards because they do not have legitimate control of the computer sending spam (zombie computer). So by setting restrictions on the mail transfer agent (MTA) a mail administrator can reduce spam significantly. In many situations, simply requiring a valid fully qualified domain name (FQDN) in the SMTP's EHLO (extended hello) statement is enough to block 25% of incoming spam.
Obfuscating message content Many spam-filtering techniques work by searching for patterns in the headers or bodies of messages. For instance, a user may decide that all e-mail he or she receives with the word "Viagra" in the subject line is spam, and instruct her mail program to automatically delete all such messages. To defeat such filters, the spammer may intentionally misspell commonly-filtered words or insert other characters, as in the following examples:
V1agra Via'gra V I A G R A Vaigra \ /iagra Vi@graa The principle of this method is to leave the word readable to humans (whose pattern-recognition skills make them adept at picking out the true meaning of misspelled words), but not recognizable to a literally-minded computer program. This is effective up to a point. Eventually, filter patterns become generic enough to recognize the word "Viagra" no matter how misspelled -- or else they target the obfuscation methods themselves, such as insertion of punctuation into unusual places in a word.
(Note: Using most common variations, it is possible to spell "Viagra" in over 1,300,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways.)
HTML-based e-mail gives the spammer more tools to obfuscate text. Inserting HTML comments between letters can foil some filters, as can including text made invisible by setting the font color to white on a white background, or shrinking the font size to the smallest fine print.
Another common ploy involves presenting the text as an image, which is either sent along or loaded from a remote server. This can be foiled by not permitting an e-mail-program to load images.
As Bayesian filtering has become popular as a spam-filtering technique, spammers have started using methods to weaken it. To a rough approximation, Bayesian filters rely on word probabilities. If a message contains many words which are only used in spam, and few which are never used in spam, it is likely to be spam. To weaken Bayesian filters, some spammers, alongside the sales pitch, now include lines of irrelevant, random words, in a technique known as Bayesian poisoning. A variant on this tactic may be borrowed from the Usenet abuser known as "Hipcrime" -- to include passages from books taken from Project Gutenberg, or nonsense sentences generated with "dissociated press" algorithms. Randomly generated phrases can create spamoetry (spam poetry) or spam art.
After these nonsense subject lines were recognized as spam, the next trend in spam subjects started: Biblical passages. A program much like Mark V Shaney is fed Bible passages and chops them up into segments. The reasoning is that this text, very different from the writing style of today, will confuse both humans and spam filters.
Another method used to masquerade spam as legitimate messages is the use of autogenerated sender names in the From: field, ranging from realistic ones such as "Jackie F. Bird" to (either by mistake or intentionally) bizarre attention-grabbing names such as "Sloppiest U. Epiglottis" or "Attentively E. Behavioral". Return addresses are also routinely auto-generated
By: Sakuraba
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Steps for Stopping Hackers, Crackers and Spyware.......
Do you think a router or firewall makes you safe from hackers? Not necessarily. Do you think they won't attack you because your business is so small? Don't count on it. Hackers might grab your IP (Broadband address "IP") to hack others, store illegal information or test the latest trojan.
The checklist that follows will help you protect yourself against determined hackers and the many problems they can cause.
Create a written security policy. If you own your own business and have employees, tell them in writing what they can and cannot do on the Internet. Employees should know ahead of time that downloading music, movies and the like will get them into trouble...and in some situations, can be illegal and you could be responsible! And, of course they should be mindful of the fact that downloads can carry hidden viruses.
Do quarterly or monthly vulnerability assessments. More than 300 new vulnerabilities aka bugs in software/hardware arise every month and any that you fail to fix will provide an open door for hackers. With freeware and commercial tools (nessus.org, eeye.com, qualys.com) readily available, it's foolhardy to skip this step.
Patch. Make sure you regularly download the most recent patches for your systems.
Build in redundancy: high-availability and WAN-WAN fail-over. Redundancy is always needed. You can't rely on one connection to the internet or one firewall. If your firewall fails, it should fail-over to another firewall; if the broadband dies, it should fail-over to another broadband or dial-up connection. Think of this as insurance. Businesses need to run smoothly, and with technology costs dropping, it makes economic sense to use these safeguards to avoid the risk of losing customers or sales.
Divide Information into Groups. Internal hacking is even more popular than external hacking. If you have sensitive information on your servers, you might want to build separate zones for it behind your firewall. Everyone shouldn't be able to see HR files or client information. Put your Web site in a separate zone behind your firewall too. Hackers can attack via an exposed Web site.
Filter content. This cuts down on liability and increases productivity. If your employees view certain Web sites, they may be creating risks of lawsuits, spyware and viruses. If they download something it could be a trojan, virus or other malware that could throttle down your business. And don't just block questionable sites. Remember, most online purchases occur between 9AM and 11AM - prime time work hours. You could curb this and make online shopping opportunities a benefit instead of a right by allowing staff to surf during lunch hour but not during normal business hours. Most users waste an hour a day surfing the Internet, which could cost a company with 25 employees up to $150,000 a year in productivity.
Server/workstation Anti-Virus and Gateway/Firewall Anti-Virus. About 98% of businesses have AV on their servers and workstations. Make sure all your servers and workstations have updated AV as well as gateway AV, which is now available on most legitimate firewall solutions. Since viruses can shoot through the gateway, why not stop them there instead of letting them into your network where they could attack an unpatched on non-updated workstation. It pays to be paranoid
Use log reporting. Would you like to know where users are going, what type of bandwidth they're using and who is hacking into your sites? Many tools can take syslogs and put them into graphic reports. With these reports, you can spot problems, such as excessive bandwidth use or visits to questionable sites, and determine what to do about them. Install anti-Spam and anti-Spyware programs. Spyware is out of control. A recent survey of 3 million computers found 83 million instances of Spyware, usually traceable to downloads from the Web. There are many fine anti-spam and anti-spyware solutions are available such as Stopzilla and SonicWALL. Make sure you have both and verify that they are constantly updated.
Secure your telecommuters and road warriors. They could be your weakest link. Hackers can crack the remote worker and traverse back into corporate. With SSL VPN (Secure Socket Layer Virtual Private Network), secure VPN clients and the low cost of a solid ICSA (Legitimately tested firewalls....ICSAlabs.com) firewall appliances, there is no reason not to be secure remotely.
Secure wireless access points. Wireless access points create huge vulnerability in most networks. What looks like a great firewall solution isn't so great if it has a wireless router behind it. Wireless routers are easy to hack and they're usually set up without security. Although most companies have policies banning wireless but it's easy for employees to find rogue access. Secure wireless access points are available, and worth what they cost.
Updated ICSA firewalls. [did a few paragraphs before] Don't think of the firewall as plug and play. It has to be constantly updated with firmware and signatures to thwart the latest attack, outbreak, and intruder. Most vendors have aggressive promotions for their newest firewalls and you should take advantage of them. Having an older solution, a freeware solution or a basic software solution that the vendor isn't updating with firmware isn't secure enough.
Install [OK? yes] intrusion prevention software [is this software (yes) or do you hire a specialist to handle it? In any case, please give a couple of examples]. Since no firewall can stop everything, intrusion prevention "IPS" and detection "IDS" are imperative. IPS/IDS solutions are usually updated rapidly and add another layer of protection to your environment. You need them for remote workers too. Basically, using them means hiring an outside team of security engineers [OK? si] to update your firewall and repel constant attacks.
To make it easy for you, here are some companies that have perfect internet security for small/medium businesses:
Good luck......fear the unknown.
By: Mike Wysocki
Credit:www.goarticles.com
The checklist that follows will help you protect yourself against determined hackers and the many problems they can cause.
Create a written security policy. If you own your own business and have employees, tell them in writing what they can and cannot do on the Internet. Employees should know ahead of time that downloading music, movies and the like will get them into trouble...and in some situations, can be illegal and you could be responsible! And, of course they should be mindful of the fact that downloads can carry hidden viruses.
Do quarterly or monthly vulnerability assessments. More than 300 new vulnerabilities aka bugs in software/hardware arise every month and any that you fail to fix will provide an open door for hackers. With freeware and commercial tools (nessus.org, eeye.com, qualys.com) readily available, it's foolhardy to skip this step.
Patch. Make sure you regularly download the most recent patches for your systems.
Build in redundancy: high-availability and WAN-WAN fail-over. Redundancy is always needed. You can't rely on one connection to the internet or one firewall. If your firewall fails, it should fail-over to another firewall; if the broadband dies, it should fail-over to another broadband or dial-up connection. Think of this as insurance. Businesses need to run smoothly, and with technology costs dropping, it makes economic sense to use these safeguards to avoid the risk of losing customers or sales.
Divide Information into Groups. Internal hacking is even more popular than external hacking. If you have sensitive information on your servers, you might want to build separate zones for it behind your firewall. Everyone shouldn't be able to see HR files or client information. Put your Web site in a separate zone behind your firewall too. Hackers can attack via an exposed Web site.
Filter content. This cuts down on liability and increases productivity. If your employees view certain Web sites, they may be creating risks of lawsuits, spyware and viruses. If they download something it could be a trojan, virus or other malware that could throttle down your business. And don't just block questionable sites. Remember, most online purchases occur between 9AM and 11AM - prime time work hours. You could curb this and make online shopping opportunities a benefit instead of a right by allowing staff to surf during lunch hour but not during normal business hours. Most users waste an hour a day surfing the Internet, which could cost a company with 25 employees up to $150,000 a year in productivity.
Server/workstation Anti-Virus and Gateway/Firewall Anti-Virus. About 98% of businesses have AV on their servers and workstations. Make sure all your servers and workstations have updated AV as well as gateway AV, which is now available on most legitimate firewall solutions. Since viruses can shoot through the gateway, why not stop them there instead of letting them into your network where they could attack an unpatched on non-updated workstation. It pays to be paranoid
Use log reporting. Would you like to know where users are going, what type of bandwidth they're using and who is hacking into your sites? Many tools can take syslogs and put them into graphic reports. With these reports, you can spot problems, such as excessive bandwidth use or visits to questionable sites, and determine what to do about them. Install anti-Spam and anti-Spyware programs. Spyware is out of control. A recent survey of 3 million computers found 83 million instances of Spyware, usually traceable to downloads from the Web. There are many fine anti-spam and anti-spyware solutions are available such as Stopzilla and SonicWALL. Make sure you have both and verify that they are constantly updated.
Secure your telecommuters and road warriors. They could be your weakest link. Hackers can crack the remote worker and traverse back into corporate. With SSL VPN (Secure Socket Layer Virtual Private Network), secure VPN clients and the low cost of a solid ICSA (Legitimately tested firewalls....ICSAlabs.com) firewall appliances, there is no reason not to be secure remotely.
Secure wireless access points. Wireless access points create huge vulnerability in most networks. What looks like a great firewall solution isn't so great if it has a wireless router behind it. Wireless routers are easy to hack and they're usually set up without security. Although most companies have policies banning wireless but it's easy for employees to find rogue access. Secure wireless access points are available, and worth what they cost.
Updated ICSA firewalls. [did a few paragraphs before] Don't think of the firewall as plug and play. It has to be constantly updated with firmware and signatures to thwart the latest attack, outbreak, and intruder. Most vendors have aggressive promotions for their newest firewalls and you should take advantage of them. Having an older solution, a freeware solution or a basic software solution that the vendor isn't updating with firmware isn't secure enough.
Install [OK? yes] intrusion prevention software [is this software (yes) or do you hire a specialist to handle it? In any case, please give a couple of examples]. Since no firewall can stop everything, intrusion prevention "IPS" and detection "IDS" are imperative. IPS/IDS solutions are usually updated rapidly and add another layer of protection to your environment. You need them for remote workers too. Basically, using them means hiring an outside team of security engineers [OK? si] to update your firewall and repel constant attacks.
To make it easy for you, here are some companies that have perfect internet security for small/medium businesses:
Good luck......fear the unknown.
By: Mike Wysocki
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Protect Yourself Against Malware
The same Internet connection that lets you reach out and touch millions of Web servers, e-mail addresses, and other digital entities across the globe also endangers your PC and the information it contains about you.
Every day, virus, spyware, and adware creators come up with new, ingenious ways to gain access to your PC. These steps will help keep you safe:
Think before you click: Attached files that end with .exe, .com, .bat, and .scr, as well as scriptable document files, including .doc and .xls, can infect your PC with a single click. Many e-mail programs block access to executable-file attachments.
Use a spam filter: Though some malware makes its way onto your computer via drive-by browser hijacking, e-mail is its other main source. Install a junk-mail filter to reduce your chances of activating malicious scripts embedded in messages.
Update your antivirus software: Allowing your antivirus software to continue running after its subscription has expired is actually worse than using no antivirus software at all: Not only do you lack the crucial virus signature database updates, but you expose your system to malware that targets known flaws in antivirus software.
Tips on avoiding Viruses and Worms: Install antivirus software, update regularly, and use it regularly. Never open unsolicited e-mail attachments with the file extensions VBS, SHS, or PIF. Disconnect your network or modem cable when you are not using your computer-or just power it down. Avoid attachments with sexual file names.
Antivirus software is a software installed on your computer that protects you from viruses. Antivirus software programs can contain between 40,000 - 100,000 "virus definitions" that are updated on a daily or as needed basis.
My personal favorite free antivirus app is Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus Free. In the paid programs, i do recommend Kaspersky anti virus. Its great in work.
Get a second opinion: Install and use only one antivirus program at a time on your computer because multiple real-time scanners will conflict with one another. If you have doubts about your programs effectiveness, however, use a free online virus scanner, such as Panda Softwares ActiveScan) or Trend Micros HouseCall.
Download with discretion: Any program you download and run on your system could potentially result in a lethal infection or zombification. Download software only from reputable online sources that first scan all of their download files for any malware.
Use a bidirectional firewall: Windows XP and Vista each come with a firewall that blocks incoming attacks; it is enabled by default in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later. For the best protection, you will also want to block unwanted outgoing connections made by malware on your PC that attempts to either connect to a remote server or send out spam.
Vistas firewall can be set up to do that, but configuring it is not a job for the average Windows user. Instead, get one of several free bidirectional firewall programs, such as Zone Labs ZoneAlarm Free, or Agnitums Outpost Firewall Free.
Most commercial security software suites also include a firewall program.
Use antispyware: Anyone who uses a computer is susceptible to spyware infection. In fact, nine out of 10 Internet-connected PCs are infected with spyware. Spyware threats can be any application that may track your online or offline PC activity. If you use the Internet, its very likely some form of spyware threats are already at work on your PC.
Detecting spyware is tough and spyware removal is even more difficult. Even if you think you have successfully removed an unwanted program manually, a remaining tickler file can trigger a complete reinstallation the next time you start your PC. And as a survival tactic, malware programs often leave similar traces elsewhere on your system so the game of cat and mouse never ends.
Spyware, adware, and some browser cookies slow down your system, cause crashes, and track your online activity. Antispyware utilities work much like antivirus software, detecting and removing the unwanted software from your PC. We picked Webroot Spy Sweeper 5 and NoAdware as our favorite in our "Spyware Fighters" antispyware roundup.
Upgrade from XP: Service Pack 2 makes Windows XP much safer, but the operating system still has security holes, and it remains a top target for malware authors. Windows Vistas new user access controls ask your permission before launching new programs, which reduces the chances that malware can leap from the Web to your PC automatically, though some Vista bugs have already been found.
Both the Mac OS and Linux offer even stronger safeguards against program launching, and they are rarely the targets of malware attacks, which makes it very unlikely that Web-hosted attacks--or any other kind--will afflict computers running those operating systems.
By: Cher K Markov
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Every day, virus, spyware, and adware creators come up with new, ingenious ways to gain access to your PC. These steps will help keep you safe:
Think before you click: Attached files that end with .exe, .com, .bat, and .scr, as well as scriptable document files, including .doc and .xls, can infect your PC with a single click. Many e-mail programs block access to executable-file attachments.
Use a spam filter: Though some malware makes its way onto your computer via drive-by browser hijacking, e-mail is its other main source. Install a junk-mail filter to reduce your chances of activating malicious scripts embedded in messages.
Update your antivirus software: Allowing your antivirus software to continue running after its subscription has expired is actually worse than using no antivirus software at all: Not only do you lack the crucial virus signature database updates, but you expose your system to malware that targets known flaws in antivirus software.
Tips on avoiding Viruses and Worms: Install antivirus software, update regularly, and use it regularly. Never open unsolicited e-mail attachments with the file extensions VBS, SHS, or PIF. Disconnect your network or modem cable when you are not using your computer-or just power it down. Avoid attachments with sexual file names.
Antivirus software is a software installed on your computer that protects you from viruses. Antivirus software programs can contain between 40,000 - 100,000 "virus definitions" that are updated on a daily or as needed basis.
My personal favorite free antivirus app is Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus Free. In the paid programs, i do recommend Kaspersky anti virus. Its great in work.
Get a second opinion: Install and use only one antivirus program at a time on your computer because multiple real-time scanners will conflict with one another. If you have doubts about your programs effectiveness, however, use a free online virus scanner, such as Panda Softwares ActiveScan) or Trend Micros HouseCall.
Download with discretion: Any program you download and run on your system could potentially result in a lethal infection or zombification. Download software only from reputable online sources that first scan all of their download files for any malware.
Use a bidirectional firewall: Windows XP and Vista each come with a firewall that blocks incoming attacks; it is enabled by default in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later. For the best protection, you will also want to block unwanted outgoing connections made by malware on your PC that attempts to either connect to a remote server or send out spam.
Vistas firewall can be set up to do that, but configuring it is not a job for the average Windows user. Instead, get one of several free bidirectional firewall programs, such as Zone Labs ZoneAlarm Free, or Agnitums Outpost Firewall Free.
Most commercial security software suites also include a firewall program.
Use antispyware: Anyone who uses a computer is susceptible to spyware infection. In fact, nine out of 10 Internet-connected PCs are infected with spyware. Spyware threats can be any application that may track your online or offline PC activity. If you use the Internet, its very likely some form of spyware threats are already at work on your PC.
Detecting spyware is tough and spyware removal is even more difficult. Even if you think you have successfully removed an unwanted program manually, a remaining tickler file can trigger a complete reinstallation the next time you start your PC. And as a survival tactic, malware programs often leave similar traces elsewhere on your system so the game of cat and mouse never ends.
Spyware, adware, and some browser cookies slow down your system, cause crashes, and track your online activity. Antispyware utilities work much like antivirus software, detecting and removing the unwanted software from your PC. We picked Webroot Spy Sweeper 5 and NoAdware as our favorite in our "Spyware Fighters" antispyware roundup.
Upgrade from XP: Service Pack 2 makes Windows XP much safer, but the operating system still has security holes, and it remains a top target for malware authors. Windows Vistas new user access controls ask your permission before launching new programs, which reduces the chances that malware can leap from the Web to your PC automatically, though some Vista bugs have already been found.
Both the Mac OS and Linux offer even stronger safeguards against program launching, and they are rarely the targets of malware attacks, which makes it very unlikely that Web-hosted attacks--or any other kind--will afflict computers running those operating systems.
By: Cher K Markov
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Email Fight Club - Avoiding Spam, Spyware, Scams And Cookie Hunters
Email Fight Club Rules
Follow these 10 common sense suggestions to avoid email trouble.
1. Suspect Everyone: Most unsolicited email is harmless junk from someone just hoping to make a sale or generate a list. However, there are some unscrupulous players out there ( You know...the one with the rich uncle that just died in Nigeria) that are trying to scam you. Never reply to these unsolicited emails. Even "unsubscribe" will alert the senders that your email address is being used. If it looks to be of interest and they list a web site, type it into your browser to check it out.
2. "Just Say No" to Porn: Nancy Reagan was right! You know where the bad stuff comes from, so filter it out. Messaging software filtering tools will reject mail from your frequent spammers' email addresses, or with certain words ("sex", "porn", or "free meds", for example) in the subject line. It's easy to set up. Just log on to your email, click on "settings" and follow the directions. Even I could figure this one out without asking my wife for help!
3. Avoid SPAM - It's Nasty: Almost every Internet Service Provider has a spam blocker these days. If yours doesn't (you should probably switch), there are several good third party spam blocking services such as Brightmail (http://www.brightmail.com). I have several email accounts, and for kicks I note how much email gets tossed into the spam folder every day. Typically, it averages around 2500 - 3000 per account. I run a couple of Internet businesses, so that number is quite a bit above average for a single user. I do however, thank the geeks that developed spam blocking every day.
4. Join Users Anonymous: Unless you are involved in Internet Commerce of some sort (and want as much exposure as possible), you should pull your listings from the large directory services. You probably never (knowingly) signed up in the first place, but chances are, your email address is included in some large data bases. Directories such as Bigfoot, Infospace, Switchboard, Yahoo People Search, and Who where are good about taking your listing down if you ask them to.
5. Scramble Your Eggs: Encrypt and digitally sign all your sensitive email messages. This is a bit of a pain, but you only need to get burnt once to know how important it is. If your messaging software doesn't support robust encryption, you can download PGP Freeware encryption software at http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html. Leave it up to the geeks at MIT (No offense intended Matt). Most messaging systems have industry standard encryption capability. If you are like me, you probably just never cared to notice.
6. Use Zip-Locks: Zip and Encrypt important attachments. Most modern computers come with WinZip installed. If you don't have it, you can find it at (http://www.winzip.com). Easy to use software that will compress and password protect your attachments.
7. Don't Eat the Cookies: Cookies are trackers that remember your IP address. They are convenient for sites that you use often and don't want to go through the entire validation process. However, some evil-doers will send you email with a sort of "cookie collector" to snag your info. Problem here is you might already be a goner before you realize it's a bogus email (especially if you neglect suggestion 3). To avoid cookies sent via email, use email client software, such as Eudora Pro, that lets you shut off its automatic Web Browser rendering engine. This step is a little hard core for the average Joe, but those of you who need it know who you are.
8. Mind Your Own Business: Avoid using your browser to read email on someone else's machine. If you are a busy body and insist on snooping, ALWAYS use "Clear History" when you finish to prevent subsequent users from getting into your mailbox.
9. Never get "Personal" at work: Violation of this simple rule gets more people burned than any other act of defiance in the modern workplace. We had quite the network of great videos (You know the kind I mean) and jokes floating around the LAN on the last ship I sailed in...until one of the Server IT people showed me what they can spy on. Trust me--BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING! Never send sensitive personal messages on your work machine.
10. Let Norton Cook: This is just so basic that you probably SHOULD be burned if you blow this one. Keep your anti virus software updated. I know it sucks when it is time to pay again; especially when you haven't had a problem for two years...but paying for those routine updates is probably why you haven't. If your hard drive fried today, would you pay someone 30 bucks to make it all better right this instant? Thought so--Update it!
And the # 1 Rule of Fight Club is...
...........NEVER EVER under any circumstances EVER EVER leave your email logged on and your desk unoccupied at work! If you do, you have no one to blame but yourself. A co-worker's open email account is fair game--and it's "Take no Prisoners" time!
Well, that's it. A few basic do's and don'ts that will keep you in the fight and keep you out of trouble.
By: Scott Barnes
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Follow these 10 common sense suggestions to avoid email trouble.
1. Suspect Everyone: Most unsolicited email is harmless junk from someone just hoping to make a sale or generate a list. However, there are some unscrupulous players out there ( You know...the one with the rich uncle that just died in Nigeria) that are trying to scam you. Never reply to these unsolicited emails. Even "unsubscribe" will alert the senders that your email address is being used. If it looks to be of interest and they list a web site, type it into your browser to check it out.
2. "Just Say No" to Porn: Nancy Reagan was right! You know where the bad stuff comes from, so filter it out. Messaging software filtering tools will reject mail from your frequent spammers' email addresses, or with certain words ("sex", "porn", or "free meds", for example) in the subject line. It's easy to set up. Just log on to your email, click on "settings" and follow the directions. Even I could figure this one out without asking my wife for help!
3. Avoid SPAM - It's Nasty: Almost every Internet Service Provider has a spam blocker these days. If yours doesn't (you should probably switch), there are several good third party spam blocking services such as Brightmail (http://www.brightmail.com). I have several email accounts, and for kicks I note how much email gets tossed into the spam folder every day. Typically, it averages around 2500 - 3000 per account. I run a couple of Internet businesses, so that number is quite a bit above average for a single user. I do however, thank the geeks that developed spam blocking every day.
4. Join Users Anonymous: Unless you are involved in Internet Commerce of some sort (and want as much exposure as possible), you should pull your listings from the large directory services. You probably never (knowingly) signed up in the first place, but chances are, your email address is included in some large data bases. Directories such as Bigfoot, Infospace, Switchboard, Yahoo People Search, and Who where are good about taking your listing down if you ask them to.
5. Scramble Your Eggs: Encrypt and digitally sign all your sensitive email messages. This is a bit of a pain, but you only need to get burnt once to know how important it is. If your messaging software doesn't support robust encryption, you can download PGP Freeware encryption software at http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html. Leave it up to the geeks at MIT (No offense intended Matt). Most messaging systems have industry standard encryption capability. If you are like me, you probably just never cared to notice.
6. Use Zip-Locks: Zip and Encrypt important attachments. Most modern computers come with WinZip installed. If you don't have it, you can find it at (http://www.winzip.com). Easy to use software that will compress and password protect your attachments.
7. Don't Eat the Cookies: Cookies are trackers that remember your IP address. They are convenient for sites that you use often and don't want to go through the entire validation process. However, some evil-doers will send you email with a sort of "cookie collector" to snag your info. Problem here is you might already be a goner before you realize it's a bogus email (especially if you neglect suggestion 3). To avoid cookies sent via email, use email client software, such as Eudora Pro, that lets you shut off its automatic Web Browser rendering engine. This step is a little hard core for the average Joe, but those of you who need it know who you are.
8. Mind Your Own Business: Avoid using your browser to read email on someone else's machine. If you are a busy body and insist on snooping, ALWAYS use "Clear History" when you finish to prevent subsequent users from getting into your mailbox.
9. Never get "Personal" at work: Violation of this simple rule gets more people burned than any other act of defiance in the modern workplace. We had quite the network of great videos (You know the kind I mean) and jokes floating around the LAN on the last ship I sailed in...until one of the Server IT people showed me what they can spy on. Trust me--BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING! Never send sensitive personal messages on your work machine.
10. Let Norton Cook: This is just so basic that you probably SHOULD be burned if you blow this one. Keep your anti virus software updated. I know it sucks when it is time to pay again; especially when you haven't had a problem for two years...but paying for those routine updates is probably why you haven't. If your hard drive fried today, would you pay someone 30 bucks to make it all better right this instant? Thought so--Update it!
And the # 1 Rule of Fight Club is...
...........NEVER EVER under any circumstances EVER EVER leave your email logged on and your desk unoccupied at work! If you do, you have no one to blame but yourself. A co-worker's open email account is fair game--and it's "Take no Prisoners" time!
Well, that's it. A few basic do's and don'ts that will keep you in the fight and keep you out of trouble.
By: Scott Barnes
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Must Have Features Your Web Site
Some of the older Search Engines do not have the capability to read content from frames. These only crawl through the frameset instead of all the web pages. Consequently web pages with multiple frames are ignored by the spider. There are certain tags known as "NOFRAMES" (Information ignored by frames capable browser) that can be inserted in the HTML of these web pages. Spiders are able to read information within the NOFRAMES tags. Thus, Search Engines only see the Frameset. Moreover, there cannot be any links to other web pages in the NOFRAMES blocks. That means the search engines won't crawl past the frameset, thus ignoring all the content rich web pages that are controlled by the frameset.
Hence, it is always advisable to have web pages without frames as these could easily make your website invisible to Search Engines.
Making frames visible to Search Engines
We discussed earlier the prominence of frames based websites. Many amateur web designers do not understand the drastic effects frames can have on search engine visibility. Such
ignorance is augmented by the fact that some Search Engines such as AltaVista are actually frames capable. AltaVista spiders can crawl through frames and index all web pages of a website. However, this is only true for a few Search Engines.
The best solution as stated above is to avoid frames all together. If you still decide to use frames another remedy to this problem is using JavaScripts. JavaScripts can be added anywhere and are visible to Search Engines. These would enable spiders to crawl to other web pages, even if they do not recognize frames. With a little trial and error, you can make your frame sites accessible to both types of search engines.
We discussed the ROBOTS tag in brief earlier. Let us understand this tag a little more in detail. Sometimes we rank well on one engine for a particular keyphrase and assume that all search
engines will like our pages, and hence we will rank well for that keyphrase on a number of engines. Unfortunately this is rarely the case. All the major search engines differ somewhat, so what's get you ranked high on one engine may actually help to lower your ranking on another engine.
It is for this reason that some people like to optimize pages for each particular search engine. Usually these pages would only be slightly different but this slight difference could make all the difference when it comes to ranking high. However because search engine spiders crawl through sites indexing every page it can find, it might come across your search engine specific optimizes pages and because they are very similar, the spider may think you are spamming it and will do one of two things, ban your site altogether or severely punish you in the form of lower rankings.
The solution is this case is to stop specific Search Engine spiders from indexing some of your web pages. This is done using a robots.txt file which resides on your webspace. A Robots.txt file is a vital part of any webmasters battle against getting banned or punished by the search engines if he or she designs different pages for different search engine's.
The robots.txt file is just a simple text file as the file extension suggests. It's created using a simple text editor like notepad or WordPad, complicated word processors such as Microsoft
Word will only corrupt the file. You can insert certain code in this text file to make it work. This is how it can be done.
User-Agent: (Spider Name) Disallow: (File Name)
The User-Agent is the name of the search engines spider and Disallow is the name of the file that you don't want that spider to index.
You have to start a new batch of code for each engine, but if you want to list multiply disallow files you can one under another. For example -
User-Agent: Slurp (Inktomi's spider)
Disallow: xyz-gg.html Disallow: xyz-al.html Disallow: xxyyzz-gg.html Disallow: xxyyzz-al.html
The above code disallows Inktomi to spider two pages optimized for Google (gg) and two pages optimized for AltaVista (al). If Inktomi were allowed to spider these pages as well as the pages specifically made for Inktomi, you may run the risk of being banned or penalized. Hence, it's always a good idea to use a robots.txt file.
The robots.txt file resides on your webspace, but where on your webspace? The root directory! If you upload your file to sub-directories it will not work. If you wanted to disallow all engines from indexing a file, you simply use the * character where the engines name would usually be. However beware that the * character won't work on the Disallow line. Here are the names of a few of the big engines:
Excite - ArchitextSpider AltaVista - Scooter Lycos - Lycos_Spider_(T-Rex) Google - Googlebot Alltheweb - FAST-WebCrawler
Be sure to check over the file before uploading it, as you may have made a simple mistake, which could mean your pages are indexed by engines you don't want to index them, or even worse none of your pages might be indexed. Another advantage of the Robots.txt file is that by examining it, you can get information on what spiders, or agents have accessed your web pages. This will give you a list of all the host names as well as agent names of the spiders. Moreover, information of very small search engines also gets recorded in the text file. Thus, you know what Search Engines are likely to list your website.
Most Search Engines scan and index all of the text in a web page. However, some Search Engines ignore certain text known as Stop Words, which is explained below. Apart from this, almost all Search Engines ignore spam. Stop words are common words that are ignored by search engines at the time of searching a key phrase. This is done in order to save space on their server, and also to accelerate the search process.
When a search is conducted in a search engine, it will exclude the stop words from the search query, and will use the query by replacing all the stop words with a marker. A marker is a symbol that is substituted with the stop words. The intention is to save space. This way, the search engines are able to save more web pages in that extra space, as well as retain the relevancy of the search query.
Besides, omitting a few words also speeds up the search process. For instance, if a query consists of three words. The Search Engine would generally make three runs for each of the words and display the listings. However, if one of the words is such that omitting it does not make a difference to search results, it can be excluded from the query and consequently the search process becomes faster.
Search engines are unable to view graphics or distinguish text that might be contained within them. For this reason, most engines will read the content of the image ALT tags to determine the purpose of a graphic. By taking the time to craft relevant, yet keyword rich ALT tags for the images on your web site, you increase the keyword density of your site. Although many search engines read and index the text contained within ALT tags, it's important NOT to go overboard in using these tags as part of your SEO campaign. Most engines will not give this text any more weight than the text within the body of your site.
Invisible text is content on a web site that is coded in a manner that makes it invisible to human visitors, but readable by search engine spiders. This is done in order to artificially inflate the keyword density of a web site without affecting the visual appearance of it. Hidden text is a recognized spam tactic and nearly all of the major search engines recognize and penalize sites that use this tactic.
This is the technique of placing text on a page in a small font size. Pages that are predominantly heavy in tiny text may be dismissed as spam. Or, the tiny text may not be indexed. As a general guideline, try to avoid pages where the font size is predominantly smaller than normal. Make sure that you're not spamming the engine by using keyword after keyword in a very small font size. Your tiny text may be a copyright notice at the very bottom of the page, or even your contact information. If so, that's fine
Almost all Search Engines serve different countries. Search Engines do list content from other countries but most of the content that is listed is either US or UK dominated content.
With this in mind, most popular Search Engines have started deploying regional editions that serve only a specific country. For instance, Google has an Indian edition 'google.co.in' that caters to the Indian audience. Given below are some of the types of Search Engine Regional Editions.
Regional Interface is nothing but a translated version of the main Search Engine. Many Search Engines have interfaces in different languages such as French, German, Spanish, Japanese etc. However, the only difference between these regional interfaces and the main version of the Search Engine is that the language used on the interface is not English. In other words, if you search using a keyword on both the interfaces, the listings are exactly the same. Regional Interfaces are aimed at an audience that does not understand English.
Human Categorization, as the name suggests, is categorization of websites by human beings. Search Engine employees categorize different websites into regional listings. Websites that are more relevant to a specific country are listed in that edition of the Search Engine. Hence, for a French edition a search would mainly list documents from France. This eliminates the problem mentioned above. The only caveat being that the whole process is manual. Directories such as Yahoo, LookSmart, and Open Directory make use of this process.
Domain Filtering automatically segregates websites from different countries into their respective regional editions. This segregation is done on the basis of domain names. For instance a website from Australia would generally have a domain .au. The Domain filtering mechanism looks at the domains of all websites and creates a country specific edition listing. Some Search
Engines also have region specific editions which contain listings from the whole of that region. As an example: A French edition of Google may also return German or Spanish websites in some cases. Domain Filtering has a drawback though.
This mechanism can only filter out websites based on the domain name, and hence .com is always considered to be a United States website. This is obviously not true. Many websites
from other countries also have .com domains. Domain crawling is probably the best solution for maintaining both a main site and a regional version. With domain crawling the regional listing is far more comprehensive as compared to the other mechanisms explained above. Some pages, although regional may be listed in the main listing as well.
A couple of years ago spamming may have worked wonders for your website. However, with sophisticated algorithms being developed by all popular search engines, spamming can only backfire. Algorithms, these days, can easily detect spam and not only ignore your website but also ban your website.
Besides, instead of spending considerable time and effort on spamming you can always follow other proven strategies and have a higher rank with most search engines. Spamming can also easily irritate readers. Think about it - if your homepage has unnecessary repetitions of a particular keyword, it is bound to frustrate a reader. Consequently your site, instead of being content rich, would be junk rich. This can have nothing but a negative impact on your business.
Search engine cloaking is a technique used by webmasters to enable them to get an advantage over other websites. It works on the idea that one page is delivered to the various search engine spiders and robots, while the real page is delivered to real people. In other words, browsers such as Netscape and MSIE are served one page, and spiders visiting the same address are served a different page.
The page the spider will see is a bare bones HTML page optimized for the search engines. It won't look pretty but it will be configured exactly the way the search engines want it to be for it to be ranked high. These 'ghost pages' are never actually seen by any real person except for the webmasters that created it of course. When real people visit a site using cloaking, the cloaking technology 'which is usually based on Perl/CGI' will send them the real page, that look's good and is just a regular HTML page.
The cloaking technology is able to tell the difference between a human and spider because it knows the spiders IP address, no IP address in the same, so when an IP address visits a site which is using cloaking the script will compare the IP address with the IP addresses in its list of search engine IP's, if there's a match, the script knows that it's a search engine visiting and sends out the bare bones HTML page setup for nothing but high rankings.
There are two types of cloaking. The first is called User Agent Cloaking and the second is called IP Based Cloaking. IP based cloaking is the best method as IP addresses are very hard to fake, so your competition won't be able to pretend to be any of the search engines in order to steal your code.
User Agent Cloaking is similar to IP cloaking, in that the cloaking script compares the User Agent text string which is sent when a page is requested with it's list of search engine names 'user agent = name' and then serves the appropriate page.
The problem with User Agent cloaking is that Agent names can be easily faked. Search Engines can easily formulate a new anti-spam method to beat cloakers, all they need to do is fake their name and pretend they are a normal person using Internet explorer or Netscape, the cloaking software will take Search Engine spiders to the non - optimized page and hence your search engine rankings will suffer.
To sum up, Search engine cloaking is not as effective as it used to be, this is because the search engines are becoming increasingly aware of the different cloaking techniques being used be webmasters and they are gradually introducing more sophisticated technology to combat them. It may be considered as unethical by Search Engines if not used properly.
By: Ken Mathie
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Hence, it is always advisable to have web pages without frames as these could easily make your website invisible to Search Engines.
Making frames visible to Search Engines
We discussed earlier the prominence of frames based websites. Many amateur web designers do not understand the drastic effects frames can have on search engine visibility. Such
ignorance is augmented by the fact that some Search Engines such as AltaVista are actually frames capable. AltaVista spiders can crawl through frames and index all web pages of a website. However, this is only true for a few Search Engines.
The best solution as stated above is to avoid frames all together. If you still decide to use frames another remedy to this problem is using JavaScripts. JavaScripts can be added anywhere and are visible to Search Engines. These would enable spiders to crawl to other web pages, even if they do not recognize frames. With a little trial and error, you can make your frame sites accessible to both types of search engines.
We discussed the ROBOTS tag in brief earlier. Let us understand this tag a little more in detail. Sometimes we rank well on one engine for a particular keyphrase and assume that all search
engines will like our pages, and hence we will rank well for that keyphrase on a number of engines. Unfortunately this is rarely the case. All the major search engines differ somewhat, so what's get you ranked high on one engine may actually help to lower your ranking on another engine.
It is for this reason that some people like to optimize pages for each particular search engine. Usually these pages would only be slightly different but this slight difference could make all the difference when it comes to ranking high. However because search engine spiders crawl through sites indexing every page it can find, it might come across your search engine specific optimizes pages and because they are very similar, the spider may think you are spamming it and will do one of two things, ban your site altogether or severely punish you in the form of lower rankings.
The solution is this case is to stop specific Search Engine spiders from indexing some of your web pages. This is done using a robots.txt file which resides on your webspace. A Robots.txt file is a vital part of any webmasters battle against getting banned or punished by the search engines if he or she designs different pages for different search engine's.
The robots.txt file is just a simple text file as the file extension suggests. It's created using a simple text editor like notepad or WordPad, complicated word processors such as Microsoft
Word will only corrupt the file. You can insert certain code in this text file to make it work. This is how it can be done.
User-Agent: (Spider Name) Disallow: (File Name)
The User-Agent is the name of the search engines spider and Disallow is the name of the file that you don't want that spider to index.
You have to start a new batch of code for each engine, but if you want to list multiply disallow files you can one under another. For example -
User-Agent: Slurp (Inktomi's spider)
Disallow: xyz-gg.html Disallow: xyz-al.html Disallow: xxyyzz-gg.html Disallow: xxyyzz-al.html
The above code disallows Inktomi to spider two pages optimized for Google (gg) and two pages optimized for AltaVista (al). If Inktomi were allowed to spider these pages as well as the pages specifically made for Inktomi, you may run the risk of being banned or penalized. Hence, it's always a good idea to use a robots.txt file.
The robots.txt file resides on your webspace, but where on your webspace? The root directory! If you upload your file to sub-directories it will not work. If you wanted to disallow all engines from indexing a file, you simply use the * character where the engines name would usually be. However beware that the * character won't work on the Disallow line. Here are the names of a few of the big engines:
Excite - ArchitextSpider AltaVista - Scooter Lycos - Lycos_Spider_(T-Rex) Google - Googlebot Alltheweb - FAST-WebCrawler
Be sure to check over the file before uploading it, as you may have made a simple mistake, which could mean your pages are indexed by engines you don't want to index them, or even worse none of your pages might be indexed. Another advantage of the Robots.txt file is that by examining it, you can get information on what spiders, or agents have accessed your web pages. This will give you a list of all the host names as well as agent names of the spiders. Moreover, information of very small search engines also gets recorded in the text file. Thus, you know what Search Engines are likely to list your website.
Most Search Engines scan and index all of the text in a web page. However, some Search Engines ignore certain text known as Stop Words, which is explained below. Apart from this, almost all Search Engines ignore spam. Stop words are common words that are ignored by search engines at the time of searching a key phrase. This is done in order to save space on their server, and also to accelerate the search process.
When a search is conducted in a search engine, it will exclude the stop words from the search query, and will use the query by replacing all the stop words with a marker. A marker is a symbol that is substituted with the stop words. The intention is to save space. This way, the search engines are able to save more web pages in that extra space, as well as retain the relevancy of the search query.
Besides, omitting a few words also speeds up the search process. For instance, if a query consists of three words. The Search Engine would generally make three runs for each of the words and display the listings. However, if one of the words is such that omitting it does not make a difference to search results, it can be excluded from the query and consequently the search process becomes faster.
Search engines are unable to view graphics or distinguish text that might be contained within them. For this reason, most engines will read the content of the image ALT tags to determine the purpose of a graphic. By taking the time to craft relevant, yet keyword rich ALT tags for the images on your web site, you increase the keyword density of your site. Although many search engines read and index the text contained within ALT tags, it's important NOT to go overboard in using these tags as part of your SEO campaign. Most engines will not give this text any more weight than the text within the body of your site.
Invisible text is content on a web site that is coded in a manner that makes it invisible to human visitors, but readable by search engine spiders. This is done in order to artificially inflate the keyword density of a web site without affecting the visual appearance of it. Hidden text is a recognized spam tactic and nearly all of the major search engines recognize and penalize sites that use this tactic.
This is the technique of placing text on a page in a small font size. Pages that are predominantly heavy in tiny text may be dismissed as spam. Or, the tiny text may not be indexed. As a general guideline, try to avoid pages where the font size is predominantly smaller than normal. Make sure that you're not spamming the engine by using keyword after keyword in a very small font size. Your tiny text may be a copyright notice at the very bottom of the page, or even your contact information. If so, that's fine
Almost all Search Engines serve different countries. Search Engines do list content from other countries but most of the content that is listed is either US or UK dominated content.
With this in mind, most popular Search Engines have started deploying regional editions that serve only a specific country. For instance, Google has an Indian edition 'google.co.in' that caters to the Indian audience. Given below are some of the types of Search Engine Regional Editions.
Regional Interface is nothing but a translated version of the main Search Engine. Many Search Engines have interfaces in different languages such as French, German, Spanish, Japanese etc. However, the only difference between these regional interfaces and the main version of the Search Engine is that the language used on the interface is not English. In other words, if you search using a keyword on both the interfaces, the listings are exactly the same. Regional Interfaces are aimed at an audience that does not understand English.
Human Categorization, as the name suggests, is categorization of websites by human beings. Search Engine employees categorize different websites into regional listings. Websites that are more relevant to a specific country are listed in that edition of the Search Engine. Hence, for a French edition a search would mainly list documents from France. This eliminates the problem mentioned above. The only caveat being that the whole process is manual. Directories such as Yahoo, LookSmart, and Open Directory make use of this process.
Domain Filtering automatically segregates websites from different countries into their respective regional editions. This segregation is done on the basis of domain names. For instance a website from Australia would generally have a domain .au. The Domain filtering mechanism looks at the domains of all websites and creates a country specific edition listing. Some Search
Engines also have region specific editions which contain listings from the whole of that region. As an example: A French edition of Google may also return German or Spanish websites in some cases. Domain Filtering has a drawback though.
This mechanism can only filter out websites based on the domain name, and hence .com is always considered to be a United States website. This is obviously not true. Many websites
from other countries also have .com domains. Domain crawling is probably the best solution for maintaining both a main site and a regional version. With domain crawling the regional listing is far more comprehensive as compared to the other mechanisms explained above. Some pages, although regional may be listed in the main listing as well.
A couple of years ago spamming may have worked wonders for your website. However, with sophisticated algorithms being developed by all popular search engines, spamming can only backfire. Algorithms, these days, can easily detect spam and not only ignore your website but also ban your website.
Besides, instead of spending considerable time and effort on spamming you can always follow other proven strategies and have a higher rank with most search engines. Spamming can also easily irritate readers. Think about it - if your homepage has unnecessary repetitions of a particular keyword, it is bound to frustrate a reader. Consequently your site, instead of being content rich, would be junk rich. This can have nothing but a negative impact on your business.
Search engine cloaking is a technique used by webmasters to enable them to get an advantage over other websites. It works on the idea that one page is delivered to the various search engine spiders and robots, while the real page is delivered to real people. In other words, browsers such as Netscape and MSIE are served one page, and spiders visiting the same address are served a different page.
The page the spider will see is a bare bones HTML page optimized for the search engines. It won't look pretty but it will be configured exactly the way the search engines want it to be for it to be ranked high. These 'ghost pages' are never actually seen by any real person except for the webmasters that created it of course. When real people visit a site using cloaking, the cloaking technology 'which is usually based on Perl/CGI' will send them the real page, that look's good and is just a regular HTML page.
The cloaking technology is able to tell the difference between a human and spider because it knows the spiders IP address, no IP address in the same, so when an IP address visits a site which is using cloaking the script will compare the IP address with the IP addresses in its list of search engine IP's, if there's a match, the script knows that it's a search engine visiting and sends out the bare bones HTML page setup for nothing but high rankings.
There are two types of cloaking. The first is called User Agent Cloaking and the second is called IP Based Cloaking. IP based cloaking is the best method as IP addresses are very hard to fake, so your competition won't be able to pretend to be any of the search engines in order to steal your code.
User Agent Cloaking is similar to IP cloaking, in that the cloaking script compares the User Agent text string which is sent when a page is requested with it's list of search engine names 'user agent = name' and then serves the appropriate page.
The problem with User Agent cloaking is that Agent names can be easily faked. Search Engines can easily formulate a new anti-spam method to beat cloakers, all they need to do is fake their name and pretend they are a normal person using Internet explorer or Netscape, the cloaking software will take Search Engine spiders to the non - optimized page and hence your search engine rankings will suffer.
To sum up, Search engine cloaking is not as effective as it used to be, this is because the search engines are becoming increasingly aware of the different cloaking techniques being used be webmasters and they are gradually introducing more sophisticated technology to combat them. It may be considered as unethical by Search Engines if not used properly.
By: Ken Mathie
Credit:www.goarticles.com
Cheap Linux Web Hosting
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Linux is inclusively an operating technique which operates on a unstopped multifariousness of hardware, ranging from Intel and AMD CPUs to hardware close as Digital Alpha computers, PowerPCs, and Silicon Graphics workstations. Moreover the enormously express humdrum of Linux is that it is freely shareable.
Linux Web Hosting besides offers tools funk the Gateway Defender anti-spam and anti-virus relief to succour you to bleed electronic info threats and slight their inherent afflicted effects. Gateway Defender existent is your best cover rail spam and viruses. The Linux Web Hosting is a single-source design for all of your website hosting needs.
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Spam blockers - the best way to kill spam?
The spam blockers are the best way to kill spam. They work with the help of pre programmed configurations and filters out the junk mails. Spam is effectively blocked by spam blockers like SpamArrest, Qurb, MailWasher Pro, and more to give you a spam free inbox.
Wondering on the best way to kill spam? Well, spam blockers and anti spam software is the answer to it. What is best about them is that they save you the manual task of deleting the junk mails one by one yourself. Not only that, they prevent the unsolicited mails from entering your mailbox. You may be in the favor of taking self made precautionary actions like lodging a report to the suitable ISP, sharing your email ID with only those whom you know well, using web based email service for other uses, trying to avoid spam bots, configuring your email so that the identity feature is disabled during downloading images. Even though they are effective in reducing spam, they are not totally capable of removing spam from your inbox. In spite of taking all these precautionary measures, you will soon find your inbox being slowly filled with junk mails. Thus, the best way out is to make use of spam blockers.
Various Types of Spam Blockers
A portable spam filtering solution, SpamArrest makes it easier for you to check for spam even when you don't have access to your computer. It makes use of a webmail along with a spam filtering solution. If you are using Outlook, then Qurb is the best option. Anti spam for outlook includes Spam Bully that keeps your inbox free of spam. They work with Bayesian Spam Filter that makes use of artificial intelligence along with server blacklists to filter in only the wanted mails. Even your IPS provides you the easiest way to block spam. Even the SpamPal identifies the well known spammers with the help of spam blacklists.
Some of the other effective spam blockers and filters include Spam Bully, Spam Inspector, and Zaep. eXpurgate makes use of two different email IDs, and works well in filtering spam. POPFile are very effective in categorizing and separating the unsolicited mails from the personal messages. For POP accounts, Death2Spam is extremely effective. MailWasher Pro is secure and a time-saving spam filter that also protect your computer from viruses. Some of the other effective email spam filters include Spam Bully, Spam Inspector, and Zaep. Another effective spam filter is the Spamihilator that takes the help of Bayesian filters to protect the email accounts some spam blockers help you to block receiving mails from a particular ID. Killing spam has been made really easy with these spam blockers.
By: Oliver Turner
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Wondering on the best way to kill spam? Well, spam blockers and anti spam software is the answer to it. What is best about them is that they save you the manual task of deleting the junk mails one by one yourself. Not only that, they prevent the unsolicited mails from entering your mailbox. You may be in the favor of taking self made precautionary actions like lodging a report to the suitable ISP, sharing your email ID with only those whom you know well, using web based email service for other uses, trying to avoid spam bots, configuring your email so that the identity feature is disabled during downloading images. Even though they are effective in reducing spam, they are not totally capable of removing spam from your inbox. In spite of taking all these precautionary measures, you will soon find your inbox being slowly filled with junk mails. Thus, the best way out is to make use of spam blockers.
Various Types of Spam Blockers
A portable spam filtering solution, SpamArrest makes it easier for you to check for spam even when you don't have access to your computer. It makes use of a webmail along with a spam filtering solution. If you are using Outlook, then Qurb is the best option. Anti spam for outlook includes Spam Bully that keeps your inbox free of spam. They work with Bayesian Spam Filter that makes use of artificial intelligence along with server blacklists to filter in only the wanted mails. Even your IPS provides you the easiest way to block spam. Even the SpamPal identifies the well known spammers with the help of spam blacklists.
Some of the other effective spam blockers and filters include Spam Bully, Spam Inspector, and Zaep. eXpurgate makes use of two different email IDs, and works well in filtering spam. POPFile are very effective in categorizing and separating the unsolicited mails from the personal messages. For POP accounts, Death2Spam is extremely effective. MailWasher Pro is secure and a time-saving spam filter that also protect your computer from viruses. Some of the other effective email spam filters include Spam Bully, Spam Inspector, and Zaep. Another effective spam filter is the Spamihilator that takes the help of Bayesian filters to protect the email accounts some spam blockers help you to block receiving mails from a particular ID. Killing spam has been made really easy with these spam blockers.
By: Oliver Turner
Credit:www.goarticles.com
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