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Hide Your IP, Surf Anonymous

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Internet has become a fountain of information that most people use on a daily basis for information, education, entertainment, work and play. Unfortunately, the convenience of the Internet also comes with hidden dangers. Online crimes are on the rise and are constantly evolving technologically.

With the web base proxy allows you to surf the world wide web safely and anonymously. In addition, this allows you to bypass Company/School firewalls and proxies, allowing you to browse your favourite blocked websites, such asmyspace.com and ebay.com at work or school, while your friends and colleagues cannot.

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Top Ten Tricks of the Spammer

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

In the early days of the Internet, spam was little more than an irritating nuisance. However, like every other aspect of the Internet, spam has evolved to become something far more nefarious in nature.

The spammer’s most fervent hope is that you are ignorant of the tricks and tactics used to spam your inbox. Learning the spammer’s nefarious ways is your best protection against spam.

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Google Hacking

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Here’s more Google Hacking. There are actually a lot of keywords and operators you can use to look for files that are supposedly hidden by people on their web servers.

Find MP3: Type the following line in your google search box.

“metallica” last modified mp3 “index of” -html -htm -php -asp

Find online camera:

inurl:”start.htm?scrw=1024″
intitle:”WJ-NT104 Main Page”
“powered by webcamXP” “Pro|Broadcast”
inurl:”view.shtml” “axis”

Find chatting log:

“has quit” “has joined” filetype:txt

Find wordpress backup:

inurl:/wp-content/backup/

Find new (0 day) exploit:

intitle:”index of” (0day exploits| exploits| .c|.pl| .txt)

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How Can You Tell If Your Computer Is Bot Infected

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

A bot is an important thing that a computer uses when on the Internet. A bot is an application that works to run automated activities for maintenance and protection when the user is on the Internet. There are some instances of where bots can be dangerous. So, how can you tell if your computer is bot infected? You can find out when you follow the tips mentioned here. How can you tell if your computer is bot infected? You can find out by seeing if your Internet activities have been involuntarily restricted. There are various different types of bots that can be dangerous to a computer. Some bots will cause denial of service attacks to take place. This is where the user who is trying to get it to work cannot access a resource that is on a computer. It will be impossible for you to access certain websites on the Internet. This is one of the main ways of how can you tell if you computer is bot infected.

How can you tell if your computer is bot infected? You can tell if there is a good amount of computer viruses that are found on your computer during a virus scan. Even though a typical antivirus program will update itself often and do automatic scanning and protection, there can be instances where new viruses can sneak onto your computer that are not listed in the definitions that your computer program has. Many malicious bots will have these new viruses on them, so you should especially watch out for these when you are online.

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Home Page Hijacking and Browser Helper Objects

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Internet Explorer has a way for a website to add itself to the list of favorites.  It’s a feature Microsoft added so that websites can have a button that says “Bookmark This Site!  Just Click Here!”

Now, if that’s all that particular feature did, then there wouldn’t be any malware concerns over it.  Unscrupulous programmers have taken advantage of it to create Home Page Hijackers. In a nutshell, a Home Page Hijacker is a program that reaches into your browser and changes your homepage…without your permission.  You might think, “That’s easy enough to fix, just change my homepage back and everything is fine.”

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Is It Safe To Download Computer Software From The Internet

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

People always ask is it safe to download computer software from the Internet. The answer to this question is that it is safe to download the software as long as a few considerations are identified. Sites that are legitimate should be considered, and sites that have reviews of software available are especially going to be good to look into. So, is it safe to download computer software from the Internet through a file sharing program? The answer to this is generally no. This is because while file sharing programs can be used to transfer files from one person to another there are some concerns to look into regarding these sites. Some of the files that may be offered for free on one of these sites may contain viruses or adware that will infect the computer.

One of the questions people also have is “Is it safe to download computer software from the Internet from any site?” This is not something that should be done on just any ordinary site. Some places may offer free versions of programs and products that are available on the market at a cost. While this may sound like a really great offer there will be more trouble involved than there will be reward.

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What Is The Difference Between Windows and UNIX Web Hosting?

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Windows and UNIX are in fact two different systems and of course we are referring to computer systems. A web host uses computers, (we shall refer to them as servers, just computers, but sometimes larger) to host websites, and all computers need a operating system, so Windows and UNIX are the operating system.

The Windows used is normally Windows NT or 2000 and of course as you know Microsoft charges for it’s software, while UNIX is an open source operating system, this means that the original creators of the system have given up the rights and anyone can use it, change, improve or do anything they want with, free of charge.

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More Issues About Free Web Proxies

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Proxy servers are also known as proxies. These servers are used in home networks, corporate intranets or by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Proxy servers behave as a connection between a client and a server through networking. Proxy servers are useful with web browser and servers by managing network protocols such as HTTP.

Proxy servers develop three main functions and characteristics in the same time. These functions are firewalling and filtering, connection sharing and caching.

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Choosing a Domain Parking Service

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Domain parking has become quite popular because it allows people to buy domains that they do not have content for, but still profit from them. Then, if the domain is successful, one can expect to sell the domain for 6-96 months worth of revenue! The money that can be made of parked domains is truly unlimited if proper networking and advertising is done. To make as much as possible you also need to work with the right domain parking service, and it can be difficult to ascertain which is the correct service for you. Below you’ll find a review of the top domain parking services to help you decide which may be the best fit for you.

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101 Tips to Improve Your Web Presence

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

101 tips to improve your web presence

  1. If you’re launching a new site, or new content, write an introduction and submit it to share sites like Digg, Reddit and Now Public.
  2. Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.
  3. Create a MySpace account and use it to publisise your site.
  4. Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you’re really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.
  5. Create a Technorati account and “claim” your blog.
  6. Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list can be found here.
  7. Conduct a survey. This is an excellent way to generate offline publicity.
  8. Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.
  9. Syndicate your site’s content by using an RSS feeds.
  10. Submit your RSS feeds to agregator sites like FeedBurner, Squidoo, Feedboy, Jordomedia, FeedBomb, FeedCat, rssmad, feeddirectory and feedfury. Stolen from DigitalPoint
  11. Write an article related to your site and submit it to article sites.
  12. Sign up to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.
  13. Create a custom 404 page so that even if someone encounters an error on your site, they are re-directed somewhere nice.
  14. Set up a 301 redirect to take traffic from your non-www address to your www address. See here for more info.
  15. Add a link to your site in the signature of any forums you post on.
  16. Tell your friends about your site. It’s free advertising init.
  17. Speel cheek ur stie. Nothing appears more amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.
  18. Test your site and make sure it appears correctly in all major browsers.
  19. Buy enough hosting. No one likes a slow site.
  20. Don’t worry about PageRank – worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*
  21. Offer something for free. Free is good. People tell their friends about free stuff.
  22. Tell your neighbours, you never know what contacts they might have.
  23. Offer your users as many ways as possible to contact you. MSN, Skype, Yahoo etc all complement email, phone and a real address.
  24. Advertise your site on Craigslist. It’s free, relevant and localised.
  25. Do NOT use frames.
  26. Submit your site to DMOZ.org. It may take time, but it’s worth it.
  27. Create an XML sitemap of your site and submit it to Google.
  28. Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.
  29. Ask a large breasted lady to wear one too.
  30. Sign up with an affiliate programme to sell your product, or if you’re a publish, make some cash!
  31. On your Contact Page ask people if they mind receiving your newsletter.
  32. Send out a newsletter!
  33. Go to a free seminar for Website owners. You might learn something.
  34. Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment (with a link back to your site of course).
  35. Don’t pay people to submit your site to search engines. It’s a waste of money.
  36. YouTube and Google Video are excellent portals on which to launch a viral campaign.
  37. Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.
  38. Sponsor a Wordpress theme or a phpListDirectory template.
  39. If you sell products that are advertised on television by the manufacturer, add “As Seen on TV” to your site!
  40. Avoid proprietry technologies like Java and Active X.
  41. Put downloadable content on your site, but make sure it’s not manufacturer specific – so mp3 rather than wma.
  42. Learn about CSS. It’s the new HTML.
  43. Contribute to related subject areas on Wikipedia.
  44. Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.
  45. Have user friendly page names – most tools comes with some way to avoid http://www.yourdomain.com/pgInfoPage…CFE3AEDAF8DD9D
  46. If you must have a Flash homepage, make sure you have a “Skip Intro” link.
  47. Tell your local rag about your site. These newspapers are desparate for stories and you may well even get a pic of your ugly picture published.
  48. Become a leading authority on your chosen subject.
  49. Donate money to a charity and most will place a link on their site back to you.
  50. Abide to W3C standards – it will help your site in the long term.
  51. Your local community sports teams offer cheap, but highly effective sponsorship opportunities.
  52. Publisise your site on related forums – but don’t spam!
  53. Ask bloggers to write about your site or product – in return for a link of course.
  54. Offer a competition related to something in the news – so football around the time of the World Cup etc.
  55. Add a “Tell a Friend” function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their mates.
  56. Have a Sitemap on your site to allow users to navigate around quickly and to aid the search engines.
  57. Have a nice keyword rich title at the top of each of your pages. Users and search engines both like descriptive titles.
  58. Include a Feedburner button on your site so people can easily subscribe to your feed.
  59. If you use PPC then create a landing page for each of your AdWords – it’ll boost your conversations no end.
  60. Appear on Dragon’s Den.
  61. Create a Press section on your site where can you store all your press releases, logos and banners.
  62. Add a link to your site from within your eBay profile.
  63. Ask your friends to give you honest feedback on your site.
  64. The best way to find someone to do any kind of work on your site is through personal recommendation.
  65. Gain exposure by submitting photos and pictures to Flikr.
  66. Share your banners on banner exchange sites.
  67. Make sure it’s easy for your users to subscribe to your RSS feed.
  68. Create a “lense” for your site on Squidoo
  69. Ask friends, collegues and associates to “Favourite” your blog on Technorati.
  70. You can add a Bulletin to your MySpace account promoting your site that all your MySpace Friends will see.
  71. Response to your customer’s emails promptly, even if it is with a simply auto-responder. No one likes to wait 3 or 4 days for an acknowledgement of their contact with you.
  72. Get a professional Copywriter to give your site a once over. If you are on a tight budget, limit to the just the homepage.
  73. Make a list, “Top 10″s work well. Update it regularly to give your visitors a reason to return.
  74. What did you learn today? Tell other people and they might learn something too.
  75. Do you have really hot content on your site that geeks would love? If so Slashdot will bring you a mass of traffic.
  76. Deep link directories are an excellent way to promote inner pages of your site.
  77. Meta tags might carry less weight than previously, but you should still have them on every page.
  78. Ask your Gran for feedback on your site. Never ignore the silver surfers.
  79. Include a “Add to your Technorati favourites” button on your site.
  80. Google Analytics is free and will tell you all you need to know about who’s visiting your site.
  81. Search engines will find you. Don’t pay money for your site to be “submitted”.
  82. Don’t be afraid to link to other sites, especially if they are relevant and to highly respected sites.
  83. Keep It Simple Stupid: use CSS to control layout, style and colours and use HTML text rather than graphics to represent text.
  84. Validate your HTML and CSS. It’ll help ensure your site displays well in all browsers.
  85. Small pages sizes and optimised graphics will give your site a snappy feel and won’t require users to wait around for it to load.
  86. If you plan to submit your site to lots of directory or article sites – create an email especially for this. Delete it when you’re finished to avoid spam.
  87. “Link baiting” means writing some killer content that people will want to link to. Like a “101 Tips to Improve Your Web Presence” list!
  88. If your chosen field is technology related then write a “whitepaper”. That’s a posh name for an article.
  89. Google receives roughly 50% of all search requests, Yahoo 25% and MSN just 10%. That’s a good rule of thumb as to how much emphisis to put on each.
  90. Make sure you have a robots.txt file in the root of your Web site. You can use this to control search engines, but if nothing else it’ll reduce the number of 404 errors in your Weblogs.
  91. Free online games, a forum or chatrooms will give your users a reason to come back to your site.
  92. Ebooks with re-seller rights make an excellent “free gift” for your site.
  93. Upload your product feed to Froogle. It’s FREE!
  94. This is an excellent list of Top 25 Social Bookmarking Sites
  95. Search out unanswered questions on Yahoo! Answers and add your site as the “Source”.
  96. PageRank is vanity, ranking is sanity.
  97. Yahoo are catching up with Google with an excellent set of webmaster tools called Site Explorer.
  98. Don’t buy traffic. It’s un-targetted and won’t convert.
  99. Pay Per Click advertising gets you fast results – and if it’s handled well can be very profitable.
  100. Upload a favicon.gif file so that your users have a nice icon when they bookmark your site.
  101. And that’s it!

Source: Search Engine Optimisation Expert

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