11/5/09

How to Have Computer Security?

Computers are being employed in all fields of life. As the use of internet has become very important in the present times, there is much more demand of computers today than there was in the past. Almost everyone is using computer and internet for various purposes including getting information on various subjects, for business, research, communicate, make money, play games, listen to songs, watch movies and much more. However, there are some threats to your systems when you set out to do all these tasks. No matter if you are a student or a business man, a house wife or a retired person, it is essential to ensure your computer security if you are making use of these machines.

Firewalls Are Your First Line of Defense When it Comes to Computer Security

The worst things to over look each and every time in this competitive age is about your PC Computer Security and if you are not careful with that nasty piece of codes are not going to show any mercy at all and rather thrash you towards any short of crisis once they took a front seat on your computing system.
But taking some of these steps can minimize your risk from virus, malwares, spywares, ad wares, Trojans, worms and from each and every form of infection your computer system can have. They are just viral kind of things once you got them they can give you sleepless nights.

7 Tips For Computer Security and Virus Protection

Computer security is a vital issue for anyone who surfs the net on his or her PC. Any computer that is connected to the Internet is exposed to thousands of malicious, viruses, spyware, hackers, and other nasty Malware that can ruin a system, cost lots of money for repairs and lose important data, files and folders.

Here are some hands-on steps that you can take to protect your computer, data and private information from the hackers, Malware, viruses, spyware and thieves and ensure the best in computer security.

Internet and Computer Security Should Be a Part of Every Home Security Solution

These days it seems as if you can either find a security expert or a computer security expert, but seldom both. The security expert is knowledgeable about physical security systems, alarm systems, and camera systems but knows little about networks, computer viruses, or internet attacks. The reverse is also true, as most internet security people do not know a thing about physical security. To me, security is security and protecting my property, whether it be stored in my living room or on my computer, is very important. Why then, do we all tend to separate physical security and computer security instead of considering both together?

Tips For Computer Security While on Vacation

Finally, a break! Make sure your vacation is memorable because of the great time you had, not because something happened to your computer. Read on for a complete checklist of things to do to make sure your computer and the data on it is ready to jet with you.
Back-up your data and clean-up your computer.
Copy important or valuable items - documents, photos, presentations, email records - on to an external hard drive, USB flash drive, or an online service and store it in a lockable location at your office or at home. This will ensure you have a back-up of everything vital should your computer become lost or damaged while traveling.

Computer Security Programs Are Most Effective When Used Properly

Protecting you information with computer security programs will keep your personal information safe.
Intruders try to target credit card numbers, bank account information, or any other type of information that they can use in order to steal your identity.
Identity theft is now one of the top criminal activities in the United States.
The identities of many people have been exploited and credit ratings have been ruined by thieves who get information from unsecured systems, or bypass computer security programs for illegal gains.

Do You Know Enough About Your Computer Security? Find Out More

Security

As the use of computer networks, especially the Internet, has become pervasive, the concept of computer security has expanded to denote issues pertaining to the networked use of computers and their resources. The term computer security is used frequently, but the content of a computer is vulnerable to few risks unless the computer is connected to other computers on a network. The major technical areas of computer security are usually represented by the initials CIA: confidentiality, integrity, and authentication or availability. Other important concerns of computer security professionals are access control and non-repudiation.

Computer Security Free - Is That Possible?

Everyone who surfs the Net needs to be concerned about computer security. There are viruses, trojans, spyware, malicious adware... the list of what's out there in the way of malware goes on and on. You either take steps to keep your computer and data secure or you suffer the consequences.
Just how much computer security do you need? And can you get computer security free?
The answer to the first question is: "It depends." It depends on the value of what you are protecting. If you buy things on the Internet, have financial transactions going through your computer, then all of the financial info you use to make purchases is potentially at risk. What would it cost you if info thieves got your data?

Basic Computer Security Measures For the Home User With a Windows Operating System

Basic computer security measures for the home computer user are a must. This is because there are many individuals in the world that have a dangerous hobby. That hobby is seeking out personal information and files that they can use in an illegal manner from these types of computer users. In addition to this, these individuals can implement the use of your computer's resources for their own benefit. Here, you will learn about some basic measures that you can take to properly protect your computer from these potentially dangerous threats.
One of the first, and most basic measures, that you should take to protect your sensitive data and computer resources is placing an anti-virus program on your system and allowing it to run at all times.

Spam! What's the Real Problem

Most people now know the official definition of spam- Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE for short).
That definition does several things we should look at.
  1. It categorizes spam as commercial
  2. It limits it to email
  3. Calling anything unsolicited creates vagueness
Even though all the above things may be true, there are several more things about spam that seem far more annoying.

Think All the Good Domain Names Are Taken?

Have you heard of the other tlds (top leve domains) such as: .free, .church, .video, .travel, .llp, .golf, .school, .agent and .love? There are many more too. Wait! Don't wretch just yet. I'll tell you why in just a minute.

If you look for a great domain name for very long you will learn how rare they are. Trying to find a one word dot com is a futile effort. The only exception to that is the occasional name that someone gives up. The problem with that is you must search a list of thousands (or tens of thousands) to find one and of course you must get there ahead of the next person. If you just have to have a one word dot com, be ready to shell out thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.

Do-It-Yourself Computer Maintenance For Windows

Many companies want to sell you something you may already have (or may get for free), but may not even know about. Have you looked through what is available in Windows for routine maintenance? Here are some things you can do today (or right now) to help keep your Windows operating system running smoother and with fewer glitches.

More on Making Web Pages - The Table Tag

For review purposes, the following is a basic web page.

< html >
< head >
< title >
< /title >
< /head >
hello world
< body >
< /body >
< /html >

A Tags - The Rest of the Story

There is a lot to this tag with many options available for your use.

We pick up here with the knowledge of how to create a link on a web page. If you need a refresher, this is a complete web page when saved with a .html ending.

< html >
< head) < /head >
< title > < /title >
< body > < /body >
< /html >

and if you need a refresher, there are three parts to the A tag-

HTML - Beyond the Basic Page - The "a" Tag

In another article we learned the basic structure and code to create a simple web page. Several tags were introduced without much detail. Here for a quick review is a basic web page with each of the following words (tags) contained by brackets (I can't put brackets around them or they won't show up on the page. This is an opening bracket < and this is a closing bracket >). title is an opening tag and /title is a closing tag.

Web Applications Services - How To Use

A Web application Service is defined by the W3C as a software system designed to support Machine to Machine (M2M) interaction over a Internet i.e. Network. Web services are just Web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services also.
The W3C Web service definition encompasses many different systems, but in common usage the term refers to client and server that communicate using some types of messages that follow the SOAP standard. Common in both the field and the terminology is the assumption that there is also a machine readable description of the operations supported by the server written in the WSDL(Web Services Description Language).

ASP

The most familiar and commonly known technology is the Active Server Pages which is shortly known as ASP. This technology is used in order to create dynamic and interactive web pages. These Active Server Pages make use of server side scripting in order to create dynamic web pages that are not pretentious by the type of browser the internet visitor is working.
VBScript is the default scripting language which is used for writing ASP though few other scripting languages like Java Script can also be used. Active Server Pages have the extension as .asp instead of .htm. Any web page containing ASP cannot be run by just viewing the web page in a particular browser. The web page must be requested and demanded through a server that abets ASP and for this reason ASP refers and stands for Active Server Pages.

Are Your Emails Hazardous To Your Health

Once you go online, it’s open hunting season, and one of the
most common ways to get shot by someone else, or by yourself,
(known as a negligent discharge in Wild Fowler circles), is
through the use of email.

Simply connecting to the internet is fraught with dangers as
you instantly expose your data and personal information to
Hackers, Identity Thieves, Viruses, Worms, and Data Mining
Spyware.

11/4/09

Resolving "HTML Import Errors" in Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is an advanced and widely used presentation application. It has a wide set of features, including saving slides as web page. You can save a PowerPoint presentation as web page and can directly use in web pages. But in some situations, the presentation that is saved as a web page, can not be opened and you encounter some error messages when you try to access it or alter it. This problem may be due to corruption to the PPT file. In order to access data from file, you need to carry out PowerPoint Recovery using appropriate solutions.

It's Time to Teach the Spammers a Little Lesson

Spam is no recent phenomena. It has existed ever since the rise of the internet and will continue to do so. A recent study from McAfee has pretty much summarized the seriousness of the problems which spam creates. Did you know that as a result of spam alone, 33 billion kilowatts-hours of electricity was wasted in 2008? And this only accounts for America. Imagine what the total would be with the whole world combined. Another statistic revealed that $3 billion worth of electrical energy is lost through spam. Why is this the case? At an individual level, a single spam email emits about 0.3 grams of Carbon Dioxide, a greenhouse gas. If you multiply that with the number of spam emails being sent around the net, an estimated 62 trillion spam emails, that turns the final value into around 17 million metric tons of Carbon Dioxide.

How to Convert PSD to HTML

Once you have decided on the option to use, another question comes to mind: Which option is the best? Actually, there is no all-purpose choice that is designed to suit every situation. Nowadays design is one of the differences that are responsible for setting products and websites aside from other commoditized rivals. A website designer is becoming a key figure in the success of any website. Such people require that they become completely concentrated on design because this is an area that requires commitment for it to succeed.

C# - Sending SMTP Email

C# can send emails with the .NET Framework fairly easily, especially via the SMTP protocol. The SMTP protocol is a common way to send emails.

Because SMTP emails require an SMTP server to send, it is probably easiest to use Google's Gmail server. Thus you'll need a Gmail account, which is simple and free to create. Once you have a Gmail account sending SMTP emails with C# is a breeze. The trick is to use the System.Net.Mail namespace instead of System.Web.Mail. The second namespace was replaced by System.Net starting on .NET Framework 2.0.

How to Create Vertical Spacing Between Lists Using HTML LI Tag & CSS

This is how to create vertical spacing between lists using the HTML <li> tag and CSS. I've kept in mind to keep the code in compliance to XHTML Strict validation with W3C standards. I validate to the Strict standards strictly to Search Engine Optimize the page. Here is a sample of an unordered list code in plain HTML:

C# Extract HTML Links From Website

Using C# to get a list of active links in a URL is not as hard as it may seem. The trick is in properly processing the raw HTML code of pages...

The purpose of retrieving a list of links from a web page is very open-ended. Some people want to know the active links in a page to make sure that none are broken. Others might need the links for SEO purposes like PageRank checking.

HTML Date Code - How to Add the Current Date in HTML Code & Look Really Professional!

It is amazing what a difference it makes to add the HTML Date Code to your website - so that the current date is always showing. As they say "It's the little things - there's nothing bigger...". People like to feel that they are looking at fresh, up-to-date content. So, I'm going to show you how quickly and easily you can achieve this, simply by adding the date in HTML code...
The first thing you need to do is go to your Web Editor, eg Kompozer, and open up your Web Page.
Then simply follow these steps:

On-Page and Off-Page Optimization Step by Step+Other Trips and Tricks

1. Step-Keyword research

It is crucial to choose the right keywords, analyze your competition and potential traffic. Just a quick thought. The more specific you are, the more qualified visitors you will get. So when choosing the keywords consider that not necessarily the keywords which have the most searches are the biggest value to you.

2. Step-Site Design

TIPS and Tricks for Promoting your Website

If you really want to generate highly targeted traffic to your web site, you'll have to give proper concentration to the website promotion approaches shown in this article.

The solution to victorious web site promotion is steadiness. Day by day, week by week, month by month you should be doing some stuff to let your clients be familiar with your website that your website offering a perfect resolution to their troubles.

11/3/09

What is SAN or Storage Area Network?

A SAN or Storage Area Network is a network that is separate from WANs and LANs. It is used to link all the storage resources linked to different servers. It consist a collection of SAN Software and SAN Hardware; the hardware has high interconnection rates among the different storage devices and the software configures the SAN and manages monitors.
Storage Area Network or SAN is a high speed sub-network of shared storage devices. A storage device is a machine that has nothing but disks for saving data. A Storage Area Network's architecture acts in a way that makes every storage devices accessible to every server on a WAN or LAN.

Anti Adware and Spyware Programs

Adware is any software application software which makes banners appear the whole time it is in function. Also, the adware program can install components that will transmit information about the user and its behavior and this work on his PC. Unlike spyware programs, the user is asked when the program is being installed. Actually, an adware application is the application that, along with its basic functionality, has a different one, the one that makes it show commercials once in a while, downloaded periodically from certain internet servers.

Spyware is a program, usually downloaded from the internet, which sends information about the user without him knowing it, every time he connects to the internet. Usually, the packages sent contain marketing information and not confidential information, although some programs can do that too.

Understanding And Using 19216801

Computers have IP addresses, this numbers act as a kind of a security combination. One of the most commonly used IP address is 192.168.0.1. Though data is technical in nature, knowing this can be profitable if you are using routers and networks.
Understanding IP Address

What is a Trojan Horse Virus?

I encountered this gem on the Vista Website:
The Trojan-Horse-virus!
This is an e-mail virus commonly released by an e-mail attachment and if this attached file is opened, it will scour the hard drive for any financial and personal information such as the social security, PIN numbers, account numbers. When it has collected the info, in the computer, it is transferred to the database of the thieves!

How to Maximize Security in Outlook Express

Although Outlook Express was known to be rather vulnerable to online attacks, viruses and spyware, recent updates have improved Outlook Express security a lot. Considering that many use Outlook Express for e-mail and news reading, it is reassuring that Microsoft has addressed most known security holes.

As with most software though, security can be harmed when users get sloppy in how they use the software and how they configure the software. This is especially true with online applications.

If you allow all kinds of content in e-mail or click every attachment you receive, no protection will be good enough.

So use good judgment when using Outlook Express to minimize your exposure to online threats. For MAXIMUM Outlook Express security consider the following tips too.

Blogging Security Warnings

Blogs are vulnerable and need security, developers work overtime on this, releasing updates as fast as they can in response to a threat. Still, you need to keep up with the news on security issues and risks. You must read tips on keeping your blog safe from new hackers attacking blog passwords.

Sometimes Internet Explorer
and some other applications, add a bit to the file to mark it as being downloaded from the Internet. It serves as a warning that this may be unsafe content. If the file is digitally signed, the warning does not have the red shield, and the publisher is listed in the dialog, but otherwise it stays the same.

Security issiues in VOIP Applications

The evolution in the networks & internet has increased different types of applications. One such application is VOIP which has become an alternative to traditional telephone network (public switched telephone network, or PSTN) offering versatile, flexible & economical speech communication. The PSTN of course, is not invulnerable to security breaches. Some of the earliest hackers were "phone phreakers", who specialized in making unauthorized long distance calls.

Today, the threat caused by hackers to IP networks goes far beyond the cost of unauthorized long-distance calls. An attack could take down the network (and thus the company's phone service) for hours or days, and the content of calls intercepted, divulging trade secrets,

10 Best Practices for Secure Coding

To ensure that you build and deploy the most secure software possible, Orthus recommends the following best practices for secure coding:



1. Validate user input



Never assume that input from HTML forms is valid. Just because you gave the user only hidden fields or pull downs, or you had JavaScript to validate every input, does not guarantee the input will not be tampered with. A hacker with a simple local Web proxy can change anything they want after the JavaScript executes.


A Guide to Computer Security

As the number of people connecting to the Internet continues to increase at a rapid pace, more and more of us are now creating our own home computer networks.

With these we can enjoy the benefits of having high bandwidth, instant access to the Internet and make this connection available to multiple computers in and around the home.

But for those unfamiliar with computer security, they are completely unaware of the risks they may be exposing their computer to.

What Are Anti Virus Software, Anti Spyware Software & Computer Firewalls & What Can They Do For You?

Now that most people use the internet these days, it is a very good idea to make sure that you have good quality computer security software installed and protecting your computer. Anti virus software, anti spyware software and having a hardware or software firewall are now essential for everyone using a computer and here is an explanation why this is so.

All the Spyware Security you Need: For Free

More and more internet users are understanding how important it is for them to find security software that allows them to remain invisible to possible intruders. Threats such as spyware, Trojans, viruses, worms and other malware are difficult to avoid because they have become so widespread. To partially prevent these malicious codes from sneaking in you must first secure you computer with a firewall that will notify you of any unauthorized intruders.

Getting Free Internet Security for Your Computer

Surfing the Internet nowadays can be very dangerous. With all the viruses, spywares, adwares, identity thieves and hackers circulating for surfers to victimize, opening and downloading an attachment sent by your friend can be very scary.

This is why Internet security is a necessity in all computers to prevent yourself from getting victimized by people who wants to steal from you or from viruses programmed to destroy your important files.

How to Add Your Blogs RSS Feed to Your HTML Site

One of the advantages touted by blog proponents is the ability to use your blog (and/or other blogs) to automatically add "fresh" content to your site. Search engines like regularly updated content, and will get in the habit of dropping in to see whats new!

However, as you will have quickly discovered if you've had a go at this already, getting the content flowing is somewhat tricky. Everybodys talking about it... but nobody's saying hey, you can do it this way!

How I Design My Own Websites

First off let me say I am no HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) expert. I do have a background in computers but I worked more on the hardware side of things, servers, networking equipment, RAID arrays, to name a few. I thought I would spend some time telling how I started designing my own webpages.

Why Search Engine Spiders Can’t Index Your Pages

HTML Problems Can Prevent Indexing
This is a common problem. Your web designer has created a beautiful page with nice graphics and great Flash animations. Unfortunately, it seems that search engines won’t list your website no matter what you do.

This can have several reasons:

11/2/09

Computer Virus and Security Protection Tips

The internet has its fair share of threats and dangers that could harm your PC and access your personal and confidential information without your permission. Computer security entails both detection and prevention from such people and programs. "Prevention" would help in keeping you safe from all such malicious attempts whereas "detection" would inform you whether someone attempted to access/harm your system, either successfully or unsuccessfully and what harm they may have caused.

Streetwise Guide to PC Security

Spam is on the rise, malware infections are on the rise, botnets are growing bigger and more Internet users are turning into advance fee con artists. Pretty grim picture isn't it? No, I do not want to sound pessimistic, but the reality is that no piece of computer security software can protect you completely against Internet based threats. What am I saying... throw away all your spam filters, firewalls and anti-malware applications? No, not at all, they play an integral part in our protection against cyber threats, but even the best tools in the world can fail dramatically if they are not used by streetwise cyber citizens.

Secure Your Blog From Threats With These Four Additional Security Tips

Use strong passwords

One of the first things taught is to ensure all passwords cannot be simply guessed. Despite this fact, far too often administrators will fail to check all accounts. If an account can write to the system it must have a strong password.

There are numerous articles online about selecting good passwords so I won't repeat that information here. Just make sure that you follow the advice in these articles and don't copy the actual passwords they list.

Use SCP instead of FTP

Four Basic Website Measures Of Security For The Internet Marketer

The amount of easy to target websites is growing at an alarming rate due to the fact that so many people are setting up their own businesses based from home. The blame for this mainly lies within the Internet Marketing population itself. Why is this so? Several of the so-called Internet Marketing Gurus, using the powerful methods of persuasion at their fingertips, entice people into starting their own businesses on line by providing them with ready-made, plug and play websites containing basic errors in security. The consequences of most of these sites made by marketers, not programmers, can be disastrous.

Important Email Habits, Security, Tools and Tips

Forwarding Emails: Do Your Homework!

Every day I see email forwarded by someone trying to warn me of some new threat or with some “interesting news”. Unfortunately most of these types of forwarded emails are false. In most cases it is harmless forwarding of emails with the only drawback being extra junk in your inbox and floating around the Internet.

In other cases, these emails themselves are a threat. Some emails will inform you of a “threat” and give you steps to take to “fix” your computer or “remove” the threat. Following the “advice” in these emails can cause problems in some cases.

Effective SEO Through Good Code Structure

For a successful Search Engine Optimization strategy, take into consideration that search engines look at content and also at the structure of the markup. They emphasize the importance of text content, page titles, keywords rich text, meta descriptions and information architecture. A website where quality of content and code prevails will rank higher in the major search engines.

There are many Search Engine Optimization tactics, but try to find the best combination and don't sacrifice the usability and performance of your website. Here is some basic information about improving your source code from an SEO perspective: