COMPUTER VIRUSES - WHAT ARE THEY AND WHAT IS THEIR PURPOSE?

Anyone that has ever owned a computer has either heard about or experienced a computer virus. Livescience.com recently reported that “before the month is even done, April has set a record for virus emails.”

Gone are the days when new computer users were told about the rarity of viruses and that there was no need to worry. Countless news reports have since validated the worry over computer viruses, but what exactly is a virus?

Basically a computer virus is a software program designed to destroy or steal data. These viruses are most often sent through email attachments, software downloads, and some types of advanced web scripting. Different viruses cause different types of damage to your computer; Trojan horses destroy data, bombs explode through your system, and worms duplicate themselves, destroying or corrupting data as they go. These viruses can be combined into even more deadly forms but they can usually be identified by their location on your computer.

Boot Sector Virus - Most early forms of virus were boot sector because it required a removable device such as a floppy disk or CD to reach your machine. These viruses activate when you reboot your system and will infect any other floppies inserted afterwards. They have the potential to take up memory or freeze your system.

File Virus - This is a virus that infects other files on your system. Otherwise known as the ‘classic’ form of virus, it is also the most common and easiest to distribute. Some forms of file virus are able to hide themselves by changing aspects of their code with each infection.

Multipart Virus - This file infects both the boot sector and files. These types of viruses were fairly common when most computers operated on a DOS system but declined when integrated operating systems became the norm.

What can be done if you have a virus? To protect from getting or cleaning out an existing virus, an antivirus utility is needed.

INCREASE YOUR GOOGLE PAGE RANK

While naming your files or blog posts titles:

First lets talk about optimal filenames:

Never use filenames like ch1, ch2, … or 1, 2, 3, etc… If you want hierarchy go for ch1-Intro, ch2-Types, etc… Try to use longer filenames with as much keyword as possible. If file is static HTML file then always make use of title tag : also try to use title up to 100 characters. Use underscore (_) instead of space to separate multi word filenames e.g. use “luv_maloo” instead of “luv maloo”
Now its Blog Posts Titles:

Make sure all keywords comes earlier. Try to minimize use of junk words like of, are, hurry, surprise, important, read-this, etc at least in first 30-40 characters. Enable Post Pages which give each of your posts their own unique web page, in addition to appearing on your blog’s front page. (For Blogspot Blogger, Go to Settings >> Archiving >> Enable Post Pages and select “YES”) Try to use maximum available length of blog post titles (normally up to 100 characters)

Reasoning:

First let me remind you what makes a URL (i.e. Uniform Resource Locater) with a simplest example.

URL = .protocol e.g. HTTP + site name + optional path + filename. Also remember title of a page is displayed in your browsers top most strip (it is often concatenated with browser name itself, but don’t bother about this browser name part). With these two terms we will dissect now blog post titles and filenames together. Blog post title forms Title of post pages as well as URL. If post pages are enabled, every blog post gets converted to static HTML page with a file name which makes is part of URL. Post pages are nothing but files dynamically created so again convention for file names and post page title overlaps. Thats why I insisted similar things like keeping file names and blog post titles longer as much as possible. Unfortunately for files their name and title tag need to be chosen separately. For blogs post tiles goes in both places. But only first 30-40 characters of post title gets converted to filename i.e. name of post page. Thats why be wise to use maximum keyword as early as possible in post title. Always remember never exceed title more than 100 (while 150 is allowed). Search engine may treat you spam if they discover titles are too lengthy.

How it benefits:

First lets look at an example : A user hits prevent copy paste of your articles

Point to be noted: Whenever a user hit a query highest weight is given to URL and blog post titles (of course within same pagerank group)

Thats why all this trouble for post titles and file names. It may appear tedious but soon you will be habitual with it.

REPAIR YOUR WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM ONLINE WITH REIMAGE

Most Windows XP users will notice their system seems to get slower and slower compared to when they first installed the operating system. As the time passes, we installed a lot of programs and stored a lot of files, causing the operating system used more system resources and makes your computer slower. Besides that, with the emergence of internet and file sharing, users can unknowingly install what is known as spyware or malware. These malwares, spywares and viruses damaging your operating system and degrading its health.

What is Reimage?

Reimage is a web-based service runs via ActiveX that repairs damaged Windows XP systems so that your operating system will run like it first installed. Reimage repairs Windows XP PCs remotely over the network or internet and specialized in Windows XP PCs that won’t reboot.

Reimage performs its works by applying a set of predefined actions according to the problem in the XP systems. By referencing with over 4 million registry and components repository, Reimage looking for components or objects that are missing, new objects or changed by viruses, malware or other malicious software. Then, Reimage will replace the missing objects with the repository databases and restore the services or components to its original state. For the malicious or new components or objects, Reimage will disable them so they can’t do harm anymore. Unlike built-in Windows XP system restore, Reimage doesn’t affect user data or applications on the operating system.

Here are some features of Reimage:

Reduce repair time – Save time because Reimage is easy to use and there is no need to call your technician each time you have PC problems.
Optimize your Windows XP machine – Reimage will provide diagnosis for your PC, including processor usage, memory usage, hard disk usage, Windows Paging usage. Then provide you with a set of recommendation for your PC.
Repairs all kind of problems on your Windows XP PC – This is including registry fixes, driver fixes, check for security issues, and disable all kind of malicious programs on your PC.
No installation required – Because Reimage used web-based ActiveX, you can run it anywhere as long as Internet Explorer is installed.

For Reimage Home Edition, it also comes with a Free PC booster which capable to speed up most common programs on your PC. Unfortunately, Reimage only available for Windows XP.

HOW TO DISPLAY HTML CODES IN BLOGGER POST

You might of tried several times trying to add HTML scripts in your posts in blogger and might of had errors in it. Whenever you want to display a Particular Code in a blog post this Guide will help you.

Step 1 : Before Editing CSS code, download your templates in your computer first.

This is How Scripts Will look like

Step 2 : Add This CSS code above this line ]]></b:skin>

.codeview {
margin : 15px 35px 15px 15px;
padding : 10px;
clear : both;
list-style-type : none;
background : #f9f9f9;
border-top : 1px solid #eeeeee;
border-right : 2px solid #cccccc;
border-bottom : 2px solid #cccccc;
border-left : 1px solid #eeeeee;
}
.codeview li {
font-size : 13px;
line-height : 24px;
font-family : "Courier New", "MS Sans Serif", sans-serif, serif;
color : #333333;
font-weight : normal;
margin : 0;
padding : 0;
}

Step 3 :

Whenever you create new posts just include the special Script ( CSS code , Scripts , etc ) within this div section .

<div class="codeview">

Insert the Special code here

</div>

If you have any problems regarding this post here.

ACTIVE SMS LOCK - FREE SMS LOCKING PROTECT APPLICATION FOR NOKIA PHONES

If you socialize to much or even you don’t but you are looking for some privacy in the sense that you don’t want people to read your messages may it be incoming or outgoing, what so ever the case may be. What you want is to protect your privacy from being stepped over. This can be done easily by downloading this application called Active SMS Lock which can do the trick for you if you are a symbian mobile phone owner.

The latest of the nokia phones in the E series have an inbuit data encryption feature that can protect your files you want but the N series users and the other nokia phone users did not have this privilidge. Now, not anymore, with Active SMS Lock installed in your phone you can also have the same feature but applicable only to the messages and not any other files.

There are two options that you can use to protect your messages. You can either password protect your inbox and outbox or you can also hide the messages. This hiding thing is useful when you have saved the messages in some other folder which you are not going to access frequently. There is one huge drawback of the application also or I should say a potentially huge drawback as it can interest the preying eyes that there is something really confidential in your messages and can arouse more suspicion and interest. This especially can be the case with your girlfriends when she discovers that you have protected your messages.

The default password is 12345 which is very common and is used quite frequently if you know nokia well enough. Another drawback is that the application works only on the non touch screen version of the nokia mobile phones. So all those with touch enabled phones, you will have to wait a little longer until the new release is made.

Download Active SMS Lock