Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Have you ever tried to remove Spyware off your PC only to
find out it never left or it came back? Tired of all those
annoying Popups, Viruses, and Ads on your system day in and
day out? Well, listen closely because the day has come to
remove Spyware programs and Viruses - forever!
I will give you some very useful tricks and tips to remove
Spyware and Viruses for good! Follow closely:
Steps to Remove Spyware, Viruses, and Adware
1. There are many types of software available today that
claim to remove spyware off our system, but which one REALLY
does the job? What you need is software that not only will
remove spyware, but TOTALLY removes it for good and keeps it
off. After searching for the best of the best, here is THE
BEST: Panda Online Scan. Why? It does not constantly run
on your system, slowing it down and using bunches of memory!
In other words, it runs from Panda on the web, then searches
your whole system, will remove spyware and other bugs, then
gives detailed info on the bug and tells you how to keep it
off your system! Here is the address to get started:
http://www.stopspywareforfree.com/scan.html
It only installs a few plug-ins to run on your system, and
no full installation!
2. Check your system services and systray items! The
biggest mistake people make is never checking what programs
are running in the background or memory of the system. A key
step to remove spyware from your system is knowing this.
Without knowing these things, you probably have bugs running
on your system, and never know it! Why? They like to hide!
Download and install a program called HIJACK THIS. It tells
you exactly what is running and what is not running so you
know exactly what might be hiding behind closed doors! Here
is the address for this:
http://www.stopspywareforfree.com/hijackthis.html
3. Shutdown the SYSTEM RESTORE! (Windows XP)
Spyware and Viruses attach themselves to your system’s
restore files. This is an easy way for them to hide, even
after you reinstall Windows! Right click on ‘MY COMPUTER’,
then click on ‘Properties’. Look for a tab on top called
‘System Restore’, and click there. Check the box that says
‘Turn off system restore on all drives’. Click ‘APPLY’,
then ‘OK’. That’s it!
4. Use an Anonymous IP address when surfing the web!
This is a huge step in keeping bugs off your system forever!
Bugs get onto your system and retrieve info about you by
capturing your IP address. Your IP address tells everyone
who you are, where you’re located, your system info, what
kind of Windows you use, your browser, etc. An anonymous IP
hides your IP by using an Anonymous address and makes you
invisible to everyone, including Spyware and Ads! Here is an
address to a good proxy list:
http://www.stopspywareforfree.com/proxylist.html
Please follow these instructions carefully for Microsoft
Internet Explorer:
a) Scroll down on the page from the above link. On the
list, look at the numbers listed under IP:Port Host name.
Make sure the uptime on the right is at least 97 to 99 %.
b) Go to the Control Panel in Windows.
c) Open up ‘ Internet Options’.
d) Click on the ‘Connections’ tab on top.
e) Click on ‘LAN Settings’.
f) Put a check-mark where it says PROXY SERVER.
g) In the Address box, copy and paste the IP address listed
on the proxy list (for example: 148.244.150.58 - These are
the numbers shown BEFORE the ‘:’ (semi-colon).
h) Copy and paste the port number into the PORT box (for
example: ‘80′ - the number immediately after the
semi-colon).
i) Click OK, and OK again to close, and close everything.
j) Go ahead and open up your browser and try surfing the
internet to test.
Thats it! You are now surfing invisibly!
For the Firefox browser:
a) Open up the browser and go to ‘TOOLS’ then ‘OPTIONS’.
b) Go to ‘GENERAL’ on the left, then click the ‘Connection
Settings’ button below.
c) Choose ‘Manual’ proxy config from the choices.
d) Check the ‘use the same proxy’ checkbox.
e) In the ‘HTTP Proxy’ box, copy and paste the anonymous IP,
and the PORT number in the PORT box (remove the zero first).
f) Click OK, then OK again to close.
g) Now test your browser by surfing the web.
You are now invisible.
**note - if your browsing gets super slow or has a problem,
look for another IP and Port number on the list and try
again. Most of the time the proxies from Mexico work best.
Happy surfing! The free proxy list can be found here:
http://www.stopspywareforfree.com/proxylist.html
5. Download and install the new FIREFOX browser!
Please get rid of Microsoft Internet Explorer on your
system! It is like a pipe that feeds Spyware, Ads and
Viruses onto your system. There are just too many holes
there letting everything in. Mozilla is a fairly new company
that introduced a new breed of browser that blocks popups,
and tries hard to keep these bugs off your system. It has
very few or even NO holes or pipes to let the bugs in! Many
people use it for this very reason, and it has a great look,
better speed, and lets you change the theme of it! Awesome!
Here is the address:
http://www.stopspywareforfree.com/firefox.html
Well that about sums up how to remove spyware in 5 steps.
Follow them CLOSELY and you will see how great it is to surf
virus free Forever! Guaranteed!
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
1. Not having complete content before search engine, directory, or other link building activities begin.
If you start a new website and you’re so anxious to announce it to the world that you begin massive promotional effort before you finish testing to make sure my shopping cart works or that the pictures for all of my products load correctly it won’t matter how many hits you get you still will not sell anything. Most likely people will just leave. You have to begin with content first. If you have a section of your site that is still under construction do not link to it until it’s ready to go. Users do not want to see unfinished pages and a lot of search engines, website directories, and such will not look kindly at them either. If you page is not sale ready when your traffic does come your sales or advertising revenue will remain extremely low until you fix it. Keep in mind your viewers are one click of the back button away from someone else selling or promoting the same or similar item. You have to be absolutely sure you’re ready for them when they show up.
2. Paying for discount web traffic
Purchasing web traffic from a discount seller is a complete waste of money. You can search right now for a web traffic generation script with a built in proxy service that will hit any website with a predefined list of ip addresses over a 24 hour period every so many seconds. You can find hundreds of site that will sell you thousands of hits for next to nothing. I can tell you up front that none of these hits will purchase anything from you and traffic in quantities that are obtainable by purchasing it will not have much if any effect on your website’s ranking within the search world. If you have the kind of budget to send your website thousands of low cost hits everyday your marketing money is much better spent elsewhere.
3. Auto or manual surf your way to success
If you are interested in getting a few hundred non interested hits per day and wasting your own precious time this method is great. It becomes like a never ending video game after a while clicking on the right thing every 15 seconds to see the same website you saw one minute ago. Knowing that there is someone else out there happy to be getting hits on their site the same as you are on yours. I ca not say that you might not get a few interested people this way but to are you really marketing your site or just wasting your time. This is up to you to decide by my vote is wasting your time.
4. Trying to advertise to the whole Internet
If you do not know who your target customer is you will never successfully draw a stream of customers to your door. The web is filled with millions of users all looking for different things all the time. Trying to draw the masses to your new start up website without clearly defining who you want to come that is most likely to be interested in and have the ability to afford your product or service then you will get yourself no where. This is marketing 101 basics here. Define you customer in such detail that you know what he or she drinks with their breakfast in the morning, what kind of car they most likely drive, what type of neighborhood they most likely live in, how much annual income they most likely have. Marketing is about penetrating a product into a market to fill an existing need, or educating your customer about a need and then selling the solution. Advertising is an art and a science. You have to master both to be successful. Getting your website links on a whole bunch of pages does not really mean anything unless you’re targeted customer is the one viewing those pages.
5. Thinking that you can build an empire for free
There are many methods of website promotion that are free and do work. I’m just not that confident that any of them are very effective without some level of financial backing. Article Marketing, Directory Submission, Link Placement, E-mail Marketing can all be done for free through many websites. All of them can work if done properly and consistently. You can get placement on better article sites or wider distribution through distribution services than through any single site. Manually submitting articles to hundreds of sites does not make any sense when you consider how much your time is worth. The same logic applies to the other free methods mentioned. You can do them all for free but are you getting the same results as if you paid for them to be done better, more consistently, and more targeted at your key audience. Sometimes the difference between a small amount of success and making your dreams come true can be a modest financial commitment over a short period of time. You have to sacrifice something to achieve success no one will hand it to you.
Remember who your ideal customer is at all times with any type of marketing you do. Figure out what your product or service niche is and what benefits that will have to your ideal customer. Target that customer as specifically as possible. Make sure you site completely functional when your customer arrives. Creating a high traffic website is worth it but it will only happen if you’re marketing methods are targeted right, consistent, and have a method of measuring their success or failure.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
There is a current and active way to knock a website out of Google’s search engine results. It’s simple and effective. This information is already in the public domain and the more people that know about it, the more likelihood there is that Google will do something about it. This article will tell you how it works, how to get a website knocked out of the search engine rankings, but most importantly, how to defend your own website from having it happen to you.
To understand this exploit, you must first understand about Google’s Duplicate Content filter. It’s simply described thus: Google doesn’t want you to search for “blue widget” and have the top 10 search terms returned copies of the same article on how great blue widgets are. They want to give you ONE copy of the Great Blue Widget article, and 9 other different results, just on the off chance that you’ve already read that article and the other results are actually what you wanted.
To handle this, every time Google spiders and indexes a page, it checks it to see if it’s already got a page that is predominantly the same, a duplicate page if you will. Exactly how Google works this out, nobody knows exactly, but it is going to be a combination of some or all of: page text length, page title, headings, keyword densities, checking exactly copy sentence fragments etc. As a result of this duplicate content filter, a whole industry has grown up around trying to get round the filter, just search for “spin article”.
Getting back to the story here, Google indexes a page and lets say it fails it’s duplicate content check, what does Google do? These days, it dumps that duplicate page in Google’s Supplemental Index. What, you didn’t know that Google have 2 indexes? Well they do: the main one, and supplemental one. 2 things are important here: Google will always return results from their Main index if they can; and they will only go to the Supplemental index if they don’t get enough joy from their main index. What this means is that if your page is in the supplemental index, it’s almost certain that you will never show up in the Search Engine Ranking Pages, unless there is next to no competition for the phrase that was searched for.
This all seems pretty reasonable to me, so what’s the problem? Well there’s another little step I haven’t mentioned yet. What happens if someone copies your page, let’s say your homepage of your business website, and when Google indexes that copy, it correctly determines that it’s a duplicate. Now Google knows about 2 pages that it knows are duplicates, it has to decide which to dump in the supplemental index, and which to keep in the main one. That’s pretty obvious right? But how does Google know which is the original and which is the copy? They don’t. Sure they have some clever algorithms to work it out, but even if they are 99% accurate, that leaves a lot of problems for that 1% of times they can get it wrong!
And this is the heart of the exploit, if someone copies your websites homepage say, and manages to convince Google that *their* page is the original, your homepage will get tossed into the supplemental index, never to see the light of day in the Search Engine Ranking Pages again. In case I’m not being clear enough, that’s bad! But wait, it gets worse:
It’s fair to say that in the case of a person physically copying your page and hosting it, you can often get them to take it down through the use of copyright lawyers, and cease and desist letters to ISP’s and the like, with a quick “Reinclusion Request” to Google. But recently there’s a new threat that’s a whole lot harder to stop: the use of publicly accessible Proxy websites. (If you don’t know what a Proxy is, it’s basically a way of making the web run faster by caching content more local to your internet destination. In principle they are generally a good thing.)
There are many such web proxies out there, and I won’t list any here, however I will describe the process: they send out spiders (much like Google’s) and they spider your page, take your content, then they host a copy of your website on their proxy site, nominally so that when their users request your page, they can serve up their local copy quickly rather than having to retrieve if off your server. The big issue is that Google can sometimes decide that the proxy copy of your web page is the original, and yours is not.
Worse again, there’s some evidence that people are deliberately and maliciously using proxy servers to cache copies of web pages, then using normal (white and black hat) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to make those proxy pages rank in the search engine, increasing the likelihood that your legitimate page will be the one dumped by the search engines’ duplicate content filters. Danger Will Robinson!
Even worse still, some of the proxy spiders actively spoof their origins so that you don’t realise that it’s a spider from a proxy, as they pretend to be a Googlebot for example, or from Yahoo. This is why the major search engines actively publish guidelines on how to identify and validate their own spiders.
Now for the big question, how can you defend against this? There are several possible solutions, depending on you web hosting technology and technical competence:
Option 1 - If you are running Apache and PHP on your server, you can set the webhost up to check for search engine spiders that purport to be from the main search engines, and using php and the .htaccess file, you can block proxies from other sources. However this only works for proxies that are playing by the rules and identifying themselves correctly.
Option 2 - If you are using MS Windows and IIS on your server, or if you are on a shared hosting solution that doesn’t give you the ability to do anything clever, it’s an awful lot harder and you should take the advice of a professional on how to defend yourself from this kind of attack.
Option 3 - This is current the best solution available, and applies if you are running a PHP or ASP based website: you set ALL pages robot meta tags to noindex and nofollow, then you implement a PHP or ASP script on each page that checks for valid spiders from the major search engines, and if so, resets the robot meta tags to index and follow. The important distinction here is that it’s easier to validate a real spider, and to discount a spider that’s trying to spoof you, because the major search engines publish processes and procedures to do this, including IP lookups and the like.
So, stay aware, stay knowledgeable, and stay protected. And if you see that you’ve suddenly been dumped from the Search Engine Rankings Pages, now you might know why, how and what to do about it.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
When you surf the web it is possible to learn information about you even when you don’t want to advertise who you are. This is true even if your system contains no virus or malware software. Specifically information that is easily available online includes your IP address, your country (and often more location information based on IP address), what computer system you are on, what browser you use, your browser history, and other information. It gets worse. People can get your computer’s name and even find out your name if your machine supports programs like finger or identd. Also, cookies can track your habits as you move from machine to machine.
How do people get this basic information about you?
When you visit another web site, information about you can be retrieved. Basically, information is intercepted and used by others to track your Internet activities.
How do you stop this from happening?
First of all, it is possible to serf the web anonymously and thereby stop leaving a trail for others to find. Note that this is not fool-proof, but it makes it much harder for people to know who you are. There are products called anonymous proxy servers that help protect you. The anonymous proxy server replaces your Internet address for its own. This has the effect of hiding your IP address and making it much harder for people to track you.
How do I get an anonymous proxy server?
There are many vendors who sell anonymous proxy servers. There are also free proxy servers available to you. Two such products are ShadowSurf and Guardster. Guardster offers various services for anonymous and secure access to the web, some paid as well as a free service. ShadowSurf ShadowSurf provides anonymous surfing at their site for free. Go to it and you will find a box to enter a URL that you want no one to track. There are many others, but here are two that are frequently used.
Another interesting product, given the recent news about the Google search engine filtering its findings for the Chinese government, is Anonymizer . This company, among others, recently (Feb 1st, 2006) pressed that it “is developing a new anti-censorship solution that will enable Chinese citizens to safely access the entire Internet filter-free”
Does an anonymous proxy server make you 100% safe?
No. Still, you are much better off if you use such technology.
What other things should I be concerned about when trying to keep my private information private?
Three other items come to mind when trying to keep your information private. First, you can use an encrypted connection to hide your surfing. This article does not go into detail on this, but search the web and you will find a lot of information on this. Secondly, delete cookies after each session. Third, you can configure your browser to remove JavaScript, Java, and active content. This actually leads to limitations, so you need to think about the cost/benefit of this course of action.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Today more and more people use the Internet, because all we need to know is just a click away. The Internet is a very efficient and quick way of finding information about almost everything. However, there is also a bad side to the Internet and that is that you are exposed to hackers and your every step on the net can be monitored.
Because privacy, Internet crime, hacking were becoming more and more of an issue and many people were afraid to use the Internet because of the consequences, free proxy surfing sounded like a dream, something that had to be done. If software was designed to insure the privacy, the anonymity of the people using the Internet, then all of these problems would find their ending. With free proxy surfing, people did not have to worry anymore about somebody spying their every move or finding out their address or even their social security numbers.
Free proxy surfing is like a buffer between you and the web sites that you want to visit. It allows you to view as many information as you want on the Internet without the concern of being tracked. There are two ways that this can be accomplished: by using a program that can insure your anonymity or by using free proxy sites.
Free proxy surfing with the help of programs is a little more complicated and may not always work. On the other hand free proxy sites are very easy to use and can guarantee a very good result. Nowadays more and more people are using free proxy sites to surf the net. All one has to do in this cases is visit the free proxy site that assures your anonymity and enter the web site address, URL, of the page that you want to visit and remain anonymous at the same time.
How does this work? Well, when using a free proxy site to surf the net and remain anonymous at the same time, the proxy retrieves all the web sites before they are actually delivered to the person. This way, the other server will not see your IP address or other information, but it will see the anonymous proxy’ s adress.
However, there are also some bad news when talking about free proxy surfing. Although, using free proxy sites sounds like a dream, there are also some downs that you should know about. When free proxy surfing, your browsing speed will slow down a little bit. Another thing is that there are many ads on these free proxy sites, that may drive you a little crazy at times. Moreover, there is always the chance that the actual proxy server record your data and a malicious server can find out everything about your machine. This can be avoided if using a free proxy server that is highly rated and also has a very specific privacy policy.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Sharing a single Internet connection among multiple users has never been simpler and UserGate also lets untrained people (not System Administrators) limit the Internet connectivity of their employees.
With a single external Internet connection and multiple users you simply decide on your priorities. If you are managing an office or a corporate network, security and employee productivity take precedence.
One factor that is not commonly recognized is that unlimited Internet connectivity can harm employee performance. When it comes to business networks ‘fast’ and ‘unlimited’ do not optimize productivity. The Internet is rife with spyware and viruses that can significantly threaten your corporate security and productivity. It only takes one virus getting through your security defenses to corrupt or even destroy the information on all of your networked computers, costing you days and weeks of recovery time. Spyware routinely steals sensitive information such as passwords and private documents. Spyware dramatically decreases computer performance and it displays annoying pop-up windows that distract and have to be closed off. Viruses and spyware have effectively paralyzed even the most technologically sophisticated corporations and you can now benefit from what they learned with the safeguards built into UserGate.
Expensive productivity threats are not always as covert as viruses or spyware. The Internet holds many distractions to your employees’ attention. It has become common for employees to use their office computers and their work time to play online Flash games aptly called ‘office killers’. Online chats and instant messengers are a close second to computer games in wasting employee time. If you pay for Internet traffic, an employee using your Internet connection to download music, games or even movies will cost you directly. If your organization uses VoIP to save on long distance bills, it is vital that no employee can use your Internet connection’s entire bandwidth. Otherwise your calls will not go through, and you can easily lose a client because of a missed call or because the conversation quality is embarrassingly poor.
Even though these various threats are real and are severe, some very highly trained engineers put together a simple solution that minimizes them and increases your employee productivity. UserGate proxy server produced by Entensys (http://www.entensys.com/) provides Internet connectivity to your entire organization while eliminating the usual threats and performance bottlenecks caused by Internet Connection Sharing. UserGate blocks viruses and spyware with its advanced dual-core anti-virus*. UserGate limits your employees to their work assignments instead of socializing over the Internet or wasting time, and it saves on your Internet bills by monitoring, limiting and optimizing the bandwidth used by each employee.
*Dual-core anti-virus is very real and very powerful. When Intel released its first dual-core processor, the benefits of increased performance and smoother multitasking became obvious to even the most conservative users. With two anti-virus cores-Panda and Kaspersky-and real-time online updates, UserGate provides tighter security and higher reliability than any single anti-virus solution. Being a proxy server, UserGate prevents spyware and viruses from getting onto your employee computers by scanning all external Internet traffic.
Once installed, UserGate becomes the only connection between your employees and the Internet. Workers cannot access anything beyond your corporate network and external influences cannot affect your computers. This approach allows for extremely effective control over how and when your employees can use your Internet connections. You can prohibit access to specific file types, sites, resources or protocols making it impossible for employees to chat, download personal-use files or play online games during their work time. VoIP connections can be prioritized over end-user traffic, allowing for crystal clear phone calls over the Internet. Additionally, thanks to extensive journal support, you will always be able to see exactly what has been accessed by each employee and the bandwidths they consumed.
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
These security concerns are being addressed by service providers and equipment manufacturers to make VoIP calls secure and to give buyers peace of mind. Furthermore, as the broader issue of security on and over the Internet is being addressed by the industry, global standards bodies and governments, so we can expect positive impact in the issue of secure VoIP. Meanwhile, and even after these security enhancements become commonplace, businesses must take steps to secure their VoIP network, as they should secure any point of access to the business, its intellectual property and its data……
Simple Steps For Network Security
VoIP networks are vulnerable to exactly the same security risks as traditional IP data networks and VoIP security needs to be at the same level. This is a relatively straightforward exercise for businesses that already operate secure IP networks.
Protecting VoIP Systems
Organizations should adopt a multi layer comprehensive security strategy. The network can be segmented into secure zones protected by a firewall, intrusion prevention should be added, as well as other layers of security. Although there is no such thing as totally secure IP network, a company can secure the voice network by putting in place layers of security to protect telephones, conversations, computers, and servers. A competent IT department, together with support from the VoIP service provider or solution reseller should be able to implement Authentication, control access (passwords and firewalls), encryption, an audit trail of calls and, where necessary, recording those calls.
Don’t forget internal Security
Protection should of course also be put in place for internal traffic flowing over a VoIP system. An increasing number of workers use VoIP to communicate with company staff from wireless phones or soft phones. It is a sensible precaution to encrypt VoIP traffic moving internally over a corporate network to prevent attacks from insiders. The use of desktop-based soft phones to make and receive VoIP-based telephone calls can create a hole in firewall security. The best way to address this problem is to restrict access to the network. In addition, all inbound VoIP traffic that flows through a firewall should be routed through a proxy server, thus eliminating a direct connection to the Internet. Again, these are relatively simple and low cost steps to secure the network.
Peace of Mind With VoIP System
Many corporate users are discouraged from using VoIP systems as they feel they are not secure however, this is like saying it is not safe to use a computer on the internet. Securing VoIP systems is like securing any IP network. Just as you would look to set up protection on your PC including virus software, firewalls etc, so to do you need to protect a VoIP system in a similar fashion. VoIP can and is secure, providing certain security steps are taken. Security is not a server issue, it is a network issue.
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
The following are my top 5 tips on how to increase your google adsense earnings. These methods are not guaranteed to work, but if followed correctly they will give you a great starting point. Also the effectiveness of these tips depends on the type of site being run, they will be more effective on a movie review site then a proxy or flash arcade site. So let’s get started.
5) Revenue Sharing Forums.
This is not a very effective way of increasing earnings, but every penny helps at this stage of the game. So check the forums that you frequent, view the user options and if available add your google adsense user i.d. Now when you post in these forums and an ad is clicked you will receive a portion of the profits.
4) Create Channels.
Make sure you create unique channels for each set of ads, this way you know which ad groups perform best and which ad groups you need to alter. The most effective way to use channels is to have a single channel created for each ad space. If you have ads beneath your header, name the channel header, it’s that simple. From this point on page views, clicks etc will be viewed under this channel.
3) Blending your Ads.
This may be the most important part of increasing your earnings. The optimal look on your site is to have the adsense links blend with your site links and the adsense description blend with the content on your site. You may also want to blend the background and border with the background on your page. Black ads on a white site are just begging for a 0.00% ctr.
2) Choose the Correct Ad Sizes.
This step is quite obvious but for the sake of the article and new adsense users I will indulge anyhow. You DO NOT want to bombard your users with massive ads, adsense or not. For the most part larger ads do work better, as long as they fit well into the layout of your site.
1) Choose the Correct Placement for Your Ads.
This completely depends on the type of site that you run. The majority of the time you will be adding your Google Adsense Ads above the fold (the bottom of the screen when opening a new page), and inside the content or menu. This will ensure your ads will be viewed while your content is being read or site being navigated.
Now while doing this you want to avoid making it look like you are trying to trick the user into clicking on your ads, if you do try to trick them it may result in one of two things. One, your users may feel deceived and not revisit your site, thus diminishing any opportunity of clicks next time. Two, you may violate google adsense terms of service and be banned from adsense for good.
The best of luck to everyone.
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Some people actually like spicy meat in a can. But nobody likes email spam. That’s why anti-spam filters are a good thing. Most email programs come with built-in filters. Add-on filters are also available that function as email proxies. The spam filter lives on your computer like a local email server, acting as a proxy between your ISP’s mail server and your email client, such as Eudora or Outlook. Once it’s installed, the add-on filter checks your mail, filters out all the spam it can identify, and then sorts or deletes it according to your preferences.
Spam Filters for Windows Users
Add-on spam filters, like other software, are designed to operate with specific configurations. Windows users will find the widest selection and easiest access to programs. You can search and download a program that’s compatible with any version of Windows on the vendor’s websites.
For users with POP3 or IMAP accounts or folks who use other email services such as AOL, Yahoo!, or Hotmail, an add-on spam program for Windows might still work. Many of these accounts can be filtered via your Outlook or Outlook Express applications and are therefore compatible with Windows software.
In fact, some of the newer filters offer plug-ins that filter messages on your handheld email device. Anti-spam on the go!
Spam Filters for Mac and Other Users
A quick web search should result in several anti-spam options for Mac users. Most are compatible with Mail or Eudora email clients. Some Mac-friendly filters are even capable of filtering mail in POP3, IMAP, and Exchange accounts.
For users employing other operating systems, such as a Linux box, add-on anti-spam options do exist. Try searching the Mac compatible programs to find versatile software.
Spam Filters for the Computer Challenged
If downloading software and following an endless series of setup box instructions isn’t your favorite way to spend the afternoon, fear not. Spam filters maintained at an offsite server could work for you.
If you have very little memory left on your hard drive or you just don’t like configuring software, try one of the subscription services available online. For a small monthly fee, your messages will be routed through their filters before arriving in your inbox relatively spam-free.
A Life Without Spam
Most users find that adding on an anti-spam program is well worth the small cost and minimal time investment. To choose the right software for your computer, be sure you know your system requirements and make a list of the features that are important to you. You could be headed for a spam-free future.
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
The design is such that SIP clients use TCP and UDP port 5060 to connect the SIP servers and others SIP endpoints. The sole purpose of SIP uses are setting up and tearing down voice or video calls. Where session initiation is required, however, SIP is used as well. These include Event Subscription and Notification, Terminal mobility and so on. A lot of SIP-related RFCs actually define behaviour for such solutions. All voice/video communications are done over separate session protocols, like RTP.
SIP was tasked to provide a signaling and call setup protocol for IP-based communications that can support a superset of the call processing functions and features present in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). The SIP Protocol by itself, defines the focus of the call-setup and signaling. However, it has been designed to enable the building of these featured network elements called Proxy Servers and User Agents. As such, these are features that permit familiar telephone-like operations: dialing, ringing, hearing ring tones or busy signals. The implementation might be different but the behaviour is similar.
SIP enabled telephony networks can also implement many of the more advanced call processing features present in SS7 (Signaling System 7), though the two protocols themselves are different. SIP is a peer-to-peer protocol, characterized by highly complex central network architecture and dumb endpoints; therefore it requires only a very simple core network with intelligence distributed to the network edge, embedded. The features of SIP are implemented as compared to traditional SS7 features, which are implemented in the network.
SIP is characterized by its proponents as having roots in the IP community rather than the telecom industry although many other VoIP signaling protocols exist. While the H. 323 VoIP protocol has been traditionally more associated with the ITU, SIP has been standardized and governed primarily by the IETF. The two organizations have endorsed both protocols in some fashion.
SIP is like HTTP and shares some of its design principles as well. Things like readable by humans and request-response structured. Codes like ‘404 not found’ are used as well. SIP is much simpler than H. 323. However, some would counter that while SIP has a goal for simplicity, its current state is as complex as H. 323. It is a stateless control, that some might point out, hence making it possible to fail like other difficult protocols as well. SIP and H. 323 are not limited to voice communication but can mediate any kind of communication session from voice to video, maybe even unrealized applications in future.
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