I think this is one of the worst ideas I saw. In a era in which safety are critical factor for any business, to help increasing the spam propagation, now there is a new service called “Buy Blog Comments“.

In brief, is a new service that allows to leave comment spam on blogs for those wanting be optimized higher inside Google and other search engine. Has been developed by Jon Waraas a guy that owns a company called developer hut and has launched a blog network called BuzzBums. The company have some people in America and Canada that have the aims to write the comments.

I can not stress how bad of an business idea this is. I’m inclined to believe that ask someone to comment your blog post is poor strategy to increase your SEO ranking. There are other services and tools that do this type of works but BuyBlogComments.Com takes this a step further and is the first of its kind, giving you a complete service to create spam comment to your blog.

How Does It Work?

We have a database of hundreds of thousands of blogs, mostly of dofollow, that we will post your blog comments on when you purchase. When you order our blog comment experts will find blogs related to your niche, they will than read over the blog post and post a comment on the blog post, with your website and url in the commentators field. That way the comments will stick and you will have a quality backlink on a quality website about your niche. We do not use automated spamming in anyway. Once your comments are done you will get a txt file with all the blog posts with your comments. Its that simple. You cant get that from any other backlink building service!

The service offer users a choice between different package: 100 comments for $19.99, 5000 comments for $99.99 and 1000 comments for $199.99. For smaller sites, they usually take about a week to write comments.

Why Would Someone Pay For Fake Comment?

My own experience with spam is negative. I don’t know about you, but I get dozens-if not hundreds-of spam email a day and thanks Askismets as spam blocker, I know who do it. My competence level, and insight may not match the one of the experts, thus I would love to hear your thoughts on this and especially on the legality of this business.

Before to starting with what analytics spam is, I tell you exactly what I did to install javascript code and what Google analytics does.

Google analytics is one of the best, if not “the best” reliable tool that give you a lot of information to know about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site. It is an invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed reporting analytics.

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To install Google Analytics, all you need to do is place a small piece of code on each page of your site that you want to track. The best for myself and other web publisher is that the service is totally free.

Here, a good step-by-step instruction on how to install  Google Analytics:

1. To install Google Analytics for your website, all you need to do is sign up for a free account at http://analytics.google.com
2. Follow the steps provided by Google for creating a profile for your domain.
3. Once these steps are completed, Google Analytics will provide you with some HTML code that you are required to copy to your index.html/php.
4. To add the HTML code on your website use an FTP client such as Filezilla, or your site File Manager, and put it on your index.html/php file.
5. Scroll down to the bottom of the file where you see the following tag: *</body>
6. Right before the </body> tag, paste the lines of HTML code provided by Statcounter. Save the changes.
7. To access your stats, log in to your Analytics account at http://analytics.google.com.

So, what do we mean exactly by ‘tracked’? Well, each time a visitor comes to your site, Google Analitics is able to give a range of information from the to analyzing the performance of your sites.

• Setting Goals
• Comparing Date Ranges
• Deep Geographic Data
• Local Conversion Data
• Funnel Visualization
• Navigation Summary
• Complete AdWords Integration
• Site Overlay
• Let’s Bounce
• Keyword Source
• Referring Sites
• Browser Capabilities
• Search Engine Traffic

Do you know that the information that Google Analytics picks up about a visitor can be faked?

But, can we be one hundred percent certain that robot index website are not used for other purposes. A robot index website is a computer program that check link popularity on website. A file like “robots.txt” is used by search engines to categorize and archive web sites(for example: mydomain.com/robots.txt ).

I wonder if it is possible to build robots that index websites which do execute javascript. This is a great question, I’d love to get answer about this.

An Example Of Webite For Spam Prevention

I did a question because I was browsing SEOMOZ today when I read an interesting article posted by Tom C, where he talk about inflating traffic on Google Analitics through a robot index website. I’m agree with TomC when say that it’s possible to build an executive javascript that visit people’s sites.

If done well, the fake traffic would be hard to detect, but in reality most spammers will be lazy and won’t randomise their traffic enough, so if you look closely it’ll stand out.

What is the advantage? Well, there are two of advantages.

• Inflating natural traffic to your site in order to increase popularity
• Increasing link back and generate indexable pages with increasing page rank.

You might be skeptical about this, so check out this  case study of a fake website in action on his personal blog: The site in question is: http://iamready4u.synthasite.com/

You’ll notice it has auto-generated content and what look like an auto-generated link to my site. I have a hard time believing that this is genuine traffic (though I’m not 100% sure either way - which is what makes the whole prospect even more troubling)

Conclusion

Which are the future of Web Spam? I do not know if will be the next phase of spam?  Personally I doubt Google taking preventative measures to eliminate spam, but it wouldn’t surprise me if this will be a issue in the next months.

Most of us are overloaded with distractions in our work, too much email, too much files, too much images. Sometimes can happens that you may accidentally lose your pictures that you have stored on your hard disk. It’s something that can happen for example if you inadvertently put them in the recycle bin.

Solution 1. In this case is very simple to recovery your images, all you need to do is to right-click, and then on the repair.

Now, imagine you have over 200 pictures in your hard disk and no way to retrieve. Some time ago I re-inserted my card into the wrong camera. For some reason my Benq digital camera, are not compatible. I went to download the pictures and what happens “media card not valid”. I became crazy because I had over 200 working photos on it.

Solution 2. In this case don’t try to retrieve the pictures yourself. To make sure you photographs don’t get lost is by using a software to recover your digital photos. This second solution is the just way that in minutes can save your photo from a complete damage.

Photo Nose is a photo image recovery software that give you one chance to retrieve the pictures for you. Whether you are novie with this type of programs, if you are problems retrieving your pictures because accidentally deleted, memory card formatted or damaged, Photo Nose offers a valid and simple way for people to save this.

Photo Nose works with digital cameras, USB drives, memory card readers and just about any other storage device.

Start In Only Two Step

The first thing I noticed is that it’s very easy to use. The software can be download directly from the home page(the file size is just 1.30MB).

Behind the scenes, this photo image recovery software works like this: 1 setep) Once installed, all you need to do is to select your file types and clicks the “next” button and you’ll be ready to scanning your drive you want to check. 2 Step) At this point you can select(or deselect) which files you want to restore and click the “next” button. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Below you can see the software in action.

To Summarize the key features of this software:

• Upgrade for life.
• Allows to retrieve all type of image, video and audio file format.
• Digital camera file format supported: jpg, bmp, tif, gif, rif.
• Video file format supported: mpg, mov, avi, asf, mp4.
• Audio file format supported: wav, mid, mp3, mp4.
• Easy to use. Only two step to retrieve deleted data
• 30 day money back guarantee.

Make Money Strategy

Photo Nose website survive thanks to software sales. I think is a just strategy because price is very low and
 is enough to completely offset the trust. Price is set (USD) at $49.95 for the professional version and $29.95 for the standard.

Also, if you are not completely satisfied with your purchase all their products are backed with a 30 day money back guarantee ad you may get a full refund within 30 days.

Conclusion

The important of a photo image recovery software can’t be underestimated, and for those working online it is absolutely important and an essential part of the process. Photo nose does a nice job in making it easy for you to recover all your files. What do you think of this?

Computers have become the main instrument for storing all our important business data. Safety is a critical factor for any business, when we are working with our pc. Can happen that there are serious computer issues, that can give loss money and time.

This is a good reason because we have need of a backup recovery system. So, in this review I take a look at how IBackup - Online Backup can become a simply but efficace solution for getting a backup of all ours file data.

What Is IBackup For Windows

If you are serious about to protect your business, then this software maybe could be that you are looking for. IBackup for Windows is an intelligent backup program for Windows desktops, laptops and servers, that can help you to backup/restore interactively or shedule backups of your critical file to your online backup account.

Simple to use interface with easy and straightforward commands which allow you to getting backup your data files in a way very speedily. You can even drag and drop your files to get it backed up or retrieved.

How Does It Start

To take advantage of IBackup, all you need to do is to download the software(7.45MB). Once made it, you must register for any of the IBackup subscription plans. You can choose to do a month or a yearly subscriptions which give you a good 10% to 16 discount.

System Requirements

Features

For those unfamiliar with what IBackup is capable, below I walk you through the key features of what looks to be a very promising software with a rich potential.

1. IBackup allows you to view the intere list of scheduled IBackup/restore jobs of all your Ibackup accounts. All you need to do is to right-click on the “IBackup for Windows monitor tray icon” and select the “Manage all the scheduled jobs” option.
2. Incremental and compressed backups that greatly reduce the network bandwidth usage by transferring only the modified portions of a file.
3. Whether you have multiple computer, with IBAckup you are able to make backup data from multiple computers to a single account. It able to prevents data overlap if you have files/folders with similar names, stored on multiple machines.
4. IBackup supports file larger than 2GB and has been tested to transfer files both ways for files of size up to 6GB.
5. Last, but not least IBackup feature is that you can choose to receive email notification for your scheduled backups.

Conclusion

More professional than the most of the other backup solutions I saw, In my view IBackup present a lot of options that for a little price only $10 a month, can make a great job to keep your data protects and in a secure place.

Security threats evolve costantly. So, just for your own protection, here a list of the top 17 network security tools. Every tool mentioned has a description, and a homepage link.

Metasploit. It provides useful information to people who perform penetration testing, IDS signature development, and exploit research.

Nessus vulnerability scanner. Is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks.

Wireshark. Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.

Aircrack. aircrack is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools. In fact, aircrack is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks.

Netcat. Is no more an attack tool than any file transfer or remote access program. It does not exploit any vulnerability, contain any malicious code, or attempt to hide its presence.

Snort. Is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system utilizing a rule-driven language, which combines the benefits of signature, protocol and anomaly based inspection methods.

Kismetwireless. Is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.

Hping. Is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer. The interface is inspired to the ping(8) unix command, but hping isn’t only able to send ICMP echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a traceroute mode, the ability to send files between a covered channel, and many other features.

Dsniff. Is a collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing. dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf, and webspy passively monitor a network for interesting data (passwords, e-mail, files, etc.).

Cain & Abel. Is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.

John. John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form. If you would rather use a commercial product tailored for your specific operating system, please consider John the Ripper Pro, which is distributed primarily in the form of “native” packages for the target operating systems and in general is meant to be easier to install and use while delivering optimal performance.

Ettercap. Is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis.

Nikto2. Is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 900 servers, and version specific problems on over 250 servers. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and can be automatically updated (if desired).

Sysinternals. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications.

Gfi. GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) is an award-winning solution that allows you to scan, detect, assess and rectify any security vulnerabilities on your network.  

Thc-hydra. Is a very fast network logon cracker which support many different services.

Parosproxy. We wrote a program called “Paros” for people who need to evaluate the security of their web applications. It is free of charge and completely written in Java. Through Paros’s proxy nature, all HTTP and HTTPS data between server and client, including cookies and form fields, can be intercepted and modified.

Behind a domain name there can be some abuse information from registrars used to leverage your domains, or your traffic and even more serious your money to their advantage.

• Data Expire Domain Registrations: Whois DomainName Search. When you must register your domain name for 5 years sometime can happen that some registrars will pay the registry for 1 year and pocket the rest of your money. Yes, can happen! However, there is one way that allows us to act quickly and check up if domain name is registered for that years. You can verify the real expired domain names through a free whois lookup tool like EasyWhois. The Whois system, if you don’t know, is basically a Internet’s directory that give you the ability to quickly and easily find if the domain is already registered and if so it allows you to looking the number of years you paid your registrar for. From here all of information varies on base what the domain is.
• Scams And Fraud. There are a lot of complaints relating to domain names sales and use. However as I said before, we have the tools that allow us to check them because every time you register a domain name, the informations of that domain registration must be published in a publicly accessible database called Whois.
• Domain Slamming. The practice of “domain slamming” is becoming more pronounced recently. To help prevent some of spammers send any type of marketing spam when people register a domain name, I’ve used free service to protect my email address called MyPrivacy.ca. 
• Free” URL Forwarding. URL forwarding is a technique on the World Wide Web for making a web page available under many URLs. For instance, URL forwarding is used when a web site has need to change its domain name, or an author has need to transfer his or her pages to a new domain, or two web sites might merge. You can opt-in to choose URL forwarding when you register domains or add it later as a value add-on service. Some people may wonder why the price ranges vary so much for domain registrations and what the difference. Well the low cost often is due by other tricks as sell pop-up or pop-under advertisements on your domain.

Conclusion

In brief, whether you want to register your domain from a registrar you must check that:

• Lets to keep to access on your whois records,  nameservers, mail exchangers, and hostname records.
• Registrar keep visible the fees.
• Allows to pay before, the registry for the same number of years you order.
• Give you a free whois email privacy service.
• Registrars doesn’t try to monetize through your domain or sell you services you don’t need or want.

You ever been attacked by viruses? Are you sure you haven’t been? I was more than once, through my own stupidity. It’s easy it happen to you. If you’re unprotected, viruses can invade your pc in many ways.

Fortunately, is also easy to prevent virus, as well. For example, To help prevent some of the damage hackers do to my blog I’m tried the security software included on Google Pack. Since the topic is enough discussed on the net, I would like to share some things with you that you might be interested about Googl Pack.

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What Is Google Pack?

For who don’t know, Google Pack is a free collection of software from Google and other companies available for any user of Windows-based PCs. On march 2007, Google has included some additions to Google Pack. The updated software pack delivers a new security software.

One of better security software “Symantec Norton Security Scan” has been included in Google Pack. It is not really new, but an updated version of old Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition. However, the software provides all features to remove spyware and viruses, and users are able to have basic virus protection, featuring automatic security updates and scheduled scanning, all with no paid subscription required according to the Official Google Blog.

With Norton Security Scan, users have an easy-to-use tool that scans their PC specifically for viruses and spyware. In addition to the scan feature, the Google Pack version of Norton Security Scan removes all existing viruses, trojans and worms found on a user’s PC and provides them with helpful tips on how they can further improve their PC security.

As I said first, Norton Security Scan replaces Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition which was part of the initial line-up of software when the Google Pack first launched in 2006. Visit its web site( free-protection.com) to learn more.

Google pack also has a fresh way to organize your photos. Google Photos Screensaver, turning it into a digital picture frame that displays the latest photos from, family, friends and favorite photographers. Users can show images from their computer, Picasa Web Albums, or photo feeds from other photo-sharing sites.

Google Pack also includes a number of free Google products, such as:

Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.

Google Talk is downloadable application for Windows offers many features for communicating with your friends and family.It includes: Instant messaging, free PC-to-PC voice calls, send and receive voicemails, unlimited file transfers, gmail notifications on your desktop.

Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It’s a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you’ve viewed, and more.
Google Toolbar increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web.

Mozilla’s provides the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird e-mail client as well as other products and technologies, such as Bugzilla.

Spyware Doctor has been downloaded over 125 million times with millions more downloads every week. People worldwide use and trust Spyware Doctor to protect their PCs from spyware, adware and other online threats.

Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.

However, Google has also tied up a number of options to choose:

Skype allows you to make calls from your computer. Free to other people on Skype and cheap to phones and mobiles around the world.

Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you: Locate and organise all the photos on your computer. Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks. Share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web: it’s fast, easy and free.

RealPlayer gives you the ability to download them all to your personal video playlist. Grab videos from thousands of Web sites with just one click. Watch them whenever you want and wherever you want. You can even burn your greatest hits to DVD*. Find the Web video you want - and Real it in.

StarOffice software is an affordable alternative in office productivity suites that runs on multiple operating systems, including Solaris Operating Environment, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.

Positive experiences

• It’s free.
• Don’t need to downloading the program.
• Very usefull and flexible for people to get just what they want.
• Good software: Google Earth, Google Photo Screensaver, Picassa, Firefox, Google Toolbar, Skype, Adobe Reader, Real Player.
• These products are still quite young and new features are added regularly usually without any action needed from me.

Negative experiences

• EVERYTHING in google pack, is basic.
• No Internet - no work.

Conclusion

It will be interesting to follow along on the scene of online applications to see what they have evolved into in a year or two. In my view, it’s very very useful, but my words won’t be descriptive enough to explain it, so just go on free-protection.com and check it out for yourself.

Safety and efficiency are critical factors for any business. To help prevent some of damage do to your blog, below I’ve included a collection of 10 anti-spyware and anti-virus. This is just for your own protection, folks.

A-Squared Free. Remove Trojans, Worms, Keyloggers, Dialer and Spyware/Adware from your PC! Double realtime protection with signature scan and Malware-IDS (HIPS). Also against Rootkits! Extra: a-squared HiJackFree system analysis tool included.

HiJackFree. a-squared HiJackFree is a detailed system analysis tool which helps advanced users to detect and remove all types of HiJackers, Spyware, Adware, Trojans and Worms.

Ad-aware SE Personal. Ad-Aware is no ordinary anti-spyware, it is the original anti-spyware product, offered to consumers worldwide to protect their personal and home computers from malware attacks. And today, with over a quarter of a billion downloads, computer users put their trust in Ad-Aware more than any other anti-spyware software program.

AntiVir Removal Tool. For all those experiencing the damaging effects of a virus infection, Avira’s researchers have prepared a removal tool, which can be used to eliminate major distinct threats.

Avast! 4 Home Edition. avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use.

AVG Anti-Virus Free. AVG Free is the most popular free solution available at no cost to home users and provides the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.

McAfee-FreeScan. McAfee FreeScan helps you detect thousands of viruses on your computer. Based on the award-winning McAfee VirusScan engine, FreeScan searches for viruses, including the latest known “in the wild” viruses, and displays a detailed list of any infected files. Should viruses be found, FreeScan even provides links to more information about the viruses and what you can do to clean your system.

Active Security Monitor. It provides you with: A simple, easy-to-understand display of your PC’s security status - for all the PCs in your home network. A Safety Score, similar in concept to a credit score, that indicates how safe your PC is from viruses, spyware, identity theft and other intrusions and attacks. A list of recommended products, services, settings and articles you can use to improve your PC’s level of protection. Messages and alerts about the status of your security software.

ClamWin Free Antivirus. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free.

Comodo Free Firewall. It’s Free. Forever. No Catch. No Kidding. Free for Commercial Use!. The Award-Winning Free Firewall Software. Complete protection from Hackers, Spyware and Identity theft. Secures against internal and external threats. Host Intrusion Prevention System stops malware ever being installed. Delivers total end-point security for Personal Computers and Networks. Free Download. No charges or license fees ever.

To decreasing your computer’s vulnerability, the browser plugin launched by Haute can a good tool that can to help users to detect and block malware and inform them about site that includes malware.
It can keep you safe from attack, even if you’re the first person to stumble upon malware-laced content.

However even Site Advisor with recent acquired by McAfee, allow to detect malware before you are infected. The difference between Site Advisor and Haute Secure is that the first is more strong than the second and increases protection from remote code execution.

How Houte secure to work.

Houte Secure to give for an site a minimun or Maximun severity rating. It check out every single pages of an website and block those pages when are bad and alert users that the site are infected.    The plugin also includes the P2P technology, an solution that allows to communicate information with others plugin users. (Site Advisor do not contain the plugin to detect malware). when you find a malware, Haute Secure servers send the information out to all other plugin users. Also, Haute Secure make sure your system is protected from adware, an software program which shows advertising while the program is running.

Conclusion

Haute Secure it not works well for sites like Stumbleupon because hackers create account and send malware so infects thousand of Stumbleupon pages.

Microsoft has released its scheduled monthly security update for July 2007. Three critical bulletins affect Microsoft windows, Microsoft Office and Excel.

Two Important updates for Microsoft Office Publisher and Windows XP Professional and a Moderate update for Microsoft Windows Vista will also be available. Microsoft has also updated the Microsoft WIndows Malicious Software Removal Tool.

The update is important because could present remote code execution of malicius users. Users are advised to update their systems immediately in July 10, 2007.