There may be times when it is simply inconvenient to use the click of your mouse for a specific command or even for an entire working session on your computer. Believe it or not, repeated clicking of the mouse can cause physical pain and nerve damage in hands, wrists, arms, shoulders or even the neck of some people. Minimize this risk by taking note of your computer habits and replacing some of the most frequently used mouse movements with simple, easy to learn, keyboard shortcuts. You can save time and hand movements by implementing these helpful
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On Tuesday I received 423 emails from an unknown spammer attacking my site.
On Wednesday I received 789 emails from the same spammer.
Action had to be taken.
The emails were copies of posts to my discussion forum - the typical spammers posts - keyword stuffing, numerous hyperlinks to junk sites crammed with even more keywords.
It was clear I was being hit by one spammer, with an automated script, for a number of telltale reasons:
1) Nobody could post 789 posts to a forum in 24 hours manually
2) All posts were from random .co.za email addresses (South African domains, but likely false)
3) All posts pointed to very similar spammy sites obviously made with the same auto-generation software
4) Checking various domains promoted within these posts in WHOIS showed they were all owned by a certain guy in Paris
I carefully combed my forum for these junk posts but couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary. So I checked for posts by .co.za email addresses, or French IPs but couldn’t see a problem anywhere.
Where were they coming from, and where were the posts?
To help me in my quest I did a search on Google for the text that began every email which read:
“The following was posted in the on
But couldn’t find any links that were any help.
So next I investigated the content of the emails for common factors and found the following Javascript snippet began every message body:
“var defDoor”… before launching into other Javascript elements, followed by the keywords and links.
I wonder…
A quick search on Google and two factors astonished me…
1) Google showed up 92,600 pages with this code on, of which every one I checked matched the exact spam posts I was seeing in style and content. So we were dealing with a professional of some magnitude.
2) They were all on forums, but not the one I used, but WWWBoard as available from http://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html
A !
quick se
arch with my FTP software through the bowels of my admittedly large site that has been online for 5 years or so and has seen more reworkings than Pamela Anderson showed I *had* got WWWBoard installed on my site but had stopped using it years ago in place of my current forum software.
I had completely forgotten about it, and there were the hundreds of spam posts sitting there on my server!
Obviously I don’t use the script so instantly deleted it and the spamming stopped dead overnight but if I’m one of over 90,000 victims this guy has duped then a little advice is necessary:
1) Appreciate that there are security flaws to WWWBoard and you either need to watch your forum very carefully or consider switching to another script.
2) Don’t leave old scripts sitting around on your server waiting for spammers to abuse them. Use them, or delete them.
3) Try to avoid using obvious folders for scripts. Whilst I didn’t link to my old forum from anywhere on the site, it was in an obvious folder so a spammer (or a script) could easily have guessed it.
4) Realise that security threats are very real if you get reasonable traffic and take steps *in advance* to minimize the risk to your own site.
Copyright 2006 Richard Adams
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Richard Adams is the founder of http://www.merchantaccountforum.com , one of the net’s most popular merchant account advice sites.
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Spyware is rapidly becoming one of most dangerous threats on the Internet. It has been reported by CNN that approximately 90% of all computers connected to the internet are infected with at least one spyware program. The programmers who create these leaching programs are becoming better at evading the various applications designed to eradicate these infections from your computer.
There are many applications designed to combat this growing threat, but they do not always work correctly. Sometimes it is necessary to take more stringent actions in riding your self of any infection than just running a scan from one of these applications. If you are not able to clean a spyware infection with your detector, then the next step is to try a restore operation. You can attempt to restore your computer to the state it was before the computer became infected. You can do this by Selecting the restore option from the Start Menu > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore. From this location you can select to restore your computer to an earlier time before it became infected. This is a fairly safe process and you should not lose any of your data, but this option is not always available.
The system restore option usually takes a system snapshot any time you install new software or during a predetermined schedule, but sometimes this does not happen. System Restore can be turned off either through configuration changes or through other software installation. In this case you pretty much only have a couple of choices to rid yourself of the infection. You could backup your data and perform a clean install. A clean install is where you reformat your hard drive and reinstall all your applications. This is not a pleasant experience and could require hours of your time depending on the type and number of applications you have installed.
The second option is to hack your registry. It should be noted that Hacking the Registry is not a task to be taken lightly and if done improperly you could still wind up doing a clean install as mentioned earlier. In order for you to hack the registry to effectively clean a spyware infection from your machine will require you knowing a little about the Spyware application you are attempting to remove. Before touching your registry make sure you make a backup and have a current windows boot disk. You may need it if you touch the registry and make a mistake. When touching the registry always have a backup plan. Once you open the registry by going to Start > Run > and typing in regedit the registry will be opened. The registry in Windows XP is quite large and if you go through every key then you will be there longer than if you had re-installed. You can search by pressing F3 and typing in the name of the spyware application that you are trying to destroy. When you find an occurrence then you can just delete that key, but be careful because if you delete the wrong key you can render the Operating System worthless.
If done properly you can effectively kill those spyware instances that just won
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Temporary Internet Files are, in fact, the cache of the Internet Explorer. This means that when you load a web page with Internet Explorer, it is saved on your computer so that if you later decide to open the same page again, it will open a lot faster. Temporary Internet Files improve speed of web browsing and also make possible so called offline browsing, which gives you the ability to open the web pages from cache even when you are not connected to the Internet.
Despite all these positive things about Temporary Internet Files, they have one big drawback: they compromise your privacy. Everyone with access to your computer can look into your Temporary Internet Files folder (location of this folder is discussed here) and see the sites that you have visited in the past. You can manually delete the contents of Temporary Internet Files folder (explained here) but this will not erase all traces of the pages because a special file called Index.dat is placed in this folder and it will still preserve the names and even the dates of your first visits to many pages.
How to delete Temporary Internet Files?
To delete Temporary Internet Files manually, do the following things:
1. Start Internet Explorer and click Tools menu, then select Internet Options… from this menu. This will open the Internet Options window.
2. Click General tab and then find in the section Temporary Internet Files the button Delete Files… and click it. A new dialog box opens.
3. In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the Delete all offline content check box if you want to delete all Web page content that you have made available offline.
4. Click OK to delete the files. Note that if you are doing this for the first time, the deleting can take a large amount of time, so be patient.
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Let me ask you a question: you get a letter in the mail box, delivered by a postman,
asking you to send it on to ten friends or else you will get bad luck.
What do you do? Do you sit down, write out ten copies, get ten envelopes, ten
stamps and then send the ten copies, or do you consign it to the
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