Do you want your website to be secure?
Millions of sites get hacked daily. A site is hacked when the administrator fails to implement database security measures. The hacking might be a white hack i.e the hacker is trying to test a site security or the hack might be a black hat i.e the hacker has an intention to do on your site. For instance, in this news, teen hack a school computer, the teen hacked his school’s website and changed his grade.
A common method used in hacking websites ar SQL injection. SQL injection is when the hacker input charcaters in the login box to confuse the database to produce private information.
There are free tools to test for your site vulnerability
1. HP Scrawlr is a vulnerability scanner
2. UrlScan v3.0 Beta is a security tool that prevent potentially harmful requests from being processed by web applications on the server.
3. Microsoft Source code analyzer helps to find SQL injection vulnerability
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Delete A Program Completely
There are some annoying programs that needs to be deleted. This tutorial will aid you in deleting the program.
1. Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs. Look for the unwanted program and delete it..
2. Click Start -> Search or Find -> For Files or Folders. In the “look in” search box, select C drive.
3. Type: the name of the program, and press Enter.
4. If your search retrieves a file, right click on each file then go down to “Delete” and left click.
5. You will be asked if you want to send the file to the Recycling bin – click “Yes”.
6. **Proceed with caution ** Go to Start -> Run. Type Regedit and click OK to open up Windows Registry Editor.
7. Navigate to HKEY Local Machine > Software.
8. Look for the unwanted program. First left-click on the folder to highlight it, and then right-click and select Delete.
9. When the system asks “Are you sure you want to delete this key”, click Yes. Then close out of Windows Registry Editor.
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Support for Windows XP is extended to 13 years
Microsoft decided to extend the support for Windows XP to full 13 years. This is 3 years longer than it has done for any of its previous Windows operating systems. Microsoft is doing this because the infamous Vista is being rejected by companies and individual pcs and Windows 7 will not be released anytime soon. The earliest released date for Windows 7 is slated for January 2010. Microsoft also promised to provide security patches and updates to Windows XP until 2014.
Many large businesses have avoided upgrading to Windows Vista, which has been plagued with widely publicized problems, including incompatibilities with drivers for legacy hardware and applications. Upgrading to Vista could also be very expensive for enterprises that would need to upgrade older hardware. Many businesses and individuals have opted to buy Windows XP on new PCs.
While June 30 remains the cutoff date for selling Windows XP, retailers such as Dell are still selling preconfigured PCs with XP. And enterprises with volume licensing contracts will still be able to install XP even on new machines.
In addition, Microsoft has promoted a licensing loophole that allows new hardware buyers to purchase Windows Vista and then downgrade it to a previous version of Windows. Microsoft has cited such purchases as evidence of support for Vista, but many Web postings have disputed that.
Microsoft will also continue to sell a version of Windows XP to makers of low-cost computers through June 2010. Such machines as the Asus Eee PC are incapable of running Vista and the alternative would be for the makers to install open-source Linux as the operating system.
Source: Yahoo news
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Monitoring Programs running on your PC
Programs such as malware can be running on your PC without your knowledge. Malware which includes worms, virus, keystroke loggers, spyware are harmful to your pc. They can either erase or steal your files. The presence of malware can make your pc to be slow. If you suspect that your pc is infected with malware, you can use the netstat command on windows NT, Xp and linux.
Netstat stands for network statistics. Netstat shows all the current running programs on your pc with their ip (internet address). To use the netstat, close all programs except the command prompt window. Also disconnect from the internet. If any program is still running do a google search for the program to find out what program is that.
To run netstat, click on Start -> Run ->Type cmd -> Click ok to open the command prompt window
When the command prompt window opens, you type in any of these parameters
-a : Displays all active TCP connections and the TCP and UDP ports on which the computer is listening.
-e : Displays Ethernet statistics, such as the number of bytes and packets sent and received. This parameter can be combined with -s.
-n : Displays active TCP connections, however, addresses and port numbers are expressed numerically and no attempt is made to determine names.
-o : Displays active TCP connections and includes the process ID (PID) for each connection. This parameter can be combined with -a, -n, and -p.
-p Protocol : Shows connections for the protocol specified by Protocol.
-s : Displays statistics by protocol. By default, statistics are shown for the TCP, UDP, ICMP, and IP protocols.
-r : Displays the contents of the IP routing table.
/? : Displays help at the command prompt.
Examples
To display both the Ethernet statistics and the statistics for all protocols, type the following command:
netstat -e -s
To display the statistics for only the TCP and UDP protocols, type the following command:
netstat -s -p tcp udp
To display active TCP connections and the process IDs every 5 seconds, type the following command:
netstat -o 5
To display active TCP connections and the process IDs using numerical form, type the following command:
netstat -n -o
To close the command prompt window, type in exit. Source of parameters is here
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Firefox 3 is Out
In my previous post, pledge and download firefox 3, I wrote that Mozilla wanted to release firefox 3. Mozilla scheduled firefox 3 to be release on June 17. You can download firefox 3 browser here
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Pledge and Download Firefox 3
The Firefox team is trying to set up a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours with the introduction of the Firefox 3 browser. It is an improved version of the firefox 2 browser. The Firefox team wants the world to be spread out by
* Get the word out; tell your friends, your neighbors, your grandma, anyone and everyone to participate in Download Day.
* Host a party to download Firefox; you provide the people and we’ll provide the party favors.
* Put a Download Day badge on your blog, profile or website.
I will help to spread the word out by putting a download day badge on this blog
The download day is not yet fixed but it would be in this June. The link of the Firefox image is for everyone to make a pledge that she would download Firefox browser on the day it is released. At the time of this posting, 580,195 pledges have been made. I just made my pledge making me the 580,196th person to make a pledge (not sure about this)
Firefox decided not to leave anyone behind. Firefox 3 can be downloaded in 45 languages with download links for windows, mac and linux users.
Why should you install Firefox 3? It is because
1. The browser has malware protection which warns users of harmful sites.
2. It shows a clearer and stricter error pages when Firefox encounters an invalid SSl certificate.
3. There is an integration of anti-virus software. The anti-virussoftware would check for virus on executable programs ie programs that ends in .exe files.
You can get more about the new features at What’s is new in Firefox 3
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The First Post
This is my first post on this blog. I am in love with technology gadgets. I always want to be kept abreast of new gadgets. And what way is the best of doing it? The answer is this blog. This blog will serve as my daily (or weekly) dairy of new information about gadgets,news, I see or read about. I want to see my knowledge with everyone who reads this blog. I would also include tutorials I see online in this blog. I am not computer savvy yet to write a tutorial (!sic). The tutorials would be based on topics related to using your pc or enjoying your stay online.
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