Should Virus Warning Emails be Forwarded? April 7, 2008
Posted by Administrator in : Internet and Business, Tech Support , add a commentWhenever a significant new virus or other computer security threat emerges, it is not unusual for various warnings about the threat to begin circulating via email.
While the willingness to let others know about a potential computer security threat is commendable, forwarding a “virus warning” email may not be the best way to approach the issue. Like other email forwards, they tend to mutate as they travel from inbox to inbox. Even if the original message was accurate, ongoing modifications can mean that the information can quite quickly lose its relevance. The perceived danger can be significantly exaggerated and important details can become false or misleading. Also, such messages often continue to circulate for months or even years after the described threat has subsided.
The Current one circulating the net is called the “Life is beautiful Hoax. This hoax started circulating in early 2002 and it has been passed around ever since. In spite of a great deal of online exposure, the hoax tends to resurge from time to time and its rate of circulation increases dramatically for a few months. As hoax emails go, this is one of the most “successful”. Perhaps because of the apparent destructiveness of the “virus” and the urgent tone of the warning, people are apt to forward the message without much forethought. Like many other hoaxes, it capitalizes on the recipient’s desire to help other Internet users by warning them of a perceived threat. — from Internet Tip of the Day
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About Plan 25 March 28, 2008
Posted by Administrator in : Internet and Business, Tech Support, Web Hosting , add a commentAbout PLAN 25
What extras are available?
Interactive features like guestbook, counters, and more which are simple to add to your web site. Offered as part of all plans.
Will there be ads on your web site?
No ads for third parties will appear on your web site unless you add them yourself. Your entire site can be dedicated to promoting your own business. Offered as part of all plans.
What about our email?
Email has your own mail.yourdomain.com mail server with webmail, and POP3 accounts all administered via your web browser. Plan 25 includes 25 E-mail POP3 accounts, 25 E-mail forwards, a catch-all Email alias, and one 2000 User Mail List Server for announcements from your website. Each address comes with 10MB of storage and virus and spam protection. You can also use your favorite email program (such as Outlook® or Eudora®) to access your mail. You can purchase additional email addresses for each plan if needed. Offered as part of all plans.
What about our statistics?
Webstats allows you to view reports on your site traffic and performance. Available reports include a summary of page views over the last month, days, days of week even hours, who visited by country, and host; Robot/Spider visitors to account which sites are crawling your pages and when they do it; Navigation reports, including operating systems and browser versions; Referrers, both referring search engines and sites and what keyword phrases were used to find your web site; and more; Your business can use this information to make decisions about how to improve your site and help marketing for more traffic or improving conversions. Offered as part of all plans.
What about using PayPal?
PayPal is a payment method that allows you to sell individual products or accept donations on your web site. To display a PayPal “Buy Now” or “Donate Now” button, you simply sign up for PayPal, complete a form, and paste PayPal’s HTML code into a page of your site. Please note: PayPal enables customers to make one payment at a time and does not include shopping cart functionality. For complete shopping cart functionality, confer with your webmaster/developer. Offered as part of all plans.
Under Construction Page?
When you register a domain name, we automatically create a placeholder web page for you. Your visitors will see this default “Under Construction” page when they go to your domain until you replace it. Offered as part of all plans.
What about SSL?
SSL is an accepted Standard for transferring information securely across the Internet. It encrypts data passed between the server and the browser, so that unauthorized parties cannot interpret sensitive, confidential or personal information, such as a phone number or address. Offered as part of all plans.
What about Frontpage?
Microsoft® FrontPage® is a software program for creating and managing web pages. You can work exclusively in the familiar Office® interface without having to program, or take direct control of your HTML code. FrontPage® extensions are available in all plans, the FTP is disabled on FrontPage® websites. Offered as part of all plans.
What about bandwidth?
vDomainHosting plans provide you with a generous amount of data transfer per month - so you won’t have to worry if your site becomes a popular one! Here is an example: Let’s say your web site has many images and the average page size is 50KB. With the vDomainHosting Plan 25 (which comes with 5 GIGABYTES of monthly data transfer), your site can serve many many page views per month! And if you want to increase your data transfer even more, you can order more by email to sales@vdomainhosting.com. Additional data transfer is only $5 per 5GB monthly, and you’re only billed if you need it. Offered as part of all plans.
What about subdomains?
A subdomain is also known as a “third-level” domain and is a great way to create memorable web addresses for various areas of your site. For instance, you can use subdomains for services, such as mail.yourdomain.com or orders.yourdomain.com. Offered as part of all plans.
Check to see if your domain name is available here.
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How to install AVG 8.0 over AVG 7.x or AVG Free March 19, 2008
Posted by Administrator in : Tech Support , add a commentBefore the AVG 8.0 version installation it is necessary to uninstall the previous AVG version (7.0, 7.1, 7.5 or AVG Free). Please proceed as follows:
1. Download the latest AVG 8.0 installation file here (choose your edition):
http://www.avg.com/download?prd=aav
(AVG Anti-Virus 8.0)
http://www.avg.com/download?prd=ais
(AVG Internet Security 8.0)
http://www.avg.com/download?prd=avf
(AVG Anti-Virus plus Firewall 8.0)
* Click on “Download AVG now” button
* When you are prompted, please do not open this file directly from the Internet, but click the “Save” button and choose a location, where the installation file should be stored (we recommend saving the file to the Desktop)
2. Uninstall previous AVG version
* Reboot your computer.
* Start -> (Settings) -> Control Panel -> Add/remove programs
* Find AVG in the list of installed applications and click on the “Uninstall” button
* Finish the uninstallation process
3. Reboot your computer
4. Close all running applications, locate the downloaded AVG installation file (it has a four color square icon and its name starts with AVG_…) and launch it
* Follow the installation wizard to install the new AVG 8.0
* Enter your license number when you are asked (we recommend that you use Copy&Paste method to enter this license number into the installation form, as described in FAQ #988
5. Update the AVG program.
From http://www.grisoft.com/ww.support-app # 1182
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You have lots of choices… July 17, 2007
Posted by Administrator in : Internet and Business, Tech Support, Web Design, Web Hosting , add a commentOne more thing, quickly. The moral of the story is upgrade to IE7, Firefox, or Safari if you’re on windows. You have lots of choices, and IE6 is the worst possible one, so if your IE6 still, the wait is over, upgrade your browser to 2007.
IE7 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ae91ebe-3385-447c-8a30-081805b2f90b&displaylang=en
FireFox - http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=64173&t=67
Safari - http://www.apple.com/safari/
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WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10 upgrade April 3, 2007
Posted by Administrator in : Blogging, Tech Support , add a commentWordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10 — 11 hours ago
We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches. These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress
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Add this to the list of things to do, and keep doing too. October 13, 2006
Posted by Administrator in : Internet and Business, Tech Support, Web Hosting , add a commentIt’s that time of year again. ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) annually requires that all accredited registrars (like Go Daddy(R) and others ) ask their domain administrators/registrants to review domain name contact data, and make any changes necessary to ensure accuracy.
To check if your whois information is up to date is quite easily done, go to vDomainHosting WhoIs
and enter your domain name without the www and click the search now button.
The page will display your contact information for your domain in the results. If you’re not sure how to update the information, or have questions call us 360-447-7384
And as for the ‘keep doing’ part, emails change and when yours does be sure to update the contact information for your domain name again, same is true of the phone numbers and mailing addresses.
I hope you have updated that information, and are keeping it current.
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15 Popular Applications with Critical Vulnerabilities June 21, 2006
Posted by Administrator in : Tech Support , add a commenthttp://www.bit9.com/docs/15VulnerableApps.pdf has a list of popular
software, and versions that have ‘issues’ and what to do about it.
This helps keep your computer free from problems, and I suspect if
you’re reading this you know someone that owns and uses a computer
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Using Thunderbird for email and stopping spam sending IP addresses May 31, 2006
Posted by Administrator in : Tech Support , 1 comment so farUsing Thunderbird for email and stopping spam sending IP addresses using the line X-vDomHost Relay in message header information.
Using Thunderbird from Mozilla.org for email and features of the vDomainHosting.com email account you can STOP spammers cold.
I am using Thunderbird 1.5 for this email, and so not sure if other email programs filters will be compatible with this.
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Vdomainhosting.com - About Configuring your Email February 1, 2006
Posted by Administrator in : Tech Support , add a commentVdomainhosting.com Configuring your Email
This is the link to how to configure Outlook Express, and other email applications for sending and receiving email, asked enough times I today added this to the blog, in another effort to make the information more ‘findable’ that is contained in the support section of our website at http://www.vdomainhosting.com/support/
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