A fake Facebook password reset email seems to be doing the rounds in the last few days. When and if you see this email I suggest you delete it. If you get this we can remove it for you. The Facebook password reset email says the following:
Subject: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Support
Dear user of Facebook,
Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed. You can find your new password in attached document.
Thanks,
Your Facebook.
1: Install an Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware program. Ensure to keep this up to date and do weekly full scans.
2: Set up your Windows Update to automatically download patches and upgrades. This will allow your computer to automatically download any updates to both the operating system (I.E Windows) and Internet Explorer. These updates fix security holes in both pieces of software.
3: Install and use an alternative web browser such as “Firefox” or “Google chrome” which generally have a less security risk.
Having the above set will help protect your computer but will not guarantee 100% protection. To aid yourself further in reducing the possibility of getting a virus or similar please note the following:
1: Email is a common way of getting infected
Whilst you can safely open an Email, NEVER click on a link within it or open an attachment that you are not positive is from a trusted source.
Here are 2 scenarios:
I. You get an Email from someone you DON’T know. You open it. It tells you (or, persuades you) to click on a link in the Email. You do so. That is when you get infected. Frequently, the Email appears to be from a bank or a company you know. Do not fall for this. Businesses do not normally send unsolicited Email.
II. You get (what appears to be) an Email from someone you do know. Unknown to you, a virus generated that Email (and not your friend). It could be that your friend’s computer is infected, but, not always. Obviously, the actual Email writer doesn’t know you and cannot say anything personal to you, so, typically, it says something like “Click on this link for some important information… “. You are now infected.
If in doubt, delete the Email.
2: Instant messengers. The same caution should be used with opening links and attachments as Emails.
3: Web sites
Visiting Adult, Free game or gambling sites pose a high risk of infection. In addition, do not download software or “Addons” from web sites that you are unfamiliar with. This includes sites such as “Facebbook” and “Myspace”.
4: Do not click on sudden pop-up windows whilst browsing the internet.
5: Do not use disks or usb drives that other people give you.
They could be infected with a virus. Of course, you can run a virus scan on it first, but Anti-Virus programs are not 100% effective.
6: Stay away from file-sharing sites.
Sites that distribute illegal software, music, or movies are known to be riddled with viruses. This includes torrents or other forms of P2P activities (Limewire for example). Staying away from these sites and programs is in your computer’s health’s best interest, as well as a good way to avoid being sued for copyright violation.
The above advice is generally good practice to follow but is not a 100% guarantee that your computer will not get infected again in the future, however, by following these tips you minimise the possibility greatly.
There are always computers that we see on site that have Norton, McAfee, Trend and WebRoot Spy Sweeper on them, and they are FULL OF SPYWARE!
I need to say that loudly because it doesn’t really matter what anti-virus program you use, spyware seems to get through them all.
So Lisa, please tell us…what are those programs good for? Well..they are good for a couple of things.
1. Regular virus protection (today’s viruses are spyware)
2. Slowing down your computer.
Period.
Spyware viruses and regular old viruses are not the same these days. Norton (I know this for a fact), will not support certain viruses and you will have to pay “extra” to get those removed. When you’re paying $80+ for the 360 package, you should get everything included. One of my clients had to pay extra for a certain virus removal. Kinda sad.
If you have purchased those products, have had a virus or 20 sneak past them or are finding them to slow down your computer…please Call That Girl for a phone consult and let us help you figure out a better system for protection.
If you are considering buying them, I would not. I remove many of those big box programs because they don’t work and are slower than bisquits drying in a hot sun.
My 2 cents! Enjoy your Wed!
We have noticed that many of our clients are not backing up their data. I keep going on and on about this, but I can never stress how important it is!
If you are not doing a daily, weekly or monthly back up, here is an easy solution for those extremely important files:
Email them to yourself!
I do this on occasion “just in case” and I do daily back ups!
Are you having a issue after reinstalling windows. Here’s how to fix that problem just go to the manufactures web site the go to their support page and look for downloads and drivers. Then once your their search for your computer by the model number or mane e.g. “Acer Aspire One, Dell Inspiron 5150” the look for the video drives download the file to your desktop the extract or install the executable file e.g. “ driver.exe or driver.zip“ once you have ran the file restart windows and it should be working then. Hope this helps someone.
We are always looking for better ways to help out our clients with their computer needs and have been looking into offering Off-site Backup services. Which is a great way to backup your personal info or other info so that you could have access to it 24/7 any where in the world. So when were finished testing our our system well be offering to all our clients and any others that need a backup service.
How to troubleshoot your wifi/wireless router. Many things can cause your router to go offline. I’m going to guess that you are surfing along and no connection or you come to your computer, there is no connection. You didn’t do anything and it’s not working! Which can be very irritating. But try these simple steps before you spend time calling the internet company or calling a paid technician to help.
* Reboot your computer, see the connection comes back online
* If you are on a laptop, make sure you didn’t turn off your internet switch (usually on the side or in the front)
* If that fails, unplug the power plug on the back of the the router for 10 seconds, plug it back in.
* Check the computer, give it a minute to cycle back online
* If that fails, unplug the router from the wall and plug it back in (no wait time needed).
Try those steps before you jump into your internet connections and start messing with the settings. Some users have gone into their network connections and deleted some very important things, so leave that to the technicians.
As many of you know Win 7 was released today. And System Techs is ready to support the new OS we have tested the system and find it very reliable. So if your looking for a new computer or are wanting to get rid of Windows Vista we can help. Just give us a call or drop us a email.
System Techs is always looking for ways to better serve our customers. Now we have a green solution by offering Remote Computer Repair. As long as you have a active internet connection and your computer can get online we can fix your computer system online via through the internet its safe and secure. Save yourself time and money. Never have time to get your computer fix because you work late please don’t worry just give us a call and we will connect directly to your system and fix any problems please note that some issues can not be fixed via remotely and would require us to visit you. So when ever your ready give us a call or drop us a email.
While it’s simple to build a website, but do you know how to make it a search engine friendly website? Search Engine Optimization is an inevitable topic to make a successful website. I will share some tips and tricks that I used for my site, and others that i have worked on which is proven working and very useful.
“Crawler-based search engines are those that use automated software agents (called crawlers) that visit a Web site, read the information on the actual site, read the site’s meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects to performing indexing on all linked Web sites as well. The crawler returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed. The crawler will periodically return to the sites to check for any information that has changed. The frequency with which this happens is determined by the administrators of the search engine. “ – Webopedia
SEO is a long term website maintenance, we need to check the keyword density frequently and the structure of the website to ensure it’s “SEO optimized”. Luckily, there are a lot of tools that will make our life much more easier:
Do not miss this, it’s very important. URL is one of the ways to include your content keywords. “Even if you can’t get your keywords into your domain name, you can put them into your URLs. Search engines read the URLs and assign value to the text they find there.” – about.com
We can rewrite dynamic URL by using Mod Rewrite. The following websites teach show us how to do it:
I found myself checking Google Analytic Stat daily. I love it because it has all the data I need to analyse web traffic. It has 4 majors section:
In every section, it has comprehensive statistic, data, drill down report and the level of details are impressive. Afterall, it’s FREE! This tool is highly recommended.
There’s more than the 3 items which is listed above come back soon as I will add more.
I wanted all the post on this blog to have summary’s with a read more link which ended up being simple. After a about 15 mins. or so I figured it out. Just follow the steps below.
Step 1. Open your admin section of WordPress then go to Appearance .
Step 2. Open the Editor link. Now on the right hand side look for index.php and open that up.
Step 3. Now look for the_content(....); you want to replace the word content for excerpt so it should look like this below.
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
So now all your post should in a summary. Now all thats left to do is add a link that say’s read more. So by following the same steps above you just need to add this right after the excerpt line. Example of mine below.
<?php the_excerpt(); ?><span><a href=”<?php the_permalink();?>”><?php the_title();?> – Read more</a></span>
Enjoy!
Google does not use the “keywords” meta tag in its web search ranking. Google’s Matt Cutts explains this in a Webmaster Central video. This is not breaking news, by any means, but there are a lot of people out there that still put a lot of stock into this.
In fact, Cutts mentions that people have sued each other for meta tag keyword theft, when really this is just a waste of everybody’s time, because they don’t even play a role in the ranking of sites on Google. Have you been under the impression that the keywords meta tag was important to ranking in Google?
“About a decade ago, search engines judged pages only on the content of web pages, not any so-called “off-page” factors such as the links pointing to a web page,” says Cutts. “In those days, keyword meta tags quickly became an area where someone could stuff often-irrelevant keywords without typical visitors ever seeing those keywords. Because the keywords meta tag was so often abused, many years ago Google began disregarding the keywords meta tag.”
Just because Google ignores the “keywords” meta tag, that doesn’t mean it ignores all meta tags. In fact, there are several that the search engine definitely uses. For one, Google sometimes uses the “description” meta tag as the text for search results snippets. But even then, the “description” meta tag isn’t used to influence ranking.
Google also recognizes the “google,” “robots,” “verify-v1,” “content type,” and “refresh” meta tags. Information about how Google understands these can be found at this page in the Webmaster Tools help center.
“It’s possible that Google could use this information in the future, but it’s unlikely,” Cutts says of the “keywords” meta tag. “Google has ignored the keywords meta tag for years and currently we see no need to change that policy.”
So the moral of the story is, if a competitor is jacking your keywords, and using them in their own “keywords” meta tag, this will have no effect whatsoever in how they rank in Google when compared to your site. Cutts says other search engines might use the information, but Google doesn’t.
Google does note that its enterprise Search Appliance has the ability to match meta tags, but this is of course separate from Google web search.
As I have said before, these videos and other tips Google frequently gives out are worth paying attention to for any webmaster looking to rank well. Whether they’re talking about duplicate content, meta tags, or paid links, they’re all aimed at telling webmasters how it is, and clarifying any misconceptions to the contrary. Whether you agree with Google’s methods in all cases or not, the tips are for your benefit.
Like it or not, Google controls what people find on the web when they search. The company’s huge market share is just something that is. There is always the possibility that could change in the future, but at this point, it looks like webmasters are not going to be able to ignore Google for a long time, if they hope to be found on the web by searchers.
We realize (and Google surely does too) that many well-seasoned marketers already know that Google ignores the “keywords” meta tag, but webmasters are born everyday, and not all of them have been so heavily seasoned to this point, and that’s why Google puts this information out there. There is always misinformation (particularly when it comes to search), and sometimes the record just has to be set straight. Who better to do that than Google itself?
