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Avoid a Computer Crash Wipe Out: Back Up Important Files

You’ve heard horror stories about it, or perhaps you’ve experienced it yourself. Many people have nearly gone insane after the disaster that all computer-dependent individuals shiver at the thought of: the great computer crash.

A person can literally lose everything he has saved on his computer in a blink of an eye. The reasons are varied. At times it occurs after an ample amount of warning signs, other times it comes as a complete surprise (making it more disconcerting). When these moments happen - and they do happen, and quite often actually - one can only hope that he has saved his files elsewhere, otherwise, there is little hope that they will be recovered.

Are you scared yet? If you don’t want this to happen to you and your precious files (which I’m almost sure you don’t), read on and find out how to create backups for your many important files.
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Preventing Password Hackers

PC security and safety is always an issue nowadays thanks to the advent of computer technology and the Internet. More computer intruders are boldly coming forward and are looking for ways to attack helpless computer users with valuable information stored in their PCs. Intruders are getting their hands on the latest security measures brought out by various developers and are looking for ways to get through them.

Anti-virus software developers are doing their best to ensure every computer user’s safety and security from potential attacks by always updating their virus definitions and cleaning capabilities, as well as strengthening your firewalls. Sometimes however, it is not enough as intruders can be one or more steps ahead. They use various means of attacking computers so it is sometimes hard to tell what they’re going to do next.

One of the ways is hacking in order to retrieve your password. Think of the many things they can do once they get your passwords - they can access any online accounts you may have, access your email to send and retrieve messages from your address, enter secure networks - the possibilities seem to be limitless. In order to prevent these things from happening, you should have password protection.
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Computer Viruses and Guarding Against Them

In this modern Information Age, computers are necessities in life. Whether we use them for simple functions such as typing our homework and business reports, up to more important acts like online business meetings and transactions, one cannot deny that computers are a big part in our daily lives. Using a computer, particularly the Internet, is one task that even a ten year old can do at this particular period in time.

With the growing increase of popularity and reliance on computers, as well as the demand for it, security risks have also gone up, which is a reality that cannot be ignored. With the billions of information bits being spread across the World Wide Web, hackers and computer intruders (criminals) see the value in focusing their attention to computers and the Internet. The information they would retrieve here is (more often than not) more useful than when doing it the old-fashioned way.

As such, these intruders have devised methods to get information out of computer users, with or without these people knowing that they’ve been hacked. As is the case in real life, there are some computer programs that are disguised to be innocent, but actually act as spies, providing information to the intruders. These malicious programs, which are security threats, are called computer viruses.

Computer viruses should not be taken lightly. They work in many different ways; one of them may be to provide data to the one who planted the virus. Other viruses can simply be annoying - slowing down your computer, building unwanted files, etc. - while some can be very disruptive, such as deleting your hard drive, compromising your operating system, etc.

As such, there are different types of viruses, which normally differ in how they function and how they are spread. Examples of these include Trojan horses, worms, email viruses, and logic bombs. It would be important for you to know these kinds of viruses in order to better protect you from them, as well as to have the proper programs to get rid of them.
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The internet is filled with more and more marketers, many of whom are creating their own websites to market products. While having your own website will help you attract potential customers, it will also attract hackers who can wreak havoc on your site if you are not well protected.

Here are some things you can do to help protect your websites.
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If you aren’t using plugins to protect your WordPress blog from spam, you must very frustrated with blog spam right now. While doing a little blog maintenance recently I was reminded that automated blog spamming makes it possible for spammers to constantly attack.

In order to update one of my spam stopping plugins, I deactivated it. Of course, right at that moment my son needed a ride so I left my desk for about 20 minutes. In that short amount of time, four spam comments were posted and nearly another dozen spam comments and spam trackbacks were awaiting moderation. At that pace it would be impossible to maintain a blog without constant attention to all the spam.

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As we rely more and more on the internet, between personal communications and businesses, we need to protect our computers. There are all sorts of hazards out there that can cause problems as simple as slowing your machine down to identity theft. Statistics show that about 80% of all the people on the internet report problems with their computers running slow, even with very little programs installed and a T1 connection. It is important to be aware of these threats and know how to prevent and eliminate them.

The most likely cause of loss of computer performance is called malware (spyware, adware, key-loggers, or drive-by downloader, etc.) that enter your system by various means, slowing things down to a crawl. This malicious software can gather your surfing information and send it to places you don’t want sent or track your personal information for future use. Unfortunately, these malicious software programs are everywhere on the internet, including some “friendly” websites such as websites run by the government and the large, reputable companies.

As the web technology advances, viruses and spyware get smarter and harder to detect and kill, too. In order to protect your computer from malware you need to understand what they are and how they work.

Basically, there are three types of malware presented in this article because they are the most common problems we encounter:

1. Viruses
2. Spyware
3. Adware

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One of the most disheartening and most frustrating spam problems to deal with is spoofing. When a spammer puts someone else’s email address in the “reply-to” field of their spam messages, all bounced message notifications and replies to the original message will be sent to the innocent victim. Using a false or fake email header to send messages is called spoofing.

The way you find out your email address has been spoofed is when you start receiving bounced message notifications for email you didn’t send. And it’s a horrible feeling when it happens!

While there’s really nothing you can do to stop it once it happens, there are some things you can do to try and prevent it from happening in the first place. But before we get into that let me offer some words of encouragement for current victims of spoofing who are receiving countless numbers of bounced message notifications. In my experience, a spoofing attack is an isolated incident, not an endless nightmare. Spammers generally use your email address for one mass mailing and then move on to another unfortunate victim.

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Many of the tips and tools recommended here at SpamStopping.com come from Willmaster.com. Recently I had the privilege of interviewing the master CGI programmer and owner of the company, Will Bontrager. He provided valuable tips on keeping your website secure and your inbox spam-free.

You don’t want to miss it! Read the complete interview here.

To hide a mailto: link with PHP, make a PHP web page as shown here and then link to it. (Your server must, of course, be able to handle PHP pages.)

Here is the PHP web page:

<?php
header(”Location: mailto:name@example.com”);
?>
<html><body>
<h4>Thank you!</h4>
</body></html>
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