Have you ever had a person post complaints on your Website This can even go further in that a few may even go so far as to open a website up to vent their dismay. I had such a case in that a client of mine had created a website which was explaining his dismay with a Lawyer. The lawyer tried to have me shut down his website but after looking at it I seen…
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Is the US Cert a problem? You bet it is as I can see no good coming from it. This came to my attention just recently as a website ( clean-mx.de ) emailed my server company and the us-cert.gov website because a hacker defaced a clients website. Dear abuse team, please help to close these offending portals sites(1) so far. This goes on to show reports from their site and also showing reports from www.bfk.de . Notice they…
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Browser Problems with E-Classifieds Seems that some browsers do not support group objects. Google Chrome for instance has problems with multiple check boxes with the same name. This has caused problems with E-Classifieds when a person adds a new Classified Ad. If you have version 2.X and you set the max categories to allow multiple subcategories then it will error. The error will be a required item was not filled in. The fix to this…
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The days of Windows are numbered Windows XP was the peak and as we go forward Microsoft will slowly destroy it's OS. The first blow came when Microsoft clearly disregarded it's main source of income. When it put out Vista, which had no backward compatibility to XP, this was a major mistake. It took years to develop it's strong hold in the corporate market. Yet Microsoft is determined to now cater to new technology rather…
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Is the Internet under Siege? Having placed an Ad in a popular Classifieds website, which I will not mention, I have gotten so many responses that are either phishing attempts, Scams, Spam or ones that are trying to spread a virus by giving links to infected websites. The numbers of this type of Ad response is up 1000% over just a few years ago. One response I got was a popular Nigerian type of Scam. They will send…
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Should I use Online Backup or Externial Backup for my PC? Online Backup is growing in popularity but unless you have a very high speed internet connection it will take many hours or even days to backup a full PC If you decide to use this type of backup then you will need to limit your backup to only important documents stored on your PC unless you can afford to go to a very high…
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How to remove send to friend If you are using E-Classifieds software you have version 2.39 or older which has the link to send email to a friend you will be a target for spammers. The form lacks a image verify input to weed out bots from using this form. A bot only need send the following and wham you may find your site black listed. session_key=&send_ad_button=on&results_format=long&db_id=any ID&query=retrieval For the ID above of course it…
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The Day Directories Were Free It seems most of the directories that were free and now charging a fee. Some of them are quite high in price as I have seen prices over $100 for a listing. This is not to be unexpected as there are costs in running a directory. But the question comes up as to the reliability of the website that is charging this price! Do they have a backup plan? Will…
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Hosts that are going over board on Spam It has come to my attention that some hosting companies are going over board with Spam filters. Godaddy Hosting for instance has their own Spam filters setup and many complaints have been seen on message boards about it. I have to say these complaints are not unfounded as the methods used by Godaddy are beyond recommended methods and in my opinion makes them a bad choice for…
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Ah, yes...the hugely popular and rapidly growing trend of social media—it almost seems as if it’s going to be the end all, be all results producing source on the web sooner than later, doesn’t it? Social media has certainly been all the rage lately, and there’s little doubt that the media all want us to believe it will be everything that the web is about before too long. But here’s the deal—while social media is…
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