The Refresh Orlando Heirs

A couple of days ago, I was searching for a popular eBook online.

Now I’m not going to tell you the name of this eBook for reasons you’ll understand in the next few minutes.

Okay, so here I was, opening Google, entering the name of the eBook - clicking search, and checking through the first few pages of search results.

-> Forward to Page 5 of Google

I saw a link that looked like a PDF document.

Right click -> open in new window

There, in full glory, was the eBook I was searching for!

The complete eBook, mind you, not a trial or demo - sitting there for the world to download.

And this is a product that sells for over $25 online!!

Obviously I’m not going to tell you the name of the eBook because it would not be fair to the reseller.

But it just made me realise that one of the reasons digital theft is so prevalent is simply because… its so EASY!

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t condone theft of any kind - digital or otherwise.

But would YOU shell out $25 for a product that everyone can ‘legally’ download off the 5th page of Google?

Most people would just shrug their shoulders, hit the save button and thank their lucky stars.

Result: The opposite of $ KA-CHING $ for the sellers

One of the problems with selling digital products online is that it is so SIMPLE to do. So now everyone and their grandmother wants to do it.

But most newbies have no idea that it requires only a few simple steps to ensure a moderate degree of security for your downloads.

So here I’ve outlined the five most BASIC security steps That anyone selling digital products online must take.

These will take you only a few minutes to do, and you do not need any special software or programming knowledge.

1. ZIP THAT FILE

The biggest problem arises when sellers store their downloads as PDF documents, as in my experience above.

Now you should know that Google, Altavista and many other search engines can read and list PDF files.

While this may not be a problem for those adding content to their sites in the form of PDF newsletters and reports, it also means that you must never store a product you want to SELL as a PDF file (unless it is in a password- protected folder).

It gets worse. Google also converts your PDF files into HTML documents. So ordinary browsers not only have access to your PDF file, but - horror of horrors - they can download your SOURCE FILE as well!!

The next logical step is for them to customize it with their own links, compile it and sell it or give it away.

Result: The opposite of $ KA-CHING $ for the sellers …AND the author.

A simple way of keeping your files out of the reach of spiders is to upload them as a zip file. Search engines cannot look inside zip files (yet) and list their contents.

2. CREATE AN INDEX.HTML FILE

You MUST have an index.html file in EVERY folder. It acts like a curtain that keeps your files away from prying eyes.

A folder without an index file is like a house without walls. Everyone can enter and help themselves to the valuables.

The ‘index.htm’ file is the default file that opens when you click on the link here -

http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/

If you don’t create an index.htm or index.html file, you’d be allowing everyone to directly access the root directory of the folder where you store your downloads.

Here is a folder I uploaded to show you what happens when you DON’T have an index file.

http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/test/

As you can see, all the files stored in it are clearly visible and ready to download.

And yes, feel free to help yourself - I won’t accuse you of stealing

3. SHOW PEEPING TOMS THE EXIT

You can use a simple script to redirect peeping Toms back to your home page.

Here’s the easiest way to do it using what it called a “meta refresh tag.” Add it between the Header tags like this.

< META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com" >

Replace
< with <
> with >
” with “

Just replace my URL with your own in the example above and paste it into the head of your document (before your text).

You can see how it works by clicking on the test folder here.

http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/redirect/

Now even though you click on the folder URL, you will be sent to my home page.

4. SPIDER-PROOF YOUR DOWNLOAD PAGES

To prevent search engine spiders from reading and listing the download pages that link to your eBooks add the tag below in the head of the document.

This “Robot” tag tells the spider that this page is not to be spidered or indexed. As a result it should never show up on a search.

5. CHANGE YOUR DOWNLOAD LINKS OFTEN

To prevent unscrupulous people from posting your download links on forums or message boards, change the folder or file name where you store them from time to time, even if it means having to change the download links in your merchant account.

Using these methods will give you a good degree of satisfaction, knowing that you have taken the most basic steps to protect your digital valuables - and at absolutely no cost to you.

If you want greater security and more information on plugging the security loopholes in your website, check out a selection of digital download protection tools.

Priya Shah is a partner in the search engine optimization firm, SEO & More and writes an online marketing blog

Dear -fish this- member,

It has come to our attention that your account information needs to be updated.

Please send us your social security number, your checking account number, a pint of Jack Daniels, and a large paper bag filled with twenty dollar bills. We are only doing this for your protection, and even though we have no intention of stealing your identity,because we have a hard enough time dealing with our own identitys we have now, we sure could use some extra spending money for our upcoming phish…. errrr…. FISHING excursions!

We know it would be nicer if we actually worked as hard to make an honest living, as we do to bilk.. errr help protect your account information, but what fun would that be?

We promise not to have have account information problems in the future, because we are the “Gods of account information problems” and can control these sort of things. Besides, we won’t be able to monitor your account anymore, because we will be assisting Mr. Humongatus Batutti from Niger, who has been unable to find anyone lately that will help him out of the grave financial disaster his Pay Pal account has gotten him into.

If you don’t update your account information you may not be able to read worthless drivel in the future, your bumper will fall off of your car,and fleas will infest your armpits.AND…we will put a heebie jeebie hex on you that only a safe harbor ebay email can clear up. O.K.- O.K.– we will only suspend your account! That way we can send you another phony…. errrr…. follow up e-mail to protect your account. We will only temporarily spend the $20.00 bills you send us and will re-deposit two hundred bags of twenty dollar bills and some Papa John coupons into your bank account by—oh—let’s say Thursday.

Please don’t respond to this email- or blog letter for that matter- because we will be busy bouncing all over the internet phishing…. err bilking errr… updating other account info –and why would you want to have any dialogue about your terminated account anyway!!??

AND if you send us info now, we will send you a cheap knockoff Rolex that will impress some other phony, and also toss in a set of Ginsu carving knives!!

click here to update your account records.

The account dude at -fish this-

P.S. If none of this interests you, we have some hot stock market tips we will be glad to sell you…

user agreement blah blah,ebay,paypal,nigerian humonatus,Rolex, viagra,etrade, official looking mumbo jumbo, brought to you by the makers of pesty cola…

…Hard to believe- but every day people are still falling for those phony spams and e-mails that circulate the internet.A day is coming when the bilkers won’t be able to hide anymore and we will be able to track the phony solicitations down. In the meantime–be careful out there on the information highway, and if you really want to part with your hard earned money I know this Prince in Pottsylvania who is having some trouble with his finances, and if you could just help him out…..

A.J. Klott is the author of the Fish wRap-a humorous book on fishing and the people and events that surround the fishing world. You can visit his site at http://www.twoguyswithflys.com

You’ve seen it in the news - 40 million credit cards exposed!

With all the news about web sites being hacked and cyber
thieves stealing credit card numbers and other personal data,
it’s no wonder that some shoppers are still hesitant to provide
payment information online. You don’t have to be.

Is it enough that users trust you?

Common marketing wisdom shows that one of the most valuable
assets any Internet Marketer has is trust. People go to extreme
measures to build this trust - online pictures, testimonials,
audio - some even go as far as to open storefronts to give
people that “good feeling”.

But all of this may simply not be enough.

A recent Harris Interactive survey found that 75 percent of
consumers polled worry that companies will share personal data
with other corporations without permissions, while 70 percent
doubt the security of online transactions and 69 percent fear
that hackers will steal their personal data submitted online.

You see, just because a user trusts you, doesn’t necessarily
mean that the customer trusts your website or
your payment processor.

Once you’ve established rapport with your customer base,
the next step is to build trust in your website.

Whether you collect credit card information yourself, or have
a third party processor handle your transactions for you,
it’s crucial that people understand that you are serious
about protecting their privacy and information.

Here’s a few things you can do to help out.

*) Install a Secure Server Certificate on your server to close
that “lock” on people’s browsers. Even if you don’t collect
credit card information, people feel better about having
the information they send to you be secure. Also, consider
using a “top tier” Certificate provider, such as Verisign.
While other providers may have nearly equally secure solutions,
the reason you are buying the certificate is to instill trust
in your customers, which other providers do not necessarily
have in abundance.

*) Have a clear, clean privacy policy statement in addition
to the “legalese” required by the FTC. If you don’t
sell addresses, tell people so.

*) Secure your server. I know that this seems obvious, but most
people pay no attention to their webserver or the software
they are running. Knowing what software you have running,
and keeping up-to-date on patches will help significantly.

*) Install an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) I estimate 73%
or more of all websites have no intrusion detection system
in place. What this means is that not only can most websites
be hacked easily, it is very likely that the website owner
has no clue if they have been compromised.

*) Turn off unneeded services and ports, and uninstall
unused software. The premise here is that the less “stuff”
on your machine, the less chance for exploit. For example,
MySQL listens on the Internet for messages form other servers,
yet most small websites access the database system only from
the machine it is running on. It is very simple to make
MySQL “invisible” to the Internet - making it much more
secure if you don’t need to access it from other systems.
There are many, many more simple techniques like this you can
apply to your server to keep hackers out.

In summary, consumers are quickly becoming Internet savvy
and they take their privacy seriously. There is nothing,
and I mean nothing, that can hurt your credibility more
than your customers and potential customers getting SPAM
to email addresses that they provided only to you - in
the best case, they will think that you sold their address.
Responding that no, you didn’t sell their address, but someone
hacked your server and stole ALL their personal information
won’t make them feel a whole lot better about doing business
with you in the future.

Nick Temple is an e-commerce and security specialist that has
been practicing online for over 10 years, since 1994.
Some previous clients include Verisign, Sun Microsystems,
and Coupons.com. His new website,
http://www.DontGetHacked.info
reveals that Internet Marketers are prime targets for hackers,
and what you can do to stop them cold.

There are plenty of internet predators out there. The popular website myspace has been in the hot seat because such internet predators have been posing on myspace to seduce young people. Many people would like to blame myspace for the crimes committed by the site’s users. However I would like to disagree.

Social sites are very popular. Internet users usually look for a place to belong and be somebody. There will always be a site like myspace. Before myspace there were issues (and there still are cases) with chat rooms like those hosted by Yahoo.

The web is not the criminal. The people or organizations are not trying to build sites for illegal or immoral activity. (For the most part). The problem is with the online predators.

Shutdown myspace and there will be another site that takes its place or two or three. Those sites will also have predators trying trick young internet users. The blame is on these predators. Users of these sites need to be educated and be careful.

Shutting down myspace, or adding restrictions or censorship to it will not slow down a determined online predator. Myspace becomes a target for criticism due to its popularity.

In today’s media popularity becomes a liability if any bad publicity comes out. However, I would like to conclude by summing up and saying that myspace is not a fault.

Matt Christensen
http://www.mattchristensen.net

These days it seems as though home security has become an industry focused on the newest and most cutting edge of gadgets and systems. From night vision surveillance cameras to bulletproof glass in home windows, the times, as Bob Dylan once sang, they are a changing. However, no matter how high tech the home security low down becomes, there is one piece of home protection equipment that you may have forgotten to order with your stealth alarm system. A real gem of a device that has been used with proven results for thousands of years. Not only will it alert you of potential danger, it may even fetch the newspaper for you. Known as man’s best friend they are also one of man’s best defences when it comes to home security. Yes, the humble and loyal guard dog.

Assuming that you have the means and space to keep a substantially sized dog on your property, perhaps the first thing to consider is whether you want a guard dog or a watch dog. The majority of dogs are watch dogs by instinctual manner, they will bark and become suspicious when something disturbs them (some on the other hand will approach strangers in the hope that they come bearing gifts of doggy treats, and than proceed to roll over for a belly rub). Some breeds have been trained to be better, or more alert, watch dogs than others. As well almost any medium to large sized dog has a certain air about him or her that seems to say, “You really want to mess with me?” Think about it, if you are walking down the street and you see someone walking a Corky you are far less likely to be alarmed or cautious than if you saw a bullmastiff coming your way. When talking about actual guard dogs, not your garden variety household watch dog, we are talking about a dog that has been trained and often bred for the purpose of guarding and defending your home.

Where a watch dog may bark, the threat often ends there (so hence the term “his bark is worse than his bite”). With a guard dog the opposite is true. While some people take it upon themselves to train their dog to be a guard dog, other folks opt to buy an animal that has been trained by an expert (who will typically be a dog breeder as well) in this field. Somewhere in between lays guard dog training classes, or private instructors that you may find listings for in larger cities or online.

A guard dog, while generally kind and calm with its master and family, is not the sort of animal that you let run free in the neighbourhood. It is an animal that has been trained to defend and at times even attack in order to protect its masters and property. They are strong, athletic dogs whose wolf and wild animal genetics have been honed and put to use in order to defend and protect. This is not to say that every guard dog is waiting to bite someone’s face off. On the contrary, as with almost all domestic dogs, if they are well handled and cared for from puppy-hood then a guard dog can have a gentle, sweet temperament around not only its owners but those people that its masters assure the dog are not a potential threat.

There are many things to consider when contemplating a guard dog. One key point is that training a dog solely to attack and physically do harm to other people is quite often considered illegal as it is in essence training the animal to be a weapon. Guard dogs should be on alert for all kinds of intruder or disturbances, from people to other animals or loud sounds. But at the same time they need to be well trained, aware of when, and only when it would be appropriate to actually do more than just bark. Always check the laws in your area or country when it comes to guard dogs, as some breeds are even illegal to own or train as guard animals in certain places. A middle ground between barking and attacking is a guard dog that has been trained to simply attempt to restrain the intruder (one method of this type of training is Schutzhund training).

Another important factor is the size and breed of the dog. Common breeds of guard dogs with successful track records include (but are not limited to) Akitas, Chow Chows, Mastiffs, German Shepherds, Doberman Pinschers, Dogue de Bordeauxs, Fila Brasileiro (a somewhat rare breed from Brazil), Rottweilers, Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Boxers, Great Pyreneeses, and yes, even the misunderstood Pit Bull Terrier.

Before you rush out to buy a guard dog though, or look at Fido your pet poodle and wonder if he’s trainable, consider that a guard dog requires a lot of care and attention. As well you will need to put up signs on your property warning visitors (and potential intruders) of your canine home security system. Should you decide to get a guard dog, love it and treat it as you would any dog, as you rest assured that your age old home security system is on guard twenty-four-seven. Ready to both bark and play fetch at the drop of a hat.

Jessica Cander is a versatile professional freelance writer who contributes to a wide variety of web sites, including the Home Security Facts web site.

Imagine this - you open up your email box and an international company is offering you a dream job - you can be an agent for them - a financial intermediary - receiving payments for them and transferring money to them, and, naturally, keeping a commission on each transaction.

There’s no investment, no money required. They are just looking for people with a good reputation that they can trust with their money.

The company needs a local agent because US banking laws restrict the accounts that a foreign company has, unless they have a U.S. citizen as a registered agent of the company.

It sounds really good. After all, the company is overseas and it needs a U.S. Agent to receive payments and all you have to do is wire-transfer the money to the company account overseas, less your commission.

There seems to be no way to lose, since you won’t be putting out any of YOUR money and YOU have control over all incoming and outgoing payments.

You can’t lose, can you?

Unfortunately you can. Take this job and you become a “money mule” - an unwitting participant in a scheme to defraud others.
Here’s how it works: The company may or may not have a good looking website with what sounds like a legitimate name, “Techhydraulik” and says it’s based in Germany.

Sounds like it is a technology company having something to do with hydraulics, doesn’t it?

However, it is really an Internet front for Bad Guys who need to be able to transfer money out of the United States from people that they have defrauded through “Phishing.”

Phishing is the practice of setting up fake bank sites that look just like the real bank site (for example, Wells Fargo) and sending emails to millions of people saying that there is an irregularity in their Wells Fargo account and to “click on the link to confirm your information or your account will be closed”.

When you click on the link and fill out the fields for your account number, username and passwords, it sends the information to the Bad Guys who empty your account. Believe it or not, tens of thousands of people fall for this each year.

The Bad Guys then send the payment to their agent (you), and you wire-transfer the money, less your commission, to their overseas account.

Several weeks or months later, perhaps, there is a knock at your door and the FBI wants to know why you are receiving stolen funds. You explain that the funds are not stolen, they are payments for equipment purchased by people from Techhydraulik, and you are their legitimate agent.

You may not be held criminally liable since you were an unknowing dupe, but you may certainly be liable for repayment of all of the money that passed through your hands.

And of course, the real perpetrators have long ago closed that overseas account and disappeared.

How can you protect yourself?

Go to www.betterwhois.com and look up the information about the company’s website. You’ll be able to see when the .com was registered.

Sign up for the free “The Blinking Cursor News” to stay on top of the latest scams and shams on the Internet.

The trash folder in my main inbox hit 4000 today. Since I never throw anything out, I know that what’s in there is courtesy of my email filter which is set to automatically delete anything that is forwarded from my work account from a certain person. That “person” is our spam filter that insists on sending me, the administrator, a notification when it blocks an email. It’s also set to delete some other mail automatically, those would be that come from addresses that have sent me spam. So I have 4000 of these in my trash. Yippee.

The compulsion to hit the forward button is alive and well even with the plethora of information available on the web about the downside of doing just that. But I have a theory.

According to one website I visited “The rate of growth of Internet use in the United States is currently two million new Internet users per month.” 2 MILLION new internet users a MONTH?? It all makes sense now. There are too many newbies out there running amok with a computer, a mouse and an internet connection clicking the forward button!

But who can blame them really? Before I learned the downside of forwarding this cyberjunk and more importantly, learned that most of it isn’t even true, I was among the forwarding faithful, sending on mountains of useless information to everyone I knew as quickly as it arrived.

Perhaps it was the first thing I got that I knew wasn’t true that turned on the light bulb, or perhaps it was the first thing I got that just didn’t make any sense, after all, who in their right mind would believe that Bill Gates was sitting around tracking forwarded emails and would actually pay you if you “passed it on”? I may be gullible, but that one was just too hard for me to swallow.

I started to look into these warnings and threats and found that the majority of them were either not true at all, like the Bill Gates hoax, or, if they were true, they were so out of date that they were no longer relevant, like the Phenylpropanolamine Drug Warning which continues to make it’s rounds almost 5 years later.

By this time, I had accumulated a vast number of contacts, friends and family that didn’t bother to check and just hit that forward button.

Originally, I did the research myself upon receiving a new piece of misinformation and emailed back to the sender with my findings. Eventually I became the “go to girl” for accuracy and everyone I knew would send me the email and ask me if it was real. Flattered to be considered “the expert” among my friends I dutifully did the background work and reported back but hey, I’m a mother of 3 and work full time and as honoured as I was to be the “go to girl”, it got to be tedious. That’s when I started sending people links to reliable sources for them to find their own answers.

I was pleased when the “go to girl” mail slowed to a trickle as did the forwarded email from people I knew. That is until several of those 2 million new users a month were people I knew and it started all over again!

First came my husband’s “Auntie” who’s feelings were hurt when I asked her not to forward these messages any more with an explanation of course. She was “only trying to be helpful!” She replied. Well, of course she was, isn’t that why everyone forwards these messages? To be helpful.

Then came my niece who politely asked my permission to send me a few chain letters. Being the softie that I am I agreed to a “few”. This was my introduction into teen angst via email. Since I was far from teenaged when I became an internet junkie, I hadn’t been exposed to the suicidal poetry and advice on being a good girlfriend end of the chain letter spectrum but soon I got more than I could handle since all her friends started adding me to their address books! (And I was expecting what?)

Finally my brother-in-law of only several days forwarded me a notice that the government would soon be taxing email on behalf of Canada Post! sigh.

It was time to make a choice - either reinstate myself as the “go to girl” again, ignore and delete and let the forwarders click away in blissful ignorance, or do my part in passing the message along that forwarding every piece of junk that comes into your in box is not cool.

Of course, never knowing when to shut up won over the other choices. Hopefully the idea will catch on and people will go the extra step and rather than just delete that hoax, do the sender a favour and reward them with some useful information that might just help reduce the clutter in everyone’s inbox.

Lisa Campbell
http://www.surfinglegendsandhoaxes.com

High-tech private investigators are becoming the answer for many Internet users who have been victimized online. The use of e-mail by that unethical element lurking in cyberspace rings all too common these days. With law enforcement agencies overwhelmed and under trained to address these issues, victims have often been left to deal with them on their own.

Frustrated, powerless, even scared, many people have turned to InfoPursuit, a California based private investigative firm, for assistance. The fact that they employ experts trained in the specialized field of e-mail tracing and Internet-based investigations makes them unique. They take pride in being able to uncloak the seemingly anonymous sender by tracing e-mail back to its source.

“We have a highly skilled staff, most of which have former law enforcement experience,” says Jeff Duggan, Director of Services at InfoPursuit. “The e-mail tracing techniques we employ are on the cutting edge and have proven effective in resolving the unknown, the identity of the sender.” This online based firm hosts a Website at www.infopursuit.com, detailing the various services offered.

More and more people everyday find themselves on the receiving end of some type of threatening or harassing e-mail. Cyberstalking, online bullying, and e-mail fraud schemes have created a very disturbing and volatile environment for a vast number of users. With e-mail becoming a household term, people today are using the Internet as their primary means for communication. The need to trace malicious e-mail is increasing.

InfoPursuit’s ability to trace e-mail messages and track down these Cyber-terrorists has brought relief to many. Vicki Hansen, a former student who relied heavily on the Internet, is an example of someone who found resolution through InfoPursuit. “They were able to trace an e-mail message for me and identify the harassing sender who was using a free e-mail service,” says Hansen. “I first went to the police and the only advice they gave me was to turn my computer off.” Like Vicki Hansen, many students and professionals alike depend on these technologies daily. For that reason, they just do not have the ability to turn off the computer in hopes of the problem disappearing. Now they don’t have to.

If you are experiencing a problem with someone on the Internet or would like more information on the e-mail tracing services offered by InfoPursuit, contact Jeff Duggan or visit their Website at www.infoPursuit.com. Some of the other services offered in addition to tracing e-mail are Internet profiling, people finder searches, personal background checks, criminal record searches, and business checks.

InfoPursuit was established in 2002 and currently serves clients worldwide. They have assisted individuals, businesses and law enforcement agencies with high-tech investigations.

InfoPursuit
http://www.infopursuit.com
contactus@infopursuit.com

The last couple of months have seen the vulnerability to your privacy dramatically increase. Anti P2P laws, the government, the police, spyware servers… Everyone wants to know more about your activities on the Internet. Everyone wants to know what you have on your pc.

What sites you visit on the Internet, how often, how long you have been using it, what programs you use etc etc…
They are trying to make laws in Europe to allow the government to sniff into your e-mails, listen to your phone calls, and thanks to other recent laws your ISP must keep all logs of your online activity…

Your privacy is being threatened on all fronts.

One of the latest programs that helps you protect yourself against “privacy sniffers hordes” is PeerGuardian2 released
by Phoenixlabs on http://wwww.phoenixlabs.org/. At this moment the latest version of PeerGuardian is 2.0 Beta 6b.
I’ll skip the boring installation instructions and just give some advice regarding effective use of PeerGuardian mainly on sharing programs such as Kazaa, Edonkey, Shareaza, DC…

You can use it in combination with socksifying (explained at http://www.proxyblind.org/tut.shtml ). Which should increase your privacy dramatically and make it very difficult to trace you. When you open PeerGuardian you will see what a simple and effective program it is.

On left side are:

• Disable - display number of blocked IP’s;
• List Manager - display number of sources used for uploading;
• Check Updates - with info about latest updating.

On right side are:

• Block HTTP - HTTP allowed or not (mean do you want to block IP during surfing through the Net or not)
• View History - Actually logs of blocked and allowed IP’s
• Clear Log - Clear your logs/history

By clicking on setting you’ll see another screen with:

• Auto-Update - You can set to check automatically for new release of PeerGuardian, aut. update of lists and time to check for update
• Logging - With setting how much lines to logs and enabling/disabling allowed connection with specify of days for removing
• Startup - To chose start of not with Windows, start minimized or not and displaying splash screen or not
• Optimalization - Normal to use IP ranges exactly as it is inside list or agressive that use a less CPU and block much more (it is explained by programs self how).

Now the most import parts. Click back on protection and click on list manager and you’ll see oversight of your list. To create list for yourself what is strongly recommended go to this URL:
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/sources.txt (Bluetack sources that are updated daily.) and then added every single url that you find there to your list. How?

Click on “Add” (it is if you would to download list on daily basis from internet. Create list button is for creating your own list from local sources) and type by description name of list and check URL to specify URL which PeerGuardian should check and update your list. By type it shows wether or not that IP is blocked or allow.

Repeat the same method using other URL’s, click ok and you are done. Start your sharing program (eventually socksified which should increased your privacy) and surf safe.

Make, the webmaster of ProxyBlind -
The site about proxy server, privacy, security and anonymity!

The Problem:

Are you bombarded with popup ads? Seeing new toolbars in
your browser? Does your home page change to
unwanted/unknown destinations? Bombarded with irritating
spam? Perhaps strange software loads when you first start your
computer, or your favorites file may have new entries that you
don’t recognize and don’t want. If this is happening to you, your
PC (Personal Computer) is most likely infected with adware
spyware, spybot spyware, trojan viruses or other harmful
internet parasites.

What Is Happening?:

Your privacy is being seriously invaded. These programs have
the ability to track your Internet usage habits and even steal
such personal information as bank account numbers and
passwords. If you are like me, this is scary, isn’t it? But there’s
more…spyware even has the power to install even more
parasites on your computer without your knowledge and
without your consent. Everything you do and everything you
type can be recorded without your knowledge and without your
consent. Using spyware, companies can find out what your
interests are and even track your purchasing habits. Hackers
can and sometimes will access your PC and do anything they
wish. Unscrupulous individuals can even steal your identity
(you’ve heard of identity theft, haven’t you?) and you would
never be the wiser, at least until it is too late (this would be
when the bill collectors, or even the police, start calling you!).

To Determine If You Are At Risk, Ask Yourself These 3 Questions:

Have I downloaded files, documents or free mp3 music online?
Has my computer suddenly started getting annoying ads
popping up on the screen?
Have I suddenly noticed that my computer is running extremely
slow?

What Is The Solution?

There is only one solution to this problem and that is to protect
yourself and your privacy with a Spyware protection solution.
Spyware protection software helps you to completely clean your
computer of invasive threats. As a result, your computer will be
clean and its performance will be better. Simply put, it will run a
lot faster. Additionally, you will have protected your privacy -
personal information, financial data, and your financial security
will be protected. In the information age, where having just one
piece of your personal information can ruin your life, protecting
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