WordPress version upgrade

WordPress ကို ပိုျမင့္တဲ့ version upgrade လုပ္မယ္ဆိုရင္

လက္ရွိအသံုးျပဳေနတဲ့ WordPress ကို ပိုျမင့္တဲ့ version upgrade လုပ္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ပထမဆံုး backup ကို ေသခ်ာ လုပ္ထားရပါမယ္။ Dashboard / Manage / Export ကေန xml format နဲ႕ backup တစ္ခု မရွိမျဖစ္ လုပ္ထားရပါမယ္။ http://wordpress.org/download က upgrade လုပ္ခ်င္တဲ့ wordpress ေနာက္ဆံုးဗားရွင္း ကို ေဒါင္းလုပ္ခ်ပါ။ မိမိအသံုးျပဳေနတဲ့ hosting က file manager နဲ႕ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ zip ေျဖၿပီး ftp software နဲ႕ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ wordpress install လုပ္ထားတဲ့ folder ထဲကို upload တင္ပါ။ ဥပမာ။ ။ byethost မွာတင္ထားတဲ့ wordpress ဆိုရင္ urblogname/htdocs ေအာက္ကိုေပါ့။ plugins ေတြ themes ေတြ တင္တဲ့ ပံုစံမ်ိဳး အတိုင္းပါပဲ။ အရင္ရွိၿပီးသား ဗားရွင္းအေဟာင္းက ဖိုင္ေတြကို over wirte လုပ္မလားလို႕ ေမးခဲ့ရင္ yes ေပးလိုက္ပါ။ အားလံုးၿပီးရင္ web browser နဲ႕ http://urblogname/wp-admin/upgrade.php ကိုဖြင့္လိုက္ပါ။ urblogname ေနရာက မိမိ blog နာမည္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဥပမာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕၏စပ္မိစပ္ရာ ဘေလာ့ဂ္ဆိုရင္ http://smsy.iblogger.org/wp-admin/upgrade.php ေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ ဖြင့္လို႕ရၿပီဆိုရင္ ပံုစံ ၂ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ database upgrade လုပ္စရာ မလိုတဲ့ အဆင္ျမင့္တာမ်ိဳး ဆိုရင္ No Upgrade Required ဆိုၿပီး တတ္လာမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္ Continue ႏွိပ္ေပးယံုပါပဲ။ database upgrade လုပ္ဖို႕လိုတယ္ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ Upgrade WordPress ဆိုၿပီး ေပၚလာပါမယ္ သူေပးထားတဲ့ အတိုင္း click လုပ္ေပးၿပီးရင္ upgrade လုပ္တာ ေအာင္ျမင္ပါၿပီ။
Source: http://mmwordpress.com/upgrade-wordpress/

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Google Talk Multiple Instances

Google Talk: Run Multiple Instances or Login as Multiple Users
Run google talk with the following switch: /nomutex

If you installed google talk to the default location, you can easily create a shortcut to this setting.
1. Right-click on the desktop
2. Select New
3. Select Shortcut
4. Paste this into the text box:"c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

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About Attacks to your Computer

About Attacks to your Computer

• What is spyware?
• What is adware?
• What is malware?
• What is parasiteware?
• What is a page hijacker?
• What is a dialer?
• What is a browser plugin?
• What is a commercial keylogger?
• What is a commercial network management tool?
• What is a data miner?
• What is a loyaltyware?
• What is a remote administration tool?
• What is a worm?
• How can I tell that I have spyware on my computer?
• How does spyware get on my computer?
• What is the difference between spyware and viruses?
• How to keep spyware off of my computer?
• Is there any legal protection against spyware?

http://www.spywareterminator.com/support/what-is-spyware.aspx


What is spyware?

Spyware is software that is capable of performing certain operations on your computer without your consent, such as displaying advertisements, collecting your personal information, or changing the configuration of your computer.

Other types of unwanted software can alter to your computer with results ranging from minor annoyances to causing your computer to slow down or crash. These programs have the ability to change your Web browser's home page or search page, or add additional components to your browser you may not need or want. These programs also make it very difficult for you to change your settings back to the way you originally had them. These types of unwanted programs are often labeled as spyware.

What is adware?

Adware is software that displays advertisements. This does not mean that any software that provides advertisements or tracks your on-line activities is adware. For example, you may install a free ad-supported version of software, and you "pay" for the service by agreeing to receive targeted advertisements. If you understand the terms and agree to them, you may have decided that it is a fair tradeoff. You may also have agreed to let the company track your online activities to determine which advertisements to show you. To avoid installing adware if you do not wish to "pay" for the service by receiving targeted advertisements, we recommend that you carefully read the software’s Terms of Use and End User License Agreement.

What is malware?

Malware, or malicious software, is designed specifically to damage your machine or interrupt the normal computing environment. A trojan horse, worm or virus could be classified as malware. Some advertising software can be malicious by trying to re-install itself after you have removed it.


What is parasiteware?

Parasiteware is the term for any adware that by default overwrites certain affiliate tracking links. These tracking links are used by webmasters to sell products and to help fund websites. The controversy is centered on companies like WhenU, eBates, and Top Moxie, popular makers of adware applications. These companies release their software to assist users in getting credit for rebates, cash back shopping, or contributions to funds. To the end user, parasiteware represents little in the way of a security threat.


What is a page hijacker?

Hijacker is an application that attempts to take control of the user's homepage and replace it with one that the hijacker chooses. It is a low security threat, but is annoying. Most hijackers use stealth techniques or trick dialog boxes to perform installation.

Browser hijackers commonly do one or more of the following:

* Change your "search" page and passes all searches to a pay-per-search site
* Change your default home page to the company page. Sometimes the software changes them to a portal featuring porn sites.
* May transmit URLs viewed toward the company server


What is a dialer?

A dialer is a type of software used by pornographic vendors. Once dialer software is downloaded, the user is disconnected from his/her modem's usual Internet service provider, is connected to another phone number and is then billed. While dialers do not spy on users they are malevolent in nature because they can cause huge financial harm to the victim.


What is a browser plugin?

A plugin is a software program that extends the capabilities of your Internet browser in a specific way. Not all browser plugins are harmful and some may be helpful. This category contains mostly dubious browser plugins such as “Search Assistant”, toolbars, etc. that have been known to transmit user data to their creators or have been installed using covert means.


What is a commercial keylogger?

Commercial keylogger is a program designed to monitor user activity. It may be used with or without consent. Since it is sold commercially, most anti-virus vendors do not detect it.


What is a commercial network management tool?

A commercial network management tool is mostly used in (large) corporations. It can log the network traffic passively (sniffing) or examine the logs of proxies, etc. Nothing is installed on the individual computers, the software runs on a central server. They can only log items that pass through the network, but not local items such as the entered passwords, keystrokes or screenshots.


What is a data miner?

A data miner’s primary function is to gather data about an end user. Some adware applications may employ data mining abilities.


What is a loyaltyware?

Loyaltyware is a sub-form of adware. Loyaltyware is a type of software that works around the concept of user loyalty by providing incentives in the form of cash, points, airline miles, or other type of goods while shopping.


What is a remote administration tool?

A remote administration tool is a tool designed to be used by network administrators to remotely control a computer on the network, usually for support or inventory purposes. It may be used for spying purposes.


What is a worm?

A worm is a virus-like program that spreads automatically to other computers by distributing itself via email or other means. A worm spreads itself by attacking other machines and copying itself to the affected machine. Both worms and viruses are self-replicating codes that travel from machine to machine by various means. Both worms and viruses have, as their first objective, merely propagation. Both can be destructive, depending on what payload, if any, they have been given. There are some differences in that worms may replace files, but do not insert themselves into files, while viruses insert themselves into files, but do not replace them.


How can I tell that I have spyware on my computer?

You may have spyware installed on your computer if:

* You see pop-up advertisements even when you're not on a website.
* Your homepage or your browser search settings have changed without your knowledge.
* You have a new toolbar in your browser that you didn't want, and find it difficult to get rid of.
* Your computer takes longer than usual to complete certain tasks.
* You experience a sudden rise in computer crashes.


How does spyware get on my computer?

There are several ways spyware or other unwanted software can intrude your computer. A common trick is to covertly install the software during the installation of other software you want such as a music or video file sharing program. Whenever you are installing something on your computer, make sure you carefully read all disclosures, including the license agreement and privacy statement. Sometimes the inclusion of unwanted software in a given software installation is documented, but it may appear at the end of a license agreement or privacy statement.


What is the difference between spyware and viruses?

The average Internet user has difficulty distinguishing viruses from spyware. However there are slight differences. Both are malicious software, both have the capacity to capture and destroy information, ruin performance, and disrupt business processes.

A virus seeks to infect a computer; to replicate; and to infect as many computers as possible, as quickly as possible. For example, an email-delivered virus (a worm) may search your computer's file system for your Outlook address book and send infected email messages to contacts it finds in the address book. A virus relies on email for propagation, but tries many attack vectors such as file sharing, telnet, FTP, IMs, or any services and programs on your computer that communicate with other computers.

Viruses seek to spread, but spyware tries to stay put as a parasite. Spyware disguises itself as a legitimate application or secretly resides as one more data link library (DLL) or registry setting the average user knows nothing about, so that it can collect information about you, your messaging, browsing behavior and your online preferences. Spyware will embed itself deeply into critical components of your operating system and bloat your memory with its monitoring and collection processing executables. So where virus activities are overt and sufficiently extensive in their impact to attract attention quickly, spyware activities are typically covert and their infestations are often long lasting.

Spyware will exploit your computer of anything it can use for monetary gain, for as long as it can remain attached to the host. Spyware is content to sit on a single computer, to monitor what the user does, as is the case with tracking adware; or influence where the user visits, as is the case with targeting advertisers who use browser helper objects that pop-up ads, substitute search engines, and hijack home pages.

Viruses can be intentionally destructive and have been known to erase or corrupt file systems or abet denial of service attacks. Spyware is more interested in having the host remain healthy: a non-functional computer has neither advertising value nor revenue potential to spyware. So spyware typically remains non-destructive, unless you try to remove it. But many spyware packages are removal resistant: you may uninstall them only to find they reappear when you reboot your computer. Others modify many critical components of a computer operating system and incomplete removal often renders the computer inoperable.


How to keep spyware off of my computer?

Here are few useful tips on how to avoid spyware infection:

* Use anti-spyware programs such as Spyware Terminator.
* Keep your anti-spyware programs current by downloading updates.
* If using Microsoft's Internet Explorer, turn off its ability to run scripts without your permission.
* Prevent spyware from transmitting data off the system by using a firewall.
* Do not click on links within pop-ups. By clicking on a pop-up link you may install spyware on your computer. Close the popup with the "X" on the title bar, do not use the "close" link, if there are any available within the window.
* Do not download programs from websites you are not familiar with.
* Be careful of unexpected dialog boxes asking whether you want to perform an action. If you are not sure about the impact of the action, better click "NO" or close the dialog box by clicking the "X" icon in the title bar.
* Do not follow email links offering anti-spyware software. These links may actually install the spyware they claim to be keeping off your system.


Is there any legal protection against spyware?

Although the Can-Spam law that has been in effect for a year, it hasn't had much success against unsolicited email. Legal experts and business technology professionals remain hopeful that laws aimed at reducing adware and spyware will fare somewhat better.

States are moving forward in crafting anti-spyware legislation. A former Governor of Utah signed into law the Spyware Control Act that bans the installation of spyware without the user's consent. A similar law went into effect in California enforcing a $1,000 penalty per violation. At the 109th Congress recently convened Rep. Mary Bono, R-Calif., reintroduced her anti-spyware bill that includes civil fines up to $3 million for violators.

Still, Michael Overly, a technology attorney with the law firm of Foley & Lardner, says that the new laws aren't entirely necessary because the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act already makes it illegal for unauthorized system intrusions. Other legal experts point out that Title 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act enables the FTC to track down anyone conducting deceptive trade practices, and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act also could be used against those who send out spyware.

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privateCam_v0.1.exe Virus ရွင္းလင္းနည္း

ယခုရက္ပိုင္းအတြင္ Gtalk ႏွင့္ YAHOO တို႔မွတဆင့္ ကူးစက္ေသာ Virus တစ္မ်ိဳးေပၚေပါက္ေနပါသည္။ အကယ္၍ Gtalk တြင့္ မိမိဆီကို Hey Please help me to test my new cam http://h1.ripway.com/.../privateCam_v0.1.exe ဟုေသာစာေၾကာင္း ၀င္လာပါက အဲဒီစာေၾကာင္းကို လံုး၀မႏွိပ္မိေစရန္သတိျပဳၾကပါ။ တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္က ေပးပို႔လာပါက ထိုေပးပို႔လာသူအား သူသည္ Virus infected ျဖစ္ေနေၾကာင္းကို သတိေပးေျပာၾကားေပးၾကပါရန္ ႏွိးေဆာ္အပ္ပါသည္။
privateCam_v0.1.exe Virus ရွင္းလင္းနည္း

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Ethernet Cat5 T568B color order

T568A-Straight Through
W/Green Green W/Orange Blue W/Blue Orange W/Brown Brown

T568B -Straight Through
W/Orange Orange Blue W/Blue Green W/Green W/Brown Brown

Corssover Twisted
PC-1 W/Green Green W/Orange Blue W/Blue Orange W/Brown Brown
PC-2 W/Orange Orange W/Green Blue W/Blue Green W/Brown Brown


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Windows Product Activation

Windows Product Activation (WPA) is to ensure that Windows Vista is installed on only a limited number of computers .
Several Identifiers are used
Hardware ID : information generated from a computer hardware configuration
Product ID : A 25- character unique key supplied with the installation media
Installation ID : An identifier that Windows creates from the Hardware ID and Product ID.


During WPA Product ID and Hardware ID are sent to Microsoft. A single Product ID can't be tied to more than one Hardware ID. If the activation check finds that the Product ID has not been activated and tied to a Hardware ID, both ID are recorded and installation is activated. If the activation check finds the product ID is tied to a different hardware ID, the activation is failed.

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about XXware

Knowledge about spyware, malware, adware.
http://www.malwarehelp.org/

Maleware
What is Malware, Malware -short for MALicious softWARE- is a term used to broadly classify a form of software which is installed in a computer system mostly without the owners permission with malicious intentions. It includes Trojans, viruses, key loggers, malicious active content, rogue programs and dialers among others.

Spyware
Spyware is defined loosely as any program that secretly gathers information about you and or your computer use through your Internet connection. Typically, a Spyware program gathers information about you by monitoring your computing activities and then transmits it across the Internet to a central server for onward distribution to interested parties for advertising purposes. These programs can also download files, run other programs in the background, and change your system settings.

Adware
Adware is usually a freeware displaying advertising banners within the program interface. The developer creates revenue by selling advertising space in the software product, instead of you having to pay for it. Occasionally, some Adware will also act as spyware which includes information gathering code to send non-sensitive information back to third parties. Some people think that Adware are same as spyware, but Adware isn't necessarily spyware. While legitimate adware companies will disclose the nature of data that is collected and transmitted in their privacy statement, there is almost no way for the user to actually control what data is being sent. In addition to privacy concerns, frequent downloading of advertisement banners and other ads while the user is browsing can slow down the system immensely and for users paying for dialup services by time used, ad-loading and hidden communications with servers can be very costly.

Trojans
A program that comes in secretly and quietly, but it carries a destructive payload. Once you become infected by the worm or virus that that Trojan carries into your computer, it can be very difficult to repair the damage. Trojans often carry programs that allow someone else to have total and complete access to your computer. Trojans usually come attached to another file, such as an .avi, or .exe, or even a .jpg. Many people do not see full file extensions, so what may appear as games.zip in reality could be games.zip.exe. Once the person opens up this file, the Trojan goes to work, many times destroying the computer's functionability. www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/ircglossary.html

Viruses
A piece of programming code usually disguised as something else that causes some unexpected and, for the victim, usually undesirable event and which is often designed so that it is automatically spread to other computer users. Viruses can be transmitted by sending them as attachments to an e-mail note, by downloading infected programming from other sites, or be present on a diskette or CD. The best protection against a virus is to know the origin of each program or file you load into your computer or open from your e-mail program.

Browser Hijackers
Browser Hijacking is caused by malicious code which can alter your browser settings without your knowledge. Browser Hijackers are extremely common.
Altering the Homepage, Search Page of your browser.

1. Changing various options in your Internet settings.
2. Blocking access to certain functions (parts or all of the internet options screen, registry editor etc) Changing to reset (iereset.inf) file to prevent user being able to reset web settings within the internet explorer options screen.
3. Automatically add sites to your trusted zone Hijack of URL prefixes, therefore if you enter a site in your browser without a prefix (ie google.com), internet explorer automatically appends http:// to the address.
4. Altering your winsock list of providers used to resolve domain names.
5. Adding a proxy server so all your traffic could be intercepted.

Rootkit
A rootkit is a set of tools used by an intruder after cracking a computer system. These tools can help the attacker maintain his or her access to the system and use it for malicious purposes. An attacker enters the victims computer through a security loop hole, like a weak password or a missing patch and then installs his favorite collection of tools which will provide him backdoor(s) to remotely access the cracked system and also mask the fact that the system is compromised.

Web bug
Web bug or Web beacons Also called a Web bug or a pixel tag or a clear GIF. Used in combination with cookies, a Web beacon is an often-transparent graphic image, usually no larger than 1 pixel x 1 pixel, that is placed on a Web site or in an e-mail that is used to monitor the behavior of the user visiting the Web site or sending the e-mail. When the HTML code for the Web beacon points to a site to retrieve the image, at the same time it can pass along information such as the IP address of the computer that retrieved the image, the time the Web beacon was viewed and for how long, the type of browser that retrieved the image and previously set cookie values. Web beacons are typically used by a third-party to monitor the activity of a site. A Web beacon can be detected by viewing the source code of a Web page and looking for any IMG tags that load from a different server than the rest of the site. Turning off the browser's cookies will prevent Web beacons from tracking the user's activity. The Web beacon will still account for an anonymous visit, but the user's unique information will not be recorded. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_beacon.html

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