We’ve been getting a lot of questions about Spam and Phishing emails. We have included these tips to help you. If you have questions write us on our contact form: https://www.bakoweb.com/support/contact.php or on this blog by signing up. http://www.bakoweb.com/blog/wp-login.php?action=register We can’t answer every question, but we will do our best to get to as many [...]
Nov 032009
By adding a Sitemap XML file to your website, you help Search Engine Crawlers (like Google), to find the pages on your site, and which ones have recently changed. The easiest way to make a sitemap for your website is to go to the following website, enter your domain name, and click the Start button. [...]
Nov 022009
What is a Favicon? Favicon is the tiny icon image which is in your browser title bar when you visit a website. To make a Favicon create a 16 x 16 pixel image in your favorite image editing software. Once you have created your icon, go to http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ and upload your image. You will then [...]
Nov 012009
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By adding a robots.txt file to your website’s main directory, (where your homepage is located), you can direct all the good robots like Googlebot, ASK, MSNbot, and Yahoo Slurp, search engine bots from indexing certain parts of your website. So let’s say you have a webpage that has a bunch of your email addresses on [...]
By Byron Acohido USA Today http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/?csp=Tech Two top botnet gangs are bombarding Facebook members with targeted phishing emails. They’re hoping to get control of members’ Facebook and other accounts — a rising type of cybercrime. There is nothing Facebook can do, beyond warning its members, to slow down these attacks. “This virus has been spreading [...]
Oct 282009
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-10-27-cybercrime-phishing-account-passwords_N.htm?csp=DailyBriefing Phishers are back with a vengeance, armed with some alarming new trickery. Those e-mail scammers who try to fool you into typing your user name and passwords at faked financial Web pages have been around in force since 2002. They remain active, though many Web users have gotten adept [...]
Here is another PayPal Phishing Email – (Shown below). The thing about this particular Phishing email is that it comes with an attachment that these scammers want me to open. The attachment is an html (Phishing) form probably laden with a virus trap, that when opened would put some kind of virus or Trojan on [...]
http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/10/some-scareware-scammers-building-botnets-too.html Symantec has uncovered yet more evidence underscoring the rapid advance of scareware – and the increasing guile of its purveyors. Symantec virus researchers have now confirmed that at least one group of cybercrooks spreading tainted Web links that cause promotions for worthless anti-virus protection to overrun your PC are going a step further. They [...]
Oct 232009
We’ve been getting a lot of questions from people wanting to know what to do if you have clicked on a Phishing email. We’ve included the following tips to help you. If you just clicked on the Phishing email, and didn’t allow anything to download or install, and you didn’t fill any of your personal [...]
Ever wonder who is visiting your website, and how they are finding it? BakoWeb Cpanel comes with Awstats, a site statistics program built right into your hosting account. Awstats give you detailed visual statistics about your website traffic such as: Monthly History of Visitors, Pages, Hits, & Bandwidth Days of the month, week, and hours [...]
Oct 212009
Facebook, Twitter users beware: Crooks are a mouse click away. More cyberthieves are targeting increasingly popular social networking sites that provide a gold mine of personal information, according to the FBI. Since 2006, nearly 3,200 account hijacking cases have been reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the FBI, the National White [...]
Oct 202009
Online criminals are making millions of pounds by convincing computer users to download fake anti-virus software, internet security experts claim. Read the full story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8313678.stm
Oct 192009
Here is an easy PHP email form you can use for your site. This form was taken from W3 Schools at: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_secure_mail.asp Copy/Paste the script below and save this script in a .php file named mailform.php. Then change the email address in the mail(“someone@example.com”,tag below to yours, and your ready to go. —————–BEGEN MAILFORM SCRIPT——————————— [...]
Oct 162009
If your money is a little tight to buy a virus scanner for your computer, here is a short list of free virus scanners: Microsoft Security Essentials http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/ AVG Free http://www.free.avg.com Avast Home Edition http://www.avast.com
Oct 152009
Ok, so you have spam filters and spam protection programs running, but you are still getting a ton of spam at your email address, what do you do? Either put up with the spam, or change your email address. But if you change your email address, you have to let everyone on your contact list [...]
Below is what is known as a 419 Scam, also called a Nigerian Letter, Advance Fee Fraud, or Nigerian Scam among other names. It is a scam letter designed to trick you into sending a sum of cash with the hope of receiving a larger sum back. It is fraud, and should be watched out [...]
BakoWeb accounts come with 4500 website templates. We’ve made using these templates real easy by putting their access in your Cpanel account. To browse and install a template: Login to your BakoWeb Cpanel control panel. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen, to the “Advanced” header. Click on “Website Templates” Choose a Category on [...]
What is a Cookie? Cookies are small text files that Websites put on your computer’s hard disk drive when you visit. A cookie is basically an identification card that’s uniquely yours, its job is to notify the site when you’ve returned and keep track of the pages you visited. Cookies should not be confused with [...]
This will make a picture hold a secret message. Make a new folder on your desktop and name it “hidden”. Make or choose a gif graphic file, name it to “graphic.gif” and put it in the new “hidden” folder. Make a text file with notepad and write a secret message on it, name it “secretmessage.txt”, and then [...]
