Web Alert: How Viruses Pass the Antivirus

Howdy, diggers how are you all today? Are you feeling healthy today? Is your PC also feeling healthy as well? Most of you who cares about your PC performance, privacy and cyber security must have installed at least one type of antivirus software in your PC. Most of people feeling save already knowing that in their PC there was program installed called antivirus. Nevertheless, what if there is a way to pass the antivirus protection no matter how often you update the antivirus? Well that will be a big problem. So now, let us dig more into the world of virus, where the power of evil will fight with the knights who defend your PC.

Antivirus 101, How They Do It

To learn how some viruses pass the antivirus detection we must learn how antivirus recognizes a virus in your PC. Most of the antivirus, especially old ones recognize viruses by its signature. What is signature? Like human beings signature is a unique sign that belong to certain person, as for the viruses the signature can be name or code that only a certain virus type or version have.

How does the antivirus determine the unique signature of a virus? Well when virus makers make new virus the antivirus developer will get the virus analyzed. After they analyze the new virus, they will determine a unique signature for that virus. After that, the antivirus developer will send the new signature data into their users around the world through antivirus updates.

What if there was a virus out there that no antivirus ever known before? If you refer to the principle on how antiviruses detect a virus, you will find the answers. Yes, the antivirus will not recognize the virus and will let the virus get into your computer. That is why the virus makers always try to make their viruses as fast as possible through a fast cycle of works. In the other hand, the antivirus developers are racing to get the latest viruses’ database so they can determine their signature.

How to Pass the Antivirus Detection

When a virus maker want to know if their new virus can be recognize by antivirus or not, they can upload their virus into websites like Jotti (www.jotti.com) or VirusTotal (www.virustotal.com). In those websites, some antivirus will attempt to detect their new virus. When they found the virus the virus maker will use program such as EXE-packer, which will not only make the malicious software smaller but also will change the signature. In the old days, the virus maker can use the “Do not send sample” option in order to prevent the websites from sending the new malicious software program to the antivirus developer before they can make any changes. Now as far as I know this option is no longer exist due to the deal made between the antivirus developer and the Jotti and VirusTotal.

After the Jotti and VirusTotal make deals with antivirus developers, the virus makers turn to certain kind of software, which helps them to make their virus undetected by antivirus. The anti antivirus software like KIMS and AVFixer has the ability to test the new virus against some antivirus in the world. Not only that, the software can perform some necessary modification to the virus so antivirus cannot detect the virus.

How the Antivirus Developers Counteract

For you web diggers who start to lose faith to the antivirus software which currently protecting your PC, don’t you worry, antivirus developers already made some modification to handle the latest virus evolutions.

Nowadays to help enhancing your PC protection against malicious software, the antivirus developers start to make some changes on how their antivirus works. To stay up to date with the virus evolution some antivirus developers add some features on their antivirus software. The new antivirus is not only relying on the signature scanning but also put some new method called heuristic method. The newer method introduced by antivirus developers is the behavior analysis method and sandbox method. The behavior analysis method use some algorithm to recognize if a program running on your PC which can do something harm to your PC based on the program behavior to your PC’s systems. In other words, the virus is recognized not by its outside looks but more from the inside looks, its behavior for more exact.

The sandbox method is not so popular among most of PC users. Nowadays, only experts use the sandbox method due to complexity of operating this method. This method creates a virtual space on your hard drive. If you run a program, this program first will run in this virtual space, if then you decide that the program currently running is a malicious program you can lock and heal or quarantine the program. Every changes made by the program can be reversed to its initial states just by a single click. Well I hope soon every anti malicious program software will include sandbox method as their feature.

Some Word of Wisdom

I do not think it is wrong to install antivirus in your PC but the question now is how good is your antivirus deals with new viruses in the world? Most people were so confident after they install antivirus software in their PC and make them less careful when they connected to the internet, downloading and putting data on their PC. This kind of behavior will result serious problems because you cannot just give the matters of PC securities to your antivirus software, your PC security is your own problem, and if you want to maintain your PC away from viruses, you must start from yourself.

There is no 100% secured PC even you already install every top of the line, state of the art of technology, security software and patches. If you want to keep your PC 100% save just shut it down, unplug every cable connected to it, put it somewhere safe and go to sleep. If you still want to use your PC, please stay wise with everything you do with your PC, stay up to date with the information and check your PC regularly.

Search Engine Digging: How to Put Your URL in the Major Search Engines

What is search engine? Well most of web diggers must have known this name ever since they start using the internet, because most of the beginners use Google or yahoo to begin their quest in the cyber space. First, because they don't know where to go, and the second reason they were afraid that they would type a wrong address to the browsers and get errors on their browser. Oh, you don't believe in the second reason. Well not for the real newbie in the cyber space, for most newbie it is true when they got the 404 errors which stands out for page not found they will get freak out and panic. So there you go overview why a search engine is an essential part of our internet life. That does also include large number of web surfer looking for specific things in internet.

Therefore, if you have a website or blog and you want to drive traffic on it, the search engine is the perfect tool for that, due to the above reason. This mean you must be friendly with the search engine in order to make the search engine work for you. One thing you can do to be friend with the search engine is introduce your site and blog to the search engine. Make them remember your site and knowing your site, let them learn about your site and in the end, they will bring your site to the right people.

In order to do so you need to register your web site and blog to the search engine. There are large number of search engine operated in the internet, if you never wonder and only know Google, yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos, well they are not the only search engine in the web. Do I have to register to the entire search engine? Well that is will be such a waste of time. Although lot of search engine is operating in the world, most of them are using the search results provided by the major search engine like Google and Yahoo. So all you need to do is register to the major search engine and automatically you will be registered by the major search engine to the rest of the search engine operated in the internet.

Who are the major search engines? Well you may already guest two or three of them. Moreover, I bet on my bottom dollar that the name Google will come up first. So all right then in order to get fair let’s start with Google. Here is how to register your URL to the major search engine, and I will give you short overview about the search engine.

Google the King of Search Engine

Google is the biggest search engine company in the world. No, wonder because from the start Google were made to be a search engine only without any e-mail and advertisement. That's why Google is the most widely used search engine in the world, it fast, rank properly, have good accuracy, dig more from a site you search and a good place to put your advertisement. Every SEO company in the world started with Google to work with their client's websites. So it is clear you must start with this search engine first.

To register your URL you need to dig into http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Have you already got there? Okay let's dig it up!! All you need to do is give the Google your URL address, don’t forget to add http:// in front of your URL address, and a comment about your website or blog and then click the ADD URL button. All done!!!

As addition, Google also have paid listing service that allow users to put their URL listing as a form of ad in the Google Search Engine Results page. This program is widely known as Google AdWords.

Yahoo... From The Biggest E-mail Company to the Respectively Search Engine

Yahoo, well not much to say, this is the biggest e-mail company in the world. The rapid progresses on the e-mail services of yahoo have lead them to be the best on this business. This is true yahoo is my first e-mail when I am started to know internet. Then they provide the users with search engine. The search engine then becoming major business for Yahoo, as they purchase few other search engines like AltaVista and Alltheweb.com.

Let us dig deeper to the URL listing. To get into the URL listing web page, you need to dig this link: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/.

Oops, I almost forget, before you can submit your URL on Yahoo, you need to sign in with your Yahoo ID. If you don’t have any Yahoo ID then you needs to get one from www.yahoo.com.

After all of those preambles done you just pick the standard submission to get your URL listed free to the Yahoo’s crawlers. Put any information required and follow the instructions. Like Google, Yahoo also has a commercial URL listing which you have to pay to get your URL listed into this list. Nevertheless, here I’m only talk about the free of charge one.

Live Search… When Microsoft Get into Search Engine

Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search) is the name of Microsoft's web search engine, successor to MSN Search, designed to compete with the industry leaders Google and Yahoo. The search engine offers some innovative features, such as the ability to view additional search results on the same web page (instead of needing to click through to subsequent search result pages) and the ability to adjust the amount of information displayed for each search-result (i.e. just the title, a short summary, or a longer summary). It also allows the user to save searches and see them updated automatically on Live.com.

The service was previously powered by LookSmart results and gained top marks for having its own team of editors that monitored the most popular searches being performed to hand-pick sites believed to be the most relevant. The system worked well.

To submit your URL into Live Search URL list just dig this link: http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx.

It’s free, don’t you worry about any fee required to submit your URL. After you get into the submit.aspx webpage just follow the instruction and don’t forget to write the security image before you continue.

All the three search engines mentioned above have free (non-commercial) URL listing. That’s why I put those three in top three search engines. Other than those search engines there are few search engines that require you to pay some money for URL listing.

Ask… All You Have to Do is Ask

Ask Jeeves initially gained fame in 1998 and 1999 as being the "natural language" search engine that let you search by asking questions and responded with what seemed to be the right answer to everything.

In reality, technology wasn't what made Ask Jeeves perform so well. Behind the scenes, the company at one point had about 100 editors who monitored search logs. They then went out onto the web and located what seemed to be the best sites to match the most popular queries.

In 1999, Ask acquired Direct Hit, which had developed the world's first "click popularity" search technology. Then, in 2001, Ask acquired Teoma's unique index and search relevancy technology. Teoma was based upon the clustering concept of subject-specific popularity.

Today, Ask depends on crawler-based technology to provide results to its users. These results come from the Teoma algorithm, now known as ExpertRank.

Ask.com doesn’t provide any free URL listing with their search engine. However, you can use the pay URL listing to register your URL. In order to does that just go to: http://www.ask.com/.

Is That All?

Well there you go. Those search engines are the major search engines. What about other search engines? Well the rest like Alltheweb.com (http://www.alltheweb.com/) and AltaVista.com (http://www.altavista.com/) are already switch owners and now owned by Yahoo. So if you want to get your URL listed in those search engines all you have to do is list your URL in Yahoo.com. In addition Lycos.com (http://www.lycos.com/) use Alltheweb.com as their source but this search engine crawl any web pages that has been listed in those major search engines.

Other search engines such as AOL (http://search.aol.com/) and Netscape (http://search.netscape.com/) use Google as their reference. Therefore, by registering your URL in Google’s listing you automatically listed in those search engines. The last one ask.com used as reference by Direct Hit Search Engine.

The rest search engines use special method to list your URL. Such as HotBot.com (http://www.hotbot.com/) and Gigablast (http://www.gigablast.com/) will automatically get to your URL address when you already listed on minimum of three major search engines.

Go to Directory for Some Alternatives

Directories are search engines powered by human beings. Human editors compile all the listings that directories have. Being listed with the web's key directories is very important because many people will see these listings. In addition, if you are listed with them, then crawler-based search engines are more likely to find your site and add it to their listings for free. You should prepare before submitting to any directory. This preparation means that you have written a 25 word or less description of your entire web site. That description should make use of the two or three key terms that you hope to be found for.

Consider keyword research to help determine the best keyword phrases for your site rather than guessing at what these terms might be. The What People Search For page has a list of resources that will allow you to do such research.

There are few directories recommended to put your URL on their lists. First of all of course Yahoo directory (http://dir.yahoo.com/). Second is Look Smart directory (http://www.looksmart.com/) and the last one is Open Directory (http://www.dmoz.org/).

If you already prepare your website description as mentioned above all you have to do is follow the instruction in those directories. First time you may have to choose the webpage categories that most suitable with your URL.

That is all folks. I hope this information will be useful for all web diggers. See you soon!

Main Source Links:

Ø SearchEngineWatch.com (SEW)

Ø Google Help

Site Digging: Buy Sponsored Review to Earn Some Money

Are you good in writing opinions and reviews? Why don't you use it to earn some money for your self? There are a lot of companies out there who willing to pay just to get your reviews about their services or products. However, the big problem is how you find the company which looking for reviews? Well let me take you to a website that helps bloggers meets the advertisers who want reviews and willing to pay for it. The website is called SponsoredReviews.com, let's digging into the site shall we? 

First of all, it's obvious that you will need to sign up in order to take part of this website. But before you do that, there is some check point lists that you must check before you can start this bussiness. Okay first thing first, you must have a blog (off course), but not just a blog, your blog must be at least 3 months old and already contain at least 10 posts, oops not just ordinary post but non-commercial posts. What is non-commercial post? That is a post which you dont get paid to write it, or in other word non-profit posts. In addition, your blog must mantain the ratio of non-profit and profit post at 2:1. Which means, every time yopu write a review from SponsoredReviews.com dont forget to write two additional posts which come from your own sources. Got that all checked? Let's dig more okay?

In order to accept payments, the bloggers must have a PayPal account. If you don't have one yet, get one right now. It is mandatory for you to have a PayPal account because SponsoredReviews.com only send payments via PayPal. Well web diggers that's all the basic check list you need to fulfill right now. Actually there are more but I think if you already meet the above qualifications you can start to earn some money right now.

In order to get a job from the advertiser you can just wait until an advertiser ask you for your reviews or you can be pro active and offer your service to them. The jobs list is presented on SponsoredReviews.com, you can easily choose which one is the most suitable for you. After you got the review job you will get a deadline on when the assignment must be deliver to the SponsoredReviews.com, please don't be late because it will automatically cancel your assignment. After you deliver your review then the team from SponsoredReviews.com will check on your reviews to make sure the grammar and structure is all right, there is no offended words and all the content is suitable to the product you review. So please check your english writing skill right now. After your review pass all the test all you need to do is wait for your payment to be delivered. Wait a minute, how much I'll get pay for a review? Well the answer is depend on the bid and your offer to the advertisers. It range from $5 to $1000 per review. But if you are such a big marketing expert you may get more, especially when you gain enough reputation as a dependable, honest and proffesional reviewer. So do your job proffesionally then you will gain reputation to earn much more money. 

So how about it web diggers, are you all interested joining the website? Just Click here to register.

Site Digging : Hack This Site Please

Do you Web Diggers want to learn hacking? Do you need a legally online website for you to hack just to train and practice your hacking ability? Well let’s take a ride and dig to the digging tunnel that leads us to the HackThisSite website. HackThisSite? Well the name of the site speaks for itself; this website designed to be hacked by the visitors. Therefore, in other word you can go there and legally hack the website.

HackThisSite also known as HTS is a free training ground for users to test and expand their hacking skills. The organization is currently the largest online hacking community in the world with a user base of well over 350,000.[1] It aims to provide users and teams with a way to learn and practice basic and advanced "hacking" skills through a series of challenges, in a safe and legal environment. Per its size, many HTS users have begun their own HTS-based local hacker groups.

HackThisSite involves a small, loose team of developers and moderators who maintain its network of websites, IRC server, and related projects. It produces an e-zine, which it releases at various hacker conventions and through its hackbloc portal. Microcosm and Quimbys publish hard copies of the zine. It also has a short news/blog section run by devs.

For you diggers who may seek for place to learn and practice your hacking skill please try this website. Most important section on this website is the challenge. What do you mean with challenge? As you may have guessed, the challenge is the proving ground, place for you diggers to test your skill. The challenges in HackThissite.org are grouped into nine different levels based on the difficulty of the challenge.

·         Basic Mission

·         Realistic Mission

·         Application Mission

·         Programming Mission

·         Logic Mission

·         Extbasic mission

·         JavaScript Mission

·         Stego Mission

·         IRC Mission

Basic Mission…. Mommy can I hack this site?

Yes, for you script kiddies this is your chance to start paying attention to source code interpretation. Don’t expect too much challenge on this level. HTS made this mission to be an appetizer before the main hacking course arrived for you to eat.

Realistic Mission…. Oh is that real?

When it comes to realistic mission, it means you will deal with real website. Of course the website is flaw that why you were here to hack it. This mission will gives you the big picture that hacking start from the flaw on the website code.  You play the role of a freelance hacker who is contracted by several individuals and organizations to hack for social justice causes. You are given objectives and left to explore the site on your own, trying to discover and exploit the vulnerabilities. The web hacking skills taught on this series of challenges can be directly applied to systems in the real world. There are sixteen Realistic Missions, which attempt to mimic real, moderate to difficult hacking, in real life situations. Each mission is a complete web site featuring multiple pages and scripts. Users must successfully exploit one or more of the web sites pages to gain access to required data or to produce changes.

Application Mission… Wouldn’t do any good till you apply it

This test requires more operating system / programming specific skills. These test the manipulation of applications on your own machine. The goal of application challenges is generally to extract a key from an application, usually involving some form of reverse engineering. Nevertheless, other challenges involve program manipulation.

Programming Mission… Make it work boys

A Programming Challenges section also exists. This section currently consists of ten challenges charging the user to write a program, which will perform a specified function within a certain amount of seconds after activation. These programming challenges range from simple missions such as parsing the contents, to reverse engineering an encryption algorithm. These help users develop and practice on-the-go programming skills.

Logic Mission… A little brain exercise

Every hacker needs to learn to think outside the box. This includes thinking unrelated to programming or even computers. Logic challenges encourage abstract thinking and unusual behaviors which can help a clever hacker to think his or her way out of a problem.

Extbasic mission…. Read it carefully

Reading codes is the basic of all hacking. This challenge will teach hackers to read codes and make it a deadly weapon to exploit a website.

JavaScript Mission… Using the script as you like

JavaScript is becoming more and more popular as a web component. Not only useful to make a website beautiful and interactive nowadays JavaScript also used as application script which is good because it can be a back door for a hacker to penetrate the website.

Stego Mission… Playing with puzzle

Everyone has a need to hide something. Encryption is useful for this purpose. However then everone knows you are hiding something. Hiding in plain site is much harder to do discretely.

IRC Mission… Ultimate mission

The final challenge is literally Hack This Site. This mission challenge the users to find a hole in the real HTS website and share it with the others to gain recognition and enter  the HTS hall of fame.

Before you take a tour on the website, it is better if you learn the concepts of hacking presented on this site. Because this website has take a lot of criticism hat HackThisSite's self-description as a "hacker training ground" encourages people to break the law. Many people related to the site state that although some of the skills taught can be used for illegal activities, HTS does not participate in or support such activities. Well eventually it is all come back to us, we can learn hacking, everyone have the right to learn it. But how you use those knowledge is what matters.

Dig more from source links:

·         Hack This Site (http://www.hackthissite.org)

·         Wikipedia : Hack This Site

Site Digging: Earn Money Just By Clicking From Your Finger Tips

Overview
Do you want to earn money on easy way? Are you bored with your ad program on your website or blog? Oh one more thing are you bored to write review and getting paid? Well now here is a website that will pay you just by clicking on the advertisement they presented on their own website. Yup, that means you can earn money just by clicking your mouse on the advertisement. If you interested just go to the neobux.com. There you can register for free and start clicking o earn money.

When you click the advertisement you must pay attention to few details. First of all after you click an advertisement you must at least look at it for maybe 10 to 20 seconds after you click another advertisement. You don't have to read about it, just keep the window active among that period of time and you will get pay. That also mean you can not open multiple window to open another advertisement before the last advertisement opened for 10 to 20 seconds.



Inside the Site
Oh before I forget this website also have tools to prevent their user from using automatic clicking machine. This method is simple though don't worry about it, it's simply after you click the ad you want to view a red dot appears. You must click it in order to view the ad. The red dot will come up in random location to prohibit the clicking machine to predict where it will come up next. The web page is using https protocol means its using a secure portal for their operation.

Now we get to the payroll part. The neobux will pay you $0.02 per click and view and if you can get refferals,every time your referrals click on an advertisement you will earn $0.02 for every click and view they make. The payment will be send via PayPal or PayAlert. So make sure you have PayPal or PayAlert account to recive your payment. You can collect your payment after it reaches $2.

For The Advertisers
Neobux also open an opportunity for the advertisers to advertise with them. Advertisers can choose the design, the payment and how long the ad need to be viewed by the users. It's easy and it's profitable because the essence of advertisement is how you get other people to read it right?

Interested to Join? Click here>>

MONEY DIGGING: SELLING WITH AMAZON

Digging Tunnel :

I bet all of you ever heard Amazon. Yes, Amazon is one of the biggest online merchant on the internet. Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce (e-commerce) company in Seattle, Washington. It is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the internet sales revenue of runner up Staples, Inc.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an on-line bookstore but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, etc. After getting bigger and bigger Amazon decided to established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Japan. It also provides global shipping to certain countries for some of its products.

One year later Amazon launched their new affiliate program called Amazon Associates. Amazon Associates give opportunity to bloggers and website owners to be one of the merchant of Amazon. The Amazon Associates program has a more than 12 years record of accomplishment of developing solutions to help website owners, Web developers, and Amazon sellers make money by advertising millions of new and used products from Amazon.com and Endless.com. When website owners and bloggers who are Associates create links and customers click through those links and buy products from Amazon.com or Endless.com, they earn referral fees. It’s free to join and easy to use.

As Amazon Associates, Amazon will provide you with tools such as Banners, Links and Widgets to attract your audiences to go and shop at amazon.com. When they do this then you as the person refers them to the amazon.com will earn referral fee. Provide customers the convenience of referring them to a trusted site where they can immediately purchase the products you advertise on your site. In addition, when they do, you can earn up to 15% in referral fees.

Build Links & Banners

Whether your goal is to maximize earnings, or delight your visitors with a unique presentation of Amazon content, it's easy to build links to Amazon.com and Endless.com. You decide how much control you want over the products displayed in each set of links.

Site Stripe

Our new Site Stripe feature allows you to build your Associates links right from the Amazon.com or Endless.com page itself. While browsing the site as a customer yourself, you can easily build links with this short cut.

Text and Product Links

Link to a specific product on Amazon.com or Endless.com and show some information about that product. The Product Links tool lets you build customized Text Links, Text and Image links, and Image only links to Amazon.com or Endless.com products.

• Your links will include your Associate tag and you will be paid for qualifying sales coming through this link.
• Use Product Previews to enhance your Product Links.

 

Banners

Link to Amazon.com or Endless.com categories or promotions using our stylish graphical banners.

• Many standard banner sizes and shapes available.
• Show special graphics for special Amazon promotions such as Back to School or Mothers Day.
• Easy to add.
• Earn referrals of up to 15% of sales.

Dig this web tunnel to see:

Widget Gallery (Widget design collection from Amazon)

A Store

However, I think the best part of this program is you can build A Store. What is A Store? The simplest way to describe it is A Store is your own online store featuring Amazon’s merchandises. A Store gives you the power to create a professional online store, in minutes and without the need for programming skills, that can be embedded within or linked to from your website:

• Feature Amazon.com and Endless.com Products
• Offer a Shopping Cart
• Show Product Details

When you join this program, Amazon will assist you to survey your customer to optimize your referral performance. This is included in the monthly report along with your payroll.

More Digging Web and Blog sphere Tunnels

What they have to say about Amazon Associates? Well if you don’t trust what I have to say because I’m new on this business, maybe some of this links can help to convince you to join this program. Here is the links from the Dig Tunnels:

9 Reason Why I Am An Amazon Affiliate (www.problogger.net)

How To How to Really Make Money on the Internet With an Amazon.com Affiliate Site (www.about.com)

Amazon Associates also provide blog to put their news, feeds and feedback from the viewers. Here is the link to that blog

WELL THAT’S ALL FOLKS! ARE YOU DIGGERS INTERESTED WITH THIS PROGGRAME?JOIN NOW>>

For Indonesian Diggers there's also blog from Indonesia that take serious focus on amazon affiliate: www.waroengbetawi.com/

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