Windows Live Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger. Windows Live Messenger has new Vista look and added some new features such as PC-to-PC calls, sending offline messanges to other Messengers and much more.

However, current Windows Live Messenger is only opened to beta testers and required an invitation to sign in. For curious MSN Messenger users, here I show you how to download, install and sign in Windows Live Messenger beta, without Microsoft invitation step by step.

• Download a copy of Windows Live Messenger installer. Here’s the link to download Windows Live Messenger.
• Now, we need to use a “downgrader” to bypass it. Download and install MSNP13 Downgrader.
• Go to C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger and double-click MSNlaunch.exe to launch MSNP13 downgrader and Windows Live Messenger at the same time.

  

• The MSNP13 downgrader will bypass the Windows Live Messenger beta tester check and sign you into the MSN instant messenger network.That’s it!

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This is one of the best plugins I have found for wordpress. The plugin adds a Useronline feature to WordPress.

You can also use it to find out which all bots are online at a particular time. The currently supported bots are Google, MSN, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Altavista, AllTheWeb, Inktomi, Technorati, Yahoo and many others.

You can download the plugin from here

In January 1986 the first ever computer virus was unleashed via floppy disk, and 20 years on the problem is still very much a nightmare situation for the average PC user.

Though it’s origin is still disputed it is thought the virus, known as Brain, was coded by two Pakistani programmers named Basit and Amjad who designed their virus to affect every 360kb floppy inserted into the drive. Four years later a company called Symantec launched the now hugely popular Norton Antivirus.

Within two years the number of malicious programs had increased by 420% to 1300, this was probably helped by creation kits like the Virus Creation Laboratory which was also released in 1992.

Some of the more memorable viruses since then include 1999’s Melissa virus, which executed a macro which sent copies of itself to 50 people in the users Outlook address book, the Love Bug which deleted MP3, MP2 and JPG files as well as sending usernames and passwords to the author and 2004’s MyDoom worm which affected businesses, banks and the British Coastguard.

Today there are more than 150,000 malicious programs and over 25 major companies specialising in anti-virus software for the Windows platform alone.

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I was searching for interesting plugins for Wordpress 2.0, when I came across a plugin manager. I clicked the download link to download the plugin manager, and this is what I got:

Is this somekind of a joke? I use Opera but it says ‘Internet Explorer’ at the bottom of the page.

What is Search Engine Optimization?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves making Web pages more search engine friendly to give them a better ranking in search engines.

If you succeed in optimizing your pages in the right way, you will be awarded with top rankings, which can result in thousands of monthly visitors to your site.

Why is Search Engine Optimization important?

Search Engine Optimization is important because over 80% of Internet users reach Websites through search engines. If your Website is not ranked at the top of the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, HotBot, and Lycos, you will be losing a lot of traffic.

Search Engine Optimisation is basically about following search engine rules. If your Web page fits the criterias that a search engine considers the most important factors in terms of relevance, then it will reward your site with a top ranking. This gives the Web pages a better chance of being selected by the search engines as the most relevant page for the search query.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves making Web pages more search engine friendly to give them a better ranking in search engines.

Search Engine Optimization is important because most of the Internet users reach Web sites through search engines. If your Web site is not ranked at the top of the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN, you will be losing a lot of traffic.

Search Engine Optimization is basically about following search engine rules. If your Web page fits the criterias that a search engine considers the most important factors in terms of relevance, then it will reward you with a top ranking.

Search Engine Optimization involves optimizing the title, keywords, description, headings and alt tags. You can get better rankings for your site if you use good keywords.

Continue reading ‘Search Engine Optimization Mistakes’

Trojan Horses are programs that are disguised as useful software and are put for download on the Internet, and users download and run them only to realise their mistake later. The main difference between a Trojan Horse and a virus is that Trojans don’t spread themselves.

A Trojan Horse is divided into two parts- a server and a client. The server is cunningly disguised as important software by giving it an icon or double extension such as ‘filename.jpg.exe’. The icon can be of a program that is commonly used such as flash, winzip, winrar or photoshop. The server is placed in P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing networks such as Kazaa or eDonkey 2000, or unofficial download sites. Once the server runs on your system the attacker can gain control over your system allowing the person to perform actions such as deleting,uploading and downloading.

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What is Spam?

Spam is the commonly used term for unsolicited commercial e-mail send in bulk. The most common form of spam is e-mail spam. The main difference between spam and solicited mail, or newsletter, is that you never signed up to receive it anywhere. Other forms of spam are instant messaging (IM) spam, search engine spam, blog spam and mobile phone messaging spam.

What does spam do?

Spam fills your inbox with useless e-mails preventing you from receiving important mails. A large percentage of spam contains ads for pornographic Web sites or other such places that can be unacceptable viewing for many, especially children.

Opening a spam mail could immediately infect your pc with spyware or a worm without your knowledge. Another problem these days are spambots, which are a major producer of e-mail spam. Some spammers create various e-mail viruses that transforms an unprotected PC into a spambot that will inform the spammer of its existence, and the spammer will command it to send a low volume of spam. This allows spammers to send high volumes of spam without being caught by their ISPs or being tracked down by anti-spammers as the low volume makes it hard to detect.
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I have mentioned here a few mistakes that are commonly made by web designers:

1. Frames: A few years ago, frames were the in thing. They allowed one or two parts of your site stay constant while only one frame changed.As a result people used to use them for fast loading of pages.But with the growing popularity of search engines, it became a known fact that Framed sites were not being properly indexed.

   When a search bot visits a site with frames it indexes only the main frame ignoring all the other frames, leading to sites with frames dropping rapidly in search engine rankings. This is one of the reasons why frames are no longer popular.

   Another reason is that bookmarking a site with frames is not easy.

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I just installed BAStats,a website statistics tracker plugin for Wordpress.

With BAStats you can learn what your visitors come to your site for. It also reports the page hit counts, referrer counts, search engine phrase counts, etc.

You can download the latest version from here