| LED Digest 2408: Virus Protection for Macs? |
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================================================== The LED Digest Moderated Discussion List "Effective Online Advertising, Since 1997" Data > Information > Knowledge > Wisdom www.GetWebContent.com/LED : the LED's Key Sponsor The Web's Most Experienced SEO Content Providers. ================================================== List Moderator: Published by: Adam Audette LED Digest adam, led-digest.com http://www.led-digest.com .............................................. May 11, 2007 Issue no. 2408 .............................................. .....IN THIS DIGEST..... ==== CONTINUING ================= --== Do Macs Need Virus Protection Now? ==-- ~ Gordon Moe "I spend my valuable time being productive with my computer and not trying to protect it." ~ Nancy Cardinali "It found 16 tracking cookies and nothing else." ~ Brad Waller "I took up Tom's challenge and checked out the article and downloaded MacScan." --== Poor AdSense CTR ==-- ~ Chris Nielsen "Your seller may have gone to a site that sells traffic and purchased it." --== Migrating to ASP.net - Ranking Concerns ==-- ~ John Smart "In Apache, it is easy to change file associations." --== Essential Biz Software ==-- ~ Beth Earle "I can't even remember the last time I saw the 'blue screen of death'..." ==== BULLETIN BOARD ============= --== New Domain Registry Spam Scam ==-- ~ Julie King ======== CONTINUING =============================== From: Gordon Moe Subject: Mac spam > I think it would be interesting if LED Mac users would give > [MacScan] a try and report back to LED on the results... - Tom Aman, LED Digest 2407 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1811/55/ Tom, PC users became slaves to their adware and spyware and virusware scanning routine when either they or someone they knew suffered severe damage from some sort of mal-ware. While I respect your offer for me to try out this MacScan software for the good of all, I don't have the time. Which is exactly my point; I spend my valuable time being productive with my computer and not trying to protect it. Until I or some other Mac user I know suffers damage from mal-ware, I'll continue to live by the words of Kramer on Seinfeld -- "I'm out there Jerry, and I'm lovin' it!" Gordon Moe www.eBirdseed.com Apple user since 1981 Disclaimer: Just remembered one bug my Mac did have in about 1992. It was a Microsoft Word worm that caused by hard drive to spin constantly. Comment? <Moderator Comment> Gordon - I think you got that Kramer quote just a little wrong - if I remember he says: "I'm out there, Jerry, and I'm lovin' every minute of it!" ... free-flowin' in his gabardine pants! Thanks for the laugh today, Adam -------- new post - same topic -------- From: Nancy Cardinali Subject: Mac spam Tom, I just downloaded and used MacScan. It found 16 tracking cookies and nothing else. I had it scan my entire Mac. Nancy Cardinali www.cardinalidesigns.com *Consolidate your online and print image for name recognition* Comment? -------- new post - same topic -------- From: Brad Waller Subject: Mac spam I took up Tom's challenge and checked out the article and downloaded MacScan. While the scan ran (it was really slow to scan over 2000 cookies and hundreds of thousands of files on my Mac desktop at home) I read the article and the program information. I think the text is slightly misleading where it says "The only thing I could find to run was MacScan and found 40 Trojans malware, etc." This implies that the scan found 40 different trojans, etc. on his Mac. This is not possible, as there are only about 40 identified threats total for the Mac, and only 19 of them are for OS X. (http://macscan.securemac.com/list.php). So if the author's machine really had all these infections he was hit by every possible threat for both classic and OS X operating systems. By the time my scan was done, the program identified 104 "spyware" cookies. Each and every one of these was a basic tracking cookie, and most were from analytics programs (statse.webtrendslive.com) or from advertising networks (Zedo, Bfast, ValueClick, Yieldmanager, AdBrite, etc.) with the remainder being localized ad servers such as ads.channel4.com. There was not a single "threat" there in all the cookies it found. While some might consider this spyware, they were only cookies which could be removed from simple commands. There was no software installed on my Mac that could perform an operation I was not aware of or that I would not approve of. Brad Waller Manage and Sell your own site advertising http://adjungle.com waller, adjungle.com Comment? ============ Sponsor Message =========== GetWebContent.com has a few words just for you. Relevant words, search-engine optimized words. Words that will impress both your customers and visiting search engine bots. Exclusive words custom written to meet your specs. Many other writing services recycle web content, at http://GetWebContent.com/LED we create it. ============ Sponsor Message =========== -------- new post - new topic -------- From: Chris Nielsen Subject: AdSense > This week I bought a travel site turismo.com.sv... > The first thing I did was to add some AdSense ads, > but although the site gets a lot of visitors there are > almost no clicks. - Magnus Brattemark, LED Digest 2406 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1810/55/ I would look at your web traffic reports to see if you can get some idea where the traffic is coming from and what the visitors are doing on your site. From what your described, I thought that your site was so bad that visitors were so repulsed that they don't even look at the ads, they just use the "back" button as quickly as possible. But in looking at your site, it's not bad. You could get some of the ads higher on the page so they are easier to see, but I suspect you have placed them as you have on your other site, so you should be seeing some interest in the ads. So that leaves the quality of your traffic as the most likely source of what you are seeing, and since you mentioned that you just bought the site, that is likely to be the answer. There are those that sell web sites and try to make them as attractive as possible. This means making sure all the links work and that the code is in good shape, but most importantly to most people, that the site is getting as much traffic as possible. While honest people will work at optimizing their sites, submit to search engines and directories, and do some link building, others prefer to take short cuts. Your seller may have gone to a site that sells traffic and purchased it. You can buy traffic in quantities as low as 1,000 visitors or millions. The traffic can be from a certain country or part of the world and can be targeted or untargeted. There are a number of methods for generating this traffic with the most common ones being the use of popups or popunders on a network of sites, or traffic re-directed from expired domain names. Unless someone has some better experience with this type of traffic, I have to say in general it ranges in effectiveness from poor to worthless. The seller can buy this traffic over a period of a few months and increase the amount so that they can provide the potential buyer with web reports that seem to indicate the site is doing very well and becoming more popular. The problem is that after the site is sold and the paid traffic stops, you are left with whatever the site gets on its own, which is generally not very much. I hope that you are only having conversion problems because that can be worked on fairly easily. But if your numbers take a sudden drop about 30 days after you bought the site, then it was probably getting purchased traffic. Good Luck, Chris Nielsen prepaid-phone-card.us Comment? -------- new post - new topic -------- From: John Smart Subject: ASP > We are contemplating an upgrade from ASP to > ASP.net and have concerns that page names > domain/page.asp to domain/page.aspx will > have a negative impact on search engine rankings. - Anonymous, LED Digest 2406 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1810/55/ Changing the page names, either the name or the extension will result in old pages 404'ing. How the server handles pages is up to you. If ALL your pages are aspx, then you will see no drop in performance if you tell the server that html is aspx. However, if a lot of your pages are just html, and you feed them all through the preprocessor for code, you may see a drop in performance. In Apache, it is easy to change file associations. I am guessing it is not an Apache server, but am sure it will be *fairly* easy to do. I may be talking out of my hat a little here - it may be that .net requires you behave in a certain way - I am not familiar with such things. John Smart InternetDesign.com A Human Touch in a Digital world. Comment? -------- new post - new topic -------- From: Beth Ann Earle Subject: Software > What are the essential programs > you use every day for work? - Adam Audette, LED Digest 2398 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1801/55/ This is embarrassing, but what the heck? ... Microsoft Word for writing copy, Outlook for email, Dreamweaver for editing web sites, PhotoShop 5.5 if I need to change the dimensions of an image. I'm pretty sure my computer is running on Windows XP. My employer was set up in a Windows environment long before I arrived here, but I can't say I have any complaints: I can't even remember the last time I saw the "blue screen of death" or had a problem completing projects in a timely fashion. Different strokes for different folks. With the best regards to LED'ers everywhere, Beth Earle www.pilotfishseo.com Comment? ==== BULLETIN BOARD =============================== From: Julie King Subject: Domain Registry > It seems the Domain Registry of America are > trying a new variation on their "domain transfer > disguised as an invoice" ploy. - Steve Pronger, LED Digest 2406 - http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1810/55/ The Competition Bureau in Canada charged the Internet Registry of Canada in 2002. We did a short news brief on it at the time that can be found here: http://www.canadaone.com/ezine/briefs.html?StoryID=nov02-1 The problem is that there is so much money in these scams, and so much ignorance on behalf of most businesses, that it's worthwhile to the criminals even if they are eventually charged. Right now there is a fake directory scam running that operates in a similar way, with letters that are carefully worded from a legal viewpoint that trick companies into renewing a directory listing that never existed in the first place. Even worse is the trend of issuing counterfeit cashier's cheques to pay for goods or services purchased online & only an overpayment is sent and of course the business owner is asked to send back the difference. We did a story on that this month; these scams are particularly effective in Canada right now, because the Canadian businesses are sent US cashier cheques that can then get lost in the banking system in the US for many months. Meanwhile, back in Canada the bank will typically "clear" the cashier cheque after a month, so the business owner feels safe in sending the funds back (probably thinking in the back of his/her mind that money is being laundered). Then, months later, the bank tells them that the cheque was counterfeit and that they owe the full amount of the draft. In one case a company not only lost thousands of dollars in cash, but also a laptop computer that was shipped to the "customer." All of these scams are frustrating, but it's important to complain. Here in Canada complaints can be made to either the Competition Bureau or the RCMP, depending on the situation. It takes quite a long time for these to get to trial -- I sent in a complaint against a misleading directory solicitation because the company was using a name similar to our Canadian Business Directory. I believe that was also around 2002... I had an interview with a lawyer last fall and it's possible that they could go to trial "as soon as" 2008... if they ever get to trial at all. The process did, nonetheless, shut down that particular operation so the effort of complaining was not in vain. Julie King, Publisher & Managing Editor www.canadaone.com Where Canadians Surf for Success! Comment? ------------------------------------------------------- The LED Digest is sponsored by GetWebContent.com The Web's Most Experienced SEO Content Providers. Free no-obligation proposal: http://GetWebContent.com/LED The Archives: http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/126/120/ Subscribe: http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/52/77/ Unsubscribe, Change Email, or Hold / Resume Delivery: http://www.led-digest.com/content/category/4/17/86/ (c) Copyright 1995-2007 Orange Wheel, LLC. All Rights Reserved. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Happy (early) Mother's Day to Sally, Vicki, Suzanne & Suzy. 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