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August 24, 2008

How to Setup Free Mail Server for Your Own Domain with Google

Yes that’s true you can setup your mail server for your own domain, absolutely free with Google!! As we know Google having mind blowing mail servers; you will be getting IMAP, POP, Mail forwarding ….etc for free and we can trust Google and they are with us for a long time now. So here are the simple 8 steps you need to follow to setup your mail server with Google.

1) Go to Google Apps and sign up for a standard account for your domain.

2) Once you provide your info, Google will take you to your control panel/Dashboard.

3) Note that Google needs to verify that you own your domain. So click on the link to verify your domain ownership.

4) At this point there are two ways of verifying ownership, HTML and CNAME method you can use any one of this which ever convenient for you.

5) Now setting Google apps as your mail server, by using this people can send mail to ‘userid@yourdomain.com’ and it will get routed to Google apps. If you need this, then sign in to your domain hosting service and go to the DNS panel for your domain and add the following to the MX (Mail Exchanger) section. Make sure you delete the default MX entry that is already there by default. If you don’t have access to MX you need to contact your Hosting providers to set this.

Priority Mail Server

1             ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5             ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
5             ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
10           ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
10           ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

If hosting provider allowing only one or three MX, then choose first 1 or 3. You can use priority as same.
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6) Wait a couple of hours to settle DNS (This depends up on hosting providers). There will be a default email address which ever you passed while signing up this will be master account. If you need one more email account then go to your Google apps dashboard and “User accounts>> Create a new user” and add new email account. Also activate your Email.

7) In the “Service settings >> Email” menu you can change web addresses for accessing Email. For this create a CNAME and modify URL. This URL can be used to login to mail box (ie: click on “Service settings >> Email” menu and change the default web address to http://email.yourdomain.com or whatever you used for CNAME)

To use the custom URL email.yourdomain.com, you must change the CNAME record with your domain host.

a) Sign in to your domain hosting service.

b) Navigate to your DNS Management page. Generally be found in Domain Management or Advanced Settings, if not you need to contact your Hosting providers to set this.

c) Find the CNAME settings and enter the following as the CNAME value or alias:

‘email’

d) Set the CNAME destination to the following address:

‘ghs.google.com’

8) Wait for a couple of hours to settle DNS (This depends up on Hosting providers). Then you can access to login page of your mail box using “http://email.yourdomain.com” or whatever CNAME you set.

August 24, 2008

How to Change the Theme of WinRAR with Colorful Free Themes.

WinRAR is a powerful compressing and decompressing tool or archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, video files, doc files etc, also can decompress RAR, ZIP and other files which ever downloaded from Internet also create new archives in RAR and ZIP file formats. WinRAR latest version is in beta that’s Version WinRAR 3.80 beta 4. The stable version present in market now is WinRAR 3.71.

But Interesting thing in it!! Forgetting all its features and power, you can actually change WinRAR’s theme. If you didn’t see or heard that yet then now you should and if you do, you’ll be amazed!!! RARLAB is giving out more than 20 WinRAR themes for free on their website. It’s time to give you WinRAR software a little bit of refreshment.
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Themes are available in 32×32, 48X48, 64X64, 80X80, 96X90 tool bar icons sets sizes. All you need to do is

– Download any of the themes
– Open it with WinRAR application
– Restart your WinRAR
– Go to Option >> Themes choose your theme.

Now you can see change in rar files icons in your PC and a fresh look of WinRAR application too.

June 9, 2008

Best Tips to Protect your Web Sites from Hackers and Malicious contents

The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.These Web-based attacks become much more common in recent years as firewalls and better security practices by Microsoft have made it harder for worms and viruses to directly attack computers. Nowadays about 1.3 percent of all Google search queries list malicious results somewhere on the first few pages.

Criminals are getting better at this kind of work. They have built very successful automated tools that poke and prod Web sites, looking for programming errors and then exploit these flaws to install the drive-by download software. Often this code opens an invisible iFrame page on the victim’s browser that redirects it to a malicious Web server. That server then tries to install code on the victim’s PC. “The bad guys are getting exceptionally good at automating those attacks,”

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Following are some tips to get rid of this hackers or hijackers activity.

– Keep you password and username safe change it frequently only with strong password check your password with Microsoft

– Keep your PC clean from viruses and spy-wares because there are chances to hijack your PC contents and login cookies etc. Scan your PC for viruses now with NOD32 Online Antivirus Scanner

– Keep all folders and files permissions proper in your web hosting accounts/server. Never give full permission for the folders and files, that means read write and execute permission. If you are hosting sites in Linux platform never give 777 permission (read write and execute permission) to all members even for net users of file and folders. The preferred maximum permission is 755. This means write permission for root user and only read and execute permission for others.

– There are many techniques used to hack/hijack the website

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

SQL injection flaws

Site reconnaissance

Session hijacking

Application denial of service

Cookie/session tampering

To withstand from this you need “professionally well designed websites” and also powerful web sitefirewall at server end.

– You need to choose good web hosting platform or company which provides good firewalls and Security. If you are going for Linux platform better to choose Grsecurity enabled kernel Servers; especially for shared hosting.

– But not the least the best way to find the flow in website is by checking the web site stats all the day. By this you can find the links/URL which are not related to your website so that you can delete it before it spreads through search engines.

– If some one reports your site having virus then its 99% sure your site home pages are having masked IFrames at the beginning or last lines of the page, which actually downloads virus file form some other server/site. You can fix it your self by editing your home page and removing the contents which looks like as shown bellow.

These are some of the tips which really helps to protect yourself from Hackers and Malicious contents

June 8, 2008

Tips to Protect your PC from Malicious Sites Using McAfee Siteadvisor Plug-In

McAfee SiteAdvisor, a plug-in for Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers, tests, analyzes and rates websites in detail for unsafe or annoying practices such as dangerous downloads, spamming, misuse of personal information and browser hijacking. This helps you sidestep possible identity theft or fraud traps. When searching with Google, Yahoo! or MSN, SiteAdvisor’s easy-to-understand safety ratings too

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1) Browser tool bar

As you browse Site, a small button on your browser toolbar changes color based on SiteAdvisor’s safety results.
Red (Danger)

McAfee tests revealed some serious issues that you’ll want to carefully consider before using this site at all. (Example: The site sent lots of spam e-mail or bundled adware with a download).

Yellow (Caution)

McAfee tests revealed some issues you should know about. (Example: a site tried to change browser defaults, or sent a lot of non-spam e-mail)

Green (Safe)

McAfee Tested the site and didn’t find any significant problems. (Secure sites.)

Gray (Not submitted site)

The site has not been tested, or is in the process of being tested also you have option to submit the site to test also.

You have a menu options on SiteAdvisor’s toolbar which let you customize SiteAdvisor or see a site’s detailed test results too.

2) Search Page

When you search with Google, Yahoo! or MSN, SiteAdvisor’s safety ratings appear next to search results. Ratings—Red indicates dagger that means this site reported virus downloads and also linked to malicious sites which already rated Red in Macfee database.

You can also get more information about the site by keeping the mouse pointer on the alert symbol; it will show a popup in search window it self, which gives summary of the sites status.

3) Detailed Test Results

Also a detailed test results for every site are available by clicking on the more info link; in that you can see the external sites which are linked to this site as shown bellow.

So it will be very hand if you installed McAfee SiteAdviso in your PC while surfing the giant www network.

Download it here….