How do I remove a computer virus?

Here are a few things you can try to remove a computer virus:

Keep your antivirus program up to date. If you have already installed an antivirus program on your computer, it's important that you keep it up to date. Because new viruses are being written all the time, most antivirus programs are updated frequently. Check your antivirus program's documentation or visit their website to learn how to receive updates. Be aware that some viruses block common antivirus websites, making it so you cannot go to the website to download antivirus updates. If this happens, check with your antivirus vendor to see if they have a disc you can use to install the latest updates. It might be possible for you to create this disc on a computer that is not infected (for example, on a friend's computer).

Use an online scanner. If you don't have antivirus software installed, visit the Windows Security Software Providers website for more information about security and virus prevention. Some of the partner sites offer free online scanners which will search your computer for the latest viruses. These scanners will not protect you from getting a virus, but they can help find and remove viruses your computer already has.

Use the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Microsoft offers the Malicious Software Removal Tool, which is updated once a month. Visit the Malicious Software Removal Tool website to install the tool and learn more about it. The tool scans your computer for most new viruses and malicious software. After you run the tool, you will get a report that describes any malicious software found on your computer and lists all the viruses it scanned for.

Stop a runaway virus. Viruses are often created specifically to take control of your computer and send copies of themselves from your computer to other computers. You can usually tell this is happening if your computer is performing slowly and accessing the network more frequently than normal. If this is happening, you should disconnect from the Internet and network (if you're on one). If you are connected to the Internet through a physical connection, disconnect the network or phone cable from your computer. If you're connected to the Internet through a wireless connection on a laptop, turn off the wireless adapter on the computer (either by turning off a switch or removing your wireless adapter card). Once your computer is disconnected from the Internet, run your antivirus software (from a disc or software on your computer) to remove the virus.

Manually remove viruses. Sometimes a virus must be removed manually. This is often a technical process and should only be attempted by computer users who have experience with the Windows registry and who know how to view and delete system and program files in Windows.

The first step is to identify the virus. Run your antivirus software to identify the name of the virus. If you don't have an antivirus program, or if your program does not detect the virus, you can still identify the virus by looking for clues about how it behaves. Write down the text in any messages displayed by the virus or, if you received the virus in e‑mail, write down the subject line or name of the file attached to the message. Search the antivirus vendor's website for references to those specific things you wrote down to try to find the name of the virus and instructions for how to remove it.

My virus is gone. Now what? Once a virus is removed, you might have to reinstall some software, or restore lost information. Doing regular backups can go a long way toward easing the pain of a virus attack. If you haven't kept backups, start now. To learn how to help prevent future attacks, see How can I help protect my computer from viruses?

How To Use Facebook Places For Your Business

Want to have your own business show up within Facebook Places? For companies that have a physical location it makes sense to have a Facebook Place in order to track the people who are stopping by your store, office, or venue. As such, Facebook has released a new guide for businesses to learn how to merge Facebook Pages and Facebook Places into a single Page. The final result is a newly designed Facebook Page which includes location-relevant information.

While you can view the guide below for all the steps required to claim your Facebook Place and merge it with your Facebook Page, we’ve broken down the process into 3 easy steps.

Step 1: Create Or Claim Your Place

If nobody has checked in to your company’s venue, you’ll need to load up the Facebook iPhone application or Facebook for touch devices on a compatible phone and check if your place exists already. You can do this by searching for the place. If it doesn’t exist, you can quickly create it by clicking on “Add” or the “+” sign depending on whether or not you are using Facebook for touch devices or Facebook for iPhone.

Step 2: Claim The Place As Yours

Facebook will discover the phone number. If the phone number is incorrect you can quickly change it. However before getting to the phone number confirmation, you’ll need to log in to Facebook and search for the Place that you’ve created or check in to. Once you find the venue you can click on the “Is this your business?” link at the bottom of the place as pictured below.

If there is no associated phone number, Facebook requires a more manual verification process. You can find the full explanation in the document which is embedded below.

Step 3: Merge Your Place & Page

The final step is to merge the Place and the Page once you’ve completed the verification proces. The result is a combined Page which effectively serves as a local business page. The design is substantially different from existing Facebook Pages, however it’s possible that Facebook will move in this direction for all Pages.

Done!

In three steps you’ve easily claimed your business and merged it with your Facebook Page. We will be providing more comprehensive guides to Facebook Places for business in the near future. In the meantime, feel free to email us with details about how you are using Facebook Places for your own business!

Nissan Leaf electric wins Japan car of the year

TOKYO: Japanese motor giant Nissan won Car of the Year Japan at the Tokyo Motor Show on Saturday for its Leaf electric model, its makers said, the first time an electric vehicle has picked up the award.

Electric cars with cutting-edge green technology and vehicles remote-controlled by smartphones have been a star feature at this year's show, which runs till December 11 and features 179 exhibitors from a dozen countries.

"Nissan is proud to announce that its 100 percent electric Leaf car has won the Japanese Car of the Year prize," Japan's second-largest automaker said in a statement.

The Nissan Leaf electric is a zero-emission vehicle fitted with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Since its launch on the market at the end of last year, some 20,000 models have been sold, notably in Japan and in the US.

"All these accolades show that zero-emission vehicles can clearly be competitive alternatives to conventional ones," Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn said.

Nissan, which is part-owned by France's Renault, has invested some 4 billion euros ($5 bn) in the development of these electric cars.

Ghosn said that in five years, Nissan and Renault will have sold 1.5 million of the vehicles, and estimated the world market for electric cars would jump from 0.05 percent today, to 15 percent in ten years. The hybrid (fuel and electric) would also see an increase from 1 percent today to between 5 and 10 percent over the same period, Ghosn added.

Nissan is trailing several electric concept vehicles at the Motor Show, including the Pivo 3, which can be remotely manoeuvered with a smart phone. It has installed automotive telematics in the Leaf electric car, allowing drivers to remotely control the air conditioning system and check on a car's battery using their smart phone or personal computer.

Several major foreign manufacturers who skipped the last show are also back this year, including Germany's Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche; French carmakers Renault and Peugeot-Citroen and Britain's Jaguar and Land Rover.

Siri hacks, mods, and tricks

Since the iPhone 4S launch, hackers have been trying to figure out how to make Siri do more than Apple has designed it to do. Now it's being ported to other Apple devices, and enterprising iPhone 4S owners are using it to control their lights, theromstats, and even their cars. We'll be keeping track of the most ingenious hacks we can find right here.

The latest SiriProxy hack controls an entire room

Thanks to SiriProxy, iPhone 4S users have been figuring out ways to start cars, queue up Plex, and adjust the thermostat just by telling their phone to do it for them. Now we're seeing video of an even bigger home automation hack, with a hacker known as phildman14 closing his curtains, turning on his overhead fan, and dimming several lights just by asking Siri for assistance. phildman14 noted on YouTube that it's based on an iPhone app he wrote that lets him perform the same controls, but now he's been able to hook Siri in to do everything by voice. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like phildman14 has posted the code he's used for this hack, but it seems pretty heavily customized for his particular setup anyway. Still, we're getting ever closer to the day when we can just tell our phones to do whatever we want.

youtube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2iZ34lMAQk&feature=player_embedded

 

 

Learn how to improve your blog! This Blog offers you basic tutorials on how to improve your blog quality, search engine rankings and how to get more visitors.By following our tips your blog or website can become search engine friendly. You have to note that optimization for search engines is long process that take lot of time and effort,but your website or blog will show some amazing results over time.

On Page optimization to get better ranking part 1

Most important factor on your website must be your content,having a quality blog or website means providing your visitors fresh and unique content that is relevant to your choosen subject,because content is king.If you have quality content it is more likely someone will link to you,getting you traffic,better page rank,more visitors and more important blog/web site.

Quality content = more visitors = more natural backilinks = better pagerank = better ranking

In this post we will discuss On page Seo factors like:
-Interlinking your web pages
-Unique content on every page
-Unique Meta tags for each page
-Proper use of H1-H6 tags
-Proper url setup
-Use of Alt tags and descriptive title on images
-proper use of ancohor text when interlinking
-making sure that there is only one version of page available
-proper use of rel="nofollow"
-Making sure your code is valid



Interlinking your pages means that you have to set up navigation on your web site correctly so any web page on your web site can be accessed from any other page.This is important so users as well as robots can reach every signle web page on your web site.

Unique content is very important,if you have indetical content on different web pages you can even get penalty for duplicate content,so keep that in mind!

It is best if you can set up unique meta Title and Meta description for every single post or web page,if you are using blogging platforms like blogger you will probably need to make code tweaks in template code to make this work.There are many tutorials on how to do this.

Headlines on web pages should be put in code tags like tags like this <h1>Big Title</h1>,it is advisable that you have only one h1 title.In pratice the minimum you should use would be one h1 tag for main title of your web page or blog and h2 for any small titles. The proper use would be to use h titles in hierarchy like this(Html example):

<h1>Big Title</h1>

<h2>1.Title</h2>
<p>Content</p>
<h3>1.1 Title</h3>
<p>Content</p>
<h4>1.1.1 Title</h4>
<p>Content</p>

More on on page Seo in part 2..

Basics about Optimization for Search engines

Most bloggers quit updating their blogs because of low traffic, having a blog is not just putting new content or reuglar basis.Putting new content is only half of the job of having a sucessfull blog,other part of job is to ensure your blog gets visitors.There are two types of traffic: paid and unpaid.Paid traffic comes trough advertising on other websites and is only usefull if you can make more money with your blog or website than what you pay for advertising.

Unpaid or organic traffic comes from search engines and other web sites or blogs that have link to your blog/web site.This is the best traffic because you can be sure that people will only come to your blog if they are really interested in content rather than accidently clicking on ads.

Most webmasters and bloggers aim for organic search engine traffic because of that.There is whole area in marketing that deals with website rankings in search engines and its called Search engine optimization or SEO.

Serach Engine Optimization or SEO is technique that is used to get the best available spot in SERP(Search engine Result Page) for choosen keyword.SEO involves many factors that must be improved to get higher rankings.It's lot harder to do SEO on blog because of limited acess to code.There are many things that blogger or webmaster should watch for if they want to get good place in search engine results.

Better place in Search Engine = More Visitors.

SEO is devided in two sections - On page SEO
                               - Off page SEO

On page SEO involves any factors that can be changed on page or in the source code of page such as Meta tags,Right use of H1-H6 titles,Keyword density and so on, and Off page seo involves some factors that can be changed outside of page such as Number of backlinks your website or blog gets,Google PageRank..etc.

Backliniks are links that lead to your blog/post/web site/web page from some other web site or blog.Backliniks can be DoFollow or NoFollow.DoFollow links pass PageRank from page that links to you and your Web site or Blog.No Follow backlinks are useless.

This is how NoFollow backlinks look like in HTML code:

<a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">Link text</a>

This is how DoFollow backlinks look like in HTML code(only missing the rel="nofollow" attribute):

<a href="http://www.example.com/">Link text</a>

PageRank is algorithm that was devloped by Larry Page and it shows importance of the web page by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms.PageRank is shown with numbers that go from lowest 0 to highest 10(note that there are only few websites with PageRank 10 such as Facebook,Google..)

PageRank is only relevant for Google Search engine and it can be checked by installing Google Toolbar on your web browser and going to web site wich PageRank you would like to know.Toolbar PageRank is updated once evry three months or close to that while real internal PageRank of websites is updated on constantly.

More about Seo in new posts...

Basics about Meta Tags

Meta tags or Meta Elements are HTML and XHMTL elements that provide information about Web Page.Most used meta tags are: Title,Description,Keywords,Author etc..Altought in most cases only Meta Title and Description are used.Meta tags also contain technical data about web page code language,charset and to allow or disallow crawling of web page by different search engine robots.

Robots(Web crawlers,Web spiders) are computer programs used by search engines that creates copy of crawled web page in search engine index.Index is database of copied web pages crawled by robot.Index is used by search engines to provide user almost instant results when they are searching the internet.

Meta tags(Title and Description,sometimes Keywords) are one of the biggest factors that shows search engines what your web page is about.Web pages with no meta tags are seen in eyes of robots like low priority web pages and therefore they mostly will rank at end of search results for given query.

On most blogging platforms Meta Title and Description can be set in options of blog,so there is no need to change any source code of blog.
If you are owner of blog or website you can use tools like meta blog stats to ensure that your meta tags are set up correctly.Your meta tags should be related to your website or blogs content.

If you host blog for example about gaming,you should metion words like games or gaming in your meta title and description so that the users and the robosts know what your blog is about.This way Serach engine will give you better place in Search results for keyword gaming or games, and the users will have better idea on what to expect on your blog before they enter.

So you don't only write your meta tags for robots,you write it for human visitors too.
Keep in mind that if you put something like this:"Games,Gaming,Gamers,Fun games" as yout meta Description you will get penalty by search engines for keyword stuffing,and probably users wont click your site form search engine results if they see unattractive text like that in description.

Keyword stuffing is action where user tries to manipulate search engine results by putting alot of keywords in title,description and body of the page, making the page unreadable for human visitor in exchange for higher ranking in the search engine results.Search engines algotihm has evolved trought the years and is now fully capable to recognize when someone is trying to do this, some users have done keyword stuffing by putting keywords in the bottom of page and putting it in the same color as web page background,that way they did stuffing and it doesn't bother visitor to read normal text in body,in most cases visitor can't notice that web page is doing keyword stuffing,luckly agian search engine algoritam is designed to recognize this and people caught using this tehniques can get they web site or blog banned permenatly from search engines.

Almost all search engines(Bing,Yahoo,Google..) today uses only Title and Description Meta tag while Keyword meta tag is only used by Yahoo.

For optimal results your meta tags should look like this:

<title>Site name - Page title - Keyword description</title>
<meta name="description" content="Describe the content of the page here in short using relevant words" >