Year: 2009

Setting up WordPress

Paul

In the last few blog post we talked about:

Now we can talk about setting up WordPress, although this probably won’t be a long topic.  I feel it is necessary to help people feel less stressed in setting up a blog.   Most of my family don’t have a clue how I set mine up, and I am thinking they are uncomfortable because this is foreign to them.   I intend to try to easy everyone’s stress levels by explaining it in a more relax atmosphere.

As most people will know I started my blog 3 Years ago, and haven’t stop blogging sense.   Some would call this what a blogger does.   I call this an experience, because what I’ve learned over the last three years is priceless.  As you can tell when I started my blog I was clueless about how to blog.   Over the 3 years I’ve learned a lot and a glad to be part of the blogging community.   It’s been a long process but a really fruitful one.

Photo by: Terry Mun Photo by: Terry Mun

Now I am wanting to pass the experience onto new users on.  Most people will expect a website management to be hard.   Creating a website even harder, here I will talk about installing it.

One way to install WordPress is through some Hosting providers website tools they offer to install WordPress for free.   They basically use a script to install WordPress.   Usually they are a version behind the last release of WordPress, now since WordPress has also integrated upgrades you can easily upgrade after your install the older version.

The other way is just as simple, You can install it using an FTP upload.  Now I am so glad WordPress has a tutorial for this.  I had to use it at least once in the three years to install WordPress.  You would however have to download the WordPress zip file and make a sub directory, calling it WORDPRESS and extract into that then upload that whole directory to either your main or sub directory.   If you’d think it is hard, I would argue it isn’t.    This way only took me 10 minutes at best to upload and install.

Anyway you choice is a quite a simple setup, If you follow the instructions and tutorial step by step.   There should be no problems.   Although no matter how good you are there have been problems in the past with installation and that might need to be dealt  by the hosting provider technical support.   Each hosting provider should have a way to contact them to resolve and you should not hesitate to call them for technical support they are there to make you succeed.

In the next blog post we will talk about Securing You WordPress Blog and why.

List of Rogue Antivirus sites August 4, 2009

Paul

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Looks like they have more Fake Antivirus sites up and running so I thought I would pass them along:

  • basicsystemscanner.com ([intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]Personal Antivirus Scareware[/intlink])

  • checkmypcantivirus.com ([intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]Personal Antivirus Scareware[/intlink])

  • onlineproantivirusscanner.com ([intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]Personal Antivirus Scareware[/intlink])

  • online-pro-antivirus-scan.com ([intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]Personal Antivirus Scareware[/intlink])

  • secure-pro.cn (Fake Windows Security Messages)

  • bodyscanguide.com (Fake Windows Security Messages)

  • bestsecuredpcs.com (Fake Windows Security Messages)

  • somesecuritypc.com (Rogue Exploit Antivirus Scanner)

  • scanwebtech.com (Rogue Exploit Antivirus Scanner)

  • bisquva.cn (Rogue Antivirus)

  • pc-anti-spyware-20-10.com (Like [intlink id=”3977″ type=”post”]Home Antivirus 2010[/intlink])

  • pcantispyware2010.com(Like [intlink id=”3977″ type=”post”]Home Antivirus 2010[/intlink])

  • spywaredisplay.com (Rogue AntiSpyware)

  • spywaremonitoring.com (Rogue AntiSpyware)

  • spywareremovalhelp.net (Rogue AntiSpyware)

  • antispywarefile.com (Rogue AntiSpyware)

These sites try to get you to install software or get you to buy pay for some fake software.   If you keep getting popups from these guys then you have some kind Trojan acting like it is a real Antivirus or Antispyware.  I recommend getting rid of those annoying little warnings and redirects.   Some of these are actually Web Browser redirects, others try to scare you into downloading or buying their product.   You should never download or buy anything from a site you don’t know anything about.

Some common tricks are Popups, warnings, Toolbar shield, and also a fake web page scanning screen.

Threat to System : Moderate

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Advice : Do a Complete system scan and make sure you don’t have any more hidden malware.

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Picking The Hosting Provider & Setting your Domain

Paul

In my Previous Post we talk about the process I am going to use to guide you through it. So we already see what we need to do. In this Post we need to talk about Hosting and Domains.

When it comes to hosting a website it all depends on who you want to go through. Here are a few Hosting Providers that I recommend:

  • Hostgator ($4.95 a Month)

  • FatCow (Yes that is a Hosting Provider. Starting as Low as $5.50 a month)

  • IxWebhosting (Starting as Low as $3.95 a month)

These three hosting providers have programs to help you install WordPress.   For those who want to understand what a Hosting provider does, these are basically servers who host your blog content. They all have their own way of helping the customers.

They each will have a different way of setting up WordPress so you may have to look around their site for the specific details, but that is coming up in a future blog post. I will be walking you through using Godaddy.

Photo By: Terry Mun Photo By: Terry Mun

Now you’ve picked and bought who your hosting provider is. Now we need to pick your domain. Most all hosting providers I have recommend can also buy domains for there customers. So depending on the Hosting Provider you pick can help speed up the process.

Once you have a hosting provider with a server, you now have to buy a domain or I like to call it a brand-name. You should have a list but if not you can still make the list. This process of trying to find the right domain name can take the longest because some of the domains or all of the domain name on your list could be taken by another person. So you will need to go through the list on your web browser and put each one in at a time. For this example, I would recommend just using a [Listname]”.com”, working your way down to the bottom. See if it is taken if not this domain may be bought creating a new list of available domains that you might want to use. Just remember the domain might not be there much longer so You will have really short period of time before it could be taken by some other person.

Once you eliminated the ones that are used you can now figure out if your want to use one of the unused domains for your brand-name or if you want to start another and see if you can’t find a better one. This step is can usually be the ones that take the longest because there is a high chance the first list is usually no good but not always it just depends on what your brand-name is going to be.

Once you’ve picked the domain that you want use, it is time to go back to the hosting provider you choice and go about buying the domain. Each Provider is different some will charge you a setup fee for the domain others will be free.

Lastly You’ll want to make sure the domain is linked to your hosting server. The way you’d do that is go to login into your hosting account and checking the DNS Settings, or some host providers call it CNAME Records. This tells the Domain name that if you type it into the browser to go to a certain IP. This is where your hosting your provider provides and will most likely be part of registration confirmation.

On the Next Post I will talking about Setting up WordPress.

How to Setup your own Blog, The Easy way

Paul

Over the weekend I had a chance to talk to my sister who was interested in having setting up her own blog. She didn’t know a thing about setting up her own blog and asked me to walk her step by step. So I thought I would also walk my readers through this whole process and help you set up your own blog to.

This process will take approximately an hour to two hours, each step will be talked about in detail through a series of blog post. This shouldn’t not take long for anyone to do, depending on the speed of your internet. In fact if you follow my directions, it should be really quick and easy. No mess or fuss.

  • How to Setup your Own Blog, The Easy Way

  • Picking the Hosting Provider & Setting up your Domain

  • [intlink id=”4118″ type=”post”] Setting up WordPress[/intlink]

  • [intlink id=”4122″ type=”post”]Securing Wordpess[/intlink]

  • [intlink id=”4135″ type=”post”]Picking your Blog Theme[/intlink]

So now with that being said, I would like to talk about domain names. If you want to have your own domain you have to make it unique. It should be something personal and go with what your looking for. Do you know your domain is almost like a brand-name? Just like Nike, Adidas, and McDonald’s people who hear that come back with the knowing that no matter where you are in the world. This also goes for your Domain, before you start this think of a what you will be blogging about and make a list possible domains. This is always the first step into creating a blog. Now I must warn you this process may take long or it might be short. Some or All of those domain names you come up with may be taken or they may not. The Most common name extensions can be seen through Wikipedia.
Now with that said on my next post we will talk about Picking your hosting provider and Setting up your Domain.

Scareware List for July 31, 2009

Paul

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Looks like they went out and made a quite a few domains lately so Here they are:

  • antivirus-live-pro.org ([intlink id=”1837″ type=”post”]Antivirus Pro Scareware[/intlink])

  • internetantivirusplus.com (Fake Antivirus)

  • mybestantivirusplus.com

  • securesoftwarebill.com (Rogue System Security Antivirus)

  • yourantimalware.com

  • totalsurfguard.com

  • systemsecuritysupport.com

  • stabilitysuite.com

  • powersystemstability.com

  • onlinecentersupport.net

  • identitysecuritysuite.com

  • etotalsecurity.com

  • defenseinteractive.com

  • defenseinteractive.com

  • antispyinteractive.com

  • antispyavailable.com

  • protectionsystem.org(Like [intlink id=”1837″ type=”post”]Antivirus Pro Scareware[/intlink])

  • realbestantivirusplus.com

Remember these sites are active and are scaring people into buying or installing there product, you should not go to these sites. As you can see the Scareware Writers and domains have been busy this week and have made these to use in this weekend I can bet on that.   These sites are trying to [intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]scare you into buying there product or installing there fake antivirus software[/intlink].    If you are constantly inundated with pop up windows warning you have a virus or trojan and showing you a load of viruses or trojans on your screen. They will probably ask you to install software or buy the product that would be a big waste of time and could possibly install even more malware and also could loose money. You should never download any software from sites you don’t know or buy from sites that you’ve never heard from.

Threat to System : Moderate

[rating:4/5]

Advice : Do a Complete system scan and make sure you don’t have any more hidden malware.

I recommend :

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