Things dont know about facebook..

Anyone using Facebook probably has a hard time keeping track of all the changes and updates to the service. Even those of us who use Facebook for business are hard-pressed to keep up. In the last few weeks, Ie learned more about Facebook through trial and error (and my Twitterstream) than I ever have from Facebook communications. Here are a few things Ie learned that you may not know:



1. You can get a business account.

Not interested in having a Facebook account of your own (a personal profile)? Facebook has finally given individuals who only want to use the site to administer Pages and their ad campaigns the ability to create a non-public Facebook account without an attached profile. A Facebook business account gives you access to the Pages and the Social Ads you manage.

To create your business account:

* Go to Facebook and do not sign up for an account. (Note if you have an account already and then try to create a Business account its a violation of Facebooks Terms of Service.)
* Create a Facebook Ad or Facebook Page.
* At the “Facebook Login� page, youll be asked if you have a Facebook account. Select I do not have a Facebook account�
* Enter your email address and date of birth.

Voila! You have a Facebook business account attached to your Social Ads and Page.

2. You can catorgrize a Facebook Page in a status update.

By using @ mentions in your Facebook status updates, you can “tag� people who will then be notified that youe mentioned them. You can also address an @ mention to a Facebook Page, Group or Event from your status updates. Just type in the @ symbol followed by the first few letters of the Page, Group or Event youd like to mention.

3. You only need 25 “fans� to get a custom “username.�

There was a time when you needed 100 fans� or liker� on your Page before Facebook allowed you to get a vanity URL or Facebook username. Now you just need 25, which shouldnt be hard to get.

4. If you restrict access to your Facebook Page, your Page ceases to be public.

You can restrict your Facebook Page to a certain geographic location or certain age group, but if you do so, you no longer will have a publicly-viewable Facebook Page. Even if you have a Facebook vanity URL, the page will default to the Facebook homepage if a Facebook member does not fit into the criteria of your restrictions. If the visitor is not a Facebook member, they cannot see your Page at all, because Facebook has no way to verify if they fit your criteria or not.

5. Neither Pages nor Groups have limits to people who can like or join.

There was a time when Facebook limited the number of fans or members you can have on your Page or in your Group, but now the sky seems to be the limit. Ive seen Pages with over a million fans such as NPs Page. You still can only have 5,000 friends on your personal profile, though.

6. You cannot send a direct message to the fans of your Page.

You can speak to all of your fans via your Page’s Wall, but you cannot broadcast a message into their Facebook inboxes. Instead, you can send your fans an “Update.� Updates only show up in a subsection of Facebook’s Messages page. You have to know it is there, and click the link on the left side of your screen to access the Updates. Note that Updates do not get sent to people’s actual email accounts. If you have a Facebook Group, you can directly message your group members; this message is sent to both their main Facebook Messages inbox and their personal email accounts.

7. You can add Google Analytics to your Facebook Page.

If you have a custom Facebook Page and are hosting some FBML code on your own server, you can use this technical workaround to add Google Analytics to your Facebook Page. The programmers who created this also provide a Google Analytics link generator to help you create an image (IMG) tag for each Facebook Page you’d like to track.

8. You can see how much website traffic your Facebook social ad generated.

Have you created a Facebook social ad that leads people away from the Facebook site? Facebook but now offers a conversion tracking system. You might have already seen a mention of this feature appear on your Ads Manager page; it will measure what happens on your website once a Facebook user sees or clicks on your ad. You can access Facebooks guide for this new feature which is currently in beta.

The Difference Between a Computer Virus & Worm

The most common blunder people make when the topic of a computer virus arises is to refer to a worm or Trojan horse as a virus. While the words Trojan, worm and virus are often used interchangeably, they are not exactly the same. Viruses, worms and Trojan Horses are all malicious programs that can cause damage to your computer, but there are differences among the three, and knowing those differences can help you to better protect your computer from their often damaging effects.



What Is a Virus?

A computer virus attaches itself to a program or file enabling it to spread from one computer to another, leaving infections as it travels. Like a human virus, a computer virus can range in severity: some may cause only mildly annoying effects while others can damage your hardware, software or files.

Almost all viruses are attached to an executable file, which means the virus may exist on your computer but it actually cannot infect your computer unless you run or open the malicious program. It is important to note that a virus cannot be spread without a human action, (such as running an infected program) to keep it going.

People continue the spread of a computer virus, mostly unknowingly, by sharing infecting files or sending e-mails with viruses as attachments in the e-mail.


What Is a Worm?

A worm is similar to a virus by design and is considered to be a sub-class of a virus. Worms spread from computer to computer, but unlike a virus, it has the capability to travel without any human action. A worm takes advantage of file or information transport features on your system, which is what allows it to travel unaided.

The biggest danger with a worm is its capability to replicate itself on your system, so rather than your computer sending out a single worm, it could send out hundreds or thousands of copies of itself, creating a huge devastating effect. One example would be for a worm to send a copy of itself to everyone listed in your e-mail address book. Then, the worm replicates and sends itself out to everyone listed in each of the receiver's address book, and the manifest continues on down the line.

Due to the copying nature of a worm and its capability to travel across networks the end result in most cases is that the worm consumes too much system memory (or network bandwidth), causing Web servers, network servers and individual computers to stop responding. In recent worm attacks such as the much-talked- about Blaster Worm, the worm has been designed to tunnel into your system and allow malicious users to control your computer remotely

The top most dangerous websites for your PC enlisted

Internet security company Norton Symantec has come up with a list of Top 100 Dirtiest sites, which could infect your computer with malware.

Malware is a software that can damage or compromise a computer system without the owner's consent.

Natalie Connor, spokeswoman of the anti-virus company, said that even visiting any of the named websites could expose a computer to infection and put the personal information into the hands of unwanted people.

"What people don't realise is when you type in a website, you're bringing down information on a page and with it could be malware," News.com.au quoted her as saying.

The list was compiled with the help of global data collected on Norton Safe Web, a site that analysed websites' security risks.

The infected sites had on average 18,000 threats and 40 per cent of the sites had more than 20,000 threats, while 75 per cent of websites on the list were found to be spreading malware for over six months.

According to Connor, most websites in the list had adult content with unprintable names, suggesting they contained hardcore pornography.

Some others sites include those on ice skating, deer hunting, catering and legal services.

Hackers can apparently obtain personal information using keystroke-logging software from both PCs and Mac computers.he reps said that hackers are a force to reckon with as cyber crime is increasing rapidly.

She added: "The last thing we want to do is scare people, we want to educate them so they know how to protect themselves.

"It's not about the fame any more of creating viruses and getting in the media. They're making money."

Norton released a sample of the dirtiest websites:

17ebook.com

aladel.net

bpwhamburgorchardpark.org

clicnews.com

dfwdiesel.net

divineenterprises.net

fantasticfilms.ru

gardensrestaurantandcatering.com

ginedis.com

gncr.org

hdvideoforums.org

hihanin.com

kingfamilyphotoalbum.com

likaraoke.com

mactep.org

magic4you.nu

marbling.pe.kr

nacjalneg.info

pronline.ru

purplehoodie.com

qsng.cn

seksburada.net

sportsmansclub.net

stock888.cn

tathli.com

teamclouds.com

texaswhitetailfever.com

wadefamilytree.org

xnescat.info

yt118.com (ANI)

Facebook Tightens User Security

Facebook on Wednesday announced heightened privacy controls for members of the world's largest online social network.

The security enhancements came on the heels of a hacker posting a bogus message on the public fan page of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg suggesting that the website pursue social good instead of business profit.

The release of improved tools for protecting the content of users' profiles was tied to an international Data Privacy Day this week, according to Facebook.



"A key part of controlling information has always been protecting it from security threats like viruses, malware and hackers," Facebook's Jake Brill said in a blog post.

New security features being rolled out included the availability of one-time passwords that US Facebook members could use at shared computers in places such as cafes, airports or hotels where keystrokes might be saved on machines.

Sending a mobile phone text message reading "otp" to 32665 will result in a Facebook user getting a response containing a password that works only once and expires in 20 minutes.

The mobile phones must be registered in Facebook users' accounts to get disposable passwords.

Facebook will also let members remotely check whether they are still logged onto the service at other computers and then sign-off from afar.

"In the unlikely event that someone accesses your account without your permission, you can also shut down the unauthorized login before resetting your password and taking other steps to secure your account and computer," Brill said.

Facebook on Wednesday said a software "bug" let a hacker impersonate chief executive Zuckerberg in a comment posted to his public fan page at the website.

The bogus update posted late Monday suggested that Facebook turn to its users instead of banks for money and got "liked" by more than 1,800 members of the social network before it was erased.

HOW TO : Remove Gmail Web Clips

If you are a Gmail user then you must be seeing some ads, updates etc. just above the top of the inbox. This single line text is called as Web Clips. Sometimes it can be annoying for the users who want more of their inbox than the other things while check emails. You can remove the Gmail Web Clips in simple steps using methods given below.



HOW TO : Remove Gmail Web Clips

1. Sign in to your Gmail account.

2. Click on the Settings given at the top and then click on the Web Clips tab.

3. Just unmark the check box for showing the option “Show my web clips above the Inbox”

Now, you will see no more web clips in your Gmail inbox. If you want to get the Gmail Web Clips back then just repeat the steps given above and mark the box for the same option.

HOW TO : Choose A Secure And Strong Password?

These days, we are spending more and more time online and all of us are having various accounts on different types of web-services like email, social networking sites, business etc. For all these , we use login details and passwords. One of the major concern for the online community is about the privacy and the security of their online accounts on websites. For this, it is very important to have a strong password. Having a strong password helps in the security of your online. But people do not know that if their passwords are strong enough or not? Now there is the solution for that.


HowSecureIsMyPassword.net is providing the service to check how strong is your password. Its really simple. All you have to do is to type your password in the box given on the site and it will show that how much time it will take to crack the password? By this way, you can select a password which is strong to crack.

HowSecureIsMyPassword.net uses some simple maths to work out how long it would take a regular desktop PC to crack your password. This website also offers loads of useful information like :-

* Basic Password Guidelines
* Things to avoid in a password
* Which passwords can be Bad
* Choosing, Changing, Protecting and Remembering your password
* Examples for bad and good passwords
* How would a potential hacker get hold of my password anyway?

So, just visit the HowSecureIsMyPassword.net and find that how secure is your passwords?