I use Google a lot but they have been coming up with some annoying features that make their pages work slower. Also, everyone always tries to switch you to their webpage as your home page so here were two questions relating to Google this week. I will add more to this string as Google questions arrive.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Deanne wrote:
Somehow facebook got set as my default page instead of google. How do I put google back?
Answer: Re: help!
Answer:
type google.com on the address line of your browser.
Hit Enter
Click on the Tools menu at the top of the browser
Choose Internet Options or Options depending on the browser
Click on the button that says Use Current Page for setting your default home page
Click Ok
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Deanne wrote:
Thank you. I will do so, and keep these directions for the future. How do I permanently take off google instant search? It is VERY annoying: as I’m trying to type, it keeps flinging things up to me that distract me from what I’m trying to type—then I go to the wrong place.
Answer:
click on "show search options" next to the search box and you can turn it off there.
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Hacked Website?
I recently had a client have their website hacked. What does this mean? It means someone idiot living in their parents basement thought it was a good idea to embed some malicious code in all of the web pages of this website. This causes the website to get flagged as a malicious website and makes it very hard to view.
What do you do when this happens?
Well, if you know how to edit HTML code you can pick thru the code and remove all instances of the malicious code. This however can be very labor intensive and annoying (this is unfortunately what I had to do in this case). Then you have to ask the powers that be at Google and any other monitoring sites to review your site for malicious code. This clears your pages so they can be displayed normally. This seems to take forever since they are quick to condemn but slow to forgive.
- The main key is keeping the web folders clean and orderly (don't leave old pages on the site unless you plan on using them later).
- Change your password for FTP access to something over 12 characters with multiple caps and lower case letters and numbers and punctuation (if allowed). This makes it much harder to hack.
- Don't ever email your password to anyone. Call them up or snail mail but don't send it electronically (this leaves you open).
What do you do when this happens?
Well, if you know how to edit HTML code you can pick thru the code and remove all instances of the malicious code. This however can be very labor intensive and annoying (this is unfortunately what I had to do in this case). Then you have to ask the powers that be at Google and any other monitoring sites to review your site for malicious code. This clears your pages so they can be displayed normally. This seems to take forever since they are quick to condemn but slow to forgive.
- The main key is keeping the web folders clean and orderly (don't leave old pages on the site unless you plan on using them later).
- Change your password for FTP access to something over 12 characters with multiple caps and lower case letters and numbers and punctuation (if allowed). This makes it much harder to hack.
- Don't ever email your password to anyone. Call them up or snail mail but don't send it electronically (this leaves you open).
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