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DomPing.com – New Domain Checking Tools
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 | Author: admin

DomPing is one of the latest Internet domain checking tools and it is a very powerful tool. It is normally used for manual fault isolation purposes but it could be used for a variety of other domain checking purposes. The functioning of ping is quite simple. The ping command sends a small packet to a particular domain or an IP address for testing the effectiveness and speed of the network communications. The packet bounces off the domain or the IP address and ping calculates the time taken by the packet to reach the domain and return back. Hence, the basic function of ping command is to test the network and find out how fast your computer could reach another domain or IP address in the network. However, due to the heavier load it imposes on the network, it would be advisable not to use domain ping command from automated scripts or during regular operations.

The term ‘ Ping’ was derived from ‘Packet Internet Groper’. The most modern ping program that is widely used as a versatile diagnostic tool on the Internet was written and compiled in its present form in December 1983 by Mike Muuss. Since Muuss felt that the domain ping command worked just like a sonar ping locating objects from sound echo, he named it as ping. The domain ping could be used to perform the following diagnostic tests on the WWW network.

Website Check for Access

DomPing is used to verify whether another computer is easily reachable. This provides instant website check. If a particular website is not responding to the domain ping command but other websites are answering, then you could be sure that the network is fully functional but the particular website is down or inaccessible for some reason. However, if none of the websites are reacting to ping, then it would be obvious that the entire network is down.

Checking Domain IP Address and Website Ranking

The DomPing command is widely used to probe a particular domain IP address or a domain name. When you ping a particular domain name or a website, the correct IP address of the website and its ranking are displayed in response. Here is top 1000 websites rank by alexa: top 1000 .net, top 1000 .de…

Google Checking with DomPing

Google analytical checking, Google AdSense checking, Google Adwords checking, Google Checkout, etc. could be done quite easily by properly incorporating the Google Analytics code to your website. Once the procedure is over, you would be able to ping Google and get reports on all these aspects and check the status of each page that you ping. The details of visitors would be automatically displayed if you had correctly embedded the Google Analytics code on each page of your website and you ping Google for the details of the visitors.

At DomPing.com, we had been specializing in customizing the features of ping to suit the needs of each client through exclusive processes. We had assisted numerous network administrators to ping and track several domains or TCP/IP addresses simultaneously and automatically generate report error codes. These reports would be directed to your email address to enable you to evaluate and check domains, websites, rankings, Google AdSense, Google analytics, etc. Contact us for complete details of ping benefits.

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Best Free Firewall
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 | Author: admin

No other freeware product causes as much angst to users, whether in installation or day-to-day use, as a firewall. To find a stable and high quality firewall for windows often involves a process of trial and error. Firewalls should protect while not being too intrusive or too complicated to handle. This article gives you a selection of the best free software firewalls available.

If you want to learn more about firewalls, visit these excellent sites: How Firewalls Work and Microsoft Security Firewalls FAQ. If you don’t decide to use one of the firewall products in the article, at least remember to turn on the Windows firewall. Be sure to use only one software firewall at a time. But feel free to combine a hardware and a software firewall to improve protection. Additionally, most products highly recommend uninstalling other third-party software firewalls before installation (and disabling the Windows firewall if they don’t).

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Fight back against bad password policy
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 | Author: admin

It is difficult enough getting people to use strong passwords. When people start actively discouraging strong password use, we’re really in trouble — but there may be ways to fight back.
The simplest and most common piece of advice for good password security is probably the advice to use strong passwords. In theory, a strong password should draw from as many keys on the keyboard as possible, in terms of at least three different factors:

  1. Your password’s character length, thus requiring more keypresses
  2. How many different types of characters (lower case, upper case, numbers, number key special characters, whitespace characters, and so on) are in your password, thus requiring keypresses in more parts of the keyboard
  3. How many different characters are in it, selected as much at random as possible rather than by following predictable repeating patterns

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Firefox: Some security tips
Monday, February 08th, 2010 | Author: admin

There are several reasons why Firefox is the Web browser of choice for many of us. Providing a safe Web surfing experience is one of the more important ones. I’d like to offer some tips that will make surfing the Web with Firefox even safer.

It’s important to easily determine whether a Web site that should be using https, actually is. When Firefox first came out it used a method that was easily discernible. The address bar would turn yellow and a lock icon would appear on the right-hand side of the address bar:


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How antivirus software works: Is it worth it?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 | Author: admin

We are told, in order to survive on the Internet, our computers need protection afforded by antivirus applications. If that’s true:

  • Why do computers still get infected?
  • Would it be a lot worse if we didn’t use antivirus programs?

Pondering those questions, I realized I may not have all the facts. So I began researching antivirus methodology. Here’s what I found out.
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2010 Security Suites: The Best and Worst
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 | Author: admin

We’ve reviewed nearly a dozen 2010 security suites—find out which will keep you safe and which to avoid.

The 2010 “model year” for security suites got started early, with a couple of products already out in June. Panda Internet Security 2010 made a decent showing, but eScan Internet Security Suite for Home Users Version 10 isn’t ready to provide serious competition for any of the better-known contenders in the U.S. market. Much the same is true of K7 TotalSecurity Version 10.0: It’s popular in Japan, but doesn’t live up to the standards set by other major products here—at least it didn’t bog down my test systems. Through the summer the suites kept rolling in, keeping me busy with all-out evaluations.

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Top 5 Anti-Spyware Products 2009
Monday, January 04th, 2010 | Author: admin
With today’s threats it is harder and harder to draw the line between spyware and viruses and browser hijacking and other threats. It seems like attacks generally blur the lines and use mutliple methods to spread and to compromise systems. Many anti-spyware products and functions have simply been absorbed into more comprehensive antimalware products. [p] Below is a list of the 5 best products aimed at detecting, blocking, and removing spyware from your PC.

Ad-Aware AE (Anniversary Edition)

2009 marks the 10-year anniversary of Ad-Aware. Lavasoft’s flagship product has been a reliable safeguard against spyware for a decade and the Anniversary Edition (AE) is the best version yet.

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Free Virus Removal Tools
Monday, January 04th, 2010 | Author: admin

Getting a virus on your system is frustrating to say the least, and can be hazardous to the health of your computer. Indeed, today’s malicious software can even steal your identity and wreck your hard-earned credit rating. To help fight back, here’s a list of free tools, tips, and tricks to get rid of viruses and keep them from getting back on your system.

Free Virus Removal Tools
Sure the antivirus vendors want to make money, but if you ever get the chance to meet one of their virus researchers, you’ll find their real motivation is to protect users. As corny as that may sound, it’s true. That’s why when stubborn or fast-spreading infectors are discovered, antivirus vendors release special tools to remove the malware – and give the tools away free. It’s no substitute for installed antivirus software, but if you’re already infected and in a pinch, it’s the next best thing to, well, installed antivirus software.

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Top 10 Windows Antivirus
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 | Author: admin
Antivirus software is must-have protection. This review picks the best antivirus software based on its virus detection abilities, features, and breadth of protection. Whether you’re seeking total system coverage or an ala carte solution, each of the following products provides superb virus protection for Windows-based PCs. Because every system is unique, evaluate several of Windows XP and Windows Vista antivirus scanners to find the software best suited for your PC and your level of experience.

1. Norton Internet Security 2009

Symantec’s antivirus products have historically always provided excellent detection and removal of malware. On the downside, that protection came at the price of often crippling system performance. That’s now a thing of the past. Performance overhauls are the hallmark of Norton Internet Security 2009, which features ‘pulse updates’ to deliver more frequent and thus smaller signature updates, whitelisting to streamline scan times, and a lighter, sleeker footprint that installs in mere minutes.

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Safer Way To Recover Deleted Data
Monday, December 28th, 2009 | Author: admin

Repairing damaged data/partitions on is a very risky job. Even if you use the best toolkit and are absolutely sure in what you are doing, you are still risking your files shall something go wrong.

Changes made to the damaged data/partition are irreversible; it is just too easy to overwrite an important system structure that holds vital information about your disk, files and data. more…

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