Review email services for own domain

A good email service is very important for your business and also for your online life. How about your current email service? did you lose any email? did it run smoothly? how much does it cost you?

It's time to look around email services for finding your best email service for your own domain.

1. Outlook.com

I really love it, it is a profuct of Microsoft which is the last guy in top big buys still gives free emails. To register, you must set up your domain on http://domains.live.com
Free emails: 50
Price: $19.95/email account/year to remove ads
Storage: unlimited
Attachment: up to 25 MB

2. Google Apps

I used it for many my domains. This guy is leading in email services, but Google Apps stops to give free emails from 2012. Really sad for that.
Free emails: None
Price: $50/email account/year
Storage: 30 GB
Attachment: up to 25 MB

3. Office 365 Small Business

Another guy from Microsoft beside Outlook.com. This guy is main competitor of Google Apps.
Free emails: None
Price: $60/email account/year
Storage: 50 GB
Attachment: up to 25 MB

4. Yahoo Small Business

Yahoo still is one of the leaders in email service. Before Gmail, I just use Yahoo! Mail. Now I still keep my Yahoo! Mail for some my contacts and Yahoo! Messenger.
Free emails: None
Price: $35/email account/year
Storage: unlimited
Attachment: up to 20 MB

5. FastMail

Owned by Opera, FastMail is the most popular alternate to Google Apps for email service on the own domain for years now because some good reasons. Cheap, stability, fast.
Free emails: None
Price: start form $10/email account/year
Storage: start from 250 MB
Attachment: up to 20 MB

6. Rackspace Email

Between tons of hosting providers sell email service, Rackspace is one of the best guys.
Free emails: None
Price: $24/email account/year
Storage: 25 GB
Attachment: up to 50 MB

7. Zoho Mail

Zoho is famous guy in CRM. However he is also big player in email service. Especially, it give 5 free users.
Free emails: 20
Price: $24/email account/year
Storage: from 5 GB (free)
Attachment: depend

Hope you can select the best email service for your own domain.

Detect and remove SPAM SEO (BlackHat SEO)

Today using SPAM SEO (Black Hat SEO) is a stupid way to get higher ranking in Google. The website uses SPAM SEO is detected easily by Google and Google will shoot penalty the website if it detects many SPAM SEO for the website.

However this is the best way to knock out a competitor. The competitor will take much time to work with Google and remove / disavow these SPAM SEO links. It is not an easy work.

So your website may become a victim of bad guy for his cruel purpose.

1. How to know if my website gets Malware Spam SEO (MW:SPAM:SEO)
You can do one of the following way:
-Install an antivirus like Avas, AVG, etc. on a computer, then browse your website. It will alert if your website infects MW:SPAM:SEO.
-Scan your website via sitecheck2.sucuri.net. It will alert and point out where MW:SPAM:SEO appears on your website. Although it just makes highlights the MW:SPAM:SEO on HTML code, but it will help you to find out where the Malware comes in the source code of your website. I recommend this tool.

2. How to know where MW:SPAM:SEO stays in the source code
2.1 Use antivirus software to scan your source code files. Normally, some antivirus software can detect infected / compromised files. This is fastest way to remove the Malware if its code pattern is in a database of an antivirus.

2.2 Sort files by created / modified date to limit files or make priorities on files for exploring.

2.3 Check & sort by date your web server log on POST requests if you have configured the log. It will help a lot to limit files or make priorities on files for exploring the Malware manually.

2.4 Based on scanning result of sitecheck2.sucuri.net, you can know which page then guess which file can be infected.

2.5 Search special phrases
-Some popular malwares can have a special phrases to find out. e.g. Clickjack will have function dnnViewState or function xViewState. So just do a search on these famous phrases and see if you are lucky.
-After doing above steps, and you still cannot find where the Malware stays. It's time to do some hard works. It will take your time depending on your experiences. If your source code is written by PHP, search special functions of PHP such as: eval, base64_decode, gzinflate, str_rot13, hexdec, file_get_contents, mail, fsockopen, pfsockopen, stream_socket_client, exec, system, passthru. For example, if your server is Linux you can use below command to find all files containing eval or base64_decode function then export these file names to forexploring.txt file:
find . -type f -name '*.php' | xargs egrep -i "(eval|base64_decode) *\(" > forexploring.txt

In my real case, I have 2 websites infected MW:SPAM:SEO. One website infect Clickjack, then I remove it easily by searching function dnnViewState mentioned in step 2.5 above. Another website I tried to scan with some antivirus as also as searching keywords of popular malwares but not found. Then I use step 2.4 above, then I guess that it can be in a free module which I installed in my Joomla website. The module is mod_InowSlideShow. After that I search special functions of PHP in the source files of this module, and I found the file modules\mod_InowSlideShow\tmpl\default.php use function file_get_contents to insert a HTML code to my site. I removed it, then didn't get any warning after doing step 1 again.

3. Prevention is better than cure
-Update frequently security fixes for your server (OS, web server, DB server, PHP etc)
-Update frequently security fixes for your CMS (Joomla, WordPress etc)
-Set up an antivirus on your server, set up firewall on your server
-Set up logs for your server
-Change your passwords frequently and follow password name rule

Good luck to you!

.Net solving error: Call was rejected by callee

If your program uses MS Office Application Interop (e.g. Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document) to procedure documents , sometimes you may get this following error:
Call was rejected by callee. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010001 (RPC_E_CALL_REJECTED))

It happens only in few documents and the others will not. To solve this problem, we have 2 ways:

Way 1: Turn off all grammar / spelling functions, for example: open MS Word and go to Options, uncheck options:
+Check spelling as you type
+Use contextual spelling
+Mark grammar errors as you type
+Check grammar with spelling

Way 2: if you develop the program, you can add some codes to turn off grammar / spelling functions, for example in C#:
CurrentDocument.ShowGrammaticalErrors = false;
CurrentDocument.ShowRevisions = false;
CurrentDocument.ShowSpellingErrors = false;

Hope you save a tablet for headache.

Joomla: control all types of redirection and http error codes with single component

Does your Joomla website has some links (URLs) needing to redirect? You can use Redirect core component of Joomla. However, it just does 1 type 301 redirection (Moved Permanently) and doesn't support to redirect URLs with Regular Expressions.

Luckily, we have a free component which allows you control almost types of redirection and http error codes. This below inforgraphic of SEOmoz can help you understand them and how they are important in SEO.

So what is the component? It's ReDJ component. You can check out it here. The following is its features:
+Manage redirection URLs, support macros & regular expressions for URLs
+Support to define 404 page quickly
+Support to statistic http error codes which are got and their visited URLs
+Support to statistic referrer URLs

And you can use it to:
+Solve SEO problems
+Create short URLs and use them with your domain (like they are created from bitly.com)

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Oracle: connect as sysdba without db user password

Oracle allows you connect as SYSDBA, if your Windows user is a member of  'ORA_sid_DBA' or 'ORA_DBA' group. Below are steps to do that:

1. Log in Windows as administrator

2. Check if your Windows has 'ORA_DBA' group. If not, let create it

3. Add your Windows user to 'ORA_DBA' group

4. Run TNSPING tool to check where SQLNET.ORA file is located, like the following:

C:\>tnsping orcl
 
TNS Ping Utility for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on 09-JUN-2009 14:50:20
 
Copyright (c) 1997,  2007, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
 
Used parameter files:
C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\NETWORK\ADMIN\sqlnet.ora

5. Add or remove comment for the following line:


SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NTS)





6. Re-login Windows with the user mentioned above, try this line:
C:\>sqlplus / as sysdba

7. Then see if you can login successfully