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This is a summary of the
October 2003
Newsletter and Getting Started report
we emailed to all of our subscribers from
www. RichardPresents.com.
(You can receive periodic New Report ALERTS, too, by sending us a blank
email from the link
at the end of this message.)
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There's a lot of good information packed into this message, and some free
ebooks that you can add to your library (and even use to earn some
unexpected in^come).
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Here is what was included in this Summary:
1. The latest information that we've gathered on protection from Virus,
Trojan Horses and malicious Hacker attacks. (Including some helpful search
and recovery tools). Read it at "Just Plain Talk about Viruses"
2. Three of the latest 'how-to do something'
Reports posted to the Library.
3. Links to some useful services and applications (mostly free).
4. Some helpful eBooks that you can download and use. Most are brandable
with your own affiliate links and can be given away, too. (virally
effective!)
5. A few recommendations and suggestions about creating an on-line
presence and Getting Started with your own website or newsletter.
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Have you noticed that there are no "Sponsor Ads" or "Classified Ads"? We'd
much prefer to post information about your activities and accomplishments.
Let us promote you. Tell us the unique ways that you have used the
information from www.RichardPresents.
We'll post it so that all of our visitors can benefit and you'll get some
valuable exposure.
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Have you visited our Library recently? Just in case you missed them, let
us direct your attention to these three recent reports::
"Skills for Using Forums", by dr.jl.Scott
Director of i-Cop (International Council of
Online Professionals).
"How to Get Your Website Reviewed for Free. Harvey Segal tells how
to make friends and win customers while doing it.
"How to Write a 'How To...Book'". Great tips
by Nicole R. Murphy, another i-Cop member.
Click over to the Library
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In creating and maintaining our www.RichardPresents.com
website, we have benefited from many great little applications and
services... most of them are free. Here are a few that you might like to
investigate:
Wordtracker... find the most popular keywords for your theme site.
Optimize for the Search Engines
NameBoy... name your domain, get hundreds of really eye-catching
names and unique ideas
TinyURL.... shorten mile long email and URL addresses with one
click
ShrinkMyLink... another way to cloak your addresses, or just make
them easier to handle
All of these are clickable text links on our
Getting Started pages.
You'll find many other helpful services highlighted on those pages. Click
the links as you read through the discussions; we put them there to help
you Get Started creating successful Events with your special Ideas.
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Ebooks are tremendous resources for so many things. Nearly everyone has
some special interests and you can buy literally hundreds of eBooks about
your hobbies, games, work, etc., from all over the Internet.
Here are three ebooks that will not cost you anything: (and all of them
have the potential to increase your income)
1. Do you ever visit online forums?
Learn how to get the maximum benefits from your visits in this free
downloadable (and brandable) ebook by Harvey Segal. You can download your
copy of "Forum Super Tips"
HERE
2. Have you created a web presence with your own
website or newsletter? Do you know how to Optimize your
subscriber lists?
Download this free ebook to help you develop an "optIn Strategy" the way
Ian Herculson did after a disasterous loss of his 10,000+ name list. Get
this one at
The OptIn Strategy:
3. In our opinion, the crown jewel of Getting
Started Tools is the incredible array of "Masters Courses"
offered by the SiteSell University.
If you plan to write a newsletter or ebook, create an affilate theme
website, create a website for an existing off-line business, promote your
own products from your website, etc., you owe it to yourself to download
all of the free Master's Courses from
Library
Section 'D':
We have them ALL. You can have them all, too.
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JUST PLAIN TALK ABOUT VIRUSES
It seems as if the number of Hackers is increasing at an alarming rate. We
hear more and more comments from our friends about being infected, and
even re-infected by the "Blaster Bug",'So-Big Virus' or many of their
variants. Anymore, it's just foolish to use the internet without
maximizing your security.
You must have a Firewall. You must have an anti-virus program. You must
practice all possible precautions with your email (especially
attachments). You must consider every floppy you get from someone else to
be a potentially hazardous device.
There are a lot of good Firewall programs and anti-virus programs
available at very economical prices. Many are downloadable from the
internet and also available on CD's. Whatever way you get them, install
them on your systems and 'KEEP THEM UP TO DATE!'
The online services all provide notices of every update. Don't put off
downloading them... it's the only safe way to stay current (with hundreds
of new viruses being identified every month, you don't have much choice).
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But, what can you do right now if you haven't
installed your firewall and anti-virus programs yet?
Here are a few suggestions:
Get McAfee'e Search and Repair 'Stinger' program
from their site. It's free, will fit easily on one floppy, can
be used over and over again to check all of the computers you use, even if
they aren't connected to the internet. The current edition checks for 31
viruses, trojans and worms.
Get it from
McAfee Stinger
Remember please, this checks after-the-fact and not as you are using the
internet. It is not a Firewall nor an On-Line virus checker.
However, you can
download a free ZoneAlarm Company Firewall program from c|net,
or try this tiny URL:
http://tinyurl.com/rzc8
There are some other major points to consider as you work to increase your
security. One very important issue is to have a
"Disaster Plan". You may never need it, but from experience, I
can tell you that it's an absolutely frustrating experience to take all of
the precautions, have all of the software protection tools, and still
suffer a
shut-down due to a virus.
How did it get in, you ask?. So did we and the best that we can determine
is that we were infected earlier through a Trojan Horse with a timed
actuation event.
Here are some things to consider as part of your
"Disaster Plan":
Organize all of your Program CD's and list them with their passwords in a
separate off-line book. Keep that book in a very safe place. Make sure
that you have the authentication or serial number codes for your software.
You'll need them when you reload/restore the programs.
Sometimes, you can actually clean out the viruses
without having to wipe your harddrive. There are tools for this posted in
our "What's a Firewall" report. Check them out in the 'Help from symantec'
columns.
If you have to wipe your "C" drive and re-install your Operating System,
having a backup image of your system on an external harddrive (saved from
before the virus attack) will be a great timesaver.
Back up regularly, even keep the harddrive disconnected until you make the
backup image.
No doubt, you'll lose most of your current email files. Again, there are
backup tools to minimize these loses.Do a Google search. Use the Google
Search Box on the Library Page at RichardPresents.com. Search for "email
backup" You'll find them.
But, if it's not practical to duplicate your harddrive, (even using an
external harddrive) it would be good insurance to save you vital files to
a ZIP Disk or CD. (Floppies are usually just too small).
Our policy is to be suspicious of strange email messages, expect the
worst, delete unless we know the source.... and sometimes this doesn't
even work.
In future discussions, we'll talk more about
Disaster Planning, Remote (Server Side) backup, current virus updates, and
new security tools.
In the meantime, read about our latest updates
at
What's a Firewall?
or use the tiny URL:
http://tinyurl.com/nir0
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That's all for this time. We encourage you to stop by our
www.Richardpresents.com website regularly to keep up to date on our
newest reports, tips and tools to help you Get Started in creating your
own web presence.
...and if your internet activities are centered on
just plain interesting and informative reading, and
learning, we'll continue to publish more of everything we find that will
help you meet those goals.
Thanks for reading along
Helping you get started to
turn your ideas into income at
http://www.RichardPresents.com
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PS. If you're planning your own website, newsletter or eZine, it could be
helpful to read our little report on
"What you can Really Expect" as you work on developing your own web
presence.
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question, especially those of us that attempt to provide helpful tips,
tools and related information to our readers.
We do not send SPAM... and to be certain that your ISP doesn't accidently
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