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The World Wide Web is a virtual cornucopia of information that is disposable at our fingertips. But with our wonderful gateway to almost anything we want, there are tons of deceptions, annoyances, and dangers that casual web surfers encounter every day. Here are four ways websites can improve the surfing experience and make the web a more enjoyable place:

Taking it Easy on the Social Media

Have you ever seen a blog with over forty different links to their social media accounts? When I see that many tiny buttons on a website, I just give up and turn on the TV.

Instead of bombarding visitors with links to “like” the page on Facebook, a demand to follow on Twitter, or a StumbleUpon button; websites should feature more subtle devices for social media links. It is easy to install a comment forum for Facebook on your blog, you should give incentives for people to follow you on Twitter, and users who “stumble” generally have the toolbar installed.

Static Web Banners
Have you ever had several tabs open and heard an annoying sound coming from an unknown source? Sometimes it seems like you need a team of psychics and investigators to figure out where your ads are.

Whether they move, shake, sizzle, squeak, or swirl; all advertisements on the web are going to be somewhat annoying. With web users becoming more savvy and browser technology advancing, advertisers are resorting to more desperate measures to grab our attention. If websites stuck to less intrusive methods for revenue like static browsers links in articles, viewers might actually start clicking instead of instantly clicking out.

Easily Navigable Link Headers
Have you ever clicked on a link to read the content or watch the video on the next page only to get lost in a sea of extra pop-ups and sites you can’t get out of?

The worst thing that a website can do is be inconsistent. When a foreign looking page appears when the user clicks a link, a sense of panic might sink in. When clicking on links, there always needs to be a way to get back to from whence thou came. If you have links to PDF files on your website, consider transferring the content to HTML and CSS format so you can keep the links at the top of your site.

Links that Send You to Your Destination
A common trend I have been noticing on several websites is webmasters and advertisers using the tool of deception. You might click on a link that promises to send you to a funny video, then it sends you to another site to click on a link to go to that video. After you click the actual link to the video, you probably went through four different links and three browser tabs. There is a good chance you are getting scammed if you have to click more than once.

The Internet will always have its pitfalls and nuisances, but website owners who follow these suggestions will look more reputable and gain greater authority with the online community.

According to security firm Sopho a new virus has appeared spreading rapidly across microblogging site Twitter. The worm hacks into Twitter profiles and automatically sends unauthorized Twitter status updates to contacts from the hacked accounts. Users who look at infected profiles are then automatically infected, and unauthorized posts are automatically sent to their contacts.

It looks like infected accounts are creating posts that mention the Twitter profile names of celebrities such as Kutcher and Winfrey, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. If the celebrities see the posts and click on the profile names they came from, the infection could spread faster, he said.

Kutcher has more than 1 million people following him on Twitter. “If he were foolish enough to click on one of those, he could be hit and potentially affect a million others,” Cluley said.

Cluley wasn’t certain whether the accounts of the celebrities themselves had been infected.

Twitter said Friday it was working to fix the problem.

Could you imagine that AOL were receiving 1.8 million spam email from Cyber Promotions per day until they got a court injunction to stop it. It’s no secret that web threats have become one of the biggest Internet communication problems growing more frustrating every single day. It seams that attackers are no limited in their means of doing spam. Now they use images of President Barack Obama offering to help cash-strapped consumers take advantage of the $787 billion economic stimulus package, the Federal Trade Commission reported Wednesday.

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It seams that thousands of music videos featuring some of the world’s most popular artists will be deleted from YouTube this evening, after the video-sharing website failed to strike a licensing agreement with the governing body that collects royalty payments for songwriters and composers. Telegraph.co.uk reports.

“The video itself and the sound recording used within the video are typically owned by the record label,” said Patrick Walker, director of video partnerships at YouTube. “But the music and lyrics of the song being performed are often owned separately by one or more music publishers. These publishers often designate collection societies, such as the PRS, to collect royalties on their behalf.”

YouTube needs to have an agreement in place with all relevant parties before it can legally host these videos on its site. Only official music videos will be affected, the company stressed, and the footage will only be blocked for YouTube users in the UK.

“This is an industry-wide issue, and we’re not the only ones that have had difficulty coming up with reasonable terms,” said Mr Walker.

Netflix, one of the biggest online DVD rental services and LG Electronics, the world’s largest producer of CDMA handsets, electronics, DVD players, optical storage devices and more, said on Sunday that they are is going to introduce new TV sets that can screen Netflix movies directly from Internet winthout an external box, FoxNews.com reported.

Netflix subscribers who buy one of these devices can hook it up to their TVs to watch movies that can be downloaded from the Internet instantly, as part of their monthly rental plan, FoxNews.com reports.

Subscribers can choose from about 12,000 movie titles and television episodes for instant viewing — an option the company introduced in 2007. Netflix’s entire library consists of more than 100,000 titles.

The new high-definition LG televisions, which will be on view at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, are targeted at those Netflix customers who want the convenience of Internet-to-TV movies without the clutter of a set-top box or an additional DVD player.

Some people “do not like to be encumbered with a rack of boxes around the TV,” Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey said.

Swasey added Netflix is working on similar partnerships with other gadget makers, but declined to mention names. “The goal for Netflix is to be ubiquitous … (on) whatever device connects Internet to the TV.”

Microsoft will be providing attendees of PDC 2008 on Tuesday with a pre-beta version of Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista, reports CNet.news.

“A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it,” the security update says.

The more than 6,000 attendees who will be walking away from the sold-out event with the Windows 7 operating system software in hand could have been vulnerable to an attacker exploiting the security hole.

“The code that will be distributed at PDC for Windows 7 was put on CD before last week’s security update was developed, so it will not contain the update,” a Microsoft spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail request for comment. “However, when users install the pre-beta bits, they will be prompted to get the update from Windows Update, just like other Windows customers.”

The security patch has been available since Wednesday. The critical security hole also affects Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.

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A New Zealand teenager who admitted to taking part in an international cyber-crime network has been discharged without a conviction, BBC reports.

Police said the group hijacked more than one million computers and used them to take at least $20.4m (£10.3m) from private bank accounts.

Owen Thor Walker, 18, was ordered to pay $10,000 (£5,000) in damages and hand over his computer-related assets.

Police said they were interested in using his skills to fight cyber-crime.

No doubt the Internet has brought us many joys but sometimes also disappointments. First of all I mean various viruses just choosing a moment to harm our computers.

According to Nielsen one of the most popular social networking sites in the U.S Facebook is currently vulnerable to a critical XSS, allowing the injection and execution of malicious scripts within the popular site, the harmless injected scripts in the demonstration successfully load, making it possible to abuse the trust relationship between Facebook and its users, in order to use the site as an infection vector. The security folks at Facebook have been notified, live fix is pending.
Be careful, mind your computer!

Position Change in position Name Proactive Detection Flag Percentage
1. 0 Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q Trojan.generic 40.58
2. +1 Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.d Trojan.generic 8.18
3. +6 Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.y Trojan.generic 7.62
4. +3 Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.gt Trojan.generic 6.64
5. +1 Email-Worm.Win32.Scano.gen Trojan.generic 6.47
6. +2 Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.aa Trojan.generic 5.81
7. New! Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.ica downloader 3.08
8. -5 Email-Worm.Win32.Nyxem.e Trojan.generic 3.01
9. New! Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.x Worm.P2P.generic 2.94
10. New! Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.r Worm.P2P.generic 2.68
11. -1 Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.gen Trojan.generic 1.73
12. +3 Email-Worm.Win32.Scano.bn Trojan.generic 1.19
13. -2 Email-Worm.Win32.Mydoom.l Worm.P2P.generic 1.07
14. New! Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.bk Worm.P2P.generic 0.91
15. -13 Email-Worm.Win32.Mydoom.m Trojan.generic 0.89
16. +1 Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.c Trojan.generic 0.70
17. Return Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.c Trojan.generic 0.69
18. 0 Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.t Trojan.generic 0.62
19. New! Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.dx Trojan.generic 0.47
20. New! Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.ac Trojan.generic 0.47
Other Malicious Programs 4.06