Security Focus VulnerbilitiesMSN kept dropping for staff across the LAN.
Took ages to figure it out, but here it is for future reference and for blog readers:
Click Start, RUN , in the run box type in:
regsvr32 MSXML3.dll
Click OK , then a box pops up, ok that box.
Restart msn messenger
Google news appears to have sections of it missing. Perhaps they are censoring the news? Or is it a “technical” glitch?
See screenshot: 
A new article has been published a few minutes ago regarding Social Networking and how it can affect your career.
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Apologies for not blogging for the last few days. Right now I am working on three projects that require a good bit of my time.
However, as always, you can email Protocol Solutions or place comments.
Thank you
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I had to reconfigure the .htaccess for the APACHE server we run a few days ago.
A few system administrators still dont know how to correctly modify the .htaccess and apply it.
I am including a working template that anybody can use, and it is commented too.
For people who want to download get it from here (view it with notepad) : http://www.mediafire.com/?49lxrdqk542
The .htaccess is also posted below for anyone to read also, and perhaps see some ideas that might be useful for their servers, or even see there are a few things that can be done without cluttering up the robots.txt. I for one perfer to put most things into the .htaccess because nobody else can see it, where with the robots.txt, anyone can see it and also because spammers and spam bots / spammer user-agents usally ignore the robots.txt file
## DISABLE HOTLINKING
RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?PUTyourDomainHERE/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css)$ - [F]
## SITE REFERRER BANNING
RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} info\.biyad\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
## USER IP BANNING
<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 74.54.131.194
allow from all
</Limit>
## AN EXAMPLE OF A REDIRECT
Options +Indexes
IndexOptions -FancyIndexing
Redirect permanent /www.PUTyourDomainHERE/oldPAGE.html http://www.PUTyourDomainHERE/newPage.html
Redirect permanent /www.PUTyourDomainHERE/OLDPage.html http://www.PUTyourDomainHERE/someNEWdirectory/NewPage.html
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP:IGNORE_INCON846393} !^Yes$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(GET|POST)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}
!.*\.(css|jpg|ai|doc|bin|ogg|mp3|pdf|rtf|ps|ppt|jpeg|png|gif|rar|zip|bz|bz2|gz|tar|iso|chm|z|cue|deb|rpm|ac3|au|snd|mid|midi|wav|bmp|jpe|psd|avi|mpg|mpeg|mpe|mp4|ico|rdf)$ [NC]
## AN EXAMPLE OF A REDIRECT OF DYNAMIC PAGES TO STATIC PAGES
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=23$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=36$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page2? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=30$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page3? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=34$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page4? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=29$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page5? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=38$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /page6? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{query_string} ^option=com_sefservicemap&Itemid=37$
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /sitemap.html? [R=301,L]
## AN EXAMPLE OF A PERMANENT REDIRECTs AKA 301
redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage.html
redirect 301 /oldpage2.html http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage2.html
redirect 301 /oldpage3.html http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage3.html
redirect 301 /oldpage4.html http://www.yourDOMAIN/newpage4.html
## A WORKING EXAMPLE OF BLOCKING BAD BOTS OR USER AGENTS KNOWN TO BE RELATED TO SPAM
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^EmailSiphon” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^EmailWolf” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^ExtractorPro” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^CherryPicker” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^NICErsPRO” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^Teleport” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^EmailCollector” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^LinkWalker” bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent “^Zeus” bad_bot
<Limit GET POST>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot
</Limit>
I had to do some testing that required a proxy in Ireland. Bascially our IP at the time was not recogised as being Irish based, even though it was…
Anyway it took ages to find a working list of proxies in Ireland.
So the list is here : free Irish based proxies
Some reasons you might want to use a proxy would be: when for example your ip is not recognised by Eircom.net and you want to login to their webmail. Sure there are other reasons but I am not gonna list them here:-)
After much consideration, in light of the fact that small and medium business may not be able to afford GFI Lanuguard NSS, Protocol Solutions is going to offer GFI Languard at a 40% discount to companies with less than 150 employees.
Prices will be active from 14th February at this link only:
More details in a few hours will be posted here.
Ok,
Finally managed to get Google Translate to work with the Protocol Solutions blog without breaking the sidebars. Readers will appreciate this, as I am sure it was annoying to read with sidebars all over the place, depending what transalation you choose!
The only issue is when transalating is with spanish, which still breaks sidebars, but I am sure I will figure something out.
I was reading an article at Independant.ie
Call me cynical if you like, but I cannot help thinking that 3 paid John Kennedy to review the 3g Modem.
The reason for thinking like that is because if you have been following the discussions at tomrafteryit.net on this thread or on this thread , you will get an idea you how bad this product really is (*cough* “service”)
It seems to work when reporters are trying it out, but since all they do is generally just surf the web and try to get a video or two downloaded, thats not really a proper test. Plus the fact that 3 probably tested and “made sure” it would work before giving it to the reporter.
You can bet they dont do that for their average customer 
