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Protecting your Computer from Viruses

  Computer VirusGetting a virus on your computer has become as easy as catching cold. The only difference is that each day it becomes harder and harder to protect your computer from viruses. While it may seem a little dramatic, the truth is that you cannot leave your computer off guard for one second!

. Before internet and computer downloaded content was available, the primary way your computer could get a virus was if it was transmitted through a floppy disk. Also then it was much easier to eradicate your computer of those viruses. Now technology has advanced. The internet has changed. You can easily catch an virus on your computer through your email, email attachments, downloading songs, software and any other digital content. Viruses today can attack your computer through several entry points.

Good for us, there has also been an advancement in antivirus software. Even if you are not an avid computer user you should also have an good antivirus software to protect your computer. Antivirus software helps an computer to fend off viruses and other nasty programs meant to hurt your computer. Antivirus software can protect virus from entering from several entry points such as through email, web browsers, file sharing and other ways.

Here are a few ways you can protect your computer from virus threats:

1. Regularly evaluate your computers current security settings. With threats of new viruses able to attack your computer in various ways, your antivirus software should always be updated.

2. Only install antivirus software from well known companies. Some people make the mistake of getting the cheapest software available. Most of the time the cheapest software will not effectively protect your computer.

3. Always exercise caution when downloading files from email attachments and from other websites even if you know it’s origin. Some antivirus software scans downloadable attachments for viruses before you download it to your computer.

The best thing you can do in protecting yourself from virus threats is to always exercise caution. If you are suspicious of an email attachment; don’t open it. Don’t download songs, programs or any other digital content from unknown sources.

Zyas Launched Promotional Video

As a part of our promotional efforts we just launched a little video which will be promoted on various media sites. Under the title “The One in a Million”, Zyas describes a few top features we have and we try to show why you should consider our web directory in your promotional campaigns. Enjoy it!

Bill Gates - Last Day at Microsoft

One of the richest men in the world has finally retired. The time has come for Bill Gates to leave his Microsoft office and his daily job. All these years, his creativity and discipline made from Microsoft one of the most respected business on the planet. Here is an excellent, funny video on his last day of work.

Top Traffic Directories List

A few days ago we have launched the Top 50 Traffic Directories List. I came up with this idea when I realized that there is no list to sort the directories by their actual traffic. Obviously Alexa pretend to rank the websites by their traffic but who trust their system? So what it might be better than an actual traffic screenshot from every interested directory owner?

For long time webmasters used to hide their traffic or very often to lie about it. This is why everyone pretends to have a great website but when you actually see their traffic…hmm…there is only a tiny fraction from what they use to say. It takes quite a bit of courage to show your traffic to everyone else…why? Because first of all this might clarify many things about the site you run. Many times webmasters promote their directories as “high quality” websites but if you would have seen what exactly they offer you would actually be surprised to find out that the things are quite a bit different.

I have a strange feeling that most of the so called “quality directories” offer so little in terms of traffic that it may be worthless to have your link submited.

My advice to every person looking to submit their websites to paid directories is to do a brief analyze of the directory in cause. This way you won’t get tricked by a nice custom template or by a flashy banner you might see on some other website. First of all…if you are a PR chaser (not recommended) you might see a lot of promotions for high PR directories. Please do not associate the high PR with high quality as most of the times the things are pretty different. You might pay quite a lot of money to a PR5 directory just to find your website on the third page of its category with PR0 on it and then just ask yourself…is it worthwile to pay so much for nothing? In most of the cases you won’t receive either PR or traffic from that directory but instead you’ll only get a normal backlink which you can get at half price or even for free from somewhere else.

On the other hand…submitting to a directory that has a lot of visitors may increase the chances to get some clicks back which it will be an extra bonus for your submission.

Top Traffic Directories List want to establish as an useful resource for those who are interested in submiting in directories that deliver. The most important thing is that the owners in cause were so kind and open minded so they provided us with a copy of their traffic details. Just thinking there are people willing to share with you their stats it’s a good feeling and it should be a huge plus when deciding to do business with someone you never did before. These people inspire trust and I would highly recommend to consider their directories when submitting your website. Don’t just get tricked by people saying “my directory is high PR” or “my directory is high quality”…always ask them to prove it.

As you may notice…there are not so many submissions so far…maybe the people still have something to hide, maybe they will need to drop the old ideas and to understand that being open to your potential customer it will only benefit in long term to your business.

I really hope this list will become more popular in the future and will atract both directories and submiters.

Zyas - November Editor Pick!

Zyas Video Web Directory  Here are some excellent news…Zyas Video Web Directory has been picked Website of the Month by the editorial staff at LoboLinks.com! This means a lot for us and it proves that people appreciate the hard work and the creativity of this project. Our promise is to carry on the good work and to keep improving!

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