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Hosting companies to offer Google AdSense, site search services

Google has announced that it will work with hosting companies to offer AdSense, site search, AdWords for search and webmaster tools for your hosted websites. This is great news if you love your web host, but you want to simplify the process of monetizing your site and offering search to your users. Hosts can now integrate Google Services for Websites into their own control panels, so you should start seeing them pop up soon.

If you've never used Google's site services before, here's a rundown of what they do. Webmaster tools are useful for figuring out how to optimize your site for Google searches, and understanding what Google's bots see when they crawl your site. AdSense and AdWords let you buy ads in Google search results and sell ads for your site. There's no word from Google on which hosts will be adding these features, but if yours doesn't, you can point them to this page and suggest they sign up.

Filed under: Internet, Security, P2P

"Altruistic" Trojan blocks Piratebay and Mininova access

A new trojan once again underscores the importance of exercising caution when downloading. Disguised as a keygen, Troj/Qhost-AC is one of the strangest pieces of malware I've seen.

The trojan doesn't appear to be particularly malicious. Its mission: to prevent you from downloading torrents from PirateBay and Mininova, keep you from reading the forums at SuprBay, and the remind you that you shouldn't be downloading illegally.

A couple modifications to your hosts file are made that point the affected domains to your machine. Removal is fairly quick and painless - just get rid of the entries from your hosts file. If you need help, check out the helpful FAQ on MVPS.org.

Maybe this is the RIAA's new sinister plan: instead of suing everyone, they're just going to threaten, guilt trip, and annoy downloaders into submission. Whatever it is, there's more than a little irony in hiding something with "good intentions" inside a keygen inside a torrent.

Unsure about a torrent you were planning to download? Check out Vertor and see if they've indexed its contents first.

[ via TorrentFreak ]

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