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Facebook Privacy Update – A New Free Tool to Check Your Privacy Settings

Posted by James in Facebook Privacy, Hints and Tips, Social Media Marketing, Software on May 17, 2010

Facebook has made a lot of changes to user accounts lately and has certainly created a stir in the Social Media Networks.

Users are becoming more and more concerned about how their data is being used (abused?) and many have now started to delete their accounts to protect their personal data.

While this may be a bit on the extreme side, it is important that you are aware of the risks involved and just what your privacy settings might be on Facebook.

Bounding to the rescue has come http://www.reclaimprivacy.org

This website provides an independent and open tool for scanning your Facebook privacy settings. 

Just visit the site and follow these simple instructions:

  1. Drag the ‘Scan for Privacy’ link to your web browser bookmarks bar
  2. Log in to facebook.com and then click that bookmark
  3. You will see a series of privacy scans that inspect your privacy settings and warn you about settings that might be unexpectedly public.

It seems to work really well and if you are suitbaly impressed, why not help out with the bandwidth costs by donating a few dollars to the project?

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Kaspersky Internet Security blocking images

Posted by Gavin in Hints and Tips, Software on June 25, 2009

kaspersky-internet-security-boxThe Problem

Okay, so I’m working on a clients site and notice that the images used on the top of the page are missing. There is nothing special about them, quite a large jpeg image used in the site’s header or banner area. I clear my FireFox cache and check again. Same problem. I try Internet Explorer – same problem. I try Opera, Safari and Chrome – yep something is wrong here. I get my colleague Jim to check and he cannot see the images either. I log into FTP and check that the images are not corrupt by downloading them to my desktop, and sure enough they look fine.

The customer calls about not liking on of the photos used on a particular page – they can still see them! This reminds me that in our office we recently changed from the AVG 8.5 after being disappointed with its performance to Kaspersky Internet Security 2009. I’ve used Kaspersky at home for a while now (although just the AV) and prefer its interface and protection over AVG.

The cause

I click on the icon in the Task Bar and Pause Protection for a moment to check the page again. Hey presto, it worked! Surely I cannot go without protection just to view a few images. And why is it only certain images that are hidden?

A quick google search for “kaspersky blocking  jpegs” led me to a post on Labrow Marketings blog discussing the same thing, only with a lot more detail as Peter actually had correspondance with Kaspersky Lab about the issue.

The solution

Download  a newer Kaspersky release (not just an updated definition file), or to disable the  feature under Settings > Content Filtering > Banner Ad Block.

I’m glad that’s sorted. Now, back to work.

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