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Trojanised WordPress

As a daily reader of The Register website I was auite concerned when I came accross this article on a Trojanised version of WordPress doing the rounds on a fake site. Apparently this fake site – Wordpresz.org is offering the ‘latest version’ which is apparantly 2.6.4. However the latest official version from WordPress is 2.6.3 …

A Must With Any Windows System

You should NEVER use a machine with Admin privileges for everyday use. You should always use you computer using a restricted account and certainly not use the machine using your Admin Account unless you need to install software that you know and trust. Using a restricted account vastly decreases your chances of being compromised with …

Basic Windows Security

Windows is a magnet for viruses, spyware and other types of malware more than any other operating system. Why you may ask? Well the simple answer is numbers, Windows is by far the most popular operating system in the world and with this in mind it has become a magnet for organised crime to make …

Resetting MySQL Auto Increment Field

After developing a number of systems in the past it is of course essential to completely test any piece of software. This of course means that any tables that use an auto_increment field will not start from 1 when the system goes live. Not a massive problem but it is nice sometimes to reset the …

Connecting to MySQL with PHP

Connecting to a mysql database is pretty easy using php as it gives you all the commands you need in order to do it. This example is a basic way to do, there are other methods but I found this way useful when I was just starting out! Here is an example of connecting and …

Basic PHP – Assigning Values to Variables

Adding values to php variables is simple as the following examples shows <?php $name = “Bobby”; $age = “30″; ?> The example code above will add the value Bobby to the variable $name and 30 to the variable age. You can print the value of the variable out to the browser by using the echo …