Michael Jackson - The Music Legend

Michael Joseph Jackson, the seventh child of the Jackson family,was a successful American artist known for his contribution to world music industry. He is know in the music world as Singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, dancer, choreographer, actor, author, businessman, financier, philanthropist.Jackson married twice and was father of three children. MJ was born on August 29, 1958 at Gary, Indiana. MJ died at age of 50 at Los Angeles, California. MJ was preparing for "This Is It", a series of 50 concerts, before he died on July 25, 2009. "That Is It" concert series was planned to be held in London starting from July 13, 2009. MJ was among few artists who have been inducted

into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" twice, his other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records—including one for "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time"—13 Grammys Awards, 13 number one singles in his solo career, and the sale of 750 million records worldwide.

MJ made his debut in 1968 while he was just 11 years old. His debute was as a member of "The Jackson 5". MJ was also known as "King of Pop". MJ's 1982  album "Thriller" is world's the best-selling albums.  "Off the Wall (1979)", "Bad (1987)", "Dangerous (1991)" and "History (1995)" are four of his other solo studio albums which are among the world's best-selling records.

In the early 1980s, MJ was among dominant figures in popular music. MJ's music videos such as "Beat It", "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" airing on MTV made the relatively new channel well known in Music World. "Black or White" and "Scream" made Jackson an enduring staple on MTV in the 1990s. MJ was also know of performing a number of physically complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk.

While Jackson donated and raised millions of dollars for beneficial causes, he found himself in significant controversies damaging his public image arising out of his often changing appearances and eccentric behavior.  MJ raised millions of dollars for good cause through his foundations, charity singles, and support of 39 charities. In 1993 MJ was accused of child sexual abuse. However,due to lack of evidence the criminal investigation was closed. In 2005, Jackson was tried and acquitted of sexual abuse allegations and several other charges.

How The ClickBank Marketplace Works?

ClickBank has about 100,000+ affiliates. These affiliates earn a percentage of every sale, of any ClickBank product, made by them. The affiliate referal sales generates over 50% of the sales of Clickbank's top selling products. The repository of digital products available for sale at ClickBank is referred to as The ClickBank Marketplace. A sale is done by refering the traffic to products pitch page of the product. The pitch page describes the Features and Benefits of the product. In the Marketplace products are ranked by their "productivity score" which is internal to Clickbank and is not published officially.

Every product to get listed in the ClickBank Marketplace must have a sales commission rate as percentage, of product price, that should range from 1% to 75%. The absolute value of the commission however, should not be lower than minimum commission of $0.25 and the maximum is $100.00.

The ClickBank Marketpalce has products listing consisting of following qualitative parameters...

• $Earned/Sale: refers to the average net amount (impacted by  refunds, chargebacks, and sales taxes) earned by an affiliate/referred sale.
• Future $: refers to the average total rebill revenue earned by the affiliate due to sales from a site. Generally this value is the average sum of all rebills.
• Total $: refers to (all initial sales + rebills)/(the number of initial sales). Hence it is the average total $/sale, including all future rebills.
• %Earned/Sale: refers to average percentage commission earned by an affiliate/referred sale. This number whould usually vary if the product vendor changes its payout percentage over time.
• %Referred: is the fraction of product vendor's total sales and the sale referred by ClickBank affiliates.
• Gravity: refers to the weighted sum and not an actual total. It is the number of distinct affiliates who earned a commission by referring a paying customer to the vendor's products at ClickBank Marketplace.  For each affiliate paid in the last 8 weeks ClickBank adds an amount between 0.1 and 1.0 to the total gavity value. The value added depends on the recency of the last referral. Therefore, the more recent referal is directly related the higher the value added.

All factors are combined, and adjusted such that more recent sales activity is given greater weight.  To improve their Marketplace ranking a product must show a history of reliable convertion of referred traffic to paying customers over the past 8 weeks. Products that are able to maintain a higher ranking naturally attract more affiliates, and make more sales overall. 

Scan your PC for Virus absolutely Free

About Anti-virus and Free of Cost Online Scans.

Though there are plenty of options when it comes to Anti Virus solutions. There are two most popular brands in the antivirus industry viz. McAfee and Symantec. Both commercial softwares require yearly subscriptions. For a regular user of AV it is very difficult to distinguish on quality of Detection abilities of a particular AV.


However there are options to scan you computer free of cost from various online scanners including Trend Micro. Scan your computer without installing an Anti Virus. Here are the lists of free online virus scanner, these online virus scanner may require ActiveX and have dependency on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

1. McAfee Antivirus /McAfee FreeScan
2. PC-Cillin Antivirus
3. Free Symantec Norton Online Antivirus Scanner
4. BitDefender Antivirus Scan
5. F-Secure Online Antivirus Scan
6. eTrust AntivirusPanda ActiveScan
7. Kaspersky Free Online Antivirus Scan
8. Nod32 Antivirus
9. Computer Associate Virus Scanner
10. Free Windows Live OneCare Scan
11. Panda Anti Virus

However, if you want a free antivirus program, you may want to try AVG (the Free Edition). It’s a small in footprint, fast and of course FREE. AVG is runs at significant speed, even on lower end computers.

Note: I do not recommend using a computer with no antivirus protection installed and correctly configured to give true protection.

Network Firewall - Access Control

About Types of Firewall

Network Firewalls control access to Networks by permitting or denying network traffic and/or users based on a Network Security Policy defined in the firewall by the Security Administrator. Firewalls can be used to establish identity of the user by integrating them with other security tools. Firewall segments the network in zones and establishes different layers of trust, to ensure critical resources are better protected and help contain traffic to specific network segments.

There are different types of firewalls to secure your network…

1.    Stateful Inspection Firewall

2.    Packet Filter Firewalls

3.    Application Proxy Firewall

Stateful Inspection Firewall

Stateful Inspection collects information on various components in a packet header including Source IP Address, Destination IP Address, Source port, Destination port, packet sequence numbers. This is how the State Table is maintained by Statefule Inspection Firewall for TCP based sessions. For UDP it implements technology to create pseudo-session traversing firewall. Usually the first reply is accepted and then the connection is closed by firewall in case of UDP traffic. Stateful Inspection technology compares the aforementioned information i.e. IP, Port and Packet Sequence in the response packet against the state table to enhance security by allowing only matching packet to traverse the firewall. TCP reassembly may be performed to ensure accurate interpretation of TCP communication. Stateful Inspection Firewall focus on Network Layer of OSI model.

Usually all ISA certified firewalls in modern days by default drop all traffic unless explicitly permitted. Checkpoint, CISCO PIX, Juniper as among the leading companies in Firewall Technologies.

Packet Filter Firewall

A packet filter may check source and destination IP Address and Port details to permit or deny connection. Since it does not maintain the state table it is easy to highjack the session and access server on open port. Also systems can be compromised by sending traffic for a protocol other than the one assigned on the port. E.g. Potentially any protocol traffic can be sent on port 80 generally used by http or web traffic. Therefore packet filter firewall pose a potential security threat. Performance wise packet filtering would be faster than Stateful Packet Inspection.

Application Proxy Firewall

Proxy firewall is different in their functionality than the Stateful Inspection and Packet Filtering. Proxy firewall terminates all connections from clients and then act as broker between client and server. Proxy firewall broker all connections between client server architecture.

Proxy firewalls usually implement complete client/server implementations of protocol which results in performance degradation. Hence proxy firewalls many a time fail to meet the linear multi-gigabit throughput requirements of network segments. However, application proxy firewalls can provide much enhanced security based on application protocol as against the Stateful Packet Inspection firewall which operates at Network Layer in OSI model abbreviated for Open Systems Interconnection.

The second major drawback of proxy firewalls stems from variations in protocol implementation by different vendors. Proxy firewalls also suffer from issues associated with support for new protocols and scalability on one hand whereas fault tolerance and HA abbreviated for High Availability on the other hand.