HELP - google redirects 302, still infected

I ran avira and avg, along with malware bytes and spyware doctor. I removed a lot but something still remains. I constantly get a re-direct when searching. the internet to "uniquesearch8" which re-directs me to a variety of other sites. When i do a search, Google also redirects me to a blank page that says " this page has been moved to here 302", which ends up a blank page or back to uniquesearch8.I can go directly to a site if i type in nba.com or nfl.com, but search does not work. I constantly get a virus pop up from somewhere that automatically starts scanning my pc so i constantly have to turn it off.

I ran avira and avg, along with malware bytes and spyware doctor.

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So you have two anti virus programs installed and that is something you should avoid at all costs. You need to decide which of the two you would prefer to keep and uninstall the other before we continue.

It is a bad idea because they will be attempting to access system files and system processes simultaneously, causing much inner conflict.

You are reducing the effectiveness of each of them by doing this. It also can cause malware to go by unnoticed and it slows a PC down tremendously.

I attached a hijack log below. I ran combofix as well if requested

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We did not request a HJT log, we are not a HJT log reading forum, a single log from hjt doesn't give us a deep enough look inside the system in order to assist you with malware removal, and besides anything else it is built into our own tools anyway.

Yes we need to see a log from running combofix. You need to ensure that you have followed through the below procedures which I shall link to for reference. Then once done, attach all of the requested logs.

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Please read ALL of this message including the notes before doing anything.

Pleases follow the instructions in the below link:

READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide

and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.

• **** If something does not run, write down the info to explain to us later but keep on going. ****
• Do not assume that because one step does not work that they all will not. MGtools will frequently run even when all other tools will not.

• After completing the READ & RUN ME and attaching your logs, make sure that you tell us what problems still remain ( if any still do )!

1. If you run into problems trying to run the READ & RUN ME or any of the scans in normal boot mode, you can run the steps in safe boot mode but make sure you tell us what you did later when you post logs. See the below if you do not know how to boot in safe mode:

• Starting your computer in Safe mode

Any additional post is a bump which will add more delay. Once you attach the logs, your thread will be in the work queue and as stated our system works the oldest threads FIRST.

PHP Unique Search Expression

Is there a function, similar to preg_replace, where I can look for a unique indicator in my code, and then look for another unique indicator, while saving the contents between the two indicators to a variable?

Such as if I had the following string:

Noob question here. I'm overhauling some "Search" pages in a real estate website. I would like to be able to generate an unique ID (hash?) which contains in itself all the parameters of the search, e.g. the user would be given an URL in the form of [URL]. and loading this URL would repeat the exact same search.Some of the search parameters are simply one of several options, some are integers, and there are also keywords (which I'll just append after the ID, I guess). What's the general approach to cramming this data into a string? I'm fairly comfortable with PHP/MySQL, but my practical experience is next to none, so I don't know "how it's done".EDIT: I do not need the string to be random, and, indeed, I need the process to be two-way. Perhaps hash isn't the correct term, then. As for why - I'm doing this for the sake of brevity, since current URLs contain at least 22 GET parameters.

I am trying to do a search of a db by a unique registration number. In this table are seats that can be selected to attend a course. I want the results to echo Sum(Seats) = 25 than they can not select any more seats and if the Sum(Seats) <= 24 they can add a seat. Code:

i have an lucene index with an "uniqueKey"

<uniqueKey>ID</uniqueKey>

As far as i know, this key have to be "text" (not int or long).

<field name="ID" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>

An small application used the lucene index in order to search only in those records, which are added since the last run of that application.To reach that goal, i'm trying the following.

I have a dynamically generated list of URL's from our internal network. For each URL, I want to: Find the IP of the URL. Compare the IP to a list of IP's and their associated server. Return the server associated with the IP. The IP of course is UNIQUE in the list of IP's, so is there a recommended way to initially store the list of IP values so I can supply it with a an IP (key) and get back the associated server (value)? I've looked at multidimensional arrays, or even brute force -- just create an array for each individual server's IP list -- but that seems inefficient.

Here is the PHP I want to have (psuedo):

$IPServerList = array(0 => array(ip=>1.2.3.4,server=>"server1"),

1 => array(ip=>2.1.3.4,server=>"server2"),

2 => array(ip=>3.1.3.3,server=>"server1"));

A Unique Search Engine Choice

I'll bet HUBPAGES.COM is not high up on your list when you are thinking of looking for information about almost anything. Or even for light reading of articles and short stories.

This hub is to introduce you to Hub Pages and to try to get you to put a post it note on your monitor to remember to use the search box at hubpages.com the next time you need to hunt for something. Chances are you will find it here.

Because the writers on Hub Pages write about every topic you can think of. many are timely, up to date, or updated regularly. Hub Pages uses key words just the way other sites do so you are very likely to get a lot of hits for just a few search words on many topics.

Check out the list of the Categories. There are many "sub-categories" under each topic. Hub Pages is worth a second, even a third look. One can spend hours just browsing through the many topics and posts.

There are over 200,000 contributors (writers) on Hub pages, and at least that many commenters. Don't feel that you have to comment on each hub. We can see that our page views have gone up, so your presence has been duly noted, albeit anonymously. We do not know that it was YOU, just that SOMEONE has viewed the page. If you would like to make your presence known by name, by all means create an account so you can voice your opinions, thank the person for insight and information, or even to set someone straight if you run across misinformation or outdated information. It is appreciated by most.

I've included some links on the sidebar on how to make money on Hubpages.com and on the web for your exploration and enjoyment.

5 Myths About App Store Optimization (ASO)

Hang on to your brain. I’m going to throw some numbers at you.

Apps are a big business. Really big. App sales are a $25 billion industry, as reported by WSJ. This doesn’t account for the broader revenue generated by other industries that are part of the app economy. VisionMobile estimates that the global app economy will be soaring at $143 billion by 2016. With growth rates at or exceeding 30%. the app industry is one hot area right now.

Plus, it’s growing. App creation and purchasing is on the rise.

With a billion smartphones in the world, people are buying apps.

That’s why app store optimization (ASO) is red hot for marketers and search optimization experts. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of mythologizing going on, and a lot of mythbusting that needs to happen. We’re dealing with a subject that is as serious as it gets; we can’t afford to screw it up.

In this article, I’m going to set a fuse to five inane myths about app store optimization, light the fuse, and blow them sky high. Along with each myth, I’m going to deliver a dosage of truth that will help you dominate the ASO game.

First, let me drive one important point home: ASO is really important.

Why? It’s not only because apps are big biz, but because customers are searching for those apps. Apptentive reports that 63% (iOS) of app customers report browsing in the app store to discover new apps.

There are a variety of different ways that customers find new apps — media, websites, friends, etc. But far and away, customers are searching for apps. Nielsen’s data parallels that from Apptentive:

According to the head of search and discovery for Google Play. Ankin Jain, a full 12% of all daily active users are looking for apps on a daily basis. And a whopping 50% of these DAUs (daily active users) search for apps at least once a week. Over the course of a month, Google Play processes six million unique search phrases.

We need to respond to ASO by getting better at it, and by getting rid of the following myths:

There’s no argument that the title is the most important single element of app store optimization. As Jain, the head of Google Play’s search, stated in the Inside Mobile Apps repor t, the title is the ‘most important’ piece of metadata.

In response, some ASOs took to switching up the title to better adapt to top searches. They would create different variations of the title on a daily basis, changing keywords, adding keywords and renaming their product. Doing so, however, does not help your ranking. In fact, it could hurt it. In our previous article on ASO, Robi Ganguly states :

“Changing your title often to include different keywords can be detrimental. As your app begins to rank higher and gain more reviews, news of your app will begin to spread by word of mouth. Changing the title can make it difficult for word to spread about your app.

Once you pick a title, that’s it. You’re done. So you better make it good. Here are four tips for doing just that.

A short title is one that users can read in a single screen. Lengthy titles will get cut off. For the single most important piece of search metadata in the app store, you don’t want it to get chopped.

The app below — Productivity Wizard — only has part of their title featured in the screen. They would be better off not producing such a lengthy title. Because I can’t see it from my app browse screen, I’m less likely to download it.

Why creative? Jain explains that searchers are either categorical or navigational. A user who has heard of or seen your app will be conducting a navigational search to access it. If this title is creative, it is more likely to be remembered — and thus to be successfully searched for.

A navigational search is something like “Angry Birds” or “Evernote” as opposed to categorical queries such as “bird game” or “note taking app.”

Unique is similar to creative, but with a twist. Creativity is something that will stand out to the user. You don’t want your app to get lost in the morass of bandwagon apps like Flappy Pig, Flappy Wings, Flappy Fall, Flappy Hero, Flappy Monster, Flappy Nyan, etc. ad nauseam. Bandwagon apps are rarely as successful as the titan they were following.

A navigational search for a “flappy” app produces 2,193 results. Lack of a unique titles means you’re going to get lost in the crowd.

Keyword stuffing is as much as sin in SEO as it is in ASO. Apple reports that “Repetitive and/or irrelevant use of keywords in the app title, description or promotional description can create an unpleasant user experience and can result in an app suspension.

Remember, you only have 25 characters to play around with. A short title plus a short keyword is all you have room for.

As the myth goes, keywords are for SEO, rankings are for ASO. Because ASO is such a different game from SEO, many optimizers dispensed with the importance of keywords in title creation and description writing.

The truth of the matter is that keywords matter…quite a bit. Keywords are important enough, to place in your title and in your description. Again, to reference my point above, don’t stuff it. But use keywords.

MobileDevHQ’s study of keywords in the title produced these results:

App titles that contained keywords had a 10.3% higher ranking than those without it. 10.3% doesn’t sound like a lot. However, if it’s as easy as popping a keyword in the title, why not?

Let’s go back to the data that I surveyed in the beginning. Remember how many users search for apps?

App Store and Android Market have algorithms, and those algorithms use traditional methods of search — keywords. Don’t neglect keywords .

There is no arguing with the fact that ratings are important. Judging by the amount of push notifications and near-begging from apps, you’d think that ratings were one of the most important features in the entire universe of app store optimization.

Ratings, as one of the lead listing features in apps, do have an impact upon a user’s likelihood to tap through or download an app:

The truth is, while app ratings are important, they aren’t as significant as most people think in affecting an app’s rankings.

To uncover the truth behind the impact of rating, Inside Mobile Apps conducted a study. They first examined a random sampling of the easy search terms (1-25 results), medium search terms (26-100 results), and competitive search terms (101+ results) to see how each app ranked based on the ratings.

Here is what they came up with for iOS rate/rank comparison:

The ratings on these apps takes a nosedive after position eight. Also interesting is that the rating doesn’t seem to have a huge impact on the first eight positions, fluctuating both upward and downward. In the “easy” search term, researchers discovered that a 10th-ranked app may have a rating as low as 1.09, which, frankly, sucks.

Here’s Google Play ranks the apps. Unlike iOS, there’s less fall off toward the end of the spectrum. Researchers suspect that “Google Play’s search algorithm seems to take a more meritocratic approach to app discovery and visibility, letting higher quality apps rise to the top.”

There’s more devastation to the myth of rating-is-everything. Even some of the highly competitive apps in the Top Charts aren’t backed up by high ratings. Look at some of the rating levels of iOS’s top charts. No one wants a rating between one and two stars, but that’s what’s going on, even with a Top Chart listing.

The takeaway is simple. Sure, ratings are good. Higher ratings are nice. And for users, that nice four or five star status makes a good impression. However, in terms of ranking, it matters less than we might think.

There are some ASOs who believe that an app, as long as it’s in the Google Play or App Store will get found, will get downloaded, and will get desired revenue.

Let me show you some stats.

Regardless of your niche, that’s a lot of apps. In order to successfully compete, you need more of a differentiation than just some smart keywords in your title and description.

We need to modify this borderline myth with a healthy dose of algorithmic reality.

You need downloads.

I showed you in the point above that ratings have a less-powerful impact than we might think. But the impact of downloads is usually underestimated.

It’s a tough deal, because in order to get more downloads, you need more downloads. Let the data speak.

Apps with more downloads simply rank higher. That’s all.

Download velocity depends a lot on how your app does from a marketing standpoint. As SEW reports, the high ranking apps have wildly differentiated velocity, depending on their path to popularity:

In order to increase app downloads organically, it’s often best to go the route of traditional marketing — social media, content marketing, PPC, mailing lists, etc. Once you accrue a trickle of downloads, you should be able to increase your ranking, then gain more downloads, higher rankings, more downloads, etc. until you reach a tipping point.

Don’t go down the path of the scammers who artificially build up junk downloads simply to boost their rankings. The algorithms are programmed to identify automated methods of downloads, such as robotic or inorganic viral download spurts. Furthermore, it’s reported that the algorithms are even able to identify spammy methods of download upticks caused by emailing huge lists of potential customers.

I’ve heard of ASO attempts that fall short of awesome, because they failed on the description.

Here’s one report that claims to train you to become an ASO ninja :

Description doesn’t make a difference.

They qualify their carte blanche statement by saying:

From a pure ASO perspective, the description field does not have an impact on search rankings in the App Store. On the other hand, the Google Play algorithm takes into consideration the context in your app description for ranking.

From my study and research, description is important for both Google Play and App Store. Even if description quality and keyword inclusion had zero impact upon the ranking algorithm, it unarguably has the potential to compel users to download the app. Those download stats, in turn, have a powerful algorithmic impact upon rankings.

Search Engine Watch reports that the number two relevance factor for app store ranking is, “app description,” ranked directly after title as number one. Among their “tips to help you rank better in the App Store,” number one is “focus on natural incorporation of keywords in the title and description data.”

Keywords have a huge importance in ASO (App Store Optimization). Indeed, whether on your title and/or keywords field for iOS apps and on your title and/or description for Google Play apps, keywords have a strong impact in the App Store algorithm. Therefore, they need to be wisely chosen in order to give your app the maximum visibility and the chances of getting found.

Part of app store success is simply avoiding pitfalls, or in this case the myths about ASO. You may not be creating the world’s next Flappy Bird or a billion dollar Instagram. However, with sufficient effort and enough savvy, you can create an app that will get found, will get downloaded, and will make you successful.

What myths — or truths — have you discovered about ASO?

Exact Match is Nice, but with Key Phrases Think Unique!

Since no two people think or search alike it pays to think unique. For those unfamiliar with the terms “exact match” or “unique” in contention to search engines, one (exact match) is like a laser beam, precise and concentrated, while the other (unique) is like a flash light, nebulous and all encompassing.

In a nutshell, exact match is when you are targeting a very specific or narrow group of keywords or phrases and unique phrases or unique search modifiers are when people type in something that has (a) never been searched for before or (b) has some of the keywords along with other contextually descriptive terms.

So essentially you have two facets of keyword optimization:

1) “Exact match” – targets a very specific (two three or four word) key phrase.

2) Optimization for “Unique keywords”. a combination of phrases containing optimized words fall into the category of the long-tail.

If our client were a bank (for example), we would research and optimize all phrases that could be used to reference banking, finance as well as local references to augment positioning (local and national positioning), as well as focus on words with high usage as descriptors or modifiers in context to a search query.

“FREE Checking” is exact match, however a unique search with the same root phrases may look something like “I need an account with free checking” which would require that the words “account” in addition to “free checking” are optimized in order to return this as a relevant search result.

Based on (a) the content and proximity or the keywords and phrases and (2) the links used to reference the content, you can essentially increase saturation across a wide array of supporting modifiers and appear consistently as a high ranking, relevant search result.

Long-tail optimization is when the site or pages has amassed enough authority (as a by-product of content, links and popularity) that it ranks frequently in search engines anytime two or more overlapping phrases are combined in a search query.

This can be particularly useful if you have a high percentage of topical pages in your site. Instead of 3 keywords per page (using the laser beam approach), you can rank for hundreds of search results per page (as each word can potentially become a keyword) like a flashlight using the same amount of energy. The only distinction is the optimization method and the link building tactic employed.

Understanding this, it is more important to have an increasing amount of traffic to your pages. So, even though you may use a keyword research tool that states that a search term receives 2000 searches per month. Even if you have a #1 position for the term, you may only see 10-20 searches per day that actually land on your pages as a result of that phrase.

In reference to keyword research, we have found that dividing the number or estimated searches by 100 is a fair assessment when attempting to gauge traffic. This is due to the fact that you are only extrapolating US based traffic from those numbers (not global search volume across every Google in every country, Yahoo or MSN respectively) which is a default for most keyword research tools.

So in conclusion, is it better to (1) receive 1000 searches per month from exact match keywords or (2) receive 10,000 searches per month from a variety of keywords? It depends on your positioning strategy. We prefer to target both with our optimization methods and then check the stats to see which has the highest user engagement and conversion.

For example, not everyone is looking for the same thing, ranking above the fold (in the top 5 positions) in search engines has an intrinsically higher click through rate than those below the fold, but click behavior is changing and truly depends on the individual.

The point is, you may receive 100 visits per month from the exact match two or three word combination, but you may receive 10 times the search volume from secondary keywords that contain modifiers that yield a high percentage of relevant traffic to your pages.

So, just because the searcher did not use the exact phrase and used additional modifiers (like “SEO Services ” vs. “SEO Services Company”, “Computer Services ” ) doesn’t mean they were any less interested in your content or value proposition, it just goes to show that we all function and search differently based on the way our cognitive skills formulate and communicate data.

However, this should not limit your scope of targeting keywords with traffic, only enhance your range and ability to hit the target. In some instances, you only need a dozen of the right phrases to hone conversion. In addition to unique searches being sparse, the upside is, they are oftentimes wide open for optimization as a void in organic search has often overlooked them which makes them low hanging fruit for the picking.

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• назва ЛЗ ;
• Виробник (пошук за назвою Виробника);
• Країна виробника (пошук за країною Виробника);
• Реєстраційний номер (пошук за номером у державному реєстрі ЛЗ);
• МНН/INN (можливість пошуку всіх зареєстрованих ЛЗ за МНН, можливість підбору ліків за МНН);
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Bratislavan Bronze - A Unique Search for Four Slovakian Statues

When you ask someone on the street what they think of when they hear the word “Bratislava”, they will most likely answer “where’s that?” or “that’s a real city?”. It is true many people have never heard of Bratislava, the capital city of a small country that is one half of the former Czechoslovakia. Its a beautiful, mountainous, and pristine country, with a small but bustling capital city, complete with a quaint Old Town to draw in the tourists. Its one of the four major cities that line the Danube. along with Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade.

Unexpectedly, Bratislava’s big tourist draw includes a series of humorous bronze statues, and it is a pilgrimage to take pictures with each of them. I became fascinated by them on our first night in Bratislava and tried to do some Google searches to learn their background. Each website told a different story, each gave a different title to the statues. Some English-speaking tour guides at one of the statues, told yet an a different story. The best I can give you is a Slovakian tourism website’s description, but I find some of the other folklore to be equally telling.

The most unique of the four, the workman, aka Cumil-the-Peeper, aka Rubberneck, is subterranean, hanging out from a manhole cover underneath a “Man at Work” sign. He has a grin from ear to ear, and looks like he is enjoying the view, perhaps up ladies’ skirts as they walk by. It is good luck to rub his head, which is the shiniest part of him. I knelt to rub his head, and afterwards saw a website warning not to do so. It is where dogs go to do their business. The Man at Work sign was added in recent years because at least two cars drove over him, and he nearly lost his head.

The French Napoleon Soldier leans over a bench, prominently in the main square, outside of the French Embassy. Some websites call the statue Napoleon, but it was obvious that it was not meant to be a statue of Napoleon – just one of his minions. Napoleon’s army attacked Bratislava twice and Napoleon visited the city in the early 1800s. An urban legend, perhaps, tells that one of the soldiers, Hubert, fell in love with a local woman, and stayed behind to produce wine. It is the most famous sparkling wine in Slovakia, called what else, Hubert. His location behind the bench seems to draw ire from many tourists who get frustrated when someone has the gall to sit down and relax on the bench, disrupting everyone’s photos.

Leaving aside the Italian grammatical error, in which there is only one photog, but yet he is called the plural paparazzi, rather than the singular paparazzo, the paparazzi is one of the newer statues. He seems to be named after the restaurant on which he leans. It is unclear whether the restaurant added him to their building to gain foot traffic, or if the statue came first and the restaurant later. He also may not be made of bronze, but of wood, painted to resemble bronze.

The fourth seems strangely out of place with the others. He is brighter silver, and apparently was a real person – Schoener Naci, or Beautiful Ignaz. He used to tip his hat to the pretty ladies as they walked by. The stories of him range from being a romantic, to mentally ill, to near homeless. He roamed the city for 40 years, always well dressed, often in top hat and tails. Some tales say that he was in love with a woman, but the love was not reciprocated, which caused him to go a little crazy.