Monday, January 31, 2011

[Inside AdSense] AdSense Facts & Fictions Part VI: User-Generated Content

10:16 AM

Fiction: I shouldn't be held responsible if users post content on my site or network that violates AdSense policies.

Fact: You are responsible for ensuring that all of your content, including user-generated content such as forum posts, blog comments or outside feeds, is in compliance with AdSense policies on any page or site for which you've enabled AdSense ads.

As we've discussed in previous posts in this series, we regularly review the content in the AdSense network to ensure that it's safe for advertisers, users, and publishers, as network quality is of premium importance. Just as you, our publishers, expect us to do all we can to remove undesirable ads, our advertisers expect high standards to be maintained; for example, a company using AdWords to market baby clothes doesn't want their ads to appear next to violent or mature content. In order to be transparent about what kinds of content violate our policies, we've published a complete list in our Help Center.

Making sure content complies with our policies can be complex when factoring in user-generated content. Keeping tabs on the hundreds (or even thousands!) of videos, blog posts, photos, tweets, and comments that can come in every day is a massive undertaking. However, you are ultimately responsible for all sites on which you have placed your ad code, regardless of whether you own or have produced the content. This blog post provides a few suggestions to help you prevent and monitor potential content violations.

In most cases, our first step after a policy violation is found is to issue a policy notification for the site. Exceptions include DMCA and egregious policy violations, more details here. After the initial notification, you need to take action, not simply respond to the warning, but implement solutions to proactively ensure that violating content is removed and new content added to the network or site complies with our policies.

We understand that it can take time to find the best solution to prevent problematic content from appearing on your site and we want to work with you to give you the time needed to find a fix. You should ensure, though, that you are able to effectively screen all content proactively before choosing to monetize user-generated content. If it becomes evident that a publisher is unable to do so, or if the violation is continuing or egregious, then we will disable an account. We offer an appeals process, but the bottom line is, we can't partner with publishers that pose a risk to our advertisers (just as we won't partner with advertisers that could compromise you).

We know how hard you work to make sure that your sites are of the highest quality and free of adult content, unoriginal content, or anything else that may violate policies and we thank you for your efforts. When advertisers, publishers, and users know they can trust the integrity of our advertising environment, everyone wins.

Posted by Hannah Schlesinger - AdSense Policy team

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Computer Tips From A Computer Guy

Fix Media is Write Protected in Windows 7

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 03:55 AM PST

Over the years, one annoying and hard to fix problem I've come across in Windows XP, Vista and 7 is the media write protected error. You'll be going about your day just fine when all of a sudden you can't write any files to your local hard drive, a USB drive, or an external drive attached via eSata, etc.

Common error messages you get for this are:

Media is write-protected

The disk is write protected

Unfortunately, there is no clear cause of this error in Windows, which makes it all the harder to fix! Add to the fact that this error message normally does not have anything to do with ownership or permissions and it really confuses the heck out of people.

The most common solution I've seen tried for this error is to try and take ownership of all files, folders or drives that are write-protected. You do not want to do this! 99 out of 100 times, permissions on the drive have not changed. Instead, it's a problem with Windows 7, Vista, XP or third-party software.

Before you try taking ownership or changing permissions, try out the following solutions and see if they work for you.

Method 1 – Diskpart

Using the built-in Diskpart tool that comes with Windows XP, Vista and 7, you can check whether or not the drive or volume is set to read-only. If it is, you can then use diskpart to remove the read-only property.

First open a command prompt and type diskpart. You'll be brought to the diskpart prompt.

Now type in list volume or list disk to see the list of disks and partitions on the computer.

Now you have to select a volume or disk to check whether it is read-only or not. If I wanted to select the C drive (boot drive), then I would type select volume 2.

Now type attributes volume to see the various attributes of the volume. One of them is read-only.

As you can see from above, this volume is not read-only. Also note that when you type list volume or list disk, the Info tab will tell you whether the disk is removable or not.

Finally, to remove the read-only flag on a drive or volume, type the following command after you have selected the appropriate volume or disk:

attributes volume clear readonly

attributes disk clear readonly

Note that this normally fixes the problem in Windows 7, but it may not remain in place after a reboot. This can happen if the drive is being made read-only again by some other program or the OS. Read on for other solutions if this is not working for you.

Update Hard Disk Drivers

If you're running Windows 7 64-bit and have multiple hard drives with AHCI enabled, you might experience this problem.

The best thing to do here is to download the latest drivers for your hard disks (SATA/ RAID Controller) and for any hard disk controllers. If you're having this issue with a NAS device connected to your computer via eSata, updating the drivers should fix your problem.

Check Registry Key

If your system has been recently infected with a virus or spyware, the malware could have modified a registry key making any device connected to your computer write-protected.

Open the registry editor and go to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies

If the key StorageDevicePolicies does not exist, create it manually. You can do this by right-clicking on the Control key and choosing New – Key. In the right-window, double-click on WriteProtect and set the value to 0. If WriteProtect does not exist, then right-click on the new StorageDevicePolicies key and choose New – Dword.

Disable Backup and Antivirus Software

Depending on what kind of backup or antivirus software you are running, your disk or volume might be set to read-only by software installed on your system. Sometimes these programs can mistakenly make a volume or disk write-protected.

One example is the Avira Antivirus software. If it finds a virus and cannot remove it from a USB stick, it can go ahead and write protect the drive on it's own!

Fix MBR

In some cases, the MBR on the drive can become corrupted and therefore cause the drive to only have read-only access. If it's an external drive, you can still run FixMBR using a free utility.

If you need to fix the MBR on a disk that has Windows installed on it, you can follow the instructions from my Help Desk Geek blog on running the FixMBR command.

If you need to run it on any other drive, such as an external drive, download this utility from here:

http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm

You can use the following command to repair the MBR on the drive:

Mbrfix /drive {drive num} fixmbr {/vista | /win7}

System Restore

Your last option is to perform a system restore if you recently installed some new software or installed a new update to your system. Try to roll back to a restore point that is earlier than when you started having the problem and see if that fixes the issue.

You can read our previous article on how to restore your computer using System Restore.

That's about all the solutions that I could come up with for the media is write-protected error! If you have found another solution, please post it here! Enjoy!

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