That free registration gets you into the expo hall for next year’s show, which will run January 25-29 in San Francisco. Once again, Expo will be held at Moscone Center. The free registration for next year’s show offer ends March 8.

What will you see on the show floor come January 2011? It’s a bit early to say, obviously, but Expo organizers promise that the Mobile Application Showcase–one of the most crowded exhibits at this month’s event–will double in size next year. That’s to accommodate not only the returning exhibitors–and there were about six dozen by my count–but also anticipated interest from developers looking to make a splash with their iPad-centric applications.

The 2010 edition of Macworld Expo wrapped up on February 13. Despite the fact that Apple skipped out on the annual Mac trade show, this year’s Expo drew 20,000 attendees and 250 exhibitors to San Francisco for the five-day event, according to organizers IDG World Expo. (Both IDG World Expo and Macworld are owned by IDG.) The recent Expo also featured more than 150 conference sessions.

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Based on a recent study of traffic passing through its global network,  Zscaler’s “State of the Web — Q4 2009″ report also notes trends including issues with botnets, corporate Internet access policies, and the use of the Internet Explorer 6 browser. Officially being released on Tuesday, the study analyzes Web traffic volumes covering several thousand Web transactions per second and hundreds of billions of Web transactions.

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Zscaler found attackers were prone to embedding JavaScript or malicious iframes to pull content from an attacker’s server, whereupon the content is rendered in a user’s browser, said Mike Geide, senior security researcher at Zscaler, in an interview on Monday.

“The malicious content will then compromise the end user either through a vulnerable browser or through vulnerable client applications such as Adobe Acrobat Reader,”  Geide said. Malware then can steal victims’ credentials.

“It’s recommended that users take extra precaution when doing financial transactions online and if at all possible to utilize Web-based protection,” Geide said. He acknowledged Zscaler offered services to remedy the issue but noted the company is not the only vendor to do so.

Zscaler also found significant use of the Internet Explorer 6 browser, even though it has been succeeded by two more secure generations of Microsoft’s browser.  Version 6, for instance, does not maintain malicious URL and phishing block lists, the report said.

Botnets present issues, according to Zscaler. “We’re seeing a lot of botnets,”  Geide said. Zscaler blocks botnets, which can take over systems, said Geide.  Zscaler also found some users attempting to deploy anonymizers, which hide a client IP address to enabie access to undesirable content such as gambling or pornography sites, he said.

Another issue, darknets, involves unallocated IP space and infected hosts on the network. This can lead to disclosures of internal information, said Geide.  Also, attackers have launched phishing attacks from sites such as the recently removed fake social networking site, coolxd.com, according to Zscaler.

In other findings, Zscaler found that content such as JPEG and GIF was more prominent than JavaScript and HTML. “The Web is very media-rich at this point in time,” Geide said.

Additionally, ZScaler found that the Firefox browser is slowly gaining wider adoption, although the company needs more time to determine precise browser usage trends. “Internet Explorer is still leaps and bounds ahead of Firefox as far as the enterprise user goes,” said Geide. Firefox gained more than 6 percent in market share in December, Zscaler found.  Still, Internet Explorer’s share was at about 70 percent by the end of 2009.

Zscaler found Facebook predominant as a social networking site.  Three-quarters of social networking traffic traversing the Zscaler network went to Facebook.

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Answer: There are several options, depending on how old the systems are and what tools are available.

Using Windows 98 certainly suggests an old system, which may limit the options.

If both systems have USB ports, one favorite method is a special USB-to-USB cable that lets you copy between the systems as if you were moving files on the hard drive. You can shop for them at usbcable.com; click on “Data Transfer” on the left for these types of cables. They run $30 to $40.

If the computers are networked, you can set up file sharing and copy the files across the network. This is pretty straightforward between Windows 98 and XP.

If USB ports and networks aren’t an option, Windows’ File and Settings Transfer Wizard is designed for moving files between systems. It can be a bit confusing to use and may take a couple of attempts to get it working.

The utility can be installed from the Windows CD or downloaded from Microsoft’s Web site.

Depending on the number of files, the utility really needs a network connection between the two computers, but you also can transfer data on CDs. You can learn more about this process on Microsoft’s support page: support.microsoft.com/ kb/306186.

Microsoft Windows 7, while it’s getting good reviews, from all accounts it’s going to be a real headache to install on an existing Windows XP computer while keeping all of your files and settings intact.

Microsoft suggests that the best route for XP users is to buy a new Windows 7 computer and transfer all of your files over directly. (Adding it to a Vista computer, on the other hand, should be a fairly easy upgrade.)

But Laplink, the market leader in PC migration, is offering an alternative. It touts its PCmover utility as the only software with the ability to upgrade from XP to Windows 7 on the same computer, without requiring you to back up your data externally and wipe your hard drive clean.

PCmover Home, which moves all of your selected programs, files and settings from your old operating system to the new one, incorporates the “Upgrade Assistant” feature and costs about $40. The software is available for download at laplink.com.

If you’d prefer to have help in the process, support.com is offering an online migration service utilizing Laplink’s software. The remote service is $49 if purchased with a subscription (starting at $19.99 a month) or $149 otherwise.

Finally, if you do choose to buy a new computer running Windows 7, you can follow the first suggestion above and try the Belkin Easy Transfer Cable for Windows 7, a USB cable designed specifically for the Windows Easy Transfer Utility in the new operating system. It’s $23 at Amazon.com.

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