[TheForge] a painless transition. [OT]

[Jerry Frost]

Thanks Toni:

Deb and I are firewalled by the router and I'm updating my anti virus
software as we speak.

Don't know what I did when I set up my internet acct. years ago but I can't
get anything but OX (Outlook Xpress) send a valid password to the ISP. The
DSL may have cured this but I have to check.

I'm also working with our favorite computer geek on security. Fortunately I
don't keep anything particularly sensitive on my web machine anyway.

DSL is pretty cool, even my typing is faster. <grin>

Thanks again.
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Toni Janz" <theforge at only-an-egg.org>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] a painless transition. [OT]


> * Jerry Frost (frosty at customcpu.com) wrote:
> > This is a rare occurance if not unique for us. Deb and I just went DSL,
I
> > plugged the stuff in and it just works. Pfffft!
> >
> > All I had to do was change a couple passwords, etc. and that's it. I
just
> > hit NASA and downloaded a couple meg in a few seconds instead of "NOT
before
> > my connection drops off" like yesterday.
> >
> > Cool.
> >
> > Gone surfin,
> >
> > Frosty
> > ------------------------
> > If it ain't forged
> > it ain't real.
> > Wrought iron is.
> > The FrostWorks
> >
> > Meadow Lakes, AK.
> >
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> Couple of thigs may be of concern if you have not taken care of it
> allready:
>
> 1. if you are using windows as your operating system you need to be sure
> that you are as up to date as possible with regard to patching the
> operating system.
>
> 2. #1 needs to be supplimented with some sport of
firewalling/packet-filtering
> software if you are not using a seperate firewall, here is one I can
recommend:
>
> http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html
>
> The thing is that once you are on a DSL network you become a target for
> people who scan high speed networks for vulnerable operating systems
> (sorry if you know all this allready as I just want to be sure in case
> you did not) and Windows is notorious for having a whole slew of
> vulnerabilities.
>
> Also if you can dump Internet Explorer and go for firefox not only is it
> a bit more secure but it offers a whole lot of features IE does not have
> such as Tabbed Browsing and Poppup Blocking:
>
> http://www.mozilla.org
>
> While you are at it you might look at Thunderbird as a mail reader
> (available on that link too), as Outlook has another huge bunch of
> holes in it that allow for people to do all sorts of nasty stuff.
>
>
> Right so there ya go even though nobody asked ;-)
>
> Toni
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