[TheForge] a painless transition. [OT]

[Steve Smith]

Stand back, Jerry's got DSL. You'll wonder how you got along without it 
soon.

I don't know if your problem with Outlook is the same as one we had at 
work; what happened there was a person wanted to try it, did, and 
henceforth Outlook wouldn't let her go back. No solution to offer, I'm 
afraid.

Steve

Jerry Frost wrote:
> 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.
> ------------------------
> 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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