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 | from Tony Bradley, your Editor and Guide I hope everyone had a nice weekend and that those who celebrate Easter or Passover have had a good holiday- now its back to work. The more observant of the bunch may notice that the picture associated with my site is no longer a mystery lady marked "Photo Coming Soon". I finally managed to get my picture sent in so they could get it posted. The main updates to the Internet / Network Security web site this week are the product review of ZoneAlarm Pro 3.7 and the latest addition to the Computer Security 101 series- Lesson 5. I try to add any ambiguous terms or acronyms to my glossary page as I go along and link to the glossary from within the articles. If you see any word or acronym that confuses you that I have missed feel free to email me and I can get it added in to the glossary. If there are any aspects of information security you are curious about but I have not yet covered feel free to send in your suggestions. Have a great week! | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Product Review: ZoneAlarm Pro 3.7 ZoneAlarm is freely available and is better than nothing, but ZoneAlarm Pro 3.7 provides significantly more protection and is worth the added expense. |
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| Computer Security 101: Lesson 5 The 5th of a 10-part series called Computer Security 101. This lesson focuses on active scripting, cross-site scripting (xss), instant messaging (IM), Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking and packet sniffing. |
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Personal firewall protection software is essential for security and protection of your home computing environment. My Top Picks for Firewall software are both affordable - ranging in price between FREE and $50 on average - and easy to configure and use. 1) Zone Alarm ZoneAlarm is a software firewall product from Zone Labs. It is freely available for personal or non-profit use. ZoneAlarm is compatible with Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. ZoneAlarm is fairly easy to install and configure. ZoneAlarm provides a feature to automatically block ALL Internet traffic while the screensaver is active. Overall this is a great program and the price can't be beat! 2) Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 5 This product can be downloaded for a free 30 day trial. It features anti-IP and anti-MAC spoofing, application DLL authentication, intruder protection that is both application-bsaed and dynamic and protocol driver-level protection. 3) Norton Personal Firewall 2003 This firewall program stops spyware and Trojan horse programs in their tracks. It will block incoming suspicious connections and prevent confidential data from being sent out via email. Also contains intrusion detectoin controls, application control and built-in privacy protection. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| State Super-DMCA Laws Continue to Make Headlines A recent article (See Article) highlighted how the Michigan Super-DMCA law that went into effect March 31, 2003 is beginning to have an impact. Do you know if you're breaking the law? | |||||||||||||||||||
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