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 | from Tony Bradley, your Editor and Guide Its been a pretty busy week. A review of the book Web Site Privacy with P3P by Helena and Stefan Lindskog was posted. P3P (The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project) is an emerging standard to help automate custom privacy and security settings unique to each user who visits a web page. But, most of the work was in reorganizing the Internet/Network Security Forums and collecting software and utilities to include in the new Free Tools Essentials topic. The Forums should be an area of the site that members and guests can use as a resource to find answers. The value of the Forums lies in the community of users helping each other and sharing experiences and ideas. The Forum was just a jumble of threads and posts with no rhyme or reason. In order to make it easier for users to post their thoughts and questions or search the threads to find answers I have segregated the Forums into distinct folders based on the following topics: If you are having a problem or just want to discuss a topic, post your question or thoughts in the appropriate folder in the Forums and let your community help you. I will be surfing the Forums daily and will answer any questions to the best of my ability, but there may be users who have run into the same problem in the past or have valuable insight into the topic you want to discuss who can share with you as well. I decided to add the new Essentials topic 'Free Tools' to help direct users to the huge selection of programs and utilities that are available to help secure, protect and monitor your computer or network. See the Free Tools section at the bottom of this newsletter for a listing of the categories available. Over the next week check back on the site for a Product Review of the software EBlaster and a huge expansion of the tools and software available under the Hacker Tools subject. Also watch for more Book Reviews coming soon. Now- go have a margarita. Happy Cinco de Mayo! | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Internet / Network Security Forums With no Guide for the past year or so the Forums had become neglected and disorganized. Read how the Forums section has been reorganized and revitalized to provide a valuable resource for you. |
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| Pop, Pop, Pop It seems that every time you click on a link to open a web browser window, 3 more windows open up with advertisements. How can you stop this invasion? |
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| Top Picks - Pop-Up Ad Blockers from your Internet/Network Security Guide | |||||||||||||||||||
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It seems as if every time you click on a link to open one web site 3 or 4 other windows pop up with it to advertise everything from low insurance rates to online casinos. These windows are annoying and eat up your bandwidth. Below are my picks for utilities to stop pop-up and other types of advertising. Also look at firewalls (like ZoneAlarm Pro) which may have some of this functionality. 1) Pop-Up Stopper PanicWare offers an effective pop-up ad blocker utility for FREE. Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition will block pop-up ads in web sites and let you update for free as well. For $29.95 you can purchase the Professional version which includes the ability to log statistics, block cookies, erase Internet history and customize how and when ads should be blocked. 2) STOPzilla STOPzilla software blocks pop-up ads before they eat up your bandwidth. You can configure how you want to block them and add sites to the "blacklist" to block all ads. The version 2.0 package includes utilities to block spyware, adware and cookies as well as erase Internet history. You can download a free 15-day trial or purchase the registered version for $29.95. 3) Pop-Up Eraser For the economical price of $9.95, Pop-Up Eraser provides effective pop-up ad blocking. This software is customizable to let you define how you want the blocking to occur. It can automatically start on Windows start-up or when the computer starts and you can set it to start minimized and access it through the systray. The Pro version ads many other privacy and security features for only $14.95. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Free Internet / Network Security Tools Free! The magic word. Many people would like to secure their computers or networks but don't have the money to buy the latest intrusion detection, firewall, vulnerability scanner or other software necessary. I have created a new Essentials topic called Free Tools with links to programs, tools and utilities you can use to secure your systems absolutely free. The categories are: | |||||||||||||||||||
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