2008: Basic Security for Windows

Nowadays, Windows viruses, spywares and various malicious attempt @ computers are rampant.It seems as soon as you connect to your computer to the Internet, evil people is waiting to infiltrate your system and cause havoc. Setting up a basic security system for PC is now a must. I will guide you through with my own personal recommendation.

Step 1: Construct a perimeter of defense
Strong Firewall is the first line of defense against potential attackers on your computer. Forget about Microsoft windows firewall, it is just crap. The first line of defense against would-be attackers on your computer system is a strong firewall program. With a good software firewall you can monitor all of the transmissions sent or received by your computer.
Recommendation: Comodo Firewall Pro

Step 2: Search for Spies
You will never like spies retrieving your personal data and send it to some evil hackers or some companies. T o keep spyware from accessing your computer, you need to monitor your ranks (and files) thoroughly and often.
Recommendation: Ad-Aware SE Plus and SpyCatcher

Step 3: Beware of Plague
Evil Guys like bio warfare...They might send viruses/worms and infect your system. You got to have the technology to fight them.
Recommendation: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.17

Step 4: Employ Sentries
Having a sentry, is another layer of protection. It controls which apps or windows components are allowed to run on your windows. It works like a firewall (checks network packets) , it checks processes.
Recommendation:Online Armor
Thorough safety-check setup process and real-time protection is Online Armor strong points. During the initial setup for this program, you can select all the apps and components that are allowed to run on your computer. After a comprehensive scan, anyone who tries to gain access to your system will be allowed or disallow @ your very command. Like your firewall, once you've trained Online Armor to recognize your most-used programs, you'll only be notified when a new spy is trying to gain access.

Step 5: Send out your Scouts
A major threat to most systems is that they do know the potential threats of the website they are visiting. SiteAdvisor, a helpful browser add-on for Internet Explorer or Firefox that gives you inside information on sites even before you visit them. Using a color-coded system, a visual alert informs you whether a site is safe (green), requires caution (yellow), or is potentially dangerous (red). You need someone to warn you, don't u?
#SiteAdvisor for I.E: link
#SiteAdvisor for FireFox:link

There is no 100% foolproof system. What I recommend is the bare necessity of securing your home PC. It is a tedious process but definitely rewarding one.

Practical tip to Speed up your Internet on Firefox.

Hi SG Guys and gals,

Do you know that for our normal singtel and starhub Internet users, we do not need IPv6 protocol as the protocol is not used for home consumers?

What is IPv6? U can read from the link below"
Definition and info of IPv6

What this means is that by default IPv6 whenever u surf your net, protocol check and some redundant check on IPv6 will take place (eating up abit of bandwidth). Therefore by disabling IPv6 is a wise and smart move to speed up your internet.

Instruction on Disabling IPv6 for Firefox users:

1. In the Location bar, type about:config, and press EnterReturn.
   • The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I'll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the about:config page.
2. In the displayed list, type network.dns.disableIPv6 in the Filter textbox.
3. Find the entry for network.dns.disableIPv6.
4. If the value is false, double-click on it, to change the value to true.
   • If the value is already true, IPv6 is already disabled, so it isn't causing your problem.
5. Close Firefox, start it again, and try to reach a web site.

If disabling IPv6 doesn't resolve the problem, re-enable IPv6 by setting the preference back to false.

*XP SP 2 I.E Users have IPv6 disabled by default.

Hope u enjoy the tips.

How to earn $$$ with Emails?

Hi all,

$$$ I do not have in order to give you. But what i am giving u in the following is something call intelligence.

Ever received emails like forward this advertising emails and you will earn $$$ from Microsoft, Google or ____ (insert any rich , big business entity here)? The email are also SEEM to have testimony like "I thought it's ain't true until i received $___ (some random numbers to make it look real) in my bank account".

Sorry to burst your bubble here. No emails that advertise by volumes of forwarding will earn you anything. The person who started the spam mail probably is laughing is ass off.
Reason:

Emails are spread vastly over emails servers all over the world. In order to track it, it would not only required a system(relatively expensive to build) to track how many recipients which each individuals sent, they also had to have permissions of the hosts/owners of the email servers in order to retrieve their logs and mine the information out.

$$$ and time (resources) is one thing, they also have to handle privacy issues or else one day they will have lawyers to sue the pants off their ass. Unless you think that those business entities have nothing better to do, else they would rather focus their resources in more meaningful projects

How about google ads? when someone click on the ads on ur website, it actually forward u to a google website b4 redirecting u to that is advertise. Thus they have no legal issues of infringing privacy plus with the host owner had to register and agree on the terms and conditions to the advertising. This would give them a mechanism to track and also from their own server.

For email, there is no such mechanism. Conclusion: Spam emails do not help in generating revenues (Unless Bill Gates or any of the CEOs Gone Bonkers) .

Spam emails also do not help to raise donation for some poor cancer stricken child (Unless Charity oragnisation decide to spend $$ and time to develop the system instead of helping the needy). Emails also do not give blessing (Unless God keep track of Emails servers) nor will they help to curse you if u do not send them out(Unless Devils, demon are all PHD in Computer Science).

Last word,
Email spammers: Sorry to burst your fun here.
Email forwarders: Your intelligence have increased (+20) after you read my blog. Congrats.

Faithfully Yours,
CornLord