The DSS Newsletter, Issue 6,30-5-2002
Hi , This is Kenth --The Designer-- Nasstrom from The Designed
-------------- 1. Software News from DSS ================================================================
Software Versions, Zipey Pro : Version 1.2 (last updated 8/4), now 30 day trial
Ziney Pro will go 30 day trial before June.
2. Would you not want to try and create your own software? Well, How about a course that will show you an easy way to http://www.kndata.com/a/creates
The easy way to get a firewall is to download one of the many software based firewalls around. Zonealarm, Blackice defender, Sygate, McAfee, Norton and many more have small easy to use and best of all, cheap, firewalls. 3Com, D-Link, Netgear and almost any network hardware company with some selfrespect has one of more modells for you to buy. How to choose? There is only one thing a software firewall does better (and only some of them) then a hardware firewall. And this is securing the connections from your computer out into internet. This to secure you from trojans and backdoors already installed in your computer. This can be very tricky to manage for someone not quite advanced in networking, so its use is not that great. The hardware firewalls are easier to keep running. You make a basic configuration after starting it and then you are all set. No checking if it works as it stops 100% of all incoming traffic all of the time (Unless you tell it otherwise). My choice is hardware based if you can afford it (or even one hardware and one software based firewall). Otherwise will the software based firewall give you a real good protection. According to test on software firewalls are there always one or more of them that fail some kind of security test. But they are most often updated quickly after that.
All of us have had the experience of trying to connect to a site (surf) on internet, just to see that little animated icon in the surf program move, and move and move without anything showing up. This normally makes us feel bad. Even worse if the server you are trying to reach is your server. And to make matters worse, this happens some 2-3 hours after you have mailed all of your subscribers about this very special time limited deal. How fun it is to think about maybe tens, hundreds or maybe thousands of possible buyers trying to reach your product, and failing. What to do, who to call? To the rescue comes and old program called tracert.exe. You can find this program in all versions of windows from win9x and newer. The program that originates from the unix command traceroute will show you exactly where the problem is. Tracert will in this example be used without any switches (run tracert from a dos prompt without anything more to get all the switches). It will trace a route (path) from your computer to any computer in the world on internet, and show you each network device (can be routers, gateways, computers, servers and more with an unique ip address) your connection must pass to reach its goal. Example, I will trace from my computer to www.kndata.com Tracing route to www.kndata.com [65.108.49.158] over a maximum of 30
hops:
1.Sequence number of the hop. Starting on 1 and incrementing. Finally when you reach your target you get a trace complete message. Use this command when you can not reach a host and would like to see where the error could be on internet. You will always get a row (the last one) with the name of your target so that you know, that you have finished correctly. Do note that this can be tampered with. Many firewalls can be open for http (surfing) but be closed for icmp packet (used by ping and tracert). This would make it possible for you to surf to, for example www.microsoft.com but you will not be able to ping or trace all the way to one of their webservers.
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* The Release of version 1.0 of Multiple File Renamer. * Part IV of firewalls * More tools for people on internet. * Opening of the DSS Newsletter online archive. * And more ... Until Then, Kenth "The Designer" Nasstrom Ordinary people are making EXTRAORDINARY |