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Off Topic Post, But Nevertheless Interesting And Useful...From: Dean Huffman (dhuffman@eudoramail.com)Sat Jan 29 16:41:17 2000
Off topic post, but nevertheless interesting and useful... This is for anybody whose computer is connected directly to the internet. As you know, there is always the risk that somebody out there is trying to hack your computer. There is a free web page that will explore the internet vulnerabilities on your computer-access to the internet. This is especially important for those of you who might be connected to the internet over very long periods of time, such as those with DSL access or with a cable modem access. This also is important (but less so) to those with standard modem connections to the internet that may last for minutes to hours and may have a different IP address for each connection. This also applies to those connecting to the internet though a LAN, whether or not it has a firewall. I recommend that you go to the web page mentioned below and follow the links to test your net access. The web site is: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 This web site will challenge your computer-access to the internet and offer a summary of what is right and/or wrong with your internet access. It is well worth running. The web site also offers a simple program that will tell you the IP address of your computer as seen by the rest of the world. (The Windows 95/98 program, winipcfg.exe, will find the IP address of your computer, but if you connect to the internet through a LAN with a firewall, the world might see a different IP address for you than the LAN sees.) I ran the program on my computer in my office and found absolutely no problems, the computer being well protected by the school's firewall. At home, the security was good, but not as good, and had at least one vulnerability. Steve Gibson, the owner of the page, also offers a rating of the commercial firewall software programs that are available. He apparently is also working on his own firewall program that he says he will made available to the public at no charge. Mr. Gibson writes high quality software. He sells a program called SPINRITE that can recover almost any crashed disk where there is not a physical problem such as a head crash. I had a crash of a 3 gig disk that was not recoverable by any other software I could find, including Norton software. SPINRITE ran for over a week, but it recovered every single bit! See and check it out. This is a good address to remember if you have a future crash. It will also tell you the current health of your hard drive and will discover problems BEFORE they happen.
-- Dean Huffman
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