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Info Big 5 Best VPN Tools

baddoel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:07:24 +0000

VPN

VPN software brings the security of a private network to an insecure network, and allows you to access private local networks from anywhere. As we’ve explained in the past, you can do things between computers on your local network you can’t from out on the internet: like listen to a shared iTunes library or access files in shared folders.

Virtual private network applications give you access to your computer from anywhere on the internet as if you were home on your local network. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite software for establishing and maintaining virtual private networks. We rounded up the votes, and now we’re back with the five most popular VPN applications.

OpenVPN (Windows/Mac/Linux, Free)

OpenVPN is an open source VPN server that’s easy to set up for use with open source VPN clients. You can easily export configuration files from OpenVPN to import into a variety of open source and commercial clients. OpenVPN is also integrated into several router firmware packages including popular DD-WRT, OpenWRT, and Tomato. The OpenVPN system isn’t compatible with popular commercial VPN providers, but it provides an open source and free alternative for setting up VPNs to expensive and closed commercial models.

Cisco VPN (Windows/Mac/Linux, Variable Cost)

Cisco has a high market saturation in corporate and educational environments, and for many of you, any experience you’ve had with virtual private networks is through such exposure. The price to run a Cisco VPN is highly variable—and you can’t even get a concrete number without a quote from the company—but you can, as an end user, download the free Cisco VPN client for Windows and Mac—though many readers complained about the lack of 64-bit support in the free Cisco client.

LogMeIn Hamachi (Windows/Mac/Linux, Free)

Hamachi’s strongest attribute is its ease of use. If you’ve read some of the other entries in the Hive Five and realized that you don’t want a contract for a corporate VPN or the hassle of configuring a bunch of routers with open-source firmware packages, and you just want to set up a simple virtual network between you and your friend, your phone, or your office, Hamachi offers nearly instant deployment. Install the Hamachi client on all the machines and devices you want to connect into your network and add them to your Hamachi VPN and you’re done. It’s dead simple. The downside, if you’re concerned about it, is that your VPN isn’t locally managed—it’s centrally managed by Hamachi through their servers.

Shrew Soft (Windows/Linux, Free)

Shrew Soft offers a VPN that, while popular in its own right, received quite a boost when people started adopting Windows 7 64-bit in droves and found that Cisco wasn’t in any hurry to release a 64-bit client to accommodate them. Shrew Soft works with a variety of VPN server protocols including IPsec, OpenSWAN, freeSWAN, and strongSWAN.

Windows Built-In VPN (Windows, Free)

Windows has a built-in VPN client. Surprised? Many people are. It’s not a heavily advertised feature, but it covers many people’s needs. Before exploring other client solutions, it’s worth pulling up the quick launch box in the Windows start menu and typing “VPN” to start the configuration process. In Windows versions prior to Windows Vista, the built-in VPN client received a fair amount of criticism for lacking features and supported protocols. Since Vista and especially in the Windows 7 implementation, it’s grown significantly and unless you need a feature or standard that isn’t implemented you may not need to install anything at all

Info Spybot for Search and Destroy The Spyware

baddoel — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:22:46 +0000

Spybot

Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn’t intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don’t see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so there’s no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, too.

To see a list of threats that Spybot-S&D can remove, click on Support in the navigation bar at the left, and there on Threats. If you want an introduction how Spybot-S&D works, please read the tutorial. If you fear incompatibility with other software you are using, we can assure you that will not be the case. Still, we have created a compatibility overview listing some software that compatibility has been asked for before.

Spybot-S&D can also clean usage tracks, an interesting function if you share your computer with other users and don’t want them to see what you worked on. And for professional users, it allows to fix some registry inconsistencies and extended reports. A list of features is available if you click on features.

Some of the features of Spyboy are:

* Removal of adware and spyware
* Removal of dialers
* Removal of keyloggers
* Removal of trojans and other baddies
* Removal of usage tracks
* User-extendable database
* Save removal of threats by shredding them
* Backups of every removed problem
* Exclude option to ignore specific problems
* Permanent blocking of threatening ActiveX downloads
* Permanent blocking of known tracking cookies for IE
* Permanent blocking of threating downloads in IE
* Command line parameters to automate tasks
* Number of targets > 600
* Number of detection files and entries > 10000
* Detailed information about problems found
* Strict criteria to define targets
* Integrated update function
* Weekly updates
* Update notification by mail
* Free email & forum suppor
* Settings to automate scan, removal and update
* System reports to locate even unknown threats
* Skins to adjust interface to the users liking

Tips Use Google Public DNS to Improve Browsing Speed

baddoel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:04:17 +0000

DNS

Some time ago Google released the Google Public Domain Name Server (DNS), where it was said that by using the Google Public DNS, then there will be increasing the speed when you are browsing and open a web page. Not only that, but it also increases security when you surf and open many sites on the Internet.

But another thing to note, that the access speed browsing peningkatakan not mean increasing the download speed. Because access to download the reply still depends on the speed of internet access we have.

To google public domain that can be used are:

DNS Server Address : 8.8.8.8
DNS Server Address : 8.8.4.4

Demos LTE by Ericsson Can Speed Up to 1Gbps

baddoel — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:08:07 +0000

Ericsson

The world record for speed of Long Term Evolution (LTE) claimed to have been created by Ericsson. The speed they were able to produce more than 1 Gigabit / second (Gbps) for the downlink.

This demo is done on the sidelines of the event Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. Considered first and take advantage of technology “Multi Carrier and the Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output, MIMO” and walked on a commercial LTE from Ericsson.

By combining these technologies, speed up to 1 Gb per second can be achieved. Demo uses four wide-band network with each 20 MHz, so the total used bandwidth 80 MHz and 4×4 MIMO, the data sent through the interface over the air on four streamz a bit-independent.

LTE dikatakan sebagai teknologi komunikasi bergerak masa depan, yang memungkinkan transfer data berukuran besar secara cepat dengan cara yang efisien dan hemat biaya melalui optimalisasi penggunaan spektrum frekuensi.

Dengan peningkatan kecepatan dan pemangkasan latensi, user dikatakan dapat menikmati berbagai aplikasi seperti web secara realtime, game online, kolaborasi media sosial, dan konferensi video dengan lebih mudah kapanpun dan di manapun berada.

Johan Wibergh, Head of Networks & Executive Vice President Ericsson mengatakan, misi perusahaannya adalah menghubungkan 50 miliar perangkat pada 2020. Seluruh perangkat dan setiap keadaan yang menguntungkan saat terhubung seharusnya menjadi satu.

Ericsson sendiri saat ini telah menandatangani kontrak komersial LTE dengan lima operator dunia yakni: AT&T di Amerika Serikat, Verizon di Amerika Serikat, TeliaSonera di Norwegia dan Swedia, MetroPCS di Amerika Serikat dan DoCoMo di Jepang.

Windows Phone Classic to coexist with Windows Phone 7

baddoel — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:13:56 +0000

Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile 6.x is to be known as “Windows Phone Classic” once its replacement launches, and apparently isn’t to be taken out and shot as might have been expected.

When Steve Ballmer announced Windows Phone 7 Series, he did emphasise that Redmond wouldn’t be pulling the plug on Windows Mobile just yet. Instead, Microsoft has told iStartedSomething that the not-quite-redundant-yet platform will continue to exist under the “Classic” moniker.

But Windows Mobile, even version 6.5, is aimed at mobile phones, and it’s hard to imagine many manufacturers will be interested in launching “Classic” handsets once the new all-singing-all-dancing 7 Series is on the shelves. A few diehards might prefer the mobile-computing capabilities of Windows Mobile, but they will be a vanishingly-small minority.

So this assertion that the Classic version will continue is more likely a sop to those manufacturers who’ve spent the last few months developing such handsets, or have plans to launch them soon. Microsoft wants them to have hope that the platform isn’t going to disappear overnight.

It’s hard to imagine Microsoft running two application stores, maintaining two developer communities and tolerating the inevitable confusion that keeping Classic going would entail. So for the moment it’s “Windows Phone Classic”, but don’t expect the moniker, or the platform, to last for long.

Source : http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/02/18/windows_phone_classic/

Relations SSL Certificate with E-Commerce Site

baddoel — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:39:58 +0000

SSL Certificates

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificates are a security protocol used across the Internet to prevent eavesdropping, interference, fraud, theft and forgery. This security feature is generally used in the world of e-commerce when sites are processing vulnerable and private data such as credit card and other billing information. SSL uses cryptography to hide information by converting normal data into a sort of indecipherable gibberish of letters and numbers.

Currently, most e-commerce sites on the net offer 128-bit encryption. This ensures that their customers will be protected no matter what browser they are using. If a store handles payments or collects private information such as credit card or banking information, addresses, social security numbers, or dates of birth then it needs to use 128-bit or better encryption.
Sites using 128-bit or better encryption are virtually immune to hackers and their customers can feel truly safe to entrust these sites with their private information. SSL Certifcates are necessary in order to not only protect your business from hackers and those with malicious intent but to protect customers and make them feel safe and secure doing business with your site.

Chances are that if a shopper gets to the checkout phase and they do not see the closed padlock in their address bar, they are not going to purchase from your site and will move on to another more trustworthy website. Without an SSL Certificate, an online business will not be taken seriously in the e-commerce arena. Furthermore, with no SSL Certificate, a site cannot be PCI Compliant and is technically operating illegally and will not be able to even accept credit card payments. In order to be successful, e-commerce operators NEED a valid SSL Certificate.

Tips Creating Shortcut for Shutdown, Restart and Log Off

baddoel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:38:57 +0000

Shutdown

You can create a shortcut on the desktop to shutdown your computer quickly. You can create a shutdown, restart, or a logoff icon on your desktop which will work a lot quicker than using the usual buttons in the start menu.

Here’s how to create a shutdown shortcut on your desktop

Go to your blank desktop
Right click on a blank space and a menu will appear
Choose New from the menu
Then choose Shortcut
Where it says type the location of the item type in shutdown.exe -s
Then press next
Now enter a name for your icon. Mine is called SHUTDOWN NOW
Press next
The Shutdown shortcut will be on your desktop

Different combination you can type in when creating a shortcut to shutdown, restart, or logoff.

Shutdown.exe -s
Shutsdown your computer in 30 seconds and will close all programs and ask you to save all work.

shutdown.exe -r
Restarts your computer in 30 seconds.

shutdown.exe -l
This one will logoff your computer back to the welcome screen where you will need to login again.

shutdown.exe -s -t 1
Shutsdown your computer in one second. the -t 1 tells it how long to wait. (one second in this case) You can put -t 10 or even -t 1120.

shutdown.exe -s -t 15 -c “Goodbye you idiot”
This is my favorite code. It will shutdown in 15 seconds and have a message in the box saying “Goodbye you idiot”
The -c “bla bla bla” stands for a comment.

Notes:

to stop the computer from shutting down type shutdown /a into the run box located in the start menu..

-f will force everything to close immediately without asking to save anything.

Tips Default Asterisk Manager Password Used

baddoel — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:58:18 +0000

When you log into trixbox CE v2.6 and go to PBX Settings, you are told that your default admin and mysql passwords should be changed. Here’s how to do it. A cleaner, HTML version of these instructions can be found at http://sureteq.com/asterisk/trixbox_CE_v2.6_security.htm.

Change default passwords:

Let’s change our passwords. We need to do this at the Linux CLI.

Update maint password by typing ‘passwd-maint’ at the command line. Enter the password twice.

Update Web meetme password by typing ‘passwd-meetme’ at the command line. Enter the password twice.

FreePBX admin pass:

To change the FreePBX manager pass, you need to edit two separate files and put in the new password.

nano /etc/asterisk/manager.conf

Find ’secret = amp11? under the [admin] section. Change ‘amp11? to your new desired password. CTRL+X followed by ‘Y’ to save and exit.

Now, we need to edit the /etc/amportal.conf to use our new password.

nano /etc/amportal.conf

Find the line that says ‘AMPMGRPASS=amp11? and change the ‘amp11? to the new password you just set. CTRL+X followed by ‘Y’ to save and exit.

amportal restart

*** NOTE: I have found out the hard way that FreePBX does not like having an exclamation point (!) in the admin password. There may be other special characters that it doesn’t like also.

MySQL passwords:

Update the MySQL asteriskuser password by doing the following at the Linux CLI:

mysqladmin -u asteriskuser -p password new_password_here

Replacing ‘new_password_here’ with your desired password. When you hit ‘Enter’ you’ll be prompted for a password…enter in the default password of ‘amp109.’

Now, we need to edit the /etc/amportal.conf to use our new password.

nano /etc/amportal.conf

Find the line that says ‘AMPDBPASS=amp109? and change the ‘amp109? to the new password you just set. CTRL+X followed by ‘Y’ to save and exit.

***NOTE: In the amportal.conf, there are TWO places to change the amp109 password…near the top of the file, and at the very end. The one at the top is commented out, so changing that one doesn’t really do anything…but to be consistent, make sure you change the password in both places.

You will also need to update the password in the /etc/asterisk/cdr_mysql.conf file for call detail records (cdr).

nano /etc/asterisk/cdr_mysql.conf

Find the line that says ‘password=amp109? and change the ‘amp109? to the new password you just set. CTRL+X followed by ‘Y’ to save and exit.

service mysqld restart
amportal restart

*** NOTE: I have found out the hard way that FreePBX/MySQL does not like having an exclamation point (!) in the password. There may be other special characters that it doesn’t like also.
It is also a good idea to change the default mysql root user password. To change the default mysql root password, do the following:
mysqladmin -u root -p password new_password_here

Replacing ‘new_password_here’ with your desired password. When you hit ‘Enter’ you’ll be prompted for a password…enter in the default mysql root user password of ‘passw0rd’ (with a zero)

You will also need to update the password in the /etc/asterisk/cbmysql.conf file for meetme settings.

nano /etc/asterisk/cbmysql.conf

Find the line that says ‘password=passw0rd’ and change the ‘passw0rd’ to the new password you just set. CTRL+X followed by ‘Y’ to save and exit.

service mysqld restart
amportal restart

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