Copyright [C] 2002 Shahnaz Rauf, snzeport.com Web site and e-business security is a very sensitive issue. Some of top brass in cyber-marketing have hired full time network wizards to work it out for them. Giants such as Microsoft have set up special network security courses just to resolve such issues.

If you had a brick and mortar business, you would be maintaining a regular schedule and time sheets to monitor your employees. Also you would be ensuring tight security by installing alarms, closed circuit monitoring (video cameras), electronic cards etc. Online too you need to monitor your 24 hour sales person...

- Is he really doing job you want him to do? - Is your eshop secure from darker elements? - Who and what are your customers doing? - Where are they coming from? - Does your business have any loop holes? - Are your transactions safe etc?

Yes you need to set up all your bells, whistles, snooping devices and other security measures. Here are 10 basic ‘must do’ steps for small home based webmasters like you and me:

1. Trade mark all your slogans, logo, ultimate selling proposition etc. by putting a TM sign [For example: The House of Viral e-BooksTM ]. This also gives you a touch of `class` and creates a brand image for you.

2. Put a Copyright notice and date (Copyright [C] 2002 Your name) on all your creations, articles, sales letter, web pages etc.

3. Put a disclaimer - `use it at your own risk` clause for all your work- articles/ebook/website/at end of ezine etc. This discourages those elements who are not capable of accepting responsibility for their actions and need to pin it else where.

4. On all outgoing auto-responder messages – put ‘this is an autoresponse’ clause to avoid any spam complaints. For I have experienced that in rush to grab something free, some people will keep sending several emails to auto- responders instead of waiting patiently for response to arrive. Then of course, basic autoresponder sends them an equal number of responses.

By Stephen Bucaro

Mozilla is a free Web browser that offers more features than Internet Explorer 6. At core of Mozilla is Gecko, a fast, reliable, open-source standards-based page rendering engine. You can have confidence in Mozilla because it adheres strictly to World Wide Web Consortium standards. Download Mozilla from http://mozilla.org

To install Mozilla, execute self-extracting setup program, mozilla-win32-1.1-installer.exe. The setup program provides option to set up Quick Launch, which makes Mozilla start faster by keeping portions of program in computers memory. The seup program also provides option to set Mozilla as your default browser.

=> Linux

Mozilla is fully certified to run on Red Hat Linux. First log in as root and create a directory named Mozilla. Download file: mozilla-1686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz from http://mozilla.org to your Mozilla directory. Then open a terminal window and change to Mozilla directory.

The downloaded file has a .tar.gz extension. The .tar part of extension indicates that it is an archive. The .gz part of file indicates that it is compressed. To decompress archive type following command.

tar zxvf moz*.tar.gz

A directory named mozilla-installer will be created in Mozilla directory. Change to mozilla-installer directory and type in following command.

./mozilla-installer

The Install Wizard will appear. Follow instructions in Install Wizard.

To start Mozilla change to directory where you installed it (/usr/local/mozilla by default) and run ./mozilla command.