6 Essential Steps to Protect Your Computer On the Internet For Free

Written by Jerry Yu


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http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

Step #4: Download AVG anti-virus software.

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

Because my friend has McAfee antivirus installed but has not been updated for about 4 years. I downloaded AVG Free Edition antivirus software and let him to consider if he wanted to pay and update his McAfee or userepparttar freebie. Running two antivirus software onrepparttar 107681 same computer can cause conflicts.

Step #5: Install password management software - RoboForm free edition.

http://www.roboform.com/?affid=siter

RoboForm is a password management software with Artificial Intelligence built in that can automatically fill online forms for you. It has been featured on The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times, Financial Times, PC Magazine, etc.

Nowadays we all have many usernames and passwords to use onrepparttar 107682 internet. Some spywares record your keystrokes and send them torepparttar 107683 hackers. It has been reported many times that people lost all their money in online bank account or internet payment system account.

One of RoboForm key features is designed to combat this kind of key logger hacking. RoboForm can

- AutoSave passwords in browser. - AutoFill passwords to login form. - Click Login button for you. - Fill personal info into online forms. - Save offline passwords & notes. - Generate Secure Random Passwords. - Encrypt passwords and personal info using 3-DES. - All personal info is stored on your computer only. - Put passwords on USB KeyChain for extra security. - Sync your passwords and safenotes to a Palm. - Backup & Restore, Print your passwords. - More features: drill down for more.

RoboForm works best with IE 5.0 and above. IE6 isrepparttar 107684 recommended browser to use with Artificial Intelligence RoboForm.

Note: free eidition comes with some limitations.

Step #6: Apply additional security measures.

More security measures and resources:

- Read Web Security tutorial from W3Schools, especiallyrepparttar 107685 paragraphs for home users.

http://www.w3schools.com/site/site_security.asp

- Use Audit My PC to do three Penetration Testing.

http://www.auditmypc.com/freescan/prefcan.asp

- Use Gibson Research's ShiedsUP to do port scan and get useful advice.

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

- Download Gibson Research's LeakTest and check if personal firewall can be fooled. Ifrepparttar 107686 firewall is good,repparttar 107687 LeadTest will not be able to reachrepparttar 107688 internet.

http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm

- Browse Microsoft security home page to learn more about Windows security.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx

Mission completed. It took me nearly 4 hours that night andrepparttar 107689 result is so far so good.

The author, Jerry Yu, is an experienced internet marketer and web developer. Visit his site http://www.WebActionGuide.com for FREE "how-to" step-by-step action guide, tips, knowledge base articles, and more.


Develop your own MSN java client.

Written by Ivan Shi


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trail to
// your message
mm.setMessage("How are you doing?

");
// setrepparttar message kind to MESSAGE -_-!!!
// you have to do this.
mm.setKind(mm.KIND_MESSAGE);

if (robot.msn.sendMessage(mm,ss))
{
// message sent successfully
System.out.println("send msg ok!");
}else{
// failed
System.out.println("send msg faild!");
}
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}


Coding Step 2: Write a public class withrepparttar 107680 static
main method as your own msn client.



public class Client {

public static void main(String[] args) {
Email = "your@hotmail.com";
Password = "you_msn_account_password";
// create a new MSNMessenger instance msn
msn = new MSNMessenger(Email,Password);
// setrepparttar 107681 initial status to online.
msn.setInitialStatus(UserStatus.ONLINE);
// register your pre-created adapter to msn
msn.addMsnListener(new MSNAdapter(msn));
// login intorepparttar 107682 msn network
msn.login();

System.out.println("Waiting forrepparttar 107683 response....");
}
}



Coding Step 3: Debug or run your application.Inrepparttar 107684 context menu
of project jRCS,  select Run --> Java Application, Eclipse will compilerepparttar 107685 code
and runrepparttar 107686 application in the  Console.
If you have your msn account set properly, and you have another msn account that
add this msn account as contact, you will see this msn account log in, and then you can send
some message to this contact as you wish, how everrepparttar 107687 Contact will only and always answer
you "How are you doing?".*_^


Ivan Shi, Web Server System Developer living and working in Shanghai,China He has a Blog "Technically Blog Ivan"(http://www.ivanshi.com/), blogging his life,feel,mind and technology. He is doing a lot to make his speaking and writing English much more better!


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