Amazing XP Tools to Arm your PC from Hackers

Tech Dune ^ | oct 9 | Tech Dune

[george76]

Hackers have newer methods to hack into your systems.

They are smart enough to detect security loop holes in your PC and enter through open ports,unencrypted Wi-Fi connections,malicious websites or internet servers.

It is better you check your PC periodically for invasions and protect your system to prevent pilfering and damage of data.

Detecting security loopholes.

Eliminating malicious programs.

Tracking hackers .

[DocRock]

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[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

i am looking forward to the day when Klaus Knopper markets Knoppix with an installer.

It’s an excellent distribution, and deserves to be on Hard drives as an operating sytem to be used full time.

i’m at a loss to understand why he hasn’t done it as of this time. One could add software with a Debian repository, so that’s not a problem.

Quix: Before you go trashing that machine for a new one, give one of the Linux Distributions a Test drive. Try something like KUbuntu in a dual boot setup. If the machine doesn’t react well, you can always nuke the partition and restore the Windows Boot Loader...you DO have to run a Defrag under Windows before you allow something else to put another partition on your hard drive.

Maybe you’ll like the performance, and keep your old machine as your Linux Box...maybe you won’t need a new box.

Let me know how the experiment turns out

[LucyJo]

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[Yardstick]

No kidding. I ran my PC for years with no antivirus stuff. I was actually kind of insulted when I recently installed Avast and Spybot and neither of their scans turned up anything.

Is my computer so unattractive that even the viruses aren’t attracted to it?

It’s hurtful.

[Quix]

Sounds reasonable to me.

Thanks for such excellent advice.

Blessings,

[Quix]

It’s a dual CPU AMD 1 GIGHZ 5 YEAR OLD MACHINE.

One of the fans for one of the CPUS fnially bit the dust and I don’t know which of many boxes the other backup is in.

Worse there are tons of very troublesome glitches that occur on a regular basis that I just no longer have time or patience for. I’ve wrestled with lots of software packages o fix such and some fixes work partly to a point etc.

I’m convinced that the motherboard was flawed to begin with or some such. In any case, I have no more patience or time to nurse the thing along enough to do college work on it as well as FREEP. I’ve had it. The exasperating machine needs to go. 5 years is long enough to play it’s games.

I now turn it off as I don’t know how well the 9inch fan would do when I’m not watching to cool the CPU who’s fan crashed. Seems cool enough, OK but just not worth the risk of leaving it running 24/7.

I appreciate the wisdom of your suggestion, otherwise. But this machine has cost me probably at least 500 to 1000 hours of wasted time in the last 5 years. I’m not willing to give it any more.

God’s best to you and yours this CHRISTmas.

Thanks BIG.

[Quix]

i DON’T partition drives. I prefer to give such things their own drive exclusively, more or less.

I’m still interested in how easy it would be to set up a bunch of hard drives in the tower I’m going to quit using.

Actually, I have two—one pretty big and one medium sized. The medium sized one is about 7 years or more old and has a 5 year old Linux loaded on it that I’ve never started up.

[JoJo Gunn]

I don't like taking over threads, but it seems safe to assume the shelf life has passed on the subject, so.... and Shadowace, I keep pinging you so you can help keep me straight if I post something erroneous, plus I remember how over a year ago you offered to help me if I decided to try Linux.

Installed Kubuntu 7.10 last night, to poke around and slowly learn. I find that despite going into Administrator mode, and having to give the password chosen, I can't mount the hard drives to access any documents, pictures for example. I get two errors, one like you see here, and another which says something about a code 32(?).

 

At least I've learned how to make screenshots.  :)   It would be nice to save things, especially to the secondary hard drive, instead of shuffling things to Winduhs with the pen drive. Knoppix makes it far easier to mount drives, perhaps since it's main intent is as a live OS. Am I missing something? 

[ShadowAce]

OK. You are having trouble mounting a second hard drive using Kubuntu. I use Fedora, and it shouldn't be *too* different. :)

Check out the file /etc/fstab. Does it mention anything about /dev/hdb? Maybe it's /dev/sdb if it's a SCSI drive.

Second, Each distro seems to assign uids differently. uid stands for User ID. When you created your user, it assigned the uid. Is yours 1000? root is typically 0. Try logging in as root as see if you can mount it that way.

Also, I'm assuming you formatted this second drive (it holds your documents). Is it FAT32 or NTFS? FAT32 should be supported out of the box, but sometimes NTFS requires additional drivers loaded before it can mount the drive.

[JoJo Gunn]

Actually, can’t access either the primary or secondary drives. Both are FAT32’s. Will go poking further....

Do you log in at the name or password for root?

[ShadowAce]

How do you boot the machine? Is this the live disc?

[JoJo Gunn]

I did an install, on a 30 gig primary, and have a 20 gig secondary. I understand that the 1st partition will be Winduhs.

It says the uid is 1000. I looked at the log-in manager, and changed it to log in automatically for my name and admin. I also saw something else about the UID, two values from 1000 to 29999. Perhaps that's what you referred to?

Whether Enable or Modify, nothing works. Since I'll be so green on the terminology, it's likely best to just show you what's going on.  I greatly appreciate your time here.

 

 

 

 

[ShadowAce]

I think I see what's going on now.

Windows currently resides in the 1st partition? The 1st partition is /dev/sda1 (the 1 indicates the first partition, the 'a" indicates the first disk, the "sd" indicates SCSI disk). Don't worry about whether you have a SCSI disk or not, it's just the distro's way of identifying the hardware.

I'm not sure why you have a 1K partition, though....

Try this:

as root, mkdir /mnt/windows (or another directory name of your choice)
as root, mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

That should mount your windows partition. Try the same procedure for the secondary drive you have (/dev/sdb1)

Get back to me on how that works. The next step will be to try to get you to mount it as your regular user.

[JoJo Gunn]

I tried it and it's no go, and after doing some looking around and finding this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdelibs/+bug/98751

Concerning fixed hard drives ( previous comment ), this is an intentional behavior from the maintainer of HAL Martin Pitt, if PolicyKit is not included (and this is the case in Feisty).....

I understand that the K/Ubuntu folks want to make it very mainstream and have locked access out accordingly, but after experiencing firsthand the advantages that something like Knoppix gives, I'm gonna shop around for something else.

Thanks for hollering back.   

[ShadowAce]

Fedora has a KDE live disc available. Check it out.

[JoJo Gunn]

Fedora, Gnome, and KDE? I like the KDE look better, so does that mean it’s a Fedora/KDE version, sorta like Kubuntu is?

Thanks for the link. Have more studying to do. ;)

[ShadowAce]

I got the Fedora DVD, and chose KDE over Gnome as my desktop manager.

[JoJo Gunn]

I have to use my friends wireless connection to download large files, so it might be a little while before getting it, but will let you know. Thanks again.

[JoJo Gunn]

Downloaded Fedora 8, KDE, and first impressions: it looks good, damn good, but compared to K/Ubuntu and Knoppix, it's embarrassingly slow. After over 10 minutes(!) of something not loading past the splash screen I gave up. Am debating on fully installing it for an honest trial run, because again there's this:

 

sigh   

[ShadowAce]

Hmm.. I've never seen anything like that. What's the setup of your hardware, again? Your Quantum is the primary--is it IDE, SATA, SCSI?

Also, the format of the Quantum may be cauing it some issues on the live disc. The install process would re-partition and format the disc to be workable.

To be honest, I've never tried the the Live discs--I've just gone straight to te HDD install.