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Protecting your computer from attacks via the Internet by setting a blank password

It seems strange even to think, but the fact of using a blank password (blank password) on Windows XP has the effect of making your computer safer in relation to attacks from the Internet. In fact, the default configuration of Windows XP automatically inhibits access over the network to all accounts without password, and then making them available only to those who are physically on the PC. A level of security is therefore almost absurd, generally preferable to leave their account with no password rather than use one that is not sufficiently complex guidelines to create a password hard to provide for infringing use at least 8 characters with numbers, letters and symbols.
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Posted on March 6, 2008 at 9:49 in Windows | Comments [3]

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Get the total anonymity on the Internet through SmartHide

Logo SmartHide As everyone now I know nothing of what we do when we are connected to the Internet can be anonymous because everything is recorded and traced: your ISP or your server-gateway (if your PC is, for example, within a Corporate LAN) record normally all the information you pass through and then you have all the details of each site you visited, every chat conversation you have made, every email sent or received ...

Surely this is not the best for their privacy and in certain situations is more than conprensibile who seek solutions that can ensure a minimum of anonymity. The solution most often adopted consists in 'free use of proxy and publicly accessible. but this case the anonymity they may only partially and most often only to transactions with the browser.
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Written on 23 January, 2008 at 22:47 in Software | Comments [3]

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Zeitgeist 2007

Zeitgeist is a term that derives from German and literally means "spirit of time", and is now commonly used to indicate which are the predominant interests of the people of the Internet in a certain period of time.

Who if not a search engine like Google may be able to create a "ranking Zeitgeist" simply making public the words look the network within a certain period of time?
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Wrote on December 19, 2007 at 9:35 in Internet | Comments [0]

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Speeding up the connection to the Internet with OpenDNS and FastCache

Every time that you access from your browser at a certain website, the first operation performed by the operating system is the resolution of 'IP address by querying a DNS server.
In terms of time, normally the question of the DNS server does not employ more than some fraction of a second, but in certain situations of traffic congestion or disruption may increase significantly until you get even impossible to make surfing the Internet.
Using OpenDNS with FastCache you can either eliminate the problems of latency and irragiungibilità DNS servers, and make the name resolution even faster and immediate.
OpenDNS DNS is a service with some very special characteristics that make it unique:

uses a distributed network of DNS servers and this makes it virtually immune to failure
filters addresses that are recognized as belonging to the servers that make spam and phishing

offer parental control as filters out adult sites
is able to intercept and reinterpret some typing errors in the domain names: typing apache.og will still redirected to apache.org

FastCache for its part will cover the actual speed the resolution of names: it is able to manage a local cache of names resolved by the DNS server and in this way will reduce over time the number of questions to the DNS server .

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Wrote on November 20, 2007 at 14:26 in Internet | Comments [1]

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Surf the Internet via email

There never happen to find themselves in a situation where one computer (perhaps one of) you are given the option to use only use the email and Internet access is blocked?
Do not worry, thanks to the service provided by web2mail you can receive via email all the web pages you want!
Simply send an email to "www@web2mail.com" entering into the "Subject" the address of the web page you want to visit within a few minutes you will receive in your inbox the page you requested. You can try the service to fly here to receive the home page of Nothing2Hide.
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