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		<title>Facing Censored Websites? Safe Secure Surfing With Proxies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major reason Internet users may not be able to access websites is due to incorrect configuration of the internet content filter by their internet service provider. This means that your dial-up, DSL or cable modem company might be routinely blocking off websites because they contain the word &#8220;breast&#8221;, even though it might [...]]]></description>
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<div><br/><br/><br/>One of the major reason Internet users may not be able to access websites is due to incorrect configuration of the internet content filter by their internet service provider. This means that your dial-up, DSL or cable modem company might be routinely blocking off websites because they contain the word &#8220;breast&#8221;, even though it might be a poultry or medical information website.<br/><br/>This &#8220;censorship&#8221; intentional or otherwise, results in many medical, relationship and informational websites on topics such as preventing domestic abuse or dealing with sexual problems during marriage, being labeled as &#8220;adult&#8221; websites.<br/><br/>Due to crude filtering technologies that are used, websites containing words referring to the human anatomy, or terms like &#8220;date rape&#8221; may be blocked from your browser, because these blocks occur due to a mass blacklist of these sites.<br/><br/>While this practice may not seem harmful, you can find yourself experiencing massive frustration, especially if you happen to need to access such censored sites in the course of conducting research for school or business.<br/><br/>One of the solutions is to use a private proxy.<br/><br/>A proxy is an intermediate website, which lets you access the blocked website.<br/><br/>By accessing the proxy (which is labelled as an acceptable website by your internet service provider), you can go on to access the blocked website in order to obtain the information you need.<br/><br/>The proxy website gets around the problem of a mislabelled website by serving as a &#8220;proxy&#8221; or intermediate destination.<br/><br/>Proxies are especially popular where information such as medical and health news, political news and even access to social networks like Facebook and MySpace have been blocked off due to incorrect filtering by the internet service provider.<br/><br/>Finding a reliable private proxy will also help you protect your privacy because the proxy serves as a shield. You will look like you are arriving at the destination website from the proxy, rather than your original internet service provider.<br/><br/>In this manner, you can maintain your confidentiality, especially if you do not wish to appear on the website&#8217;s visitor logs.<br/><br/>Ultimately, using a proxy can both open up access to incorrectly identified websites and cover your online tracks.<br/><a href='http://www.jackscouponcodes.com/store/107/VistaPrint-coupon-codes.html'>vistaprint coupon codes</a></div>
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		<title>The Secret to Secure Offshore Web Browsing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<div><br/><br/><br/>My friend and I were discussing how you would be able to securely browse the web from an offshore location the other day. Yes ok, I admit it&#8217;s a pretty bizarre and geeky conversation but it emanated from something that we both dislike and that&#8217;s censorship. You see Governments around the world are increasingly doing two things about the internet- <br /> Monitoring and insisting our web surfing, emails are logged Controlling and restricting the parts of the web that we can visit<br/><br/>It&#8217;s no joke and to someone who gets extremely annoyed when his posts are moderated in a forum you can imagine how worked up I get about this sort of stuff. The discussion about secure offshore web browsing was in particular related to my discovery that if you surfed the internet from Turkey &#8211; a liberal secular country that there were actually web sites that you couldn&#8217;t visit because of religion.<br/><br/>Anyway I probably should explain the technical basics behind these blocks &#8211; it&#8217;s all to do with your IP address. It is pretty much your identity online and can be traced back to your computer via your ISP. In fact your rough location can be deduced automatically from your IP address and it is how a UK citizen would be blocked from using the Pandora Radio web site and how Americans are blocked from using European Online Casinos. Try either and you&#8217;ll get blocked if you&#8217;re in the wrong place.<br/><br/>So how can I hide my location<br/><br/>There is a simple way to appear to a web site that you are actually surfing from a different location and that&#8217;s to use an anonymous proxy server. All this does is funnel your web requests through a different location &#8211; you&#8217;ll appear to the web site to be surfing from the country of the proxy server. Better still your real IP address will not be logged on the web site you visit.<br/><br/>So this is how I can surf securely?<br/><br/>Alas not &#8211; proxy servers mask your identity from the web server you visit but everything else is plainly visible, your ISP will log every web page that gets delivered to your computer and all the logs will contain all your history for years.<br/><br/>To surf securely you need to do more &#8211; you need a fast, privately owned proxy server that is configured to be totally anonymous, you need the facility to automatically switch to alternate countries proxies when needed and most of all you need your entire web traffic to be encrypted with a military level cipher. This means your connection cannot be traced back from the target web server and all the communication is completely protected from hackers, nosey governments and identity thieves.<br/><br/>It also means that you can surf to the rules and regulations of your selected proxy servers location. If you want to learn the secret to secure offshore web browsing then you need to read my link below.<br/><a href='http://www.momentsofelegance.com/catalog/birthday-party-favors-c-171.html'>birthday party favors</a></div>
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		<title>How To Provision Data Storage Capacity For Content Caching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A technician, recently called me up to estimate storage capacity for Internet Caching. The technician, is a part of a team that will be responsible for setting up Internet Gateway for an ISP, in a small Middle-East country.The technician had very limited numbers available, to do the necessary derivation. Thus he could phrase the question [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>A technician, recently called me up to estimate storage capacity for Internet Caching. The technician, is a part of a team that will be responsible for setting up Internet Gateway for an ISP, in a small Middle-East country.<br/><br/>The technician had very limited numbers available, to do the necessary derivation. Thus he could phrase the question very simplistically -<br/><br/>&#8220;The ISP will be potentially serving 40,000 users. What should be the provisioned Data Storage Capacity, for content caching?&#8221;<br/><br/>Being a part of Team SafeSquid that builds Content Filtering Proxy, we often get this kind of a query, but with one major difference. Mostly queries are phrased like &#8211; &#8220;We have an Internet Pipe of X Mbps. What is the recommended Data Storage Capacity for most efficient caching?&#8221;<br/><br/>A reasonable advice to such a query can be derived, if we allow a few assumptions, and focus on some simple facts.<br/><br/>1. Only the Content that has been fetched over HTTP can be cached.<br/><br/>2. The maximum rate at which content can be fetched depends upon the Internet Pipe.<br/><br/>3. There is a lot of HTTP traffic that is un-cacheable, for example &#8211; streaming audio / video, pages that display results of any other SQL driven queries including search engine queries, and even HTML content in Web Mail.<br/><br/>4. Most important content that gets cached are HTML pages, embedded images, style-sheets, java scripts, and other files that you would have to download and execute, on the local desktop, or view with another viewing application, like PDF / Flash (some) files.<br/><br/>5. A simple request to view a web-page, with a normal browser, automatically triggers, downloads of a variety of content like cookies, images and other embedded objects. These are required, by the browser, to display the page, as per the page-design. All the components, that constitute the web-page may NOT necessarily be &#8220;sourced&#8221; from the web-site that was serving the requested web-page.<br/><br/>6. Modern Internet browsers, provide caching, that is user manageable, and is quite similar to the caching principles involved in the design of caching proxies. So each content or object may not be necessarily requested. But yes these browsers depend upon the availability of local storage, on the client systems, and is usually not over a few hundred Mbytes. And in any case, these local-caches are not shareable between different users.<br/><br/>7. Internet resources could have varying levels of utilization, depending upon time of the day, resulting in peak and off-peak hours.<br/><br/>Therefore if we have an Internet Pipe of 10Mbps, the max data we can transfer (data-throughput)<br/><br/>= 10Mbps x 60 seconds = 600 Mbits of data in a minute<br/><br/>= 600 x 60 = 36000 Mbits of data in an hour<br/><br/>  Now suppose the enterprise uses a bandwidth manager, to reserve QoS for each pre-defined application (or protocol). Generally applications like SMTP &#038; VPN are given the lion&#8217;s share, almost 50%, and the remaining gets shared between HTTP/HTTPS and others.<br/><br/>But I know of quite a few customers who would invest in pipes meant for exclusively SMTP and/or VPN, and a separate (cheaper) Internet connection for HTTP / HTTPS.<br/><br/>If the enterprise has chosen to host it&#8217;s web-server within it&#8217;s own business premises, then the entire distribution program, changes completely.<br/><br/>Even in case, the enterprise does not use a bandwidth manager, resulting in &#8220;first come, first serve&#8221;, we could still be guided by an estimated proportioning of traffic on the basis of applications or protocols.<br/><br/>So to build our algorithm, it might be practical, to coin a term &#8211; HTTP_Share, such that &#8211; HTTP_Share = x% of Internet Pipe.<br/><br/>Now, HTTP_Share would signify, the max data that would get transferred over HTTP traffic<br/><br/>Therefore, further to our earlier derivation, of 36000 Mbits of data throughput per hour, if we factor the HTTP_Share<br/><br/>HTTP_Traffic = x% of data-throughput<br/><br/>Now, if x = 35 (35% of overall data transfer was for HTTP)<br/><br/>HTTP_Traffic / hour = ( 0.35 x 36000 ) Mbits / hour = 12600 Mbits /hour<br/><br/>   Now presuming, the enterprise has off-peak hours and peak-hours of Internet Usage, such that 40% of the day (approximately 9.6 hours) is peak-hours, while 60% of the day is off-peak. Peak hours are the daytime-periods, when we would witness, TOTAL UTILIZATION of our Internet pipe. And if we suppose that the utilization ratio is about 30%, i.e. the load level during non-peak hours is about 25% of peak hours; then we may further estimate, on the basis of above derivation -<br/><br/>HTTP_Traffic / day = ( ( 12600 x 0.4) + ( 12600 x 0.6 x 0.25 ) ) x 24<br/><br/>HTTP_Traffic / day = ( ( 0.4 x 1 ) + ( 0.6 x 0.25 ) ) x 12600 x 24 = 166320 Mbits<br/><br/>  This is a rather simplistic looking model. Something more realistic, would require, a proper hourly stepping, that gives a proper distribution pattern over the day.<br/><br/>Now we deal with the toughest, and debatable part!<br/><br/>What would be the ratio of cacheable_content in the HTTP_Traffic?<br/><br/>Based on my experience at various customer premises, I prefer to assume &#8211; 30%.<br/><br/>That would mean 166320 x 0.3 = 52617 Mbits of content could be cached per day.<br/><br/>Standard practice is to store content for at least 72 hours (store-age).<br/><br/>That means we would need a storage of at least 49896 Mbits.<br/><br/>So a conventional 8bits = 1byte conversion, tells me, that we need a storage of at least 6237 MBytes<br/><br/>  Another interesting picture that should be visible during peak hours is that the HTTP_Traffic when considered as data downloaded by the proxy server, should be less than the data sent to the clients, and the difference would be the caching efficiency. That would signify that the cached content was used to serve the requests made by the clients.<br/><br/>In the overall discussion, we have not considered the performance degradation that would be caused due to factors such as network latencies.<br/><br/>The above methodology however, still doesn&#8217;t answer the original question. Because in the original question, the Internet Pipe was not defined. So I was quite skeptical, that such calculation could ever be performed, because it was the number of users (clients) that was defined, rather than my known approach via Internet_Pipe. My arguments and insistence was based on the fact that, the content that can be cached will be an assumable fraction of downloaded HTTP Content. And the maximum content that can be downloaded, will depend on the Internet_Pipe, whether you have one user or a million users. Tushar Dave from Reliance Infocomm, helped me to complete the puzzle with an interesting algorithm, that turned out to be the missing piece of the overall jigsaw puzzle!<br/><br/>Suppose the ISP serves its customers with 256Kbps connections, then for 40,000 users it apparently needs almost 10 Gbps of Internet Pipe.<br/><br/>But actually, that&#8217;s generally never true ( in fact, for 40,000 users an ISP would actually commission an Internet Pipe of less than 1 Gbps in most cases! ) . The ISP is never going to receive 1 request from each user concurrently, every moment. This is known as the OFF-time, i.e. the period when a user is viewing the content that has been already fetched. An ISP can safely expect at least 50% of OFF-time.<br/><br/>OFF-time can actually go up to even more than 75% if the ISP is serving more of Home users &#038; small businesses, where the Internet Connection is not shared between multiple users. Secondly most of such user accounts are governed by a bandwidth cap, for example a user can choose for accounts that allow a download of a few Gbs.<br/><br/>In the above derivations we estimated the HTTP_traffic / day from Internet Pipe, now instead we simply need to derive HTTP_traffic / day from expected HTTP_Traffic per month.<br/><br/>So the estimation over-all data throughput can still be derived, without knowing the Internet Pipe! And the above derivation can be still valid!<br/><br/>So let&#8217;s see if we can do some calculations now (empirical, of course!)<br/><br/>connections = 40,000<br/><br/>user_connection = 256Kbps<br/><br/>HTTP_Share = 35%<br/><br/>ON_time = 50%<br/><br/>peak_hours = 60%<br/><br/>off_peak_utilisation = 25%<br/><br/>cacheable_content = 35%<br/><br/>store_age = 3 days<br/><br/>PEAK_HTTP_LOAD (in Kbps) = connections x user_connection x HTTP_Share = 3584000<br/><br/>NORMAL_HTTP_LOAD (in Kbps) = PEAK_HTTP_LOAD x ON_time = 1792000<br/><br/>HTTP_Traffic / hour (in Kbits) = NORMAL_HTTP_LOAD x 3600 = 6451200000<br/><br/>Cache_Increment / hour (in Kbits) = cacheable_content x ( HTTP_Traffic / hour ) = 2257920000<br/><br/>Total_Cache_Increment / day = 24 x ( ( 1 &#8211; peak_hours x<br/><br/>off_peak_utilisation) + peak_hours ) x ( Cache_Increment / hour ) = 2257920000<br/><br/>Required Storage Capacity ( in Kbits ) = store_age x (Total_Cache_Increment / day) = 6773760000<br/><br/>Required Storage Capacity ( in Mbits ) = 6615000<br/><br/>Required Storage Capacity ( in Gbits ) = 6459.9609375<br/><br/>Considering 8 bits = 1 byte, it looks like we need a little over 800 GB of Storage<br/><br/>However I would Requisition a Storage Capacity that can accommodate for possible increase in downloaded content of 35% (cacheable_content) to sustain at least 3 store_age cycles, i.e. 800 x 1.35^3 = 1968 GB<br/><br/>      The above derivation is quite subject to a lot of assumptions. But it should allow deriving by ratio adjustments, quite easily.<br/><br/>For example &#8211; if the connections went up by 20% then we would need 20% more storage!<br/><br/>But more importantly, it allows anybody to differ with my assumptions,<br/><br/>and yet approximate the storage required.<br/><br/>Looks so simple now, Thank you Tushar.<br/><a href='http://www.momentsofelegance.com/catalog/bridal-shower-favors-c-54.html'>bridal shower favors</a></p>
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		<title>How to Surf The Web Safely Through Proxy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<div><br/><br/>When people hear or read the word &#8220;proxy&#8221; their minds start to wander and the look on their faces change, may consider such words to be too geeky to enter the common language, the fact is that the word is not self explanatory that&#8217;s why it is necessary to explain the meaning and functions of such systems, you will soon learn that they are very handy.<br/><br/>As shown by the online etymology dictionary the word proxy comes from the term prokecye, which means &#8220;agency of one who acts instead of another.&#8221; It is also contraction of Anglo-Fr.term &#8220;procuracie&#8221;, from M.L. procuratia &#8220;administration,&#8221; from L. procuratio &#8220;care, management,&#8221; from procurare &#8220;manage&#8221;<br/><br/>In order to eliminate the complexity of the origins of the word we will use the first one &#8220;agency of one who acts instead of another&#8221; when we translate and incorporate such terms into the computer world, internet to be more precise, we see that some machines act on behalf of others in order to keep the requester of the information anonymous, untraceable and safe.<br/><br/>Proxies are web services which are free (most of the time) and provide security to internet users who browse several pages a day and are concerned with spyware, hackers and other forms of malicious applications which use the information transmitted by your browser through its header. Without using a proxy a web site which has tracking software and scripts can tell the exact geographical location of your system, in other words you can be located easily.<br/><br/>Another function of the proxy is to speed up your web browsing speeds by acting as a buffer which gathers the pages you request and sends it to your computer. There are three types of proxies:<br/><br/>Transparent proxies:<br/><br/>These are used by people who want to speed up their web browsing experience without hiding any information, the proxy server will reveal your system information just like you would if you were not using this service.<br/><br/>Anonymous:<br/><br/>This type of proxy speeds up your connection just like the transparent option but it doesn&#8217;t transmit your IP address and system information so you remain as the name implies, anonymous. There is one small detail though, when you use anonymous proxies the servers are configured to send variables to the sites which let them know that you are using a proxy.<br/><br/>High Anonymity:<br/><br/>Through this proxy type you can speed up your connection and browse the web in a complete stealth mode. No information from your system is transmitted and the proxy server doesn&#8217;t send any variables indicating you are using a proxy, this allows you to go from site to site in a faster more secure way.<br/><br/>As you see there is more than it meets the eyes when it comes to weird computer terms, learning how to find an configure these systems to work with your applications will allow you to remain anonymous while browsing any site.<br/><strong>About the Author:</strong>
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		<title>Internet Service Providers to Change IP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Internet service providers (ISP) have made it part of their package to change IP. The Internet Protocol address, or the IP address, of a computer is that computer&#8217;s unique address in the online network. And in offering online security and privacy to its customers, the Internet service providers have gone on to use dynamic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>Most Internet service providers (ISP) have made it part of their package to change IP. The Internet Protocol address, or the IP address, of a computer is that computer&#8217;s unique address in the online network. And in offering online security and privacy to its customers, the Internet service providers have gone on to use dynamic IPs instead of static IPs.<br/><br/>In your quest to choose an Internet service provider for your home computer or your office connection, you should consider the type of IP address that the service is providing. The recommended one of the two would by the dynamic IPs.<br/><br/>Let us first be familiar with the two types of IP addresses. The first is the static IP, which is assigned to the computer by the network. This address does not change whenever we connect to the Internet. The settings of your computer will remain the same and intact, allowing the computer to connect to the Internet and get data faster.<br/><br/>In contrast to the static IP address, the dynamic IP address is allocated by a router, and it uses DHCP, or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. The DHCP allows for the allocation of an IP address to your computer when you connect to the Internet. It picks up the allocated IP address from a pool of IP addresses available, and every time you connect to the Internet you will have a different IP address. Most Internet service providers use this for their customers. Not all, though, and we have to know what kind of address system the Internet service providers are running on.<br/><br/>As stated above, dynamic IPs are the preferred one of the two. They were made to change and go to another computer user, giving another user that IP address. Your IP will also will be a different one the next time you log onto the Internet. It&#8217;s a change &#8220;wheel&#8221; going on with dynamic IPs, and it is an advantage for us. The change in IP leads to a hack-proof system, as it will give a hacker or any malicious attacker a hard time to get to your data when your address is always changing.<br/><br/>But, of course, static address is also commonly used. Many businesses prefer to run a static IP because of the data that they want to give to the customers they have visiting their website. There&#8217;s also the issue of the business employees working in various locations but needing to connect to the company&#8217;s data. This would require static IP. Among businesses and companies, the static IP running system is much more in demand.<br/><br/>When we are browsing the Internet on our personal time and our personal computer, though, changing or hiding our IP address is important. Our personal files and accounts may be at risk if we have a real and static IP as our online address. This is not the right precaution if we want to protect our online privacy. For us personal users, it is better to choose an Internet service provider with a system to change IP.<br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.momentsofelegance.com/catalog/candle-wedding-favors-c-32.html'>candle wedding favors</a></p>
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		<title>Bypass your School and Work Filters with an Anonymous Proxy Server</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the proliferation of the Internet, many websites promote themselves by sending you spam junk mails, advertisings and even embed spyware that is difficult to remove onto your computer. These things not only keep track of your personal information, but also enable hackers and crackers to infiltrate your system. Anonymous proxy servers act as a [...]]]></description>
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<div><br/><br/>With the proliferation of the Internet, many websites promote themselves by sending you spam junk mails, advertisings and even embed spyware that is difficult to remove onto your computer. These things not only keep track of your personal information, but also enable hackers and crackers to infiltrate your system. Anonymous proxy servers act as a wall between your data and the Internet, whereby providing security to your system and data. There are however, other reasons to use an anonymous proxy server.<br/><br/>If your work or school has any type of filtering in place to prevent people from visiting certain websites, an anonymous proxy server is a great way to get around such restrictions. Anonymous proxy servers work by acting as a &#8220;middle man&#8221;; they download the requested pages to their proxy server and in turn you download the page, all images and other such objects from the proxy server to your browser, thus bypassing any filters or annoying firewalls. Not only is this a viable alternative for students to bypass their school&#8217;s filter to access such popular student sites such as Myspace or Xanga but can be used if your workplace has strict limitations on which websites you can access. Most anonymous proxy bypass servers use one of two program, PHProxy or CGIProxy, both of which are excellent proxy software packages.<br/><br/>After you have discovered the benefits of using anonymous proxy servers, you will probably want to try it out. There are numerous free proxy services out there, one of the most popular is SpySurfing ( http://www.spysurfing.com/ ) and is a really fast proxy server that is popular among both students look to bypass their school filters and adults looking to bypass their work place firewalls.<br/><strong>About the Author:</strong>
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		<title>I Need A Proxy, Everybody Wants A Proxy!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess I&#8217;m not going to be very popular after publishing this article, but this is really a big problem and one that needs to be addressed very quickly before it grows into another digital snowball like spam and malware. IT departments spend a lot of time and money on network security. Restrictions are put [...]]]></description>
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<div><br/><br/><br/>I guess I&#8217;m not going to be very popular after publishing this article, but this is really a big problem and one that needs to be addressed very quickly before it grows into another digital snowball like spam and malware. IT departments spend a lot of time and money on network security. Restrictions are put into place, not only to protect corporate data, but also for the safety of everyone working on the corporate network. However, network restrictions are not only for the corporate world, these restrictions are also present at schools and even in our homes. But what is the use of protecting your data and privacy if you constantly have to deal with cyber rats eating their way through your defences from the inside?<br/><br/>A proxy is often blocked as soon as the network administrator becomes aware of the fact that it is used to gain unauthorised access to websites and other networks. That&#8217;s the reason why people are constantly in search of brand new proxies and what scares me the most, is the rate at which these new proxies become available, it is so bad you can even regard it as another form of spam. The sad reality however, is that the people who use these proxies, either do not know a thing about PC security, or they don&#8217;t give a damn about it. Browsing restricted sites via an illegal proxy exposes your computer to malware and hackers, putting the whole network at risk. Confidential and sensitive corporate information can easily be leaked and the privacy of every employee using the corporate network could be compromised due to the selfish acts of employees who can&#8217;t walk between the lines. So you are not only putting your colleagues in a tight spot, your compromising your own security as well.<br/><br/>The most popular reason for a proxy is to gain access to social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Orkut or Twitter. Social networking sites are time and money wasters in terms of productivity, bandwidth and company resources. Instead of doing their jobs, people waste hours and hours of productivity during the day, by hanging out on social community sites. To add insult to injury, they don&#8217;t use their own bandwidth to chill on these sites, they use company bandwidth, company computers and company printers to do what they should be doing after work. Kids browse these social communities instead of attending to their schoolwork, wasting their parents&#8217;s money, or the money of the taxpayer if the government funds the school. Speaking of the government, what about government workers? Instead of delivering the services we pay for, they browse MySpace, Facebook, Orkut or Twitter with our tax money. (Some governments do not even have any network security to speak of, so they can access any site without the use of a proxy).<br/><br/>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m not against the use of social networking sites, but there is a time and place for everything and social networking sites do not have a place at the office or at school (unless you are the PR manager of the company maintaining the company profile on MySpace). Before everyone starts to call me a party pooper, accusing me of taking the fun out of the office, think about this: If everyone spent more time on their job and less time on social networking sites during working hours, we will get a lot more work done and will therefore have plenty of time to hang out with friends and family on our favourite social networking sites. Don&#8217;t be mad at your boss for limiting your Internet access, the fact that you are using a proxy to bypass Internet filters and other limitations imposed by your employer, already tells me that you can&#8217;t use the Internet responsibly. If you really need to use these sites, visit them after work or after school and if you don&#8217;t have a computer at home, use a friend&#8217;s computer or visit an Internet café. It has to be mentioned though, that 3rd party proxies are not only used to access social networking sites, but they are also popular for **** surfing and the downloading of pirated software, music and movies. These sites are far worse than social networking sites, because they do not only waste valuable man-hours, they are often loaded with nasty malware, a direct threat to the safety of everyone working on the network.<br/><br/>The bottom line is, companies invest a lot in computer security, computer labs at schools do their best to keep their networks safe and clean and parents invest in parental control software to keep their young ones from accessing harmful content on the Web. Still you get people who want to break down all these barriers, ignoring the damage they cause and the risks they create during this process. Bypassing the parental control software on the family computer can easily lead to a prohibited site where a sneaky rootkit finds its way into your system. It may log a credit card number here and a password there and before your folks know what&#8217;s going on, they could be staring bankruptcy in the face. The same can happen at work or at school, your infected PC can cause a lot of problems for other people using the same network. Do you want something like this on your conscience? Proxies may have their uses, but they should not be used to cross digital borders illegally. If you are not allowed to visit a specific site at work or at school, then there&#8217;s most likely a pretty good reason why you shouldn&#8217;t visit it. If you choose to visit prohibited sites without proper authorisation, you risk loosing your job, getting suspended or even harsher network restrictions may be implemented. Think about it, is it really worth all that?<br/><br/>People are so touchy about this subject that when they ask for new proxies in forums or Q&#038;A communities, they often warn you in advance not to ***** about why they shouldn&#8217;t be using one. So next time when you run across someone asking for a proxy to bypass firewalls and Internet filters, don&#8217;t waste your time explaining why they shouldn&#8217;t be using one, don&#8217;t expose yourself to insults and swearing, just refer them to this article.<br/><a href='http://www.momentsofelegance.com/catalog/favor-boxes-bags-ribbon-c-62.html'>favor boxes</a></div>
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		<title>How Can I Secure My Wireless Network?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<div><br/><br/><br/>Wireless Internet connections are certainly convenient, especially in terms of reducing the clutter of all those wires.<br/><br/>They are also convenient for other reasons too but you may not like those.<br/><br/>Hackers love wireless networks &#8211; they can break into many with relative ease and they don&#8217;t even need to be in your home to do so &#8211; they can access them from the street outside with a wireless laptop.<br/><br/>Fortunately, however, it isn’t difficult to protect yourself.<br/><br/>Wireless networks can be particularly vulnerable to digital intruders which means any sensitive or private data on them can be at risk.<br/><br/>However, you can protect yourself in many ways, including using WEP or WPA encryption, both of which require users to enter a password before they are allowed to access your wireless network.<br/><br/>Here are some additional tips on how you can protect your wireless network -<br/><br/>* Reduce the broadcasting range of your network &#8211; doing so can keep nosy neighbours from intruding on your connection. You can do this by moving your wireless router away from external wall in your home and by decreasing it&#8217;s power settings.<br/><br/>* Change your router&#8217;s default password &#8211; hackers and crackers know what they are!<br/><br/>* Disable SSID broadcasting as most wireless routers broadcast the names of the network which could aid a hacker.<br/><br/>* Disable your wireless connection when you are not using it.<br/><br/>* Always use a strong firewall that will go a long way to protecting your computer from outside interferance.<br/><br/>* Think twice before sharing files over your home network as other users may not be as security conscious as you.<br/><br/>* When connecting to a network be sure to connect to your own and not any others that may be in range &#8211; who knows what security risks other people&#8217;s networks may pose to your own?<br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.momentsofelegance.com/catalog/baptism-confirmation-c-101.html'>baptism favors</a></div>
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		<title>How to Remove Malware 2009 &#8211; Malware 2009 Removal Made Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About Malware 2009: Malware 2009 is a program which displays fake security alerts and pop-ups that warn about computer infections. The pop-ups will then urge you to run an anti-malware scanner in order to remove the bugs from your computer. Once you click the pop-up, you&#8217;ll reach an advertisement page faking to be a scanner. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br/><br/><br/>About Malware 2009: Malware 2009 is a program which displays fake security alerts and pop-ups that warn about computer infections. The pop-ups will then urge you to run an anti-malware scanner in order to remove the bugs from your computer. Once you click the pop-up, you&#8217;ll reach an advertisement page faking to be a scanner. You will then be alerted about malware on your computer, and prompted to download and install Malware 2009 in order to protect your computer. Once this happens, your the trojan will begin its attack on your computer, putting you at serious danger of corrupted files and identity theft.<br/><br/>Malware 2009 is a rogue that is promoted by the Trojan Vundo infection. Once installed it will automatically load every time you start your computer and alert you about malware that must be removed. These infections, of course, are fake, and your problems will only get worse before, during, and after the installation, download, and purchase of Malware 2009. Bundled with this awful trojan is another trojan, it&#8217;s called C:WindowsSystem32wcenter.exe, which displays a fake Windows Security Center display on your desktop. It&#8217;s purpose is to display fake alerts through this medium in order to prompt the user to purchase the Trojan software. It&#8217;s a big mess.<br/><br/>As if running a computer with a trojan like this one isn&#8217;t bad enough, Malware 2009 will also slow your computer down to a crawl. The constant popups and fake threat alerts will distract and slow down the user. It&#8217;s an awful piece of spyware that is gaining as of this writing. To remove this malware and the Vundo Trojan infection, you should use a trusted automatic spyware and anti-virus removal tool.<br/><br/>In order to remove Malware 2009 you need to delete all its parts at once. This can include but is not limited to:<br/><br/>1. Removing all Malware 2009 related processes (any malicious EXE files) 2. Removing any associated DLL files (Dynamic Link Library) 3. Removing any malicious .lnk files associated with the virus 4. Go into the registry, locate and remove dangerous files in following directories<br/><br/>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_CURRENT_USER<br/><br/><strong>Manual removal is strictly recommended for advanced computer users</strong>.<br/><br/>Why? Because if you delete the wrong registry files, you may cause serious harm to your computer. Not only is that a threat, but additionally if all files that make up the virus are not removed, the infection will regenerate the next time the computer is started up. For this reason, I recommend a proven, automatic Malware 2009 removal tool. Your malware 2009 problem can be solved in minutes, with live protection and protection from future attacks.<br/><br/><strong>Had enough with the struggle against viruses and dangerous trojans?</strong><br/><br/>Would you like to surf the internet without fear of becoming an identity theft victim? Get a free scan and download from the best virus software and Remove Malware 2009<br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.jackscouponcodes.com'>coupon codes</a></p>
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		<title>Pluscom VOIP SIP IP Phone With Three Way Calling Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VOIP SIP IP Phone With three way calling conference Support 2 Voip Accounts, 2 concurrent calls, (Web or keypad easy configurable) Compatible with any sip provider apart from skype. It does not depend on your computer it work with any Broadband ADSL / DSL / Cable Virgin Media routers or switch with internet connection.VP-32 VoIP [...]]]></description>
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<div><br/><br/>VOIP SIP IP Phone With three way calling conference Support 2 Voip Accounts, 2 concurrent calls, (Web or keypad easy configurable) Compatible with any sip provider apart from skype. It does not depend on your computer it work with any Broadband ADSL / DSL / Cable Virgin Media routers or switch with internet connection.<br/><br/>VP-32 VoIP SIP IP Phone fully complies with SIP RFC3261 protocol to support call modes of Proxy server and peer to peer. DDSN function provides another call mode. Built-in function of Outbound Proxy, STUN and uPnP enables VoIP traffic to traverse firewall and NAT. It assures the quality of conversation with several Codec standard, including G723.1, G729A and G729B. Using G.165, G.168 echo canceller with jitter buffer features good voice quality. Its easy to connect VP-32 to ITSP, ISP or Carrier Company via ADSL/Cable Modem to get the VoIP telephony service for residential or SOHO. For enterprise, it only connects to internal LAN network.<br/><br/>Make free worldwide calls and talk for free all over the world with VP-32) <br />It does not need a computer it directly plug into your ADSL or DSL or any broadband router or a switch by network cable.<br/><br/>It provide you up to two extra telephone numbers which you can obtain for free from sipgate or for a small charge of £1.99 per line from voiptalk but the 0870 and 0871 can be obtained free of charge from all most any provider. Further more you can buy unlimited calling package from voiptalk for £9.99 per month which allow you to make calls to UK and Worldwide day and night.<br/><br/>It allows you to receive calls from normal phone or mobiles as well as from SIP telephones. You can call other SIP phones for free day and night.<br/><br/>Music on Hold, let you transfer calls to another sip phone, normal land line or mobile phones.<br/><br/>It allow you to have conference calls with two user at the same time or switch between the two.<br/><br/>Answer your calls from anywhere you like simply take the phone with you and plug it into internet enable RJ45 Port.<br/><br/>Support all ITSP &#8220;Internet Service provider such as Ringcentral BT, voipfone, SIP Discount, IPTEL VOIPWISE, Asterisk, cheapvoip VoipTalk, Gradewell, SIPgate FWD and many more.<br/><br/>VP-32 VoIP SIP IP Phone fully complies with SIP RFC3261 protocol to support call modes of Proxy server and peer to peer. DDSN function provides another call mode. Built-in function of Outbound Proxy, STUN and uPnP enables VoIP traffic to traverse firewall and NAT.<br/><br/>It assures the quality of conversation with several Codec standard, including G723.1, G729A and G729B. Using G.165, G.168 echo canceller with jitter buffer features good voice quality. Its easy to connect VP-32 to ITSP, ISP or Carrier Company via ADSL/Cable Modem to get the VoIP telephony service for residential or SOHO. For enterprise, it only connects to internal LAN network.<br/><br/>Key point: Work with any SIP service provider, Any SIP PBX, gives you extra 2 Land lines and 2 SIP VOIP numbers, Let you make and receive free phones calls day and night via SIP.<br/><br/>What are you waiting for get one today!!!<br/><strong>About the Author:</strong>
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