Secrets Of My Success And Existence Of Itguyforaday
Yes, there have been many many security holes in
Windows mostly which allows your system to be
compromised while you are online on the Internet
as in file manipulation and even crashing
your computer from remote.
What can you do about it ? Check out some of the
websites and/or software that I have listed below.
There are internet websites which will test your
computers security for you while you are
online and others which will explain weakness in
Windows Networking and Internet Access -
i bought my first computer - a broken Tandy or Radio
Shack TRS-80 Model 4P - which ran or read maybe
10 to 20 different versions of CPM (many other brand
name proprietary computers ran their own versions of
CPM so CPM was also a standard but never caught
on even though companies and businesses at the
time used it),
MSDOS, PCDOS, OS2 and Propiertary TANDY DOS,
etc. for all I could tell or tried at the time -
i purchased my first computer after getting a summer
intern job there at a location of Ames Laboratory - DOE -
Which had a Location on Campus as a Computer
Programmer Converting and Modifying Fortran Code
To Unix C++ in an attempt to get a GKS Graphical
environmental package to run - and yes it finally ran
with a spinning green graphical spherical globe like
object on the screen and my boss at the time just
stared at it in amazement - Yes, I made enough money
from that job to purchase my first computer
- Thank You - Thank You - Thank You - Thank You -
- Yes, it was quite a beast -
Yes i did meet a Group of Computer Hackers at Iowa
State University who introduced me to all of this after
i joined the ISU Computer Science Club at the time -
- anyway this was a light portable or luggable
computer which was broken
with a bad communications - Uart chip - in a card
on the main board called a dialup modem - 300 to
2400 baud or bps - which i
repaired with a soldering iron and electronic
schematics (Just From my High School Analog and
Digital Electronics education - US Military book called
GROBE) anyway back in my first
year and first college - ISU - IOWA STATE
UNIVERSITY in Ames, Iowa
Home of the first Electronic Digital Computer as well -
The Atanasoff Berry Computer - called the ABC
Computer by John Vincent Atanasoff known as the
father of the computer.
but it didn't make the world news because it was
over shadowed by a news event at that time
otherwise it might have been famous and well known
(Instead of attending University of California at
Berkeley or UC Berkeley - where i was also accepted
for admissions)
That summer i also worked on campus at The
Famous Government Department of Energy
facility onsite - AMES LABORATORY - as my first
real job straight from High School - as a Computer
Programmer in Fortran and C - 1984 - 1985.
i used that same computer until mid to late 1990's
and Pre-2000 - a computing marvel - got me partially
thru college as a student with no money before i built
my first IBM PC Compatible desktop or fliptop when i moved
off campus at Southern Polytechnic State University in
Marietta Georgia after still using the TRS-80 Model 4P that i
repaired while attending Iowa State University in Ames Iowa
in short, i used a computer or laptop to finish my education
at an all online college after exploring several other online
colleges at the time and finally transferring from
Southern Polytechnic State University To Devry University
local campus which was online in the Early Mid 2006 to
2008 maybe or so just by coming home from work and
sitting on my bed with a microphone or speaker hooked up
if it wasn't already built in - to be able to hear and speak thru my laptop or computer
i was fixing laptops and selling laptops online at the time so
i had my choice of laptops and i got my first
telecommunications job just because that local white telecommunications company
just down the street from my school at the time saw my
website online where i was selling my laptops and other
items in a separate - forsale page on my website - as an alternative to the - online all in one selling page - that was
taught by devry university web development and design course that they could never get their - page to work - but i
had already created a - forsale page and section - on my website years earlier and so i didn't need to use - their page
- one of the reasons i took their course for $$$$$ and got a full refund for taking that course because they didn't teach
me anything that I didn't already know from taking a similar course at Southern Polytechnic State University - and said
that was the reason one of the owners hired me and they also knew of the all black telecommunications company on the other side of town that
i ended up working for many years later after i left this company and after this local company trained me -
i created that website by taking a Continuating Education
Course at Southern Polytechnic State University Which was
the only way it was offered while i was attending classes
there in the evening in the late 1996 or so and then also later
Web Development and Design at Devry University after
Completing my BA Degree in Computer Science there earlier
before then and this separate course and enrollment
appeared to be just a repetition of my earlier course except
for a few items and no degree or certification was given at
either instances -
I couldn't believe finishing school could be that easy at an
all online college instead of many years to just several
months class time just by having a computer and transfer
credits from both Iowa State University and Southern
Polytechnic State University - so i went for it and got my
BA Degree in Computer Science many years ahead of schedule
Without those computers none of this would have
been possible because i used it to surf - COMPUTER
BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS - BBS systems - which
were personal public personal computers you could
setup and allow logon running the BBS software just
like independent businesses, companies or Internet sites -
BBS Systems were actually the First Internet Websites - Even though Some of Them were just Command Line And
Not Totally Graphical and some still actually exist and have not been upgraded or replaced yet - used as backup websites -
From there you would connect to USENET, and
BITNET (bitlist), Companies and other public sites at the
time before the standard internet came about with
websites as such.
The USENET and BITNET were freely
available to college students attending most of the popular
universities and colleges and it was free there on ISU
University Computer Systems as well as free internet
accounts while you were a student at most colleges and
universities who used them to do school work as well as surf
the internet
if you had the luxury of owning your own computer you
could just connect to the school computer system to do
your
school work as well as surf in the internet for free.
Otherwise i guess computer BBS Systems were popular for
surfing the internet since individual personal internet
accounts weren't really poplar at that time otherwise the
members of the computer science club would have
mentioned it. Lots of Adult, news, sports, videos, pics ,
etc and software of all types of various items of interest
were available on these BBS Systems which you didn't have
to pay money for which were basically all free and there
were even Specialty BBS Systems like the Swingers, Adult,
Sports, Weather, and Company BBS Systems to pick from
huge lists sometimes and various others - plenty of porn,
news, sports, videos, pics , etc and software of all types in
message sections of the BBS Systems all free if you could
connect to the BBS System as well as download and upload
sections - 300 baud was the standard basic modem
speed for most personal computers at the time which
grew from 1200, 2400, to 9600 and above.
These BBS Systems are probably still readily available out
there since the old dialup modems are still available and
have been upgraded to the fax voice combo card modems
which we use today which you can use as fax machines,
voicemail systems (which i had on one of my ibm pc
compatible computers at the time for fax, voicemail and
modem), etc , with both generic and proprietary computer
software - much cheaper than a fax machine if you had an
ibm pc compatible computer - i set this combination up for
quite a few people while attending Southern Polytechnic
State University in Marietta Georgia - and i used to fax quite
a bit back then from all over the world and had a proprietary
voicemail with remote access and pager and cellphone
notifications , fax forwarding which was state of the art for
the features and options it provided just like having a
company voicemail with a directory and names and a fax
menu - One of the individuals i worked with at that school
had that type of fax voice modem combo card as well or an
upgraded version which he talked about from time to time
if you could afford a personal computer the standard
command line interface was used at the time and depending
on the connection on the other end you could actually get a
graphical or gui interface or screen instead of just command
line and could connect to a BBS System which were mostly
graphical or gui - cpm operating systems was the standard
personal computer operating system with some
companies having their own interchangeable versions or
completely different or proprietary version depending on
the various computer companies at the time and pcdos or
msdos operating systems was just approaching beyond
the horizon at the time and some of the personal computers
were even still compatible believe it and could run either or
before the ibm pc compatible computer became the new
standard - os2 operating systems came out briefly but
was a bit cumbersome and never became a standard -
i had a brief job at a computer company in Arlington Virginia
building repairing and setting up ibm pc compatible
computers when they were just becoming popular and sold
during Christmas rush during the late 1986 to 1988 after
leaving Iowa State University since I couldn't find another
job there after my first summer internship job that summer
and i had took out a loan thru the school to be able to stay
in school and couldn't return to school or transfer until i paid
off that loan and Living in the Virginia - Maryland -
Washington D. C. Area which were just minutes apart from
each other via the famous interstate highway called the beltway -
of course I frequented BBS Systems in that area as well as
well as some online BBS Systems at various University Of
Maryland Campuses where i planned to return to college
but never did - the digital life and another world was out
there and accessible as well as content from all over the
world and all walks of life
Email accounts were available on those BBS Systems for
free but you had to access them from those particular
systems as long as the BBS System was running and
sometimes several BBS Systems were actually linked or
networked together. So you could post messages on one
System and pick read them on another System that it was linked to.
There finally came an event where all the BBS Systems
were linked together and then they were finally linked to the
World Wide Web or Internet and Become The Original World Wide Web since everything was all accessible and
linked together as we know it which was When
i was still using Swinger Adult BBS Systems Which became
accessible by internet as well instead of just dialup modems
before upgrading to Dsl and Other Connections
but of course by that time internet personal email accounts
were somewhat affordable but still slightly expensive to
some and i had a few old ones before ending up with what i
have now as well as free ones if you didn't want to use your
free school internet email account if you were a student.
For those who were aware, BBS Systems which were
accessible by only dialup internet modems at the time and in
the beginning allowed you to
create your own personal email accounts so you didn't
have to pay for an internet email account since those BBS
Systems were basic standalone servers or connections or
systems. Those who setup their own BBS Systems from
readily available free downloadable public software online were able to do
this and an old member and president of the ISU Computer
Science Club did manage to setup his own BBS System on
his TRS Computer and had his own personal internet email
address from which we would send him email and he actually
explained what it entailed - he later got a job working on
campus there since he had his own personal computer.
Of course i downloaded the software and tried to set it up
but never finished it after toying around with it a bit and
trying to decipher the computer programming code it was
written in to see how it worked - one of my unfinished
projects while attending school.
later all of these BBSes were linked and networked
together to form what we now know as the modern
internet.
Windows Internet security links
Gibson Research - www.GRC.com
(Will Test your systems security Online - SHIELD -
in addition GRC offers HARDDRIVE REPAIR
SOFTWARE
called - SPINRITE - which has been around for years
and is still available for your old harddrive or new
harddrive if you don't want to throw it out just
because it has bad - "SECTORS" - which i used to
use all the time because it was
"AFFORDABLE" and could recertify old or broken
harddrives.
The harddrive has clicks or crashes when it gets
to a bad
sector - sometimes causing Windows BSOD - blue
screen of death - and you just can't seem to fix it,
this is sometimes the cure when CHKDSK doesn't
work.
So starting out in computers i couldn't afford much
so - SPINRITE - gave me a way out if i wanted to
keep that old harddrive of mine spinning and didn't
have money to replace it.
Zonelabs - Zonealarm - www.Zonelabs.com
(Personal firewall software with free versions)
One of the very best and first at that time till today
as well as easiest to configure and use.
Black ICE Defender -
(Another personal firewall software but not free)
Which was still available at that time.
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