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With the RIAA pushing its political powers to force colleges to stop student access to P2P services, isn't it time to get the FCC involved. The FCC has already made a big deal about ISP's blocking the trafic. Why dont they protect college networks the same way. I sugest we send an email to fccinfo@fcc.gov and explain to them whats going on and ask them for help.

http://it.slashdot.org/~thank-u-for-sharing/journal/99528

I saw this in a comment, good read.

It is sad that the internet has become so hostile. At work I connected one of our servers to a connection on the outside of our firewall for some remote support (didn't have the VPN papers signed yet). The moment that I enabled the nic, the server informed me that the RPC Service has failed and the computer will shut down.

I was foolish for not checking the patch levels. I assumed that someone else was on top of that. A mistake I will not make again. But home users have problems of their own. They don't know they have to keep it up patched. If I had my grandma running Linux, I would be the one patching it. What about converting all my friends and family to Linux. I would be so overwhelmed keeping each one current.

As it stands, I format, install XP /w SP2, change their user accounts to limited access, install spyware detection, antivirus, leave the firewall and automatic updates on, and finally put firefox on the desktop.

At the same time, I have to explain why XP is better than the 98 or ME that came with the computer, what SP2 is and why it takes so long, what a firewall is, what firefox is, why I created a special admin account for them to install stuff with and why the should never surf the web while logged into admin with the red background.

And if you are a slashdot regular, I am not telling you anything new. I should release this as a news story, but as we all know, this is not news. Its just the way it is.

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Kevin Marquette
antispyware

antispyware is a hot topic. I just started a weblog and as I see new antispyware related information, I just post it. I hope that by linking to important information, I will raise its visibility.

My personal blog is also starting to grow. I am trying to keep the antispyware blog to just refferences to content, and any actual comments or thought will go to my personal page. I do this so that my personal page gets some content and it might develop a personality. Only time will tell.

I decided to create a few new blogs. One is a colleciton of articles on spyware related information. I might add my own content, but at the moment I am just clipping other articles and linking to them.

Another topic that is popular at the moment is the North Korea Nuclear incident that every one has on their mind.