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With the spread of Hackers and Hacking incidents, the time has come, when not only system administrators of servers of big companies, but also people who connect to the Internet by dialing up into their ISP, have to worry about securing their system. It really does not make much difference whether you have a static IP or a dynamic one, if your system is connected to the Internet, then there is every chance of it being attacked. This manual is aimed at discussing methods of system security analysis and will shed light on as to how to secure your standalone (also a system connected to a LAN) system. Open Ports: A Threat to Security? In the Netstat Tutorial we had discussed how the netstat -a command showed the list of open ports on your system. Well, anyhow, before I move on, I would like to quickly recap the important part. So here goes, straight from the netstat tutorial: Now, the ??a? option is used to display all open connections on the local machine. It also returns the remote syste...

FIRST What were going to do is to set up your options correctly. Open WinRAR OPTIONS | SETTINGS | COMPRESSSION | CREATE DEFAULT GENERAL | (ok now that we're there, here's what U do next) But 1st -> realize that everything U set on the default profile will occur everytime U rar files. So if U only need a password occasionally, or other special settings, then create another profile for those purposes. U can change which profile U need to use when WinRar is open. The Default profile is used otherwise, such as when using WinRar from the context menus in explorer. General tab: Archive format RAR Compression method BEST size (enter in BYTES the size you want as the max single Rar file). I use 51,200,000 (50,000 KB x 1024). But chose yer max size as U wish. Update method ADD AND REPLACE FILES Archiving options: check > PUT RECOVERY RECORD Archiving options: check > TEST ARCHIVED FILES. Archiving options: check > DELETE FILES AFTER ARCHIVING ( unless U want yer HDD to fill ...

I am not sure where I found this tutorial, It’s been a while…It might even have been here... ..So if it is one of yours, my hat goes off to you once again.... After reading the excellent tutorial on "Creating an FTP" that Norway posted… (I would suggest reading and following his tutorial first, then following up with this one) I thought that perhaps this tutorial might be pretty helpful for those interested in knowing how to configure their Bulletproof FTP Server that don't already know how... Here's how to get started… This is for the BulletProof FTP Server 2.10. However, It should work fine on most following versions as well. I'm assuming you have it installed. Basics 1. Start the program. 2. Click on Setup > Main > General from the pull-down menu. 3. Enter your server name into the 'Server Name' box. Under Connection set the “Max number of users" to any number. This is the limit as to how many users can be on your sever at any time. 4. Click ...