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Improving your personal security - part 2
Protect yourself on-line Sept, 2007
In This Issue
Better Email Tools
Free PC Firewall
WebMail Update
Better Email Tools

There are many Email tools available today, but I am going to discuss with you a Free Tool which provides added security which can protect you from being infected with the latest zero day exploit (this is a New way to infect your PC before the virus companies have identified a new definition).

The tool that I have been using for more than 10 years is Mozilla Thunderbird (formerly known as Netscape).  Thunderbird has many security advantages.  One of the most notable advantages is that it will not download images for Email from unknown senders.  This one feature alone can protect your PC from becoming a New Virus scanner for the leader of the latest Spybot army.

As I mentioned previously, Thunderbird is available for free, for you to download from:
Thunderbird

Thunderbird will migrate your existing contacts and will permit you to revert (if you decide that you do not like it) back to your old tools.  I highly recommend that you make a change to a more secure tool set.  Thunderbird for Email, Firefox for Web Browsing.

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In this issue I want to introduce to you some important tools which you should consider to improve your personal security while on the internet.
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Free PC Firewall

If you use the internet a lot, you need to have a firewall on your PC, in addition to at the front door of your network.  This will protect you from the other people using your Corporate network, the Coffee shop you connect at, or just using the internet at home.

For years I found that Norton Security products were the Gold standard for my own personal PC.  Now I have changed my mind.  A new tool has shown it's ability to protect your PC when you did not know you needed it. 

What if with all the precautions you took, you had found that your PC was infected with a New piece for SpyWare.  Did you know that this Spyware also can communicate back to the designer, without your knowing about it?  This is called leaking.  Imagine if you will, the data from your check book, accounting software, or contact list, Leaking back to the bad guys.

I would consider this a bad thing, wouldn't you?

Now, what if I could give you a New Firewall Tool, that eliminated data leaking for Free.  No this is not the latest copy of ZoneAlarm, while I have not used this (too many other issues not addressed with tool), I know that some of you have.

Send me an email to FreeFirewall and I will reply with a private link to my tools and User Guide on our WebSite. 

WebMail update
Since many of you have decided that WebMail is a Useful Tool, we have updated our installation of WebMail to permit you to access WebMail from your registered domain names. 

This update will not require any changes to your existing software, and our current links will remain active as well.

Our update does permit you to access the WebMail software from your own Domain name using a link like this:

http://{Your Domain Name}/webmail

You can update the links on your own Websites to permit you to have direct access to the WebMail interface (that is, unless we have already redirected your domain somewhere else).

When you send an email from {Your Domain Name}, the return address will display as your own domain name, and not No-JunkMail.com or Spam-Zapper.com.

I hope that you will make use of this recent update.
 New Product Offering

Coming soon to our arsenal of security tools is a New Product / Service we will call CleanContent.

We will make an announcement about this offer ing in the near future.
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