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With a DG834GT and WPA-PSK you are reasonably ready to go. I was using an
DG834G until a year or so ago when I moved to ADSL2+ (the Netgear range aren't particularly compatible with my ISP's ADSL2+ line cards) The router password shouldn't be that important as it should only be usable from LAN side (that is not from the internet) although if you had no wireless security then LAN side would be as open as WAN side )that is the internet side). Incidentally I found that for some unknown reason by default my DG834G had four open ports, found using a scanner, but this was easily remedied by adding a rule to block those ports. -- Mike Maltby Tony1966 wrote: Thanks for the comments and feedback on set up - I used Kerio in the dim and distant past as well as a few free virus + ad/spyware apps so I guess I have a busy day tomorrow I've a Netgear DG834GT Router - with desktop ME via Ethernet and new wireless Vista laptop. I've already changed router password and WPA-PSK network code - anyone could've guessed the original. The router has a built in firewall configured to factory settings so that's another thing for me to read re optimal configuration but there's another forum I'm part of that will sort out that and the NAT question. |
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Tony1966 wrote:
Don't worry about teaching me how to suck eggs - I need all the help and advice I can get (clearly !!!) :-) - if there's anything I already know I wouldn't care about reading it twice. By your latest responses you've already raised two questions. 1) Text view for emails - I pick all my emails up through POP/SMTP configured either on Outlook 2000 (ME) or Windows Live Mail Beta (Vista) - aren't these text mails or have I completely misunderstood the point No. You can either view as plain text or html. The problem with html is that it can autorun unwanted content and also link to external sites. I don't have a Vista box to hand (I hate the OS and only have it installed on my laptop which a friend is using at the moment). I think that Outlook offers the choice of viewing in any of plain text, rtf or html however I'm not an Outlook user. Ah, checking on O2003 which I do have installed but not use, I can see the option to send in plain, rtf or html but cannot find where to choose how to view incoming mail unlike Outlook Express where the option is found at Tools | Options | Read. 2) Can I ask how you detect and close open ports on the router please You can detecting open ports using a scanner such as that from Audit My Pc (http://www.auditmypc.com/security-scan.asp). It can take quite a time to check all 65 thousand odd as that scanner tests 2,500 at a time. To close any incoming ports which you find are open and not explicitly opened by yourself create a rule on the Netgear that closes the port. I'm sorry but not having a Netgear router to hand at the moment I cannot remember the commands to do this when logged on via the web interface but I think you will find it quite intuitive. I think the left hand column has an option that mentions creating rules, select, then new, give the rule a name, select the port(s), UDP and/or TCP and then that they should be closed. Save and then on the same or perhaps a different menu enable the rule and whether to log or not. I've had a look around at firewalls and I've got Kerio 2.1.5 on standby - looks like a later release of the one I had on my system before and I remember it was pretty easy to configure and train. I'm going to try Jetico Personal Firewall first, just to be different. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Windows |
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Excellent, thanks yet again Mike.
I too found nowhere within Outlook to set incoming mail to text. I have a sneaking suspicion that it either defaults to text or warns you about potentially unsafe html incoming mails. Either way my outlook is set up with a preview pane and messages are not read and processed until I click them - unlike outlook default which is to process them just by having the mail highlighted. Anything dodgy which has bypassed existing spam/junk rules gets deleted. I'll have a look on help/outlook forums to confim anyway. On the router your advice is noted. I've got the scanner run on the desktop at the moment and I can confirm precise router tweaking operation on an independant (sub) forum relating to the ISP once complete. Tony "Mike M" wrote: Tony1966 wrote: Don't worry about teaching me how to suck eggs - I need all the help and advice I can get (clearly !!!) :-) - if there's anything I already know I wouldn't care about reading it twice. By your latest responses you've already raised two questions. 1) Text view for emails - I pick all my emails up through POP/SMTP configured either on Outlook 2000 (ME) or Windows Live Mail Beta (Vista) - aren't these text mails or have I completely misunderstood the point No. You can either view as plain text or html. The problem with html is that it can autorun unwanted content and also link to external sites. I don't have a Vista box to hand (I hate the OS and only have it installed on my laptop which a friend is using at the moment). I think that Outlook offers the choice of viewing in any of plain text, rtf or html however I'm not an Outlook user. Ah, checking on O2003 which I do have installed but not use, I can see the option to send in plain, rtf or html but cannot find where to choose how to view incoming mail unlike Outlook Express where the option is found at Tools | Options | Read. 2) Can I ask how you detect and close open ports on the router please You can detecting open ports using a scanner such as that from Audit My Pc (http://www.auditmypc.com/security-scan.asp). It can take quite a time to check all 65 thousand odd as that scanner tests 2,500 at a time. To close any incoming ports which you find are open and not explicitly opened by yourself create a rule on the Netgear that closes the port. I'm sorry but not having a Netgear router to hand at the moment I cannot remember the commands to do this when logged on via the web interface but I think you will find it quite intuitive. I think the left hand column has an option that mentions creating rules, select, then new, give the rule a name, select the port(s), UDP and/or TCP and then that they should be closed. Save and then on the same or perhaps a different menu enable the rule and whether to log or not. I've had a look around at firewalls and I've got Kerio 2.1.5 on standby - looks like a later release of the one I had on my system before and I remember it was pretty easy to configure and train. I'm going to try Jetico Personal Firewall first, just to be different. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Windows |
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Tony,
That all sounds good. Note, as I am sure you already appreciate, you only need to scan from one of your machines since what is being tested is the router rather than the machine being used. BTW, although I don't know which ISP you are using, I wouldn't expect them to require you to have any open ports on your router other than those you have intentionally opened yourself. For example I have four ports opened, 21 which is used to access my FTP server and three others with randomly assigned numbers used to access specific programs I have installed on my system one of which is the BT application Azureus. These ports are open and each directed to a specific machine on my LAN. All others are closed and only opened in response to requests made my system. Normally you need to have no ports open unless you are running servers such as FTP (21), SMTP Mail (25) and web (http 80 and maybe https 443). Likewise you would need to open a port, for example 3389 if you wished to use Remote Desktop from another location to access your Vista machine. -- Mike Maltby Tony1966 wrote: Excellent, thanks yet again Mike. I too found nowhere within Outlook to set incoming mail to text. I have a sneaking suspicion that it either defaults to text or warns you about potentially unsafe html incoming mails. Either way my outlook is set up with a preview pane and messages are not read and processed until I click them - unlike outlook default which is to process them just by having the mail highlighted. Anything dodgy which has bypassed existing spam/junk rules gets deleted. I'll have a look on help/outlook forums to confim anyway. On the router your advice is noted. I've got the scanner run on the desktop at the moment and I can confirm precise router tweaking operation on an independant (sub) forum relating to the ISP once complete. |
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