First off let me tell everyone that reads this that I am not one of those nuts that think the world is coming to an end next week but you never know what might happen. I bet the Romans never thought that their way of life would come to a screeching halt either or if you want to look at more recent times some of the victims of hurricane Katrina were left to fend from themselves for weeks without any help in sight.

Combobulates list of security programs will give you the tools you need to safley secure
most computer systems. It is just about impossible to keep computers 100% secure all of the
time but the biggest threat to any systems are the users themself. The programs listed
below will help you have a more secure and better running systems with proper use.

Torrent download link: comming soon

Encryption:

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-Albert Einstein

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

Working on downloading them all you can never have to many!!

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.mspx
- some good general info and tools

http://www.webpagepublicity.com/
- 6500 Fonts+No Terms Found

There are many threats to user passwords these days one of the biggest and easiest to implement are hardware keystroke loggers. A simple device the goes between the keyboard cable and the computer used to capture all keystrokes on the computer. They have been around for sometime but they seem to be getting more popular with age and several recent stories of how to make them seem to be popping up everywhere one even gracing the homepages of Hackaday, Makeblog, and Digg a few days ago.

Remote Assistance is a great feature incorporated in Windows XP which lets user to control a remote system over a network or via the internet. An administrator can connect to client system in order to diagnose the system and perform the appropriate steps to repair the system. When connected, the administrator can use his mouse and keyboard to operate on client’s remotely located system as he can view the client’s system screen. It is not always possible to go remote places to diagnose the system and so remote assistance is a great feature as it saves time and you can easily diagnose and repair the system while you enjoy the comforts of being at home. Now, if you feel that the user always need to approve the request to let you take control of the system and this can result in a waste of time because of the differences in time zones then here are the steps on how you can make the client system to “ auto-approve “ the request to let you access and take control of the system to assist them in finding the solutions to their problems and this can be done with the remote assistance feature of the windows XP. In order to do this, you need to edit html pages as remote assistance feature of windows uses html pages as the dialog boxes to communicate with the client and these dialog boxes pop up at the client end and the client need to click yes on the screen for confirmation.

Interesting article I found via digg today about Password Cracking and Recovery. It suggests that you put characters from all 5 of these rows in your passwords to increase the time it takes to get cracked.

0123456789
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
@#$%^&*()-_+=
~`[]{}|\:;'<>,.?/

I have used Sysinternals utilities for years and it looks like the company has been bought out by Microsoft the new site is chock full of all the same great utilities and even some new stuff.

Link - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

USB drives have become very popular lately you can do just about anything with
them, this is a good list that covers most common computer functions. The applications
will run off USB drives and require no installs:

Adminstration: