Tong Family (richtong.org sync)

GIAC: Global Information Assurance Certification – Home Page Seems to be a good site to look at for how certification works on security.

eEye Digital Security. Best scanning tool is now on Windows

Sysinternals Freeware – Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000. A very nice set of utilities for Windows

Security Tools : ScannerAn easy place to fine the scanner stuff. Watch out for viruses in them though!

NetworkEval.COM Home PageAnother site with something that identifies all shares

SC Magazine. Of course there is a security trade publication!

Nmap — Free Stealth Port Scanner For Network Exploration & Security Audits. Runs on Linux/Windows/UNIX/Solaris/FreeBSD/OpenBSD. This appears to be the port scanner of choice.

Auditing Inside the Enterprise via Port Scanning & Related Tools. Here is a good list of software tools to get to do intranet scanning

Netcat ? The TCP/IP Swiss Army Knife. Starting to go through Internet security tools. Here’s a good place to start. Referred to it in the latest issue of www.pcmag.com on hacking.

Windows File Protection and Windows. After I deleted ATM 3.0 from an old Adobe Photo Deluxe 3.1 install (BTW, XP should probably prevent installs of old stuff like this). I got a file protection problem and then my CD-ROM disappeared. Fortunately, google found the windows utility called SFC for system file checker that will save…

PCHelpLIVE.com on CD-ROM Disappearing. Another Microsoft Knowledgebase failure like the others, nothing there about CD-ROM disappearing, but a google search for CDrom Disappear XP yields this. It is an UpperFilters/LowerFilters problem from the install of Musicmatch.

Gateway Keyboard Driver Prevents Suspend. thanks to Google, I found the problem. There was an old Adobe type Manager that attaches to the keyboard driver and this caused the suspend not to work. It hooks the driver.

Wayne’s Windows XP User Tips. A great tip page. I’m trying to figure out why the keyboard driver is preventing standby and this is one place to look. Seems like it might be the Music Locker program.

Upcomingmovies.com:. One of my favorite sites to figure out what is coming up next at the movies. Check it out!

R-Studio for disk recovery. This is the other recovery routine that is less listed at www.download.com

GetDataBack – Data Recovery Software I blew out my NTFS partition because there was a buggy CD-ROM driver from Musicmatch of all things. Chkdsk for an hour eventually destroyed the main table and every thing is gone. Using GetDataBack and R-Studio to try to get it back. Good thing I have the a full backup…

XP-erience.org Forums – XP Applications. Another forum for those trying to make XP work. Some notes on Musicmatch bugs.

MusicMatch’s CD Driver. A good note about a drive that Musicmatch adds…

Computing.Net – Nero INCD problem – Solution. The bug I’ve been running into. There is another suggestion about problems on Liteon.

NT Compatible. Seems like a good site for NT and XP related stuff..

Broadband FAQs Very useful notes on problems you have split by the type of hardware and the ISP you have.

broadband ? AT&T Broadband FAQ? How do I fix DNS problems with windows XP/2000? (From AT&T Tech Support). At last, now I know why I have to ipconfig /renew all the time from my xp machines at home. Thak you dslreports.com!

Internet Protocol (IP) Basics. IP MTU Each Network Interface Layer technology imposes a maximum-sized frame that can be sent. The maximum-sized frame consists of the framing header and trailer, and a payload. The maximum size of a frame for a given Network Interface Layer technology is called the maximum transmission unit (MTU). For an IP…

Linksys cable/DSL Router Help – Port Forwarding. Another great site for helping

WINS SERVER. The new Linksys Routing software can point clients to a WINS server, here’s a description. Now I just have to find such a service for an XP Professional machine

broadband ? Linksys. Google’s top choice for finding out about Linksys routers. Interesting and very active.

WallWatcher. This is a Linksys Etherfast Router log viewer if you can believe that there are special utilities to connect to Linksys. How cool!

Micrtosoft VPs and recent speeches. A good site that is hard to find for keeping track of recent presentations and who is a VP over at Redmond

SitePlayer – Embedded Internet Server. Wow, Adrian found the smallest web server in the world for embedded applications.

MajorGeeks.com – Mother Board Monitor 5.1.0.7. A cool monitoring tool.