This section is dedicated to educating the general populace about how to secure their computer from viruses, worms, breach of security, and government attempts to surveil and control you.

1. DISCUSSION FORUMS:

Family Guardian Forums-require a free member account you can apply for yourself to post and in some cases read content
- 4.11 Science
- 5.7 Computer Security and Freedom of Speech

2. NEWS:

Current News
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Statistics-Carnegie-Mellon University
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Advisories-Carnegie-Mellon University
Historical Articles
- 10/22/2002: Attack on Internet Called Largest Ever

3. ARTICLES:

Too Much Screen Time Can Make Computer Users Sick-Reuters, 11/5/02
Watch out for scam software sales via the internet!-people selling either illegal or virus infected commercial software
Computer Throws a Hissy Fit-fascinating!
Issues Library: Science and Technology-Townhall
Extraordinary Computer Animation of a Musical Instrument

4. TECHNOLOGY (IT) JOBSEARCH:

Monster-for professionals
ContractJobHunter-for professionals
RF Cafe

5. INTERNET AND INTERNET SERVICES:

5.01 Censorship Political Organizations
5.02 Collaboration Tools
- List of Mind Mapping Software -Wikipedia
- Skype- includes chat, group video, VOIP
- The Brain
5.03 Definitions and Reference
- Apache Reference-Unix web server docs
- Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
- HTML Specification-W3C
- Intel Development Center
- PHP Reference-PHP group
- RedHat Linux Reference
- W3C Search-W3C
- Webopedia
- XML Specification
5.04 Domain Naming
- ICANN
  - Resources
  - Rules-enforced international rules for domain naming
- DomainTools-domain investigation tools
- DNS Stuff-whois, reverse lookup, DNS report, etc.
- ARIN Whois-identify who owns a hacker's IP address.
5.05 Domain Name Services
- Anonymous Domain Trust-anonymous domain names
- OpenDNS
- DynDNS-naming for cable modems with dynamic addresses
- Go Daddy-anonymous domain names. In Arizona
- Network Solutions-domain names and hosting
- OpenSRS-domain naming offered by TUCOWS
- TZO.COM-naming for cable modems with dynamic addresses
5.06 Email List Services and Software
- A-List Hosting-service
- Listbox
- Mail-List-service
- SorceForge Email Software
- Tile.net-directory of email lists
- Topica-service
5.07 Email Services
- Emailaddresses.com-survey of providers
- Fastmail-several tiers of service
- GMX-Global Mail Exchange
- Hushmail.com
- Inbox.com
- Mail.com
- Runbox.com-have up to ten disposable email addresses or aliases, free web hosting, email forwarding
- Yahoo.com
5.08 Investigation Tools
- Robtex-detailed DNS and ip lookup
- www.internic.net-use their WHOIS database to track down hackers
- Hostip.info-geotarget IP
- Netcraft (ISP statistics)
- Asian Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC)-look up hackers from China, Korea, Japan
- RIPE (Europe) Whois Database
- InterNIC Whois Database
- Latin America NIC (LACNIC) Whois Database
- ARIN Whois Database-identify who owns a hacker's IP address.
5.09 IP Telephony
5.10 Shopping Cart Services
5.11 Spam Filtering
- Abusive Hosts Blocking List
- Composite Blocking List (CBL)
- Distributed Sender Blackhole List
- Not Just Another Bogus List
- Sender Score Certified
- SenderBase (world's largest database of bad senders)
- SORBS Block Blacklist
- Spamcop Blocking List
- Spamhaus Policy Block List
5.12 Standards
5.13 Web Conferencing
5.14 Web Filtering
- Websense-content filtering
- Cyber Patrol
- CyberSitter
- Family Guardian (not affiliated with us)
- NetNanny
- McAffee Saas Web Protection
- SurfControl
5.15 Web Hosting: Unix
- Amray-Canada
- Atomic Media-Canada
- AXspace-Canada
- BlueFir-Canada
- Canaca
- Canadian Web Hosting
- Cirrus Tech Ltd-Canada
- ClickHost-Canada
- Fast Webserver-Canada
- Gogax-Canada
- Hostupon-Canada
- In2Net-Canada
- JustHosting.ca
- MidiTech-Canada
- myhosting-Canada
- NetNation
- RackForce-Canada. VPS servers
- UB Hosting-Canada. VPS servers
- Value Host-Canada
- Velcom-Canada
- WeDoHosting
- WebServe-Canada
- Zenutech-Canada
5.16 Web Hosting: Windows
- Atomic Media-Canada
- Canadian Web Hosting
- Cirrus Tech Ltd-Canada
- DotCanada-Canada
- Fast Webserver-Canada
- Gogax-Canada
- Globe Hosting-Canada
- HostingInCanada-Canada
- JustHosting.ca
- MidiTech-Canada
- myhosting-Canada
- NetNation
- Value Host-Canada
- WeDoHosting
- WebServe-Canada

6. COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SECURITY:

6.01 Articles and Resources
- Securing Your Computer and Protecting Your Privacy, Form #09.016 (OFFSITE LINK)- SEDM
  - PDF in member subscriptions
  - Member Subscriptions-how to gain access to the above document
- Family Guardian Forum 5.7 Computer Security and Freedom of Speech
- Evading Censorship with Browser-Based Proxies- techniques to circumvent government internet censorship
- Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Keyloggers-watch out!
- Department of Justice: Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
- Encryption used to protect criminal activity is a crime In Virginia- unbelievable
- CRS Report: Computer Security: A Summary of Selected Federal Laws, Executive Order, Presidential Directives-Congressional Research Service Report RL32357
- Electronic Surveillance I-U.S. Attorneys Bulletin, Volume 45, No. 5, Sept. 1997
- Electronic Surveillance II-U.S. Attorneys Bulletin, Volume 45, No. 6, NOv. 1997
- Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property-U.S. Attorneys Bulletin, Volume 49, No. 2, March 2001
- Internet Fraud and Cybercrime-U.S Attorneys Bulletin, Volume 49, No. 3, May 2001
- How to tell if someone is impersonating your email address and what you can do about it- (HOT!) Family Guardian Fellowship
- U.S. Department of Justice: Federal Guidelines for Searching and Seizing Computers
- Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations-U.S. Dept. of Justice
6.02 Anonymization, Web Proxy, VPN Services
- Anonymizer-proxy software
- Black Logic
- The Onion Router (TOR)
- Megaproxy
- Perfect Privacy
- PublicVPN-vpn provider
- Strong VPN
- Vidalia-proxy software
- World Secure Channel-VPN service
6.03 Browser Proxy Managers
- Elite Proxy Switcher (Internet Explorer)
- HiProxy (Internet Explorer)
- IE Pro (Internet Explorer)
- IE Proxy (Internet Explorer)
- IE Proxy Changer (Internet Explorer)
- NetSwitcher (Internet Explorer)
- Pick a Proxy Toolbar (Internet Explorer)
- Proxy Changer for Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer)
- Proxy Pal (Internet Explorer)
- Proxy Tab (Internet Explorer)
- Proxy Toolbar (Internet Explorer)
- SetProxy (Internet Explorer)
- Super Proxy Helper (Internet Explorer)
6.04 Computer Theft Protection
6.05 File/Hard Disk Encryption
- Documentum Content Security Family- Secure Document Management
- MAC or Windows
  - PGP Desktop Professional-the best disk and email encryption product on the market. Very easy to use.
  - TrueCrypt-disk only encryption. Free. Excellent!
  - WinMagic SecureDoc-the best full-disk encryption product out there for a very reasonable price. Supports USB token device with PIN for added security. WATCH OUT! This product can accidentally slick your disk and wipe out all your data, as it did ours!
  - MEO Data Encryption
- Hardware encryption and forensics
  - Intel SSD Drives - 520 and 720 series incorporate AES hardware encryption
  - QNAP TurboNAS - includes software AES hard disk encryption
  - Digital Forensics Lab-tools to recover encrypted data
  - eInvestigations -tools to recover encrypted data
- Windows ONLY
  - How to Encrypt Your Hard Drive with Windows Bitlocker (OFFSITE LINK) -CNET
  - Bitlocker Drive Encryption-Built into Windows Vista.
    - Microsoft Technet description of features
    - Wikipedia Article
  - SafeBit
  - SafeHouse-inexpensive and very easy to use hard disk encryption program. Creates encrypted virtual drive on your computer
  - Dekart Private Disk-inexpensive and very easy to use hard disk encryption program. Creates encrypted virtual drive on your computer. Also available with USB token access control (multifactor version).
  - DigiSecret-Tamosoft
  - SecurStar Drivecrypt -inexpensive and easy to use hard disk encryption program.
  - SafeGuard Easy-hard disk encryption software
- MAC Only
  - Filevault-encrypts home directories only
  - GoSecure
  - AES Crypt
  - GNU Privacy Guard
6.06 Network Monitoring/Sniffing Tools
- Internic WHOIS Problem Report System
- CommView-inexpensive but highly capable network sniffer
- CommView RA-emote agent that collects data for CommView on any remote computer
- VisualRoute-monitor the performance of the internet between you and your web server
- Visual IP Trace-geographic location of someone trying to hack your system by starting with their IP address
- Audit My PC
- NetResident-reconstructs and decodes network traffic to make it understandable. For forensic experts
- Computer Forensic Kit
- Whois Source
6.07 Protection tools
- Securing Your Computer and Protecting Your Privacy, Form #09.016 (OFFSITE LINK)- SEDM
  - PDF in member subscriptions
  - Member Subscriptions-how to gain access to the above document
- Understanding Windows File and Registry Permissions- Microsoft
- Secedit - Microsoft
- Security Configuration Manager How To- Microsoft
- Locating and Removing Browser Hijackers-computer security article written by us
- How to prevent web crawlers from indexing your website
- Protect Your Privacy Vigilantly
- Cryptography and Security--Ronald Rivest
- U.S. Department of Justice: Federal Guidelines for Searching and Seizing Computers
6.08 Program/Process Investigation Tools
- What is Process
- Process/program information
  - Answers That Work
  - Application Database -database of processes.
  - File.net
  - File Research Center
  - PC Pitstop: Process Library
  - Process Library
- Programs
  - Essential NetTools- shows all communications to/from your computer by process. Excellent.
  - SysInternals - see Process Explorer and Process Monitor
  - Latency Monitor
  - What's Running-process monitoring program
6.09 Proxy Software
- Servers
  - PHP Proxy
  - Squid Proxy
- Browser plugins
  - Foxy Proxy-for Firefox
  - Switchy Proxy - for Google Chrome
6.10 Secure Chat
- Skype -uses encrypted voice and chat
- Cryptochat 4 - for Skype
- Cryptocat
- Jitsi
- Pdigin- Install this chat and then also install the OTR plugin
6.11 Support Forums and Reference Resources
- Microsoft Technet Security Center
- MSDN Support Forums
- Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center
- Expert's Exchange-for IT professionals
- Troubleshooting Windows XP (Kelly's Corner)
- Wilders Security Forums-excellent forum on computer security issues
- Lavasoft Support Forums-Anti-spyware company which sponsors security forum
- Dekart Support Forums-for Dekart Private Disk, Private Disk Multifactor, and Security Suite
- Astalavista Security Group-techie security forum
6.12 VOIP Encryption
- Skype-encrypted proprietary point-to-point FREE internet telephony
- Voxilla VOIP Certificates
- Zfone-Phil Zimmerman. Free encrypted software VOIP
6.13 VPN Software
- IOpus Private Internet Gateway Software
- IPSec VPN Client-Greenbow
- LogMeIn Hamachi
- OpenVPN-software to implement VPN on your network
- PPTP Client-SorceForge
- Stunnel
- Tinc-VPN software
- Wippien
6.14 VPN Tunnel Hardware

7. HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REVIEWS AND GUIDES:

8. EDUCATIONAL/RESEARCH RESOURCES

8.01 Associations
8.02 IT Research
- BitPipe-IT white papers, product literature, webcasts, case studies
- International Data Corporation (IDC) -IT Market Research
- IT Papers-the web's largest collection of information technology papers
- List of Lists-Comprehensive Index of Technical Resources-(HOT!)
- Ethernet 802.3 Web Page--Good source for background on networks
- Heritage Foundation: Internet and Technology Research
- Microsoft MVPS Program Contributors
- SearchDatacenter
- Tutorial Reports
8.03 Technology History
8.04 Trade Shows
- Biz Tradeshows-trade show directory
- CeBit
- Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
- Conventions.net
- Trade Show Exhibitors Association (TSEA)
- Trade Show News Network-trade show directory
8.05 Specifications and Standards

9. ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT:

Click here to view a detailed index of electronic media and entertainment products.

10. TECHNICAL HELP RESOURCES:

10.01 Computing Reference
- Pocket PCRef-Sequoia Publishing. Excellent.
- FileXT-Windows file extension names
- Apache Software Foundation
- Debian-Unix operating system
- Centos-Unix operating system
- LINUX Operating System
  - Linux Website
- Microsoft
- MySQL Open-Source Database-Unix open system database common with web hosting providers
  - MySQL Website
  - MySQL Manual
- O'Reilly Books
- OpenVZ
- Pocket PC Ref
- PERL Programming
- PHP Server Programming Language
  - PHP website
  - PHP Manual
  - PhpAdmin reference-Unix scripting language administration tool
- RedHat UNIX Operating System
- Safari Books Online
- Webmaster World
- World Wide Web Consortium
10.02 Electronic Component Reference
10.03 Electronic Repair and User Manuals
10.04 Legal Aspects of Intellectual Property and Software Development
- Commercial Law Resources-West Publishing
- Corporate Counsel's Guide to Web Site Agreements-legal reference. West Publishing
- Intellectual Property Legal Resources-West Publishing
10.05 Manufacturer Reference
- Electronics Manufacturers Directory
- GlobalSpec-manufacturers and components
- MotionNet-Engineering Directory
- ThomasNet
10.06 Technical books
- Book Pool
- Free Tech Books
- Google Books
- Industrial Press
- InformIT
- Library for Science
- LinuxTopia
- NerdBooks
- OReilly-computers and information technology
- Programmer's World Free Online Books
- Tech Books for Free
- VMS Technical Books and Videos
- Wiley
10.07 Test and Measurement

11. SHOPPING:

11.01 Superstores
- Amazon
- Dealnews
- Frys.com
11.02 Comparison Shopping
- BizRate
- Epinions.com
- NexTag
- Price Grabber
- Pricewatch-all computer products price comparison
- Shopping.com
- Shopbot.ca
- Shopzilla.com
- SortPrice
11.03 Computer Equipment
11.04 Reviews
- Techlore

12. SOFTWARE PRODUCTS:

Click here to view a detailed index of major software products.

13. HARDWARE PRODUCTS:

Click here to view a detailed index of major hardware products.

14. SYMBOL, FONT, STENCIL AND CLIPART LIBRARIES:

14.01 Fonts
- Fonts.com
- Fontcraft
- Font Factory
- Linotype
- Megafont XXL
- Monotype Imaging
- Font Haus
- DaFont
- MyFonts
14.02 General Clipart
- Barry's Clipart Server
- Clipart.com
- Clickart 950,000-Broderbund
- Microsoft Clipart and Media Home Page
- Photo Galaxy-textures and themes
- Photos.com
- iStockPhoto
14.03 Icons
14.04 CAD Symbols and Drawings
- Cadsymbols.com
- Cad Symbols-IMSI
- CADToolsOnline
- CBEN.NET
- Houseplans.com-get plans for your dream house at low cost
- ObjectsOnline
14.05 3D and Animations
14.06 Microsoft Visio stencils

15. WEBSITE MARKETING AND USAGE STATISTICS:

15.01 Log Analyzers
- Absolute Log Analyzer-website log analyzer
- 123 Log Analyzer
- SurfStats
15.02 Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
15.03 Social Networking Tools
- Share This-multiple providers
- AddThis-multiple providers
- AddToAny-multiple providers
- Digg-single provider
- Facebook-single provider
- StumbleUpon-single provider
- BuzzUp--single provider
- Twitter-single provider
- Delicious-single provider
15.04 Tracking Tools
- User-Agents.org
- VisiStat.com -website monitoring tool
- WhosOn?-realtime web monitoring tool
- OneStat.com-realtime web monitoring tool
15.05 Tracking Websites
- Alexa.com
- BuiltWith
- Compete
- GoingUp
- GoStats
- Google Analytics
- Quantcast.net-website usage statistics
- ShinyStat
- urltrends.com
- WebTrends

16. HUMOR:

Microsoft Corporation: 1978-Would YOU have invested?
Microsoft Tech Support Employee of the Month
All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash-the Onion
The Competitors
The Security Bulletin that Microsoft SHOULD publish but won't
Red neck palm pilot
A different kind of internet clock
Enhancing Desktop Performance
Mouse
Kids
Drowning
Computer Crash
Panhandler
Wireless Weenie
Internet Wife
The Computer Widow's Lament
Love Technical Support (OFFSITE LINK)

Copyright Family Guardian Fellowship	Last revision: 8/16/09
	This private system is NOT subject to monitoring

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. DISCUSSION FORUMS:

2. NEWS:

3. ARTICLES:

4. TECHNOLOGY (IT) JOBSEARCH:

5. INTERNET AND INTERNET SERVICES:

5.01 Censorship Political Organizations

5.02 Collaboration Tools

5.03 Definitions and Reference

5.04 Domain Naming

5.05 Domain Name Services

5.06 Email List Services and Software

5.07 Email Services

5.08 Investigation Tools

5.09 IP Telephony

5.10 Shopping Cart Services

5.11 Spam Filtering

5.12 Standards

5.13 Web Conferencing

5.14 Web Filtering

5.15 Web Hosting: Unix

5.16 Web Hosting: Windows

6. COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SECURITY:

6.01 Articles and Resources

6.02 Anonymization, Web Proxy, VPN Services

6.03 Browser Proxy Managers

6.04 Computer Theft Protection

6.05 File/Hard Disk Encryption

6.06 Network Monitoring/Sniffing Tools

6.07 Protection tools

6.08 Program/Process Investigation Tools

6.09 Proxy Software

6.10 Secure Chat

6.11 Support Forums and Reference Resources

6.12 VOIP Encryption

6.13 VPN Software

6.14 VPN Tunnel Hardware

7. HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REVIEWS AND GUIDES:

8. EDUCATIONAL/RESEARCH RESOURCES

8.01 Associations

8.02 IT Research

8.03 Technology History

8.04 Trade Shows

8.05 Specifications and Standards

9. ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT:

10. TECHNICAL HELP RESOURCES:

10.01 Computing Reference

10.02 Electronic Component Reference

10.03 Electronic Repair and User Manuals

10.04 Legal Aspects of Intellectual Property and Software Development

10.05 Manufacturer Reference

10.06 Technical books

10.07 Test and Measurement

11. SHOPPING:

11.01 Superstores

11.02 Comparison Shopping

11.03 Computer Equipment

11.04 Reviews

12. SOFTWARE PRODUCTS:

13. HARDWARE PRODUCTS:

14. SYMBOL, FONT, STENCIL AND CLIPART LIBRARIES:

14.01 Fonts

14.02 General Clipart

14.03 Icons

14.04 CAD Symbols and Drawings

14.05 3D and Animations

14.06 Microsoft Visio stencils

15. WEBSITE MARKETING AND USAGE STATISTICS:

15.01 Log Analyzers

15.02 Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

15.03 Social Networking Tools

15.04 Tracking Tools

15.05 Tracking Websites

16. HUMOR: