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- The Right Way To Save A Life, Including Your Own, According to Dr. Heimlich and the Red Cross
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- Ingredients in our personal care products, cosmetics, foods, water and air are also dangerous to our health. How to be a safe shopper.
- How to Live a Long, Happy, Healthy, Low-Stress Life
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- Have chronic, searing, debilitating muscle pain? If caused by trigger points, you can relieve it yourself and avoid unnecessary surgery. Learn more.
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- What you need to do to keep your child safe at MySpace.com and other Web hangouts.
- Too smart for the dangers at MySpace? Think again!
- Beware the CyberLover [Bot] That Steals Personal Data in Chat Rooms and Social Networks Through Social Engineering
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- Virtually Worry-Free Computing - Sufficiently Secure and Private Web Surfing
- Sold, recycled, donated and discarded computers, PDAs and cell phones can contain recoverable private data even after a delete, format or reset. How to securely erase your data.
- How to avoid becoming a victim of or recover from America's credit card debt crisis and recent fee deregulation.
- Parent! Seriously consider moving your preteen or earliteen from MySpace or another Web hangout to imbee or YoKidsYo. Here's why.
- Thinking of buying Windows Vista or a Windows Vista PC? Before you do, seriously consider this first.
- Putting up with a noisy computer? Give your ears and nerves a break. Buy or build a quiet or silent computer.
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- Does the Bible say God will torture bad people in hell for eternity?
- Was Jesus just a man who married Mary Magdalene? Has the church been hiding information from us for years about Jesus? Don't decide too quickly. Examine the evidence first.
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- ''We are living in very interesting times. Too many people are confused about what the Bible says about the future, and a lot of that has to do with confusion about Israel.'' Learn more.
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Security and Privacy Guide
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- Step 1: Operating System
Virtualization-Based Virtual Machines
- Parallels Desktop or Workstation (trialware) skip
- Run Windows, GNU/Linux or BSD on an Intel-based Mac with Parallels Desktop for Mac, a virtualization software program, or hypervisor, similar to the Virtual PC for Mac emulator, except that it runs at native, or CPU, speed.
- Or run them and / or Mac OS on a Windows or GNU/Linux PC with Parallels Workstation for Windows and GNU/Linux.
- VMware Player, Browser Appliance or Another Virtual Machine and a HIPS with a Whitelist (free, for Windows and GNU/Linux) skip
- Mike Healan, long time spyware / antispyware guru, in his newsletter said ''It is now my official position that using the [VMware Player and] Browser Appliance is the best and only way for Windows users to remain completely safe on the internet.'' And in his Browser Appliance article (see below), he said ''it offers 99.9% protection from all spyware.''
- In ''The Best Way for Windows Users to Be Safe on the Internet'' Suzi Turner, spyware researcher and consultant, of SpywareWarrior.com, agreed with Mike: ''I previously blogged about the top 10 ways to stay free of spyware. It seems I left out two important tips, one being to use the VMware Player and Browser Appliance...''
- She said ''Mike has written a four part article on how to use the VMware Player and Browser Appliance, including how to share files between the virtual computer and the host machine, some recommended tweaks and how to install some additional software.''
- Ian ''Gizmo'' Richards, computer professional and author of Tech Support Alert, also feels it's the best option, and has written an article in his newsletter on ''How to Surf with Complete Security [with VMWare].''
- VMware Player and Browser Appliance (free for Windows and GNU/Linux)
- Other Virtual Machines to Use with VMware Player: Desktop Users | Advanced Desktop Users
- HIDS and HIPS Software
- Antirootkit Software
- Deep Freeze and Anti-Executable (formerly FreezeX) (commercial, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux) skip
- VELite | skip
- VELite - trialware - another VM
- Pre-built GNU/Linux Virtual Machines (You're told to use the very slow QEMU emulator with the machines, what they call Free OS images, but I recommend using the VMware Player virtualization software instead, which is near CPU speed.)
Emulation-Based ''Virtual'' Machines (Slow or Very Slow)
- Windows CE Emulator and a HIPS with a Whitelist | skip
- Portable Privacy Machine and Bastille | skip
- Portable Privacy Machine is a complete, virtual GNU/Linux machine that uses the QEMU emulator to run GNU/Linux either in a window or full-screen on a Windows system from a USB drive. It contains privacy-enabled open source (free) Internet applications.
- No installation is needed. Just plug the USB drive into any Windows or Linux computer, and click on the Virtual Privacy Machine icon and you're ready to go. When you're done, take your Internet applications, email, bookmarks, history, web cookies, download files with you in a persistent home directory on your USB drive.
- It runs on any rewriteable media (USB drives, Flash Memory cards, Secure Digital devices, iPods, etc.) This PR1 release runs on Windows and Linux. The final release version will also run on OS X. And it has Enigmail plugins for PGP email encryption.
- I recommend running Bastille, to harden or secure Portable Privacy Machine.
- DSL Embedded with QEMU, KQEMU Accelerator and a HIPS with a Whitelist skip
- WARNING: The following DSL Embedded page contains a 4-letter word you may find offensive. If you have a content filter, it may block the page unless you temporarily allow the word, which starts with a ''D.''
- DSL Embedded is a free GNU/Linux that you can run in Windows. It's based on the slow QEMU emulator, but by installing the KQEMU accelerator, it'll run near CPU speed.
- I recommend using a HIPS with a white list too, in Windows. And if it's possible - I don't know if it is - and you know how, you might want to also secure DSL Embedded with Bastille.
- Note: QEMU acceleration in Windows is currently in the experimental stage, takes several steps to install, and needs to be manually enabled every time you use DSL Embedded.
- Install DSL Embedded.
- Install the latest QemuInstall executable (exe) file.
- Overwrite the qemu.exe file that's included in DSL Embedded, with the one that you've just installed. (You can now safely unistall Qemu 0.7.2, if you wish.)
- Download the latest kqemu tar.gz file and extract it with one of these file archive compactors / extractors:
- Right-click kqemu.inf and choose Install. (you only need two files: kqemu.inf and the driver - the others are only required if compiling from source)
- Click Start, select Run and enter cmd (or click Start, select Programs, Accessories, then Command Prompt), to open the command prompt, then type net start kqemu. (Note: QEMU acceleration is disabled by default, so you'll have to do this step every time before using DSL Embedded.)
- Double-click the dsl-windows.bat file in the dsl-embedded folder to start DSL Embedded.
- To see if QEMU acceleration is enabled or not:
- Press CTRL+ALT+2 to open the QEMU monitor.
- Type info kqemu.
- Press CTRL+ALT+1 to get back to DSL Embedded.
- You may also want to use Bastille, software that hardens or secures GNU/Linux.
Security and Privacy Guide
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- Step 1: Operating System
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