User: MarauderJr

Compared to IE....

On: Mozilla 1.7 Beta Is Faster And Smaller

The next service pack of Internet Explorer plans to have longer load times, more crashes, and open a few more exploits into a Windows system.

Modzilla keeps getting better all the time.

Re:Intelligent IDS

On: Firewalls and Internet Security, 2nd Ed.

I have had the chance to play with it some over the past month. I am planning on putting in an Intelligent IDS on a new networking project that I am currently working on. Mainly for these reasons:

• I will not be onsite. I do not want to drive for a couple of hours every time there is a potential problem such as, "I think someone has hacked our network!"
• SecurityProfiling's Intelligent IDS and SysUpdate work on most major OS's (Windows, Linux variants, Irix, Apple's OS's).
• The intelligent IDS solution will be able to watch all incoming traffic on the network for me and e-mail me if it catches any potentially malicious activity.
• The Intelligent IDS will be able to check all the systems on the network if an attack is occuring against known security flaw and check to see if all systems have the proper patches in place to make the the attack unsuccessful against known security flaw.
• If a system is not patched against known security flaw, the Intelligent IDS will go out and get the security patch and install it on all systems that are not already patched.
• The Intelligent IDS will report less false positives and less false negitaves than current IDS's.

Overall, I believe that the Intelligent IDS can be a wonderful solution for almost any type of network. I'm setting up one for my office and my apt.

Alexander Harrison
Nocturn Designs

Intelligent IDS

On: Firewalls and Internet Security, 2nd Ed.

For anyone looking for more information on IDS's or Intelligent IDS's than is covered in the new book, take a look at the white paper on Intelligent IDS's at SecurityProfiling.

Gecko, making AOL more fustrating than ever.

On: Gecko May Replace IE In AOL/CompuServe

It seems like a lot of AOL users and/or ex-users have complained that AOL is harder to use and more complicated with each new version. If AOL decides to switch over to Gecko, it will be following its unwritten rule. "With all of AOL's new features, AOL is now more complicated and confusing than ever."

--MarauderJr@aol.com
AOL user since version 1.0

Better Graphics Card?

On: NVIDIA Sues 3dfx For Patent Infringement

For a company that seems to be able to make the best GPU chipset out there, the GForce2 sure seemed to have a lot of problems when it was first released. It took me three tries to get a working Gforce2 unlike 3Dfx's Voodoo 5 5500 which worked the first time I installed it and ran like a dream.

Makes you wonder who really makes the better Graphics card...