Ms. Price agreed to apprise our situation, and to report back to us.2 weeks ago Ms. Price called Rick in our Personal Department and asked whether she could interview 5 Managers and about 20 experienced knowledgeable computer users early next week? Rick is scheduling 45 minute slots for managers and thirty minute slots for computer users. The interviews will be held at our new facility on Highway Ten on the South side of the city. This sight is more convenient for staff then the building at 1 Main Street.

All managers should do they’re best to acommodate requests form Rick for staff and managerial time. If you are unable to schedule an interview please call me immediately so i can choose someone else to participate.

Ms. Prices has prepared a preliminary report which is attached. As we might of expected, it recomends extensive changes. To slow and lacking sufficient memory, the report states that our 486’s cannot meet our projected processing and storage needs. It also points out the that computers cannot run the newer (8.0) version of our office suite. Ms. Price thinks we should replace it with Pentium IV computers with 256 MB or RAM, 40-GHz hard drives, and nineteen” monitors. She also proposes that we upgrade our office suite and invest in top of the line Firewall and Virus Protection Software. In addition Ms. Price suggests switching to broadband Internet connections.

The report also analyzes our data storage and and file-sharing problems. According to Ms Price an NAS (network attached storage server is the answer. On Page 8 of the report, she says “an NAS server will plug into your network easy. It will appear in users desktops as an extra drive.An NAS server can back up any type file, and can offer you’re employees quick easy and secure access to shared files.”

Ms. Price adds that NAS servers are cost-effective, and can be upgraded easily to meet our data storage and file-sharing needs.
The cost of all these improvements are 27% higher than anticipated. If we except Ms. Price’s advise, our Long Range Budget committee will have to determine the affect these expeinditures will have on our budget before we precede.

This upgraded technology will sure save our empoyees a grate deal of time and make them even more productive. We must compliment our investment in hardware and software with a investment in our personal. We have invited 4 companies to submit proposals to provide us with Web based training materials. I will review these materials. And will report on all these developments at the June meeting.

Please review Ms. Prices report; and be prepared to coment on it at the meeting. You are welcome too right or stop by before then to discuss their conclusions and your department’s needs. We appreciate the efforts you have made to insure that the technology we choose will work good, grow with us, and be cost-effective.

The Executive Committee plans to meet on June 7 at two o’clock in Conference room A to develop a strategic plan for implementing technology changes. At its meeting on March 15th, the committee discussed our current computer and network systems with Ashley Price, a leading Consultant with Central Technology services, who was hired on Gina’s recommendation.

Ms. Price agreed to evaluate our situation, and to report back to us. 2 weeks ago Ms. Price called Rick in our Personal Department and asked to interview 5 Managers and about 20 experienced knowledgeable computer users early next week. Rick is scheduling 45 minute slots for managers and 30 minute slots for computer users. The interviews will be held at our new facility on Highway Ten on the south side of the city. This sight is more convenient for staff than the building at 1 Main Street.

All managers should do their best to accommodate requests form Rick for staff and managerial time. If you are unable to schedule an interview please call me immediately so I can choose someone else to participate.

Ms. Price has prepared a preliminary report which is attached. As we might have expected, it reccomends extensive changes. The report states that our 486’s are too slow, lack sufficient memory, and cannot meet our projected processing and storage needs. It also points out that computers cannot run the newer (8.0) version of our office suite. Ms. Price thinks we should replace them with Pentium IV computers with 256 MB or RAM, 40-GHz hard drives, and 19 monitors. She also proposes that we upgrade our office suite and invest in top-of -the-line Firewall and Virus Protection Software. In addition, Ms. Price suggests switching to broadband Internet connections.

The report also analyzes our data storage and and file-sharing problems. According to Ms Price an NAS (network attached storage server is the answer. On Page 8 of the report, she says “an NAS server will plug into your network easy. It will appear in users desktops as an extra drive.An NAS server can back up any type file, and can offer you’re employees quick easy and secure access to shared files.”

Ms. Price adds that NAS servers are cost-effective, and can be upgraded easily to meet our data storage and file-sharing needs.
The cost of all these improvements is 27% higher than anticipated. If we accept Ms. Price’s advice, our Long Range Budget Committee will have to determine the effect these expenditures will have on our budget before we proceed.

Of course you understand that because we did your homework for you on Yahoo Answers, you missed your opportunity to learn the material and therefore will flunk the test.

This upgraded technology will surely save our employees a grate deal of time and make them even more productive. We must compliment our investment in hardware and software with an investment in our personnel. We have invited 4 companies to submit proposals to provide us with Web based training materials. I will review the materials and report on all these developments at the June meeting.

Please review Ms. Price’s report; and be prepared to comment on it at the meeting. You are welcome to write or stop by before then to discuss her conclusions and your department’s needs. We appreciate the efforts you have made to ensure that the technology we choose will work well, grow with us, and be cost-effective.

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If it’s Linux, you can use avast, AVG, or ClamAV for antivirus. You can find instructions for installing Avast in Ubuntu on my blog at http://linugadgetech.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-to-install-avast-in-ubuntu.html
For firewall you can use Firestarter. http://www.fs-security.com/

For Windows XP I like AVG or avast for the antivirus. AVG is easier to set up automatic scanning. Get AVG from http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition
For firewall I like ZoneAlarm – http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/1025_update/zaSetup_en.exe
For antispyware try Spybot or AdAware.
AdAware – http://www.lavasoft.com/
SpyBot – http://www.spybot.com/index2.html

Avast Anti-Virus Home Edition

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Comodo Pro 3 Firewall

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

Firefox 3:

http://www.mozilla.com

Thanks
Rendra

Did you try …

http://www.smoothwall.org/

http://www.ipcop.org/

Both are mostly the same, Ipcop has a lot of addons out there more than Smoothwall 3.0 (the one that I’m using at home). But smoothwall has kernel 2.6 with more and better hardware support.

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/downloads/

Firewalls also try to keep malware that does get onto your machine from communicating with its master somewhere else.

If you’re angry at McAfee, there are several other free firewalls you can get instead.

Hope that helps.

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Swiss cheese
USB devices, other computers, DVD’s, etc

Good admin password – not factory default

A firewall is not “a silver bullet” that takes care of all your security at once.

Use an advanced firewall that examines traffic on multiple layers to help protect you from malware.

Ask your qualified IT security professional which firewall they like best. That way, when there is an error message, your professional will already know what to do to fix the problem.

Software firewalls are programs that run on your workstation to protect you from other devices near you on the network.

You may choose to increase your protection with a more robust firewall that integrates with your anti-virus and anti-spyware solution.

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