I am taking my computer to college this summer, and was wondering what the best way to protect you valuable equipment, monitor and case...?
Security For Computer?
- Thread starter BChico
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*Lock the Door* 
But seriously, who would steal from your dorm room? Just keep your dorm room door locked.
But seriously, who would steal from your dorm room? Just keep your dorm room door locked.
i don't think you'll have a problem as long as you lock your door. i'd usually leave my door unlocked and so did a lot of people... i don't know where you're going to school though.
Alright, i am going to the governors school at drexel and we have security guards at our floor so i guess no one will try anything funny...
As far as fellow classmates hacking and messing with my computer whats the best way to defend against that?
As far as fellow classmates hacking and messing with my computer whats the best way to defend against that?
Create a BIOS password
Run a reasonably secure OS ( Linux BeOS or Win2K) with strong passwords
Disable the floppy drive in BIOS
Run a reasonably secure OS ( Linux BeOS or Win2K) with strong passwords
Disable the floppy drive in BIOS
hmm, I remember seening a recent thread about stopping people using your pc within the last week on this forum!
Based on our work experience:
Buy one of those cable-locks, and bolt the case to the desk/floor/wall. Make sure the lock for the case also locks the case, so nobody can open the case, and rip out the burner/HD/vid/sound cards, etc... Bolt the monitor down too (harder to do).
Network security...that's a big question. So many places to start.
Buy one of those cable-locks, and bolt the case to the desk/floor/wall. Make sure the lock for the case also locks the case, so nobody can open the case, and rip out the burner/HD/vid/sound cards, etc... Bolt the monitor down too (harder to do).
Network security...that's a big question. So many places to start.
It's a starting point. I would recommend ZoneAlarm:
It's free.
It blocks by application, so you can add rules (easily!) to allow stuff through that you need (DNS), but block things you don't (SubSeven!)
Did I mention, it's free??
--Woodie
It's free.
It blocks by application, so you can add rules (easily!) to allow stuff through that you need (DNS), but block things you don't (SubSeven!)
Did I mention, it's free??
--Woodie
MichaelD
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As far as network security goes, there is only one 100% guaranteed step that will absolutely prevent even the best hacker/cracker from accessing your HD. Shut your computer off. Very simple. I have a router at home that does firewall duty while I'm up, but when I'm not home, off it goes. No power, no computer to "see", no matter what you do.
I have a router at home that does firewall duty while I'm up, but when I'm not home, off it goes. No power, no computer to "see", no matter what you do.ZoneAlarm has an option to "Lock" the pc, meaning no internet access/ Period. Its off the network. Dunno how tight the security is, but if its locked with ZoneAlarm, I dont see anyone gettin to it. And you can set it to kick on by itself after x minutes...
Yeah i saw that, this little prog is really nice, what settings do you guys use on it? Do you have it set on high?
I'll offer my advice on the matter, having lived in a Reshall for a year.
Get a firewall. I get attacked 10-20x a day at school. If I stay off of IRC, it's just the monitoring PC's my school runs. I don't know why they run them, but they're not scanning my pc successfully. (on a side note, I've noticed whenever I hit download speeds of 300k/sec or more, I get a port scan from monitor.utoledo.edu. I wonder what THAT does). In the event you do get attacked from the schools network, log it and send the logs to the IS dept. I got a kid put on Reshall probation that way. Idiot tried to bust into my PC
No matter how cool your roomate is, if he doesn't have his own PC, lock yours DOWN. My roomate gave all impressions of being a cool guy, a good christian, what have you. He looked at internet porn non-stop. On my PC. I locked it down with win2k, and gave him MS Word access only
Theft wasn't a huge problem in my reshall, but I lived in a pretty safe one (Honor's students took priority to live there, so no troublemakers of note). My idiot roomate had a habit of walking out and leaving our door propped open for hours on end. Never had anything stolen. I don't plan on taking that chance next year.
I lived close enough to my home that over Christmas and Spring break, I took my PC home. Christmas break cause I wanted to play games, and spring break cause I heard some PC's were stolen from another reshall over christmas. My roomate showed me just how easy it is to break into a room when he jimmied the lock on our neighbors door when something in the mechanism failed and locked one of them in there
I can second that case-lock thing, although if your floormates aren't tech savvy, its not really nessecary. I was the resident "geek" so I never used one. If anyone would have been stealing hardware, it'd have been me (I didn't) because I was the only one who knew how.
On file sharing. If your school blocks them (and they usually do), be careful using them. Get no more then 1 song an hour. Large files limit to one a week. I singlehandedly got Scour Exchanged blocked at my school by downloading 6-8 movies the weekend I moved in. My roomate did the same thing with SongSpy. 300mb+ of mp3's in one day, they noticed the traffic spike and blocked the service. The people who make Audiogalaxy are really cool, my buddy used it a lot, and when our school blocked it, he emailed them. They sent him a patch that fixed it
Most importantly, have fun and be social with your floor mates. I miss living at school, my floor was basically 40 guys who were all buddies. It's so much better that way.
Get a firewall. I get attacked 10-20x a day at school. If I stay off of IRC, it's just the monitoring PC's my school runs. I don't know why they run them, but they're not scanning my pc successfully. (on a side note, I've noticed whenever I hit download speeds of 300k/sec or more, I get a port scan from monitor.utoledo.edu. I wonder what THAT does). In the event you do get attacked from the schools network, log it and send the logs to the IS dept. I got a kid put on Reshall probation that way. Idiot tried to bust into my PC
No matter how cool your roomate is, if he doesn't have his own PC, lock yours DOWN. My roomate gave all impressions of being a cool guy, a good christian, what have you. He looked at internet porn non-stop. On my PC. I locked it down with win2k, and gave him MS Word access only
Theft wasn't a huge problem in my reshall, but I lived in a pretty safe one (Honor's students took priority to live there, so no troublemakers of note). My idiot roomate had a habit of walking out and leaving our door propped open for hours on end. Never had anything stolen. I don't plan on taking that chance next year.
I lived close enough to my home that over Christmas and Spring break, I took my PC home. Christmas break cause I wanted to play games, and spring break cause I heard some PC's were stolen from another reshall over christmas. My roomate showed me just how easy it is to break into a room when he jimmied the lock on our neighbors door when something in the mechanism failed and locked one of them in there
I can second that case-lock thing, although if your floormates aren't tech savvy, its not really nessecary. I was the resident "geek" so I never used one. If anyone would have been stealing hardware, it'd have been me (I didn't) because I was the only one who knew how.
On file sharing. If your school blocks them (and they usually do), be careful using them. Get no more then 1 song an hour. Large files limit to one a week. I singlehandedly got Scour Exchanged blocked at my school by downloading 6-8 movies the weekend I moved in. My roomate did the same thing with SongSpy. 300mb+ of mp3's in one day, they noticed the traffic spike and blocked the service. The people who make Audiogalaxy are really cool, my buddy used it a lot, and when our school blocked it, he emailed them. They sent him a patch that fixed it
Most importantly, have fun and be social with your floor mates. I miss living at school, my floor was basically 40 guys who were all buddies. It's so much better that way.
Thanks for the info Mr.Bond, too bad i am going to spend 5 weeks with a bunch of super geeks, i am going the the PA Governor's School for IT... Any one know of a good lock thing to attach your computer to the desk or wall?
I have sitting on my desk (for my boss & laptop, not me) a Targus Defcon CL notebook cable lock.
This thing can loop on itself (put it around a pole or furniture, and the other end "locks" into a special hole on the notebook. I don't know if desktops have these--I never looked. It also has a self-concealing metal base plate that you can mount somewhere out of sight, and connect the cable to that.
One of the guys here just screwed it to the bottom of the desk, so the maintenance guys won't even notice the base plate.
--Woodie
This thing can loop on itself (put it around a pole or furniture, and the other end "locks" into a special hole on the notebook. I don't know if desktops have these--I never looked. It also has a self-concealing metal base plate that you can mount somewhere out of sight, and connect the cable to that.
One of the guys here just screwed it to the bottom of the desk, so the maintenance guys won't even notice the base plate.
--Woodie
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