History of Computing and Windows Internet Security issues

  
  Yes, there have been  many many security holes in 
Windows mostly which allows your system to be

compromised while you are online on the Internet 
as in file manipulation and even crashing 

your computer from remote.   
  What can you do about it ?   Check out some of the 
  websites and/or software that I have listed below.

  There are internet websites which will test your 
computers security for you while you are

online and others which will explain weakness in 
Windows Networking and Internet Access - 



  i bought my first computer - a broken Tandy or Radio 
  Shack TRS-80 Model 4P - which ran or read maybe
   
  10 to 20 different versions of CP/M (many other brand 
  name proprietary computers ran their own versions of 
  
  CP/M so CP/M was also a standard but never caught 
  on even though companies and businesses at the 
  
  time used it), 
  MSDOS, PCDOS, OS/2 and Propiertary TANDY DOS, 
  etc. for all I could tell or tried at the time  - 
  
  - Yes, it was quite a beast - 
  Yes i did meet a Group of Computer Hackers at Iowa 
  State University who introduced me to all of this after  
  
  i joined the ISU Computer Science Club at the time -
 - anyway this was a light portable or luggable 
 
 computer which was broken 
  with a bad communications - Uart chip - in a card 
  on the main board called a dialup modem - 300 to 
  
  2400 baud or bps - which i
  repaired with a soldering iron and electronic 
  
  schematics (Just From my High School Analog and 
  Digital Electronics education - US Military book called 
  
  GROBE) anyway back in my first 
  year and first college - ISU - IOWA STATE 
  UNIVERSITY in Ames, Iowa
  
  Home of the first Electronic Digital Computer as well - 
  The Atanasoff Berry Computer - called the ABC 
  
  Computer by John Vincent Atanasoff known as the 
  father of the computer.
  
  but it didn't make the world news because it was 
  over shadowed by a news event at that time 
  
  otherwise it might have been famous and well known
  
  (Instead of attending University of California at 
  Berkeley or UC Berkeley - where i was also accepted 
  for admissions)
  
     That summer i also worked on campus at The 
     Famous Government Department of Energy 
     
     facility onsite  - AMES LABORATORY - as my first 
     real job straight from High School - as a Computer 
     Programmer in Fortran and C - 1984 - 1985.
     
     

     
     i used that same computer until mid to late 1990's
 and Pre-2000 - a computing marvel - got me partially 
 thru college as a student with no money before i built
 my first IBM PC Compatible desktop or fliptop.
    
 Without those computers none of this would have 
 been possible because i used it to surf - COMPUTER 
 
 BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS - BBS systems  - which 
 were personal public personal computers you could 
 
 setup and allow logon running the BBS software just 
 like independent businesses or Internet.
 
 From there you would connect to USENET, and 
 BITNET, Companies and other public sites at the time 
 before the standard internet came about with 
 
 websites as such.
 
   later all of these BBSes were linked and networked 
   together to form what we now know as the modern 
   internet.



 Windows Internet security links 


 Gibson Research               -    www.GRC.com
       
 (Will Test your systems security Online - SHIELD - 
 
  in addition GRC offers HARDDRIVE REPAIR 
  SOFTWARE 
  
  called - SPINRITE - which has been around for years 
  and is still available for your old harddrive or new 
  harddrive if you don't want to throw it out just 
  
  because it has bad - "SECTORS" - which i used to 
  use all the time because it was 
  
  "AFFORDABLE" and could recertify old or broken 
  harddrives. 
  
  The harddrive has clicks or crashes when it gets 
  to a bad 
  
 sector - sometimes causing Windows BSOD - blue 
 screen of death - and you just can't seem to fix it,
 
 this is sometimes the cure when CHKDSK doesn't 
 work.
 
  So starting out in computers i couldn't afford much
 so - SPINRITE - gave me a way out if i wanted to
 
  keep that old harddrive of mine spinning and didn't 
  have money to replace it.
  
  

 
 Zonelabs  - Zonealarm - www.Zonelabs.com
  
 (Personal firewall software with free versions)
 
 One of the very best and first at that time till today 
 as well as easiest to configure and use.
 
 

 
 Black ICE Defender       -      
 
 (Another personal firewall software but not free)
 Which was still available at that time.