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We have already shown you how to protect your network with OpenDNS.

Now we will show you how to use Untangle to secure your business network and use it in conjunction with OpenDNS.

First off a little about what Untangle is and why it is best for you.

Untangle provides a powerful suite of Internet management applications for small-to-medium businesses and education institutions.

The Untangle Server is a multi-function firewall. It simplifies and consolidates the many network and security products that businesses need at the gateway to the Internet. Untangle comes as standard with these free, open-source applications:

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The best protection for you and all your computers in your house is layered protection.

We have shown you the best Anti-Virus software to run and how your computer can get infected with spyware.

Today we will show you how OpenDNS adds another layer of protection to your network and speeds it up a little bit.

A little brief explanation of what OpenDNS is and why you need it:

• Parental Controls
  Keeping your family safe online has never been easier. OpenDNS gives you more than 50 filtering categories to choose from. Simply check the boxes of the categories you want to block and watch your filtering take effect within minutes.
• Faster, More Reliable Internet
  Rid your household of annoying, intermittent Internet outages. Switch to OpenDNS and immediately notice a faster, more reliable Internet experience. Join the millions who’ve already unbundled their DNS service from their ISP’s Internet connection.
• Phishing Protection and Security
  Take the guesswork out of identifying phishing Web sites with OpenDNS’s industry-leading anti-phishing service. We’ll tell you when the site you’re trying to visit is fraudulent.
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I needed a VPN service, I needed it to be both secure and relatively easy to setup and maintain.

I tried OpenVPN, Hamachi, OpenSSH, and a few others but none of them seemed to stand out and were hard to maintain.

I stumbled across GBridge and it is pretty awesome and I wanted to share it with you.

http://www.gbridge.com/

Gbridge is a free software that can connect multiple computers. It forms a VPN between multiple computers and provides remote computer access, folder synchronization, automatic folder backup, remote computer control and/or screen sharing, and chat. Gbridge can use Google’s Gtalk network to connect remote PCs and requires Gtalk (Gmail) accounts.

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First we showed you how easily your computer can become infected with spyware, crapware, and other unwanted software—and today we’ll show you how to clean your system with Spybot Search & Destroy.

Download Spybot Search & Destroy (version 1.6.2)

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