Mr.Blaze
January 25th, 2003, 12:34 PM
Welcome Newby's To The Great Book Of Newb
But befor you start on your journey Newby warning there is music in this thread and it changes daily
Reason?: This is a big book of newb it is long and useful for newbys if your going to be here for awhile
might as will get a drink and listhen to some tunes lol
upon request no music for now :-[
Privacy Settings
These Settings is mainly for stopping Internet explorer annoying pop ups surf in peace without those annoying pop ups=).
Blazes newbie how to privacy settings for newbys=)
1. Click on Internet explorer that's that big blue E. ICON lol.
2. Go to tools scroll down to Internet options then click on security tab
3. Then go down to the middle of the box click on custom level and select the following so it match's the bottom
Look here to get a look before you start with the instructions below
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,1333507;root=security,1;mode=flat;start=0
Download signed activex controls - Prompt
Download unsigned activex controls -Disable
Initialize and script activex controls not marked as safe - Disable
Run activex controls and plug-ins - Enable (in general I would advice not to enable ActiveX.)
Script activex controls marked safe for scripting - Enable
enable the cookies only if your at a site you trust
If your just surfing and not posting or editing your profile at a message bord or buying something online then disable but if you are posting or editing your profile or buying something enable them
Allow cookies that are stored on your computer disable
Allow per session cookies (not stored) -Enable
i use Internet sweeper and cookie muncher to kill my cookies and clean up my history
*File download - Disable ('Enable' as needed only!)
Font download - Prompt
Java permissions - High Safety
Access data sources across domains - Prompt
Don't prompt for client certificate.... - Disable
Drag and drop or copy and paste files - Enable
*Installation of desktop items - DISABLE
Navigate sub-frames across different domains - Enable
*Launching programs and files in an IFRAME - DISABLE
Software channel permissions - High Safety
Submit non-encrypted form data - Prompt
*Userdata Persistence - DISABLE
*Active Scripting - DISABLE you must Reanable this option if you are editing your profile at message boards or buying something on line doing bills or unemployment registering ect ect
Allow paste operations via script - Disable
Scripting of Java applets - Disable you must Reanable this option if you are editing your profile at message boards or buying something on line doing bills or unemployment registering ect ect
Logon -setting (Your choice)
aditional security setings for other browsers
Maybe you have another browser other then internet explorer in that case.
Netscape Communicator
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/btw/ns/ns-opts.htm
Netscape 7.0
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/btw/ns7/ns7-opts.htm
Opera 6.0
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/btw/opera/opera-opts.htm
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Aol helpful hints with spam and faq's
AOL user's are you tired of AOL Spam or AOL pop ups as will as 3rd party Spam from
AOL how about those annoying AOL phone calls late at night or during dinner or lunch darn phone Spam!
will IM tired to heres how to stop it
go to settings at the very top of your AOL Internet screen scroll down to preferences
now click on Marketing preferences you will see a huge list of AOL Spam click on each one in order and click on continue then select no i don't want any darn AOL Spam or pop ups or phone calls asking me to buy stuff or AOL junk mail lol
its just that easy AOL doesn't tell you about it pretty much keeping it a secret in less you call them up specifically asking them how to stop it=) enjoy newbies
[New] Trouble shooting with saveing pictures off the web.with AOL
Will every one here knows i love adult web sites but awhile back i had a problem.
I couldnt right click save picture as and have the picture turn out
Instead i get a blank picture with a thing saying no preview avaliable grrrrr
Turns out its something AOL did on purpose to save there buts money on bandwith.
By sacrificeing the consumers rights on what he or she does on there owen pc
At 23 some dollars a month or so shouldnt you decide what you can save on your pc?
If your tired of trying to save pictures off the net and nothing happens and the picture dosent turn out
Then do the following so you can save pictures off of AOL properly.
Posted by my frind LowWaterMark
How to Disable Image Compression in AOL:
From the AOL "Settings" menu > select "Preferences" > choose "Internet Properties (WWW)" > select the "Web Graphics" tab > choose "Never compress graphics" option > OK After you've done this, you must empty all your browser caches to ensure no old .ART images remain. You should not need to exit and restart AOL, but you should if you have any problems with saving any images you've already seen. (AOL uses a memory cache that doesn't go away at times without closing the program. System rebooting should not be necessary, either.)
The AOL image compression format was never very good or useful. Yes, it saves AOL a small amount of bandwidth, but, the images are not nearly as clear and the .ART format is proprietary and not the best.
Give this a try. You may actually see an improvement in performance, too. (For years we've been telling people, whenever you reinstall AOL, this is the first thing you should change. Whether or not you use dialup or broadband, it's almost always better to turn off AOL image compression.)
[New] AOL instant messenger faq
If you ever dowenloaded AOL instant messenger and your an AOL subscriber but you got the dowenload verstion of aim so you
could chat live with frinds useing AOL talk.
You might notice something with quality or a failed conection
Or some lame if you and a frind are behind a difrent fire wall blah blah blah message
Its because you sighned up with a difrent name other then the one your useing for your AOL account.
I experimented alot with aim talk turns out AOL provides better service to people with actual AOL acounts for AIM
by sighning up with aim with your AOL usser name and not a custom one you will notice a big difrence.
1.no netscape spam soliting you to sighn up for adtional netscap fetures bs
2.when you connect with some one to talk you will get clearer less static voice
3.if you were config corectly with aim and firewall you will notice you dont get that difrent fire wall message
Inless your frind really does have a difrent fire wall.
I hated it id get that message and my frind im trying to talk to dont even have a fire wall at all
[New] AOL weirdness
Never close the aol welcome screen or the channles box when dowenloading something
cause when you leave you pc aol isp boots you for not looking at there welcome spam
AOL still boots there customers off the internet on purpose
when the isp thats internet service provider in this case AOL gets to busy they boot there customers off
to let one just loging on in and on to the internet.
you will notice a anoying blue box asking do you still whish to stay on line will thats there way of nicely kicking you off.
Truth is dont bother reconecting aol will only boot you later in a mater of minutes
might even give you a waol has cause a problem waol will now box soon right after
ever notice you get those just ideling so how could it cause in error.
Its just better to disconect and reconnect with a stable line cause your on burrowed time.
[New] Paas Word paste to Adult sites
Ever been to one of thise adult sites or any site that ask for a password and its just annoying cause you can copy
and paste the usser name: off of a note pad but that big huge Password:_____ part you cant just copy and paste it in
and usealy these pass words are huge.
Heres the trick have you usser name and pass word pasted on anote pad ready to go.
go to the adult site or password site you have an account with do the following.
copy paste usser name from note pad tou usser request box from web site no problem
Now come the big long pass word.
highlight copy passsword off of note pad right click
click on password part of box the very start of it
press the following keys at the same time that are on your keybord
[Ctrl] [Alt] [v] all three keys at same time and walah password paste in then click ok or submit lol
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Newbie trouble shooting with zone alarm pro
ZAP does have some bugs but that's expected with any fire wall.
First off make sure that the way you connect to the Internet A.K.A. your Internet provider such as AOL ect ect under programs has green check marks in zone alarm to have access to the Internet except for the act as a server option I usually put red X's as hell no lol.
If your on dial up on 56k you might notice a few things that you probably had no clue of but here goes.
In some cases zone alarm pro works to well this causes problems on dial up.
If you have AOL 7.0 or even 6.0 you might notice you cant connect to the Internet the very first time you try to connect.
But you will always connect on the second time this is probably due to zap learning mode in testing the Icmp Protocol along side with udp and 1 TCP flag basically these problems acure when connecting to the Internet the first time on dial ups zap blocks the icmp as will as the udp-aol and you get an immediate TCP flag.
the following problems will accure
1. will not connect on dial up first time
2. Aim instant messenger AOL's stand alone instant messenger and AOL internal messengers wont load( means buddy list wont load or the AOL instant messenger application stand alone will not connect or if it does the talking on aim feature will give you the if you and a buddy are behind different fire walls typical message box its due to this issue.)
3 . If you post reply's on such forums as wilders your reply wont post correctly you get web page not found or not responding there for your post does not go threw.
4. When clicking on several pages moving threw the web fast you will get pretty much a service of denial effect when none of the web pages load correctly you get page 404 not found or page not responding no matter what site you go to.
Solution?
1. First off call AOL and make sure you have the best dial up number in your local area sometimes that stupid auto numbers in your area isn't the best number for connecting to the Internet when using AOL.
Have the AOL guy or woman guide you in putting locale dial up connection dial up numbers in manually?
Find the one that connects the first time and move that one to the top when dialing the Internet so that number is at the top making it the first number you use when trying to reach the Internet threw AOL.
After you done the albolve and found a good 1 dial up local connection first try number go ahead and disconnect and close AOL start up zone alarm pro.
Then click on fire wall tab in zone alarm and click on Zones Tab
Keep zone alarm pro open or hiding in task bar now dial up AOL when it gets to 4 click on zone alarm you will see new Zone alarm Internet connection with a strand of numbers such as for example 283.204.0.0/366.366.0.0 that says Net work Internet.
Right click on it and go to add then scroll down to IP Range.
Now you will get a box pop up with the following words.
1. Zone tab trusted
2. IP Address . . .
3. IP Address . . .
4. Description
With the IP number you saw 283.204.0.0/366.366.0.0 do the following in the pop up box.
1. Zone tab trusted
2. IP Address 283 . 204 .0 .0
3. IP Address 366 . 366 .0 .0
4. Description Internet
Then click OK.
You will find doing this makes connecting to the Internet more easy and more stable.
You might have to do it a few times to get all the safe IP connections From your Internet provider.
For example some IP range connections might be extremely busy so you might have to connect to the Internet a second time and be redirected on to a less busy Internet connection there for add that new IP range number also to your safe zone.
You will notice that you can post and your buddy list will load and you can connect on the first try depending if you were fast enough to add to zone.
you will also notice aim talk works if it does not right click on aim in the right side bottom task bar on AOL instant messenger right click on it select preferences then aim talk
On the box that says AlterNet Internet address check the box or unchecked it lol you have to play with it sometimes this will get it to work=)
advanced custom settings for Zap by LowWaterMark check it out now you to can look like a pro great for newbie's
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=3899
ZA splashscreen
how I can get rid of the splashscreen that shows up when I start my computer?
this should do the trick:
) Right click on the Zone Alarm icon and select properties.
2) On the Shortcut tab, in the target field, enter in exactly:
"C\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zonealarm.exe" -nosplash
The Zone Alarm help files are now available at Computer Cops;
http://www.computercops.biz/index.php
For all the help files;
http://www.computercops.biz/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=24
or;
For the version specific files;
ZA help file
http://www.computercops.biz/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=123
ZAPlus help file
http://www.computercops.biz/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=124
ZAPro help file
http://www.computercops.biz/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=125
Old versions of zone alarm because newer isn't always better
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=zalarm
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But befor you start on your journey Newby warning there is music in this thread and it changes daily
Reason?: This is a big book of newb it is long and useful for newbys if your going to be here for awhile
might as will get a drink and listhen to some tunes lol
upon request no music for now :-[
Privacy Settings
These Settings is mainly for stopping Internet explorer annoying pop ups surf in peace without those annoying pop ups=).
Blazes newbie how to privacy settings for newbys=)
1. Click on Internet explorer that's that big blue E. ICON lol.
2. Go to tools scroll down to Internet options then click on security tab
3. Then go down to the middle of the box click on custom level and select the following so it match's the bottom
Look here to get a look before you start with the instructions below
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,1333507;root=security,1;mode=flat;start=0
Download signed activex controls - Prompt
Download unsigned activex controls -Disable
Initialize and script activex controls not marked as safe - Disable
Run activex controls and plug-ins - Enable (in general I would advice not to enable ActiveX.)
Script activex controls marked safe for scripting - Enable
enable the cookies only if your at a site you trust
If your just surfing and not posting or editing your profile at a message bord or buying something online then disable but if you are posting or editing your profile or buying something enable them
Allow cookies that are stored on your computer disable
Allow per session cookies (not stored) -Enable
i use Internet sweeper and cookie muncher to kill my cookies and clean up my history
*File download - Disable ('Enable' as needed only!)
Font download - Prompt
Java permissions - High Safety
Access data sources across domains - Prompt
Don't prompt for client certificate.... - Disable
Drag and drop or copy and paste files - Enable
*Installation of desktop items - DISABLE
Navigate sub-frames across different domains - Enable
*Launching programs and files in an IFRAME - DISABLE
Software channel permissions - High Safety
Submit non-encrypted form data - Prompt
*Userdata Persistence - DISABLE
*Active Scripting - DISABLE you must Reanable this option if you are editing your profile at message boards or buying something on line doing bills or unemployment registering ect ect
Allow paste operations via script - Disable
Scripting of Java applets - Disable you must Reanable this option if you are editing your profile at message boards or buying something on line doing bills or unemployment registering ect ect
Logon -setting (Your choice)
aditional security setings for other browsers
Maybe you have another browser other then internet explorer in that case.
Netscape Communicator
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/btw/ns/ns-opts.htm
Netscape 7.0
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/btw/ns7/ns7-opts.htm
Opera 6.0
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/btw/opera/opera-opts.htm
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Aol helpful hints with spam and faq's
AOL user's are you tired of AOL Spam or AOL pop ups as will as 3rd party Spam from
AOL how about those annoying AOL phone calls late at night or during dinner or lunch darn phone Spam!
will IM tired to heres how to stop it
go to settings at the very top of your AOL Internet screen scroll down to preferences
now click on Marketing preferences you will see a huge list of AOL Spam click on each one in order and click on continue then select no i don't want any darn AOL Spam or pop ups or phone calls asking me to buy stuff or AOL junk mail lol
its just that easy AOL doesn't tell you about it pretty much keeping it a secret in less you call them up specifically asking them how to stop it=) enjoy newbies
[New] Trouble shooting with saveing pictures off the web.with AOL
Will every one here knows i love adult web sites but awhile back i had a problem.
I couldnt right click save picture as and have the picture turn out
Instead i get a blank picture with a thing saying no preview avaliable grrrrr
Turns out its something AOL did on purpose to save there buts money on bandwith.
By sacrificeing the consumers rights on what he or she does on there owen pc
At 23 some dollars a month or so shouldnt you decide what you can save on your pc?
If your tired of trying to save pictures off the net and nothing happens and the picture dosent turn out
Then do the following so you can save pictures off of AOL properly.
Posted by my frind LowWaterMark
How to Disable Image Compression in AOL:
From the AOL "Settings" menu > select "Preferences" > choose "Internet Properties (WWW)" > select the "Web Graphics" tab > choose "Never compress graphics" option > OK After you've done this, you must empty all your browser caches to ensure no old .ART images remain. You should not need to exit and restart AOL, but you should if you have any problems with saving any images you've already seen. (AOL uses a memory cache that doesn't go away at times without closing the program. System rebooting should not be necessary, either.)
The AOL image compression format was never very good or useful. Yes, it saves AOL a small amount of bandwidth, but, the images are not nearly as clear and the .ART format is proprietary and not the best.
Give this a try. You may actually see an improvement in performance, too. (For years we've been telling people, whenever you reinstall AOL, this is the first thing you should change. Whether or not you use dialup or broadband, it's almost always better to turn off AOL image compression.)
[New] AOL instant messenger faq
If you ever dowenloaded AOL instant messenger and your an AOL subscriber but you got the dowenload verstion of aim so you
could chat live with frinds useing AOL talk.
You might notice something with quality or a failed conection
Or some lame if you and a frind are behind a difrent fire wall blah blah blah message
Its because you sighned up with a difrent name other then the one your useing for your AOL account.
I experimented alot with aim talk turns out AOL provides better service to people with actual AOL acounts for AIM
by sighning up with aim with your AOL usser name and not a custom one you will notice a big difrence.
1.no netscape spam soliting you to sighn up for adtional netscap fetures bs
2.when you connect with some one to talk you will get clearer less static voice
3.if you were config corectly with aim and firewall you will notice you dont get that difrent fire wall message
Inless your frind really does have a difrent fire wall.
I hated it id get that message and my frind im trying to talk to dont even have a fire wall at all
[New] AOL weirdness
Never close the aol welcome screen or the channles box when dowenloading something
cause when you leave you pc aol isp boots you for not looking at there welcome spam
AOL still boots there customers off the internet on purpose
when the isp thats internet service provider in this case AOL gets to busy they boot there customers off
to let one just loging on in and on to the internet.
you will notice a anoying blue box asking do you still whish to stay on line will thats there way of nicely kicking you off.
Truth is dont bother reconecting aol will only boot you later in a mater of minutes
might even give you a waol has cause a problem waol will now box soon right after
ever notice you get those just ideling so how could it cause in error.
Its just better to disconect and reconnect with a stable line cause your on burrowed time.
[New] Paas Word paste to Adult sites
Ever been to one of thise adult sites or any site that ask for a password and its just annoying cause you can copy
and paste the usser name: off of a note pad but that big huge Password:_____ part you cant just copy and paste it in
and usealy these pass words are huge.
Heres the trick have you usser name and pass word pasted on anote pad ready to go.
go to the adult site or password site you have an account with do the following.
copy paste usser name from note pad tou usser request box from web site no problem
Now come the big long pass word.
highlight copy passsword off of note pad right click
click on password part of box the very start of it
press the following keys at the same time that are on your keybord
[Ctrl] [Alt] [v] all three keys at same time and walah password paste in then click ok or submit lol
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Newbie trouble shooting with zone alarm pro
ZAP does have some bugs but that's expected with any fire wall.
First off make sure that the way you connect to the Internet A.K.A. your Internet provider such as AOL ect ect under programs has green check marks in zone alarm to have access to the Internet except for the act as a server option I usually put red X's as hell no lol.
If your on dial up on 56k you might notice a few things that you probably had no clue of but here goes.
In some cases zone alarm pro works to well this causes problems on dial up.
If you have AOL 7.0 or even 6.0 you might notice you cant connect to the Internet the very first time you try to connect.
But you will always connect on the second time this is probably due to zap learning mode in testing the Icmp Protocol along side with udp and 1 TCP flag basically these problems acure when connecting to the Internet the first time on dial ups zap blocks the icmp as will as the udp-aol and you get an immediate TCP flag.
the following problems will accure
1. will not connect on dial up first time
2. Aim instant messenger AOL's stand alone instant messenger and AOL internal messengers wont load( means buddy list wont load or the AOL instant messenger application stand alone will not connect or if it does the talking on aim feature will give you the if you and a buddy are behind different fire walls typical message box its due to this issue.)
3 . If you post reply's on such forums as wilders your reply wont post correctly you get web page not found or not responding there for your post does not go threw.
4. When clicking on several pages moving threw the web fast you will get pretty much a service of denial effect when none of the web pages load correctly you get page 404 not found or page not responding no matter what site you go to.
Solution?
1. First off call AOL and make sure you have the best dial up number in your local area sometimes that stupid auto numbers in your area isn't the best number for connecting to the Internet when using AOL.
Have the AOL guy or woman guide you in putting locale dial up connection dial up numbers in manually?
Find the one that connects the first time and move that one to the top when dialing the Internet so that number is at the top making it the first number you use when trying to reach the Internet threw AOL.
After you done the albolve and found a good 1 dial up local connection first try number go ahead and disconnect and close AOL start up zone alarm pro.
Then click on fire wall tab in zone alarm and click on Zones Tab
Keep zone alarm pro open or hiding in task bar now dial up AOL when it gets to 4 click on zone alarm you will see new Zone alarm Internet connection with a strand of numbers such as for example 283.204.0.0/366.366.0.0 that says Net work Internet.
Right click on it and go to add then scroll down to IP Range.
Now you will get a box pop up with the following words.
1. Zone tab trusted
2. IP Address . . .
3. IP Address . . .
4. Description
With the IP number you saw 283.204.0.0/366.366.0.0 do the following in the pop up box.
1. Zone tab trusted
2. IP Address 283 . 204 .0 .0
3. IP Address 366 . 366 .0 .0
4. Description Internet
Then click OK.
You will find doing this makes connecting to the Internet more easy and more stable.
You might have to do it a few times to get all the safe IP connections From your Internet provider.
For example some IP range connections might be extremely busy so you might have to connect to the Internet a second time and be redirected on to a less busy Internet connection there for add that new IP range number also to your safe zone.
You will notice that you can post and your buddy list will load and you can connect on the first try depending if you were fast enough to add to zone.
you will also notice aim talk works if it does not right click on aim in the right side bottom task bar on AOL instant messenger right click on it select preferences then aim talk
On the box that says AlterNet Internet address check the box or unchecked it lol you have to play with it sometimes this will get it to work=)
advanced custom settings for Zap by LowWaterMark check it out now you to can look like a pro great for newbie's
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=3899
ZA splashscreen
how I can get rid of the splashscreen that shows up when I start my computer?
this should do the trick:
) Right click on the Zone Alarm icon and select properties.
2) On the Shortcut tab, in the target field, enter in exactly:
"C\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zonealarm.exe" -nosplash
The Zone Alarm help files are now available at Computer Cops;
http://www.computercops.biz/index.php
For all the help files;
http://www.computercops.biz/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=24
or;
For the version specific files;
ZA help file
http://www.computercops.biz/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=123
ZAPlus help file
http://www.computercops.biz/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=124
ZAPro help file
http://www.computercops.biz/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=125
Old versions of zone alarm because newer isn't always better
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=zalarm
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