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Snort – The Open Source Network IDS : News. From seattlewireless.com, they recommend this tool for intrusion detection. Will try it now.

Disable Windows NT/W2K/XP Hidden Administrative Shares. It is amazing that NT/W2K and XP ship with these administrative shares. Fortunately, this page tells you how to close it off

AirPort Base Station Configurator. When you have WEP enabled on the Airport, for some reason the Freebase tool can’t see the access point via wired or unwired connection. However, this tool can see it for some reason and then you can reset the WEP off and everything works fine. Next problem I face is that…

Windows XP Shutdown Troubleshooter A great list of why XP won’t power down correctly.

Apple AirPort Base Station HardwareOK I screwed up when I put a WEP key on, so this shows where the reset button is on the AirPort. Amazingly the manual doesn’t appear to cover that.

FreeBase – Free Windows software to configure the Apple AirPort Base Station. Hey a VB applications to configure the AirPort

KarlNet Incorporated : Bridges, Routers, BRouters, Wireless LANs/WANs. An interesting company for Steve Bush. This company does the firmware for Orinoco and Apple Airport. They have a 486 processor in them.

Using Apple’s Airport Base Station with Windows. Got one from the Airwave guys and now am setting this up on aWindows network.

Nessus. Supposedly one of thge best port scanners. I just love Languard and how easy it is to use. Particularly for SMB vulnerabilities.

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