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Use CurrPorts to Check Open Ports on your Local Computer

T.J. Mininday — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:25:55 +0000

Whether you know it or not, for every application that access your internet connection or network in some way, uses some type of network port. Some examples include port 80(http/web) or port 443(https/ssl), which you use regularly with your everyday PC. Along with that includes many applications that access various other ports that you may not know about. And in order to serious these various used ports, you typically need some type of application to monitor it.

CurrPorts from Nirsoft is a free application that you may run on your Windows PC to monitor TCP/IP and UDP ports locally. The display includes actual process information, protocol, local and remote IP addresses, and the actual location of the executable application. Along with monitoring capabilities, you also can kill each of these processes if need be. You may then also export this information to HTML, XML or tab delimited files.

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Create your Own Online File Server with HFS

T.J. Mininday — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:26:26 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to share files all over the web without the need for another source. As we know, there many many options out there for sharing files on the web, but most require some type of registration and the others have limitations that you just don’t want to deal with. Well, how about hosting your file server, on your own computer?

HFS stands for “HTTP File Server”. It’s a file sharing application service that runs on your PC, and allows for easy sharing of files on any internet capable computer.

The program is just one single executable file that sits in the system tray of your Windows PC. Once running, you’ll need to have port 80 forwarded properly to you PC if you’d like the entire world to have access to the files.

Of course there are additional security measures put in place so that you can limit what public and private users can do with these files. Files can be uploaded manually, or you can add a simple ‘Add to HFS’ to your Windows context menu as well. Here is a look at the web interface, with a few files.

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View your WEP or WPA Wireless Key with WirelessKeyView

T.J. Mininday — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:10:59 +0000

So many times this happens to me. You’ve gone through the process of setting up a new laptop or computer on the network with your new wireless router. You apply the appropriate security, typically with WEP or WPA, and you enter it without ever thinking you’ll need to remember it again. Later, someone else wants to join the wireless network, but you have no idea what that key is, because you didn’t write it down. You could access the router and reset it, but that in turn would require you to reset all the rest of the PCs as well. Well, WirelessKeyView is here to be your savior.

With Wireless Key View, you can display all of the WEP or WPA security stored on your Windows PC. They must however be stored in the Wireless Zero Configuration utility, and not in another tool that may or may not have been included with the system. It’s a handy tool, especially for small or large IT departments.

It is worth noting that early Verizon cable and internet installations may have included an Actiontec router which defaulted to the insecure WEP security protocol. Due to recent exploits and hacking tools, it is advisable to change your router to WPA/WPA2 if it is currently set to WEP.

System Requirements

Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
You must login to windows with admin user.

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