Gavel & Gown Software Inc. will be expanding the Amicus family of legal software products with the addition of Amicus Accounting: a time, billing & accounting product designed for small to mid-sized law firms.

Toronto, ON – September 8, 2005 – Gavel & Gown Software announced that they will be building on the success of their award winning Amicus Attorney® software product by releasing a time, billing & accounting product to be called Amicus Accounting.

“We are excited to be bringing another great software product to market that will help to make law firms more productive,” said Ron Collins, President of Gavel & Gown Software Inc. “For years our customers have been asking us to take the Amicus philosophy and apply it to a billing product. And that is exactly what we have done.”

Amicus Accounting will act as a companion product to Amicus Attorney, creating a total solution for firms looking to integrate their front office and back office processes into a single easy to use tool. It will also be sold as a stand alone solution.

Amicus Attorney will continue to integrate with other time & billing solutions. “We have built our customer base by linking Amicus Attorney to all the major legal billing products on the market and we will continue to link to these products,” said Les Hansen, VP Sales & Marketing at Gavel & Gown. “Amicus Accounting will simply provide customers another option in selecting the software products that are best suited for the firms”.

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Here are some wireless security tips and techniques:

1. Change the default password that comes with your router. For example, most Linksys routers use "admin" as the default password. Anyone within range of your router/access point may be able to guess the default password and use it to gain wireless access to your information.

2. Change the router's default SSID (Service Set Identifier). This is the name of the wireless network created by your router. Like default passwords, the default SSID's are very well known. For example, the SSID for Linksys wireless networks is, oddly enough, "linksys". Other default SSID's include "belkin", "wireless", and "default". SSID's can be up to 32 characters long, and are case sensitive, so create a non-obvious SSID. Hackers looking for unsecured wireless networks typically look for networks still running the default SSID's.

3. "Hide" the SSID. Now that you've changed the SSID from the default, set your wireless access point or router to NOT broadcast the SSID. Doing so will require you to manually set the SSID and other security information on your wireless notebook (or desktop if at home), but will discourage the casual network snoop. A dedicated network intruder can still find the SSID, but will have to work harder for it.

4. Enable WEP (Wired-Equivalent Privacy) or WPA (Wireless Protected Access). There should be a setting in your router's Web interface for this feature. WPA is better than WEP, so use WPA if you have it.

5. Use MAC (Media Access Code) filtering to restrict the computers which are permitted to access your wireless network. Nearly all modern wireless routers and access points let you type in one or a dozen (or more) network card MAC address and specify that only computers using those wireless network cards are permitted to connect to the network. The MAC address is unique to each network card and is usually printed on the wireless network adapter or, where the card is built into the notebook computer, often on the bottom of the notebook. It consists of 12 alphanumeric characters, typically in six groups of two characters each. If you cannot find the MAC address for your wireless network card, try this:

• Click on the Start button and select Run.
• In the Open box, type the following: command
• Click on OK. The command prompt will appear.
• At the command prompt, type: ipconfig /all
• If your computer has a wireless network card, information will appear under Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection. Under this section, there will be an item listed as Physical Address. The combination of twelve letters and numbers shown next to the Physical Address is the MAC address.