In case you didn't know, telnet and FTP are very insecure. They send passwords in clear text (i.e. they don't encrypt) over the Internet. Moreover, there is recent reason to believe that certain versions of telnet cannot safely be run on servers. For this reason, we have shut off telnet and FTP access to our server, oedipus.umd.edu. You can still login remotely using ssh, and you can still dofile transfers using scp. You can get the free and semi-official ssh client for windoze at

You should look for a file called something like "LATEST-IS-SSH-SOME-VERSION-NUMBER", where SOME-VERSION-NUMBER will be something like 3.2.3. As of March 3, the executable file you will want is SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.3.exe. Note that this software is free for educational (but not commercial) use.

You can also try using the popular Putty client, available from

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/