Found Trojan.ByteVerify on my computer
Hi All, Symantec recently discovered Trojan.ByteVerify on my computer. I run system checks weekly and am always cautious about the e-mails I open, the web sites I go to and what I click on, so I was pretty surprised to find I had a Trojan. It was quarantined and removed, but I’m worried about what [...]
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| June 24, 2010 10:20 AM
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Backup of Router & Pix IOS
How can we protect our router & pix firewall & how can we recover the ios when ios is totaly corrupted. how can we take backup of ios through tftp server. Please guide step by step as i am new to router & pix firewall. can u provide me website link from where i get [...]
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| April 19, 2005 5:08 AM
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Internet Explorer vs. Firefox
Hello, I’m the Assistant Editor on SearchWindowsSecurity.com. I’m looking to start a discussion about what browser people are using and why. Also, is anyone considering switching from IE to Firefox, or are your plans to stay with IE? Here’s some food for thought… As of Feb. 2005, an estimated 35 million users had switched from [...]
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| June 29, 2012 2:14 PM
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Safe user sandbox?
*This question is from a SearchWindowsSecurity.com reader: I’m in a position to redesign our IT systems (network, servers, PCs, software, etc.) this summer, and I am undecided on which path to take. I’d like to disconnect our systems from the Internet so that we don’t have to deal with all of the garbage that comes [...]
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| April 13, 2005 2:15 PM
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I’ve been hacked — I think….
I’m an IT administrator with a little over 500 end users, running Windows 2000 and XP. One of our users is experiencing a problem with her Internet connection suddenly dropping for no apparent reason. When she restarts her computer, everything works fine for awhile, but then the connection drops again. The funny thing is, she’s [...]
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| August 2, 2009 9:52 AM
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PIX – Allow UDP replies in.
Hi All, The president of my company has started to use skype (www.skype.com). There is a function in the program to do file transfers. When we try that the program show that it has to relay the transfer and when it does that it limits the bandwith to 0.5kB/second. I’ve pasted the documentation that skype [...]
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| April 8, 2005 9:56 AM
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Cisco PIX VPN Bridging – Am I missing something??
Hi, I’m tryin to set up a VPN between two internal sites on the same subnet. I have 2 PIX 506E’s linked together (physically) in my test lab (on outside interfaces). All the configuration examples I’ve seen of setting up a VPN is between 2 different logical networks. However, I want them to act as [...]
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| April 9, 2005 7:21 AM
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How did I get a virus on my computer?
Do you hear that question or something similar too often? We’re taking an informal survery on SearchSecurity.com to find out what the most common security-related user questions are. Results will be compiled into a question and answer tip that you will be able to post or handout to your users. What are the top 5 [...]
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| April 15, 2005 6:07 PM
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SNORT RULES
I am trying to define a snort rule that will detect the word “spam” in the subject field of an email. So far I have tried alert tcp any any -> any 25 (content:”Spam” nocase; msg:”Email traffic logged!”;) But this is not filtering out only the emails that I want. ANy help would be much [...]
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| April 5, 2005 9:32 AM
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trojan horse downloader
hi i have a win NT4.0 sp6 server.its a DNS and web server. from few days the IE was redirecting the sites to some search engines.when i scaned with AVG it detected some trojan horse downloader.i healed the trojan and restarted the DNS.the problem was solved.but after some hours the problem arise again.since then i [...]
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| November 2, 2011 3:57 AM
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Help required in configuring ISA server 2000 firewall
Hi all, I have some queries related to Microsoft ISA server 2000. First of all I want to provide some info about my network. In my network most of the systems are using different flavor of MS windows and one computer (call it server1) is providing internet access to all the other computers (clients). There [...]
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| March 28, 2005 4:34 AM
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Cisco ACS, PIX and VPN problem
I am trying to configure Cisco PIX to accept vpdn connections that will be authenticated by the Cisco ACS after looking up username and profile details in Active Directory. I am seeing failed attempts on the ACS – so I think the config is ok (below) access-list acl_in permit ip 10.xxx.xxx.0 255.255.255.0 10.xxx.xxx.0 255.255.255.0 access-list [...]
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| March 10, 2005 3:41 AM
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How to do a Linux DMZ Intranet with Windows authentication?
I am designing a new network that has a DMZ containing Linux webservers and behind a firewall separating the DMZ a Windows backoffice . I want to run our company Intranet on the DMZ side using Linux but I want to limit access to employees both from the Internet and behind the firewall using windows [...]
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| March 23, 2005 11:58 AM
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Blocking P2P in SBS2003 network with no ISA Server
Hi All, I manage a small SBS2003 network, which doesn’t have ISA server – i.e. the SBS box and all clients are wired via a switch to the ADSL router (Netgear DG384G). One of the users has been downloading MP3′s from a P2P network and I want to block this sort of activity. Can I [...]
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| March 10, 2005 4:00 AM
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Security Forensics with Niksun or CA or Sandstorm
Does any have experience recording and tracking traffic with playback using any of these venders. I am looking for the best solution to provide Forensics on my network. Niksun or CA or Sandstorm Also on a side not I am lookign for a product to do secure email delivery. Please let me know if anyone [...]
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| March 27, 2005 9:28 AM
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Developing an antivirus (efficient):for Windows:Using VC++-2
I am working on a Project for making an antivirus.I have 2 other project parteners. But we don’t have an guidance on how to develop the antivirus.Plz give me any relevent Information on this subject.(like components of AV,Algorithms(efficient),methods,general dection & removal of virus).(Also tell me )where can i find this information ?
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| June 29, 2012 3:49 AM
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Developing an antivirus (efficient):for Windows:Using VC++
I am working on a Project for making an antivirus.I have 2 other project parteners. But we don’t have an guidance on how to develop the antivirus.Plz give me any relevent Information on this subject.(like components of AV,Algorithms(efficient),methods,general detection & removal of virus).(Also tell me )where can i find this information ?
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| June 29, 2012 3:49 AM
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MS Office Outlook 2003 Address book
I use MS office outlook 2003 but this is not adding the e-mail addresses to the address book/contacts automatically when I reply to someone. This feature is available in Outlook express but I didn’t find this feature in MSOO 2003. Is there any simple way I can add e-mail ids to contacts /address book without [...]
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| February 18, 2005 5:32 AM
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