We have a mcafee anti-virus and anti-spam appliance. We used it as out internet email presence and as a web proxy. All email comes in thru it and all web traffic from our internal web proxy went thru it. The web proxy is limited to less than half of the internet bandwidth. It is behind stateful...
hi all. i have sent before a message about this subject but i didnt really had real replies that helped me. i am searching of tutorials of programming (delphi, linux, perl, python, c#, java ......) i have search in google, altavista, westciv, whatis, w3school,... So if anyone now how to get pdf...
Hi All, Basically i want to monitor all the activities of my administrators. Is there any way I can find out all the activities on a Windows 2000 Server eg:- success / failure logs ,which users had logged on to a server , user creation time ,service stopped at what time, what scripts have been...
After updating both Windows XP and Spybot - Search and Destroy, the latter is reporting DS0 exploit registry entries on two computers not colocated on a network. Could this be as a result of a vulnerability being introduced with the August Windows XP security patches? Can you comment on the...
Hi all, Thanks to all those who answered to my question"FTP sites" Can anyone of you let me know about the available products that we can use for our organisations IT security..Also let me know what products are available to find out vulnerabilities in a network. Appreciate your response. Thanks ...
A User ill advisedly switched off Anti-Virus and since then we see a failed logon (Type 4 - Batch)under Logon process Advapi every 15 minutes in his User Id. A search of the Web links this to possible virus infectection (Netdevil 1.2. We have scanned etc but can't track down what is generating the...
Hi, I am a United Stated Marine stationed overseas since 2003, majoring in Information technology with National University. I am still an idiot in the field and thats why i joined this group. To get a glance of what to ecpect in the future. I am asking for your help in guiding me through whatever...
Starting one WinXPSP2 (fully patched) computer last night revealed that the SAV Corporate 8.0 was not functioning properly (yellow "!" over systray icon). Restart of the computer did not resolve the issue. I cannot update (Live Update is disabled); I cannot uninstall (process appears to start and...
Hi, Anyone familiar with Fortinet Aplliance? They claim to be leading vendore providing Firewall, IPS , Intrusion detection, VPN etc. solution in one single unit at low cost. Although our security engineer is pushing for the proiduct but i have many reservation about the integraity and fear of...
hi, I am sorry if i had chosen the wrong recipient. I am running windows2000. When I open my browser (IE 6.0) I get as res://shdocpv.dll/blank.htm or res://C:WinntSystem32shdocpv.dllsecurity.htm Please help me about to get rid of this. thanks
Hello, We recently ran our first Windows Security Clinic on SearchWindowsSecurity.com. We presented an administrator's hacking dilemma, and our three Windows security gurus (the "doctors") provided their diagnoses and possible courses of action to address, recover from and prevent security...
A short time ago, author Wes Noonan wrote some tips for SearchWindowsSecurity.com about <a href=http://searchwindowssecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid45_gci1007026,00.html>deperimeterization</a>. He explained how security is always pitted against business needs, and...
As the editor of SearchWindowsSecurity.com, I often speak with users about their Windows security responsibilities. One senior systems analyst in particular sent me an interesting note recently... To give you some background, he's in charge of configuring and administering desktop systems...
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...
*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...
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. ...
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...
Anyone have any stories about Melissa infections or other impacts caused by the virus when it ran rampant five years ago?
I recently installed spybot on my computer and set it to "Display dialog when blocking" bad cookies, etc. When I am on the searchcomputing.com website, I noticed that the frequency of messages informing me that "bad" cookies are being blocked increases significantly. My question is why this is so...
I've recently been talking to some IT security professionals about the absence of a single tool that can fix all of their spyware problems. It seems that to get most of the spyware off of a Windows system you need to run more than one spyware checker, and you need to run them in a certain order....


