Fortinet All in One Security Appliance
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 unknown issues that may be presented in [...]
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| August 24, 2005 9:24 AM
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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 unknown issues that may be presented in [...]
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| August 24, 2005 9:24 AM
backdoors, Compliance, CRM, Current threats, Disaster Recovery, Hacking, human factors, Intrusion management, Networking, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security Program Management, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, worms
shdocpv.dll – virus – hijack problem
Hi, I’m sorry if I had chosen the wrong recipient. I am running Windows 2000. When I open my browser (IE 6.0) I get this: res://shdocpv.dll/blank.htm Or res://C:WinntSystem32shdocpv.dllsecurity.htm Please help me to get rid of this. Thanks!
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| May 9, 2013 6:23 PM
backdoors, Current threats, Hacking, human factors, Intrusion management, Servers, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, Windows 2000 Server, worms
Hi, I’m sorry if I had chosen the wrong recipient. I am running Windows 2000. When I open my browser (IE 6.0) I get this: res://shdocpv.dll/blank.htm Or res://C:WinntSystem32shdocpv.dllsecurity.htm Please help me to get rid of this. Thanks!
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| May 9, 2013 6:23 PM
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Bad spyware infection? Take it to the clinic
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 breaches. >> Windows Security Clinic: You’ve been hacked! Now what? http://searchwindowssecurity.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid45_gci1081819,00.html I’m writing today because [...]
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| May 12, 2005 9:57 PM
Application security, backdoors, Current threats, Database, Encryption, Exchange, Hacking, human factors, Instant Messaging, Secure Coding, Security, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, worms
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 breaches. >> Windows Security Clinic: You’ve been hacked! Now what? http://searchwindowssecurity.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid45_gci1081819,00.html I’m writing today because [...]
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| May 12, 2005 9:57 PM
Application security, backdoors, Current threats, Database, Encryption, Exchange, Hacking, human factors, Instant Messaging, Secure Coding, Security, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, worms
Data vs. perimeter vs. network 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 perimeters have become porous because businesses require traffic from SMTP, HTTP or VPNs to pass through the firewall. He then offered techniques for keeping data safe in spite of [...]
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| May 4, 2005 4:36 PM
Administration, Application security, Architecture/Design, backdoors, Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Desktop vs network-based firewalls, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, Encryption, Exchange, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, Host-based IDS/IPS, human factors, Identity & Access Management, IDS vs IPS, IDS/IPS management, Incident response, Installation, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Management, Network security, Network-based IDS/IPS, Networking, Outsourcing/Managed services, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product evaluation, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Service and support, Signature updating/Management, Single sign-on, Software vs appliance, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Wireless, worms
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 perimeters have become porous because businesses require traffic from SMTP, HTTP or VPNs to pass through the firewall. He then offered techniques for keeping data safe in spite of [...]
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| May 4, 2005 4:36 PM
Administration, Application security, Architecture/Design, backdoors, Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Desktop vs network-based firewalls, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, Encryption, Exchange, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, Host-based IDS/IPS, human factors, Identity & Access Management, IDS vs IPS, IDS/IPS management, Incident response, Installation, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Management, Network security, Network-based IDS/IPS, Networking, Outsourcing/Managed services, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product evaluation, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Service and support, Signature updating/Management, Single sign-on, Software vs appliance, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Wireless, worms
Is Windows security an afterthought?
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 (primarily Win2000 and XP)for a large company, and he developed many of the security [...]
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| April 21, 2005 3:00 PM
Administration, Application security, Architecture/Design, backdoors, Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, Encryption, Exchange, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, IDS/IPS management, Incident response, Installation, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Management, Network security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product evaluation, Product/Service evaluation, provisioning, Remote users, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Service and support, Signature updating/Management, Single sign-on, Spam, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Wireless, worms
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 (primarily Win2000 and XP)for a large company, and he developed many of the security [...]
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| April 21, 2005 3:00 PM
Administration, Application security, Architecture/Design, backdoors, Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, Encryption, Exchange, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, IDS/IPS management, Incident response, Installation, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Management, Network security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product evaluation, Product/Service evaluation, provisioning, Remote users, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Service and support, Signature updating/Management, Single sign-on, Spam, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Wireless, worms
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
Administration, Architecture/Design, backdoors, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, IDS/IPS management, Incident response, Installation, Intrusion management, Management, Network security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security Program Management, Service and support, Signature updating/Management, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Wireless, worms
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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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
Application security, backdoors, Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Development, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Exchange, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Management, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product evaluation, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on, Spyware, Trojans, Vendors, Viruses, vulnerability management, worms
*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
Application security, backdoors, Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Development, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Exchange, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Management, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product evaluation, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on, Spyware, Trojans, Vendors, Viruses, vulnerability management, worms
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
Administration, Application security, Architecture/Design, backdoors, Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, DataCenter, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, Encryption, Exchange, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, IDS/IPS management, Incident response, Installation, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Management, Network security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Service and support, Service contracts, Service evaluation, Signature updating/Management, Single sign-on, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Wireless, worms
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
Administration, Application security, Architecture/Design, backdoors, Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, DataCenter, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, Encryption, Exchange, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, IDS/IPS management, Incident response, Installation, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Management, Network security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Service and support, Service contracts, Service evaluation, Signature updating/Management, Single sign-on, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Wireless, worms
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
backdoors, Backup & recovery, configuration, Current threats, DataCenter, Hacking, Hardware, Help Desk, human factors, Installing/upgrading operating systems, Intrusion management, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Security, Server management, Servers, Spyware, Tech support, Trojans, Viruses, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Windows, Windows on Intel, Windows Server 2003, worms
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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Melissa virus
Anyone have any stories about Melissa infections or other impacts caused by the virus when it ran rampant five years ago?
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| March 22, 2005 3:10 PM
Administration, backdoors, Current threats, Hacking, human factors, Security, Service and support, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, worms
Anyone have any stories about Melissa infections or other impacts caused by the virus when it ran rampant five years ago?
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| March 22, 2005 3:10 PM
Administration, backdoors, Current threats, Hacking, human factors, Security, Service and support, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, worms
Spybot and Searchmbilecomputing.com
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 and how big a risk am [...]
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| December 16, 2004 11:59 AM
backdoors, Current threats, Hacking, human factors, Security, Spyware, Tech support, Trojans, Viruses, worms
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 and how big a risk am [...]
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| December 16, 2004 11:59 AM
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Running more than one anti-spyware tool
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 [...]
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| December 13, 2004 3:32 PM
backdoors, Current threats, Hacking, human factors, Product evaluation, Spyware, Trojans, Vendors, Viruses, worms
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 [...]
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| December 13, 2004 3:32 PM
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Norton Antivirus/Internet Security 2005
I have received several calls from users that their upgrade of Norton Antivirus or Internet Security 2005 fails. The natural reaction I had was to uninstall the previous version and install 2005. However after the 2005 upgrade even though the previous version is listed in Add/Remove programs, the uninstallation fails. All users have SP2 installed. [...]
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| October 11, 2004 12:52 PM
backdoors, Current threats, Hacking, human factors, Norton, Spyware, Symantec, Trojans, Viruses, worms
I have received several calls from users that their upgrade of Norton Antivirus or Internet Security 2005 fails. The natural reaction I had was to uninstall the previous version and install 2005. However after the 2005 upgrade even though the previous version is listed in Add/Remove programs, the uninstallation fails. All users have SP2 installed. [...]
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| October 11, 2004 12:52 PM
backdoors, Current threats, Hacking, human factors, Norton, Spyware, Symantec, Trojans, Viruses, worms
Norton WMI Update
I have a problem:- When I click the NAV icon in the system tray I get first window installer message, which dies and then an error message A product that requires Norton WMI update is still installed on this system”. NAV seems to be working in the background, although I have to go to sheduled [...]
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| September 28, 2004 2:57 PM
backdoors, Current threats, Hacking, human factors, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, worms
I have a problem:- When I click the NAV icon in the system tray I get first window installer message, which dies and then an error message A product that requires Norton WMI update is still installed on this system”. NAV seems to be working in the background, although I have to go to sheduled [...]
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| September 28, 2004 2:57 PM
backdoors, Current threats, Hacking, human factors, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, worms
Small Business Server and Anti Virus software
Could anyone recommend Anti Virus software for MS Small Business Server 2003 ? Which software would give the best price/quality relation: - reliable - not slowing down any file operatations - easy to keep up-to-date (automatic updates) Kaj Bredenberg
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| September 22, 2004 5:31 AM
backdoors, Current threats, Hacking, human factors, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, worms
Could anyone recommend Anti Virus software for MS Small Business Server 2003 ? Which software would give the best price/quality relation: - reliable - not slowing down any file operatations - easy to keep up-to-date (automatic updates) Kaj Bredenberg
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| September 22, 2004 5:31 AM
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