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"80 Percent Had Spyware"
Posted on October 28th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hi, Note: I never type my credit card number on my computer. I just heard the news about a survey on a group of home and business computers. "80 percent of the computers tested had active spyware...

Monitor Intruders in Real time
Posted on October 27th, 2004 | 1 Comments

Hello to the Group, I have a heardware firewall, Watchguard Firebox 700, and it has a feature called "HOST WATCH", with gives you a realtime view of what (or whom) is currently accessing the IP...

Re: What does "ICMP to 224.0.0.2" mean?
Posted on October 27th, 2004 | 0 Comments

It's a IP Multicast address. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ipmulti.htm 224.0.0.2 is used for "All routers on this subnet" Dave

Re: What does "ICMP to 224.0.0.2" mean?
Posted on October 27th, 2004 | 0 Comments

I'm not the one (sorry) to fully answer and provide a solution, but... ICMP is the family name for 'ping,' a way of checking that a connection is alive. You can see that Google's server is alive by...

Re: What does "ICMP to 224.0.0.2" mean?
Posted on October 27th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Mozzy <dem_d@mail.com> wrote in news:958FE34FC12F351A7E@62.253.162.201: I can't answer your question, but it is a great example of why software firewalls are pretty damned useless. User doesn't...

Please ask David to quit spamming me!!!
Posted on October 27th, 2004 | 16 Comments

Someone from DLipman@Verizon.Net keeps sending me spam regarding this mailing list. Please remove me from this list!

help is appreciated
Posted on October 27th, 2004 | 2 Comments

Any help is appreciated.... if anyone can help me out with this I'd be thankful... http://www.FreeFlatScreens.com/default.aspx?referer=9570726 you can check out its legitamacy here.....

TrueCrypt Open Source Encryption for XP
Posted on October 27th, 2004 | 0 Comments

http://www.truecrypt.tk/ http://sourceforge.net/

web tracking
Posted on October 27th, 2004 | 6 Comments

Yesterday I was surfing on the net and when I opened a particular website, I saw words to this effect: "my computer geek tells me that you're visiting us from ---my city--, ---my state---. I...

AV and Firewall
Posted on October 27th, 2004 | 5 Comments

Microsoft is giving away Computer Associates AntiVirus http://www3.ca.com/Press/pressrelease.asp?CID=64025 CA is giving their AV and Firewall free for 1 yoear, bundled as EZ Armor at one of their...

IE MSN Search being redirected, Help!
Posted on October 26th, 2004 | 4 Comments

Hi, My work PC is winXP and running latest versions of ie etc... When I enter a search string into the IE address bar, instead of the normal MSN search, the browser is redirected to "MNS" search,...

New to IT security
Posted on October 26th, 2004 | 4 Comments

I Recently have been hired as a IT Security Specialist. I come from a strong background of Desktop Support. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to any books or reference material that...

First Experience with Worm
Posted on October 26th, 2004 | 1 Comments

I'm running XP Pro with all the SPs, ZoneAlarm Pro and NIV 2005. I had just downloaded and installed NIV 2005 after doing a full virus/worm scan, when I got notice that backdoor-g-1 (1243) had been...

$$$ HELP THE ECONOMY GROW $$$ MAKE MONEY NOW $$$
Posted on October 26th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Sure winner!!! Legal money!!!! READING THIS COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE! I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it. A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are...

SELL this FBI NOC LIST and MAKE MILLIONS like TOM CRUISE did in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
Posted on October 26th, 2004 | 18 Comments

If you have ENTREPRENEURIAL BENT OF MIND, then SKY IS THE LIMIT, you can SELL this FBI agents' NOC LIST and MAKE MILLIONS of dollars like Tom Cruise (Ethan) did in the movie MISSION...

McAfee upgrade
Posted on October 25th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Does any one know how you get McAfee keep to there free upgrade if new version comes out within 90 days? I have been trying and they just refuse.

VRRP with IPSO
Posted on October 25th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Hi there, I am adding a checkpoint firewall module on another Nokia IPSO. The idea is to use VRRP to provide high availability. I pre-configured the new Nokia IPSO. It is not on the production...

Ports 135 & 445
Posted on October 25th, 2004 | 4 Comments

When I do a netstat -an these ports are always listening, I have a firewall blocking all lower ports but I was wondering how I could close them all together, or what programmes are using these...

Re: INBOUND PPTP through Linksys units?
Posted on October 25th, 2004 | 2 Comments

In article <MPG.1be34da832bbce59898a4@news-server.columbus.rr.com>, Leythos <void@nowhere.org> wrote: Not quite what you want, but I have no trouble with outbound (i.e., client) VPN through a D-Link...

DiamondCS JpegScan
Posted on October 24th, 2004 | 0 Comments

Program to scan for Jpeg exploit.... http://www.diamondcs.com.au/jpegscan/ What is the MS04-028 JPEG exploit? On September 14 2004, Nick DeBaggis discovered a buffer overrun vulnerability in...