Forum: Newbie Security Questions

I have just noticed my browser home page is set to res://mshp.dll/sp.html#37049 .i changed but it again replaced . I have used Ad-Aware to detect...

Hello people, First of all, I do not really know where privacy-related threads should be posted, so I apologize if this is the wrong place :p . ...

Hi guys. I want to know that if someone sends you a virus in email and you have the headers and the IP address of the person..then how do you catch...

Ok, why is it that my logs are not even remotely close to the Top Ten Trends @ the internet storm center? I understand that different regions will...

Hey everybody, I've been running Ad-aware 6.0 on the advice of a friend (good call too, since it found a few dozen processes and about 100 instances...

Okay I did something stewpid and realise just how much of a noob i am.... posted to a list and a guy asks me for info on my network...which doh! I...

I don't know if this is the place to discuss this, but I am new and have an issue I cannot resove. I used opened an e mail from a trusted perdon the...

Ok, first post, I'll try not to sound stupid. I have been accessing the internet through a random proxy (googled and browsed the proxy sites for a...

Hi could someone give me a quick rundown on reading this log entry? Thur, 03/04/2004 00:07:22 - TCP connection dropped - Source:203..x.x.x, 4498,...

Hi guys, I want to make sure that our network is as secure as possible. What is the best newbie tool(s) to run and where is the best tutorial on...

Hi. Been reading a few tutorials and many oif them mention the 'regedit' being the backbone of windows. As I doint really know much about this could...

I am working as assistant network internee for a multinational firm. Actually, we have been advised by the management that we should restrict the...

hi every body. i have Zone alarm as my fire wall, now a days its showing that some IPs(from my local area network) are sending me netbios...

How can I tell if someone is hacking my computer? This is a person that I know and lives in the same town as me. I have my own message board and this...

Is It possible to make an email address that will only accept mail received from parties that use a certain subject line? For example: an email...

Hello, I am not new to these forums. I have been reading threads on this board for about a year and a half and have learned so much. It was...

Like a idiot I disabled the RPC service instead of stopping the service. Now I am having a heck of a time starting up the service. I get the error...

My PC is being bombarded by a particular virus called "No Close." It appears as a window that says an illegal operation has been performed and the...

my Spyhunter says that my registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{57A0E747-3863-4D20-A811-950C84F1DB9B} is infected with SeekSeek and the danger...