Forum: Newbie Security Questions

:confused: I am a Linux newbie and suddenly found myself coming into "great expectations". The kids at the school where I teach biology are always...

Hi, I'm fooling around with my home network and I'd like some opinions on what syslogger to use with mandrake 9.1 and some ideas on how to use it....

I have a IBM transnote running on a Windowss 2000 platform that recently won at an auction. I changed the administrative password and have now...

hello all, i need help. i'm working on teh school's computer and the blue screen of death fell upon me. after i downloaded, ran AdWare, and delted a...

I just downloaded and installed apache-2.0.47 on a win98 box. The machine is behind a router with an http virtual server enabled which forwards http...

I need to network all my computers to a cable modem. Is there a good tutorial or does anyone want to help me. I plan on using a hub and pluging the...

I read one posting here talking about http tunnel program that allows you to bypass a firewall.... Out of my curiousity since I am working at the...

Hi all, Just a quick question really, can you use a "War Dialer" if you have broardband, as it isnt stricktly a dial up connection? Thanks!

Ok, i havent been on in probably a year but with a recent computer class I got pumped up again about security issues. Here is my question though: ...

is there a way to connect to someone else through DOS? You can use it ping and netstat so is there a way to use that information to connect? Thanks!

I'm thinking on buying myself a new firewall. One that's not that widely used. I was wondering what your opinions were on these two firewalls: ...

Hi.. I have a Question What's the main purpose of the sniffer(entire)? as far as i know, it leechs the flow of packet from the network....or...

Does any1 know a good tut about makeing a telnet prog in c++? if you do please tell me

Im sure everyone who has pinged someone will quite often not get an answer. I then learned that firewalls tend to block ICMPs. Does this...

For the past while, I've been noticing that my linksys router seems to blink it's activity lights a lot more than before. So I went in its settings...

ai ai ai over the last week or so i had around 10 virus email a day, not much to be bothered about really but i have been offline for 3 days and i...

after all i know that it's not the forum to this topyc, but i don't found one refering to the topic. well...... in colombia we have a t.v. company...

Well... the thing is, what's the type of the file that's accountable of being infected by the virus(through KAZAA or K++, well.. the same..)... ...

I purchased a copy of xp professional and installed it. since installation, i have tried to update. Microsoft tells me that my key is no good. I...

First, I feel pretty lame asking this quetion. I can see that most peoples experience with computers far exceed mine. Second, I am not trying to do...