Forum: Newbie Security Questions

This is my question: Whenever I type something like 'dir', the DOS screen will display a lot of texts which moves upward rapidly, there is no scroll...

Can anyone give me information about the alerts from my firewall,I’m also Using a program called swat-it pro,that allows me to see connections on...

Hi guys, I just installed new 40GB of HDD and 128MB SDRAM into my friend's PC. During the boot-up process, it only shows as 127MB of memory... and...

i have a shared pc and i`m really tired of seeing my brother spending 8 hours a day talking bullshit anddownloading crap in my pc, so my question is:...

This is a stupid question, but if i ever have a problem with my computer and i want to take a screen shot of the error message that gets displayed,...

NetCat, what is it and how do i use it ? i know i can hack www.hulla-balloo.com/hack/ and stuff like that but how do i do. does any have a good...

I think computer security would be a great field to get into, but what kind of jobs can I get with a degree in this field?

How does SSI exploitation works?

My w2k computer is having several ports open besides the once i have services running on. I would like to know how to block port: 389, 1002, 1031,...

Hi me and my friend are starting to learn about security so i went out and got 5 computers and installed linux or windows XP on each of them. They...

I know that this has probably been asked many times before, but i'm still going to ask it again... My friend heard somethign about, the only way to...

A cousin of mine came over to my house recently (brought over by his aunt) and asked to use my computer, which I was stupid enough to let him use it....

I am wondering if anyone knows of a shell out there in some sort/shape of unix, because I need one. Can anyone please assist? Help would be greatly...

:confused: G,day all, I recently read somewhere that it is now possible to be infected by viris just by viewing a web page without even...

Thx for your time. I just purchased suse 8.1 or 8.2..(I know about linuxiso.com) I got everything setup and now im trying to get my internet up...

Ive tried some of the "hack me" sites and they are really good and you can learn alot about security! In many threads about these sites tutorials,...

Hey again :) thnx for helpin that last thread didn't mean to offend anyone asking for help.. Well I don't really know much computers just a tad...

is there any way to change my system icons? I use Win2k and I want to set the icons of Win XP. I mean the icons located at shell32.dll I am...

Does anyone know how I can clean up my hard drive to completely erase any emails received? I've heard that even if I delete them, they can still be...

HI there..Well my problem is... When I open up my winmx and it rebuilds my library instead of adding my song files it adds a bunch of these .exe...