Forum: Newbie Security Questions

i heard that slackware lniux is harder than redhat, the reason i want to get slackware is that the downloads for redhat are driving me insane and i...

Hi just wondering if anyone can tell me about socket programming...for instance what is it? what can I use it for? why would I want to learn it?...

I have heard of trojans that are sent thru hotmail and other online email services and capture passwords if they are replied to. Something like...

http://www.distributed.net/download/proxies.html the above address is where I found a good site which talks about a linux personal proxy. I am...

hi every body i have a problem .i am trying to make script in html which make use of some activex object when every i enter the command set val...

i'm running norton AV 7.01 and it is detecting a virus called "AntiCmos.a" in my master boot record for physical drive 1 ,but it cant clean or...

Hi all, i was messing about with netstat, i typed in "netstat -an" to see if any ports where listening. 6 tcp ports were listening- 135 ...

Hi all! Need a good deepgoing tutor about zone alarm (pro).. Some port-problems.. Anyone?

Is there any way to get an account unbanned? I was wondering if I could get my komal account unbanned, 'cause I like that name. Or do I have to wait...

the Redhat downloads drove me insane, another failed attempt at the second .ISO file. i am going to get slackware..cuz its not 3x637MBs... can anyone...

HI, Any one please explain the message ID format of Yahoo. ...

Hey peps was wondering if anyone had ever came across an add-on for msn messanger that allows you to make log files of conversations? I used to have...

alright here is my situation: this is my thied week in learning linux. i just figured out how to mount my fat32 partition so that rh 7.3 could...

I dont know how but on my win98 comp i wasn't able to see the thumbnail view of jpeg/jpg files but could see the thumbnails of bmps/gifs/html etc...

Just wondering...is there a way to find the IP of someone that sent you a mail? through looking at the source code or anything like that??? i think...

Every time I restart my computer an annoying windows popup pops up .... Its title is .exe and it says: Windows cannot find '.exe'. You may have...

For all you users out there who have any type of trojan or need to know different types of trojan and get info on what do they do.... there is a...

does anyone know how to properly use the goto command in visual basic? im trying to make it go to a specific line in the code but i cant figure out...