Forum: Newbie Security Questions

Hey I just ran hijack this and found some interesting search entries at the top can anyone see anything else that I should remove? Logfile of...

recently, a head of one of the departments here in the office came over and wants the internet connection on one of her employee's computer to be...

Hello, If i have files on my computer that i want to hide or lock, is their a way that i can make it so that you can't see the folder, and or open...

is it possible to track someone's IP and eventually, address and person just through a screename on AIM? i have having issues with an unknown person...

Hi, here is my question. I made a copy of my desktop pc's sam file. I then moved it over to my laptop. I made a new text document and put my...

I was just wondering... i used languard to scan my home network and I found the router of course, our hp printer and my laptop. However I know my...

Hi, I wanted to ask if it’s possible to spoof your IP trough Hotmail now, because lately I’m getting mails with “weird” headers. I only have this...

Hello all- My brain freezed on this one. I am trying to verify some servers site admin give me a list of and some are coming up that nslookup...

Hi, I have a few questions. Ok, I have a linksys router with a built in firewall and when I check the logs I typically see this: How...

I've looked in the MAN page and can't find the answer. I know if I use the -p option I can choose to scan the ones I want, but if you put in no...

i am a newbie with antivirus programs can someone point me in the right direction with anti virus programs,please!!!!

i'm trying to set up my webserver(slackware) using proftpd so that i can ftp up to it and drop my updated pages right into the /var/www/htdocs folder...

i've just set up a php message board on my linux server and i'm using sendmail to send out the activation emails. the problem i'm having is that i...

I have disabled remote registry editing on my computer but my friend says he can still access it. We have this thing going in the lab to see how much...

Just curious if there are any easy ways around passworded rar files. Let's say I have a file with the password 'abc', that would probably be taken...

Is there some way to configure windows to place its SAM somewhere else rather than the default %systemroot%\system32\config\. May be it could be an...

A good primer from SANS with lots of links http://isc.sans.org/presentations/first_things_first.php

I know I might be too stupid to ask this but I come out of pure desperation in hopes that one of you fine people will help me out in this crisis. My...