Forum: Newbie Security Questions

Yesterday something shocked me! I was about to visit some daily sites, like antionline.com, slashdot.org etc. When all this sites redirected me to...

I was doing some reasearch and trying to understand why not disable RPC. Can someone explain to me or point to a link. So i can understand hwo to...

a friend of mine is making a project on airline reservation system through mobile here is the basic idea. 1. A customer open a web site and fills...

Recently a couple of users on my network were caught with inapropriate materials on their computers. Where there is one there are probably others, so...

Once your online your obviously vulnerable to the many threats out there. Before putting your computer online what software should be previously...

Hi, Iv'e used the following commands using a shell in KNOPPIX, but for some reason I get an error that the USB thumbdrive is unrecognised when I...

Is it normal that windows server 2003 ICF, just deletes all the entries in the log when it reaches the size limit set and starts over. This just...

I have been doing some research online about Quicken. I have looked into moving all my financial activities online. I have some questions and...

Is it true that some of companies are using faked share, to share so much as possible not working files to prevent share of original products?

I am a noob trying to explore. I would like to inprove some of my skills.... I am not trying to harm anything, just trying to exploreand learn new...

I've been reading a lot about ADS as of late, but I haven't found an answer to this question: Is ADS a vulnerability of HFS as well? Supposedly...

Hiya, Im just mucking about on my colleges network, I tried to traceroute to my friend whos on the same subnet and in the same ip range, but the...

Hey guys, im just starting to get into security.....I program alot, and am compitent in various languges (i guess this is not the place to introduce...

Please help me in resolving this question. Seems my team has many answers to which there are only two correct ones as per CISCO. Question: In...

My computer is slow. I am running NAV, AdAware, PP, TH and ZA. Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 11:44:44 AM, on 10/14/2004 Platform:...

The Internet Education Foundation has released a website containing (introductory) information on internet threats. GetNetWise is "a public...

Hello, I had a basic question about smtp servers. Here on campus, from my student account, I use the campus's pop3/smtp mail servers to send and...

Hi, I use WIndows XP Home edition completely updated. while changing permission for accessing and/or editing folders on a specific drive i saw...

We have a share folder in our network. Everytime when we save the excel file...this screen comes up: After we click on either 'Save a copy'...