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Thanks nihil and prodikal for your help.

Yo, I find secway to be of some help. Yeah, I know encryption works pair... C'mon, am not that bad; was just asking for solutions.

SSH tunneling? I'm...

Actually, it's the University's LAN - you would have the idea about university LANs spreading in every single room of the hostel. I'm just another user not admin; so upgrading is not my part of...

1. We are working on a large LAN, which is not secure. People can use packet sniffers to check the data that is going from my PC to the proxy server and discover if the data requests include MSN...

Read the following story and you'll know why I was making fuss of M$ Windows again! :)...

So, everybody loves to make fuss of things about windows. I personally feel every tool can be efficient if used properly. Today, someone asked me to outline 10 points why geeks think that Windows is...

Hi all,
I have created a nice little forum to gather some local guys to talk on security and related things. What I felt staying here is, there are very very very few of them here, so I personally...

I feel like submitting my piece(s). I assure you one atleast.
Happy editing mittens!

First of all thanks victor for the links!
Second, I think I couldn't ask my point clearly because of shortage of time yesterday so here I continue...
I know the things called proxies and am...

How one can surf anonymously? Proxies? Anonymous proxy servers?
what the working methodology of these servers?
also if one is committed to run his own server and access the banned content from the...

I's thinking to get the hacker's challenge and they've come up with 4th edition. .......
grt.........
I'll see if I can find it anywhere in Pakistan. Hey urdaddy, why don't we two visit the...

Okay, got the point on SYN flooding...
what are the measures for other attacks? like ICMP floods/IGMP floods etc...
- leaving a platform is not a solution. how one can be a geek without learning...

check out the recent flaw fixed some two days ago...

http://pakiblues.proboards9.com/index.cgi?board=news&action=display&num=1052475266

- yes, there's a method to mail someone with the script...

Can IDS detect DDoS attacks? if yes, what's the working methodology?

Nice point raised Tiger!
What I feel egold, is if you know how and who DDoS-ed your site then probably you would have idea to stop...
If some other person told you who attacked the site, then you...

What I've learnt from your replies (thanks, they helped!), some certain questions in my mind...

1. doesn't IDS - intrusion detection systems can be used to stop DDoS?
2. Does sniffers help in...

to add more to it, ping-flooding doesn't work anymore. almost all the systems around the work can cop with it quite easily now. anyhow, there's still some very big holes left for flooding....
how...

The point of concern is, I am talking about zombies, not that buffer overflows in the programs. I'll definitely check out Key focus web server - thanks for that

The attack on the Paki servers was...

Well, I've read their book on win2k when I was doing my inernship as online administrator. simply fabulous! I haven't read many security books, but I think, that was great...
thanks for their tools...

Salaams all of you guys out there...
The concern today is, many of Pakistani Official Web site had been hacked down using a variant of 'Yaha' on 29 april. It was DDoS attack.
Now the point is, how...

I'm gona check it now!
thanks for ext* help...

No, not a hardware, I suspect, as it was okay before installing Linux..
thanks for the suggestions and tips...
disk management utility in win2k, am not aware and and not sure that it will work as...

Okay, I've a job on hand, keeping into account that I'm new to Linux world...
Let me introduce my system first...
Motherboard: 815 Intel original
Processor: 800 MHz Intel original
RAM: 256 MB...

I agree with most of the programming geeks here, that one should learn c/c++ first then go to the Visual one. I believe that the libraries of Visual C from M$ is not upto the task, so if you really...

I think you should hire the services of a designer... like... me :D
Really, no kiding, am a professional, though I'll do it free for you. If you ask me, a combination of good design and good...

Salaams!
Good to know that they are putting some efforts to stop DDOS. If you remember Networker, Pakistan's official site www.pakistan.gov.pk was DDOS by indian snakes recently by Yaha-Q. They even...