Recent content by Aluf

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    New NASA Administrator

    I've always thought only freaks can and want to get there
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    WinXP -SP2 - How big is it ??

    on my XP SP1 with all other updates, MS site estimates this service pack to be 73 Mb to download. P.S. even though having ADSL I still refuse to install this SP2 and my PC feels good about it.:).
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    Clearing Out my Hard Drive

    You may try Sdelete from Russinovich site www.sysinternals.com I never used it but reputation of Russinovich is very high in Windows world, so .. http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/sdelete.shtml
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    128mbs of ram enough for Windows XP?

    I have P3 867 Mhz 128 Mb WinXP, turned off all the visuals and am pretty much satisfied - Internet, Office suite are doing perfectly well, the only thing is to tune the usage patterns - don't open too much applications simultaniuosly, don't switch users , no new super-duper games (altough I...
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    Software cracking

    Well, there're few sites worth looking for you about cracks : Text Text
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    viruses that exploit rpc in winxp home

    Hm, you forgot to tell us HOW do know it's a rpc virus ??? What tools did you use ?
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    Would this help deter brute force hacking?

    Yes of course they're different ,I brought it as an analogy to compare with, but I should have written conclusion remarks (my fault, oops) So given the quite randomizable nature of portknocking pattern (whereas in suggested password scheme one can only decide how many logins to count [and you...
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    Would this help deter brute force hacking?

    In firewall technology it's named "port knocking" - when all ports are closed by default, but if some predefined sequence of port attempts occurs connection established. Haven't seen any extensive studies or trials whether it deters the attacker. But as always it's a question of RISK =...
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    Randomly named .exe's loading at startup

    when all the common sense preliminaries done (AV check, Hijackthis/Ad-Aware/...) you can download from www.sysinternals.com soft named Regmon.exe - it's free, doesnt need an installation and it follows all registry writes/reads/opens and logs it to a file which later you can search for the...
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    Question about OEM licences

    Does anyone have pointers to more information - how is it done actually ?
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    Sub7 Subseven on a Redhat Linux Server

    If you have Windows XP or 2000 there's a nice port-scanner from Foundstone for free that gets the job done - SuperScan Superior scanning speed Support for unlimited IP ranges Improved host detection using multiple ICMP methods TCP SYN scanning UDP scanning (two methods) IP address...
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    Sub7 Subseven on a Redhat Linux Server

    Sub7 on Linux ?? No way, If it works on Linux it's defin something else. Digging a compromised system to get the picture of what happened can make hard time if you don't know the OS beforehand. At least try (I'm sure you installed all software through RPM) this command: rpm -Va that'll...
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    configuring VSFTP in fedora core 3

    Oh, I forgot there're example config files ready-to-use for different use cases at the site : ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/.../vsftpd-2.0.1/EXAMPLE/
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    uninstall linux

    in Administrative tools -> disk management -> flag Linux partition and "Format"
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    configuring VSFTP in fedora core 3

    http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html - not any specific but you didn't tell what specific goals you pursue and what problems you had. I have it running on my RedHat 9 and'd say it isn't that painful to configure ( even though its paranoid security measures are sometimes nagging - "Oops...