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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...
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    Help me break XP locked down image

    Oops, I in turn didn't say that I was refering to the case when Administrator by using the following tweak in Registry disabled running Regedit.exe : User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies System] Value Name: DisableRegistryTools Data Type...
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    Help me break XP locked down image

    The goal sets the rules indeed - whether you 1) try to mimick behaviour of a careless "restricted rights" user to see how long Windows will hold before it crashes; or 2) there are no rules/restrictions applied and your ultimate goal is circumvent the security measures put in place to get full...
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    processes

    Don't wanna jump to conclusions but tftp.exe and svchost.exe are used by Blaster type worms extensively for spreading, so a full antivirus scan I think would be apropriate here . Another pointer would be the IP where it tries to connect to. BTW I heard some hardware vendors use this protocol...
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    Microsoft proposes piracy amnesty for XP

    " the practice of causing someone to do something they would not usually do by tricking them:" cops call it "Entrapment" and Billy calls it "amnesty" ?? Funny guy.
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    Installing 98SE-Damaged CD

    Time to time I have similar problems with CD burned at my PC, why - I haven't been able to disclose, but CDs burned by this LG burner get unreadable after 2-3 years. And nasty thing about that is when it says "can't find the file ..." "can't read.." or in a style and I skip and later replace...
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    Please Help!! file cannot be deleted: netiis.exe

    cquark - have you tried to make changes on NTFS (create, modify files) ? I've always used RH so used installable support for NTFS, but it read in manual that while reading was well-tested writing to NTFS was unstable and unpredicrable... Reformating is a good idea if .. there's possibility...
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    Please Help!! file cannot be deleted: netiis.exe

    Fixing oleutil.exe in hijack WILL clean these from registry so needn't fix anything manually. Next if your wife set att worldnet as default page and not this spyware then no need to change it ( no harm by changing either). Sounds like a well planned anti-malware military operation, good luck :)
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    Please Help!! file cannot be deleted: netiis.exe

    Well, it's getting more interesting (for me , and more troublesome for you) By send I mean send it (any suspicious file(s)) as an attachment to my email aluf2004@yahoo.com. The good news (according to your log) is that you have Norton Antivirus (NAV) installed and running? ( in the right...
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    Please Help!! file cannot be deleted: netiis.exe

    BTW if you curious to know more about this parasite ( what it's doing to your PC, what ads sites it's contacting etc.. ) you 're welcome to send it to me I'll look into it and tell you its 'bio' aluf2004@yahoo.com
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    Please Help!! file cannot be deleted: netiis.exe

    Working with registry isn't that hard, BUT only after all other methods have failed. As I said the key probably lies in the error message you get when you try to delete it manually (no matter in which mode - normal or safe ) . If we talk about, just in case, registry - ( I guess you have...
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    Please Help!! file cannot be deleted: netiis.exe

    Rebooting all the time can be daunting I guess. Interesting point here is - what did it say when you tried to delete it manually ? may be it's easier to find any references to this file in Registry and wipe them out ? Another informative task would be to run Filemon from...