There is a most fabulous utility available for free download from Shavlik Technologies here that will scan your Windows boxen for needed security/bug fixes. The command line version doesn’t require registration, and is quite easy to use. The cool thing is that the status of current patches is downloaded at run time. Let’s run this […]

We have noticed a surge in traffic on port 12345. This could be NetBus, or a variant. We suspect that some trojan backdoor is in the wild tacked on to a new worm. The worm is looking for other friendly hosts listening on port 12345. To see a historical chart of activity on this port, […]

ClamAV is a GPL virus scanner that will integrate with mail servers, scan filesystems from the command line, and automatically update its virus signatures. There are many ports of ClamAV to various platforms, including Windows. This article will show how to compile and install ClamAV for a single user on GNU/Linux. First, we grab the […]

Most web addresses are all name based on the server side. That is, netadmintools.com and associated logs are monitored and tracked in a different file than requests to the IP address. The first entry in the VirtualHost section of the httpd.conf file for Apache is where the requests without a name go. Stick a very […]