Those of you that know me know that I have a huge music fetish. I LOVE listening to new (previously unheard by me) stuff.
With that in mind, I’ve recently ran across some new stuff which I want to share with you.
This is probably the best third-party test of AV that I’ve seen in a while. They actually use a LOT of samples and they seem to have tested just about every possible AV product out there.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2135092,00.asp
There are a couple of things that don’t sit well with me:
ClamAV scored very poorly. ClamAV is probably the most widely used AV scanner for Linux mail gateways out there. I use it and F-Prot in all of mine.
F-Prot scored pretty badly, too. Well, I seem to be 0 for 2 now.
Ewido bombed as well. Who is Ewido, you ask? Ewido was bought by AVG so while AVG did well, how will this affect their future performance?
AVG is my personal favorite. It’s free (for personal use) and works very well. I tried Avast! for a while and it didn’t pick up half the malicious files I tinker with that AVG usually catches. I also don’t like the Avast!’s interface AT ALL!
I could go on about what I like about AVG, but that’s not what the point of this thread is about.
One thing I did notice recently is that AVG has a Linux version. A FREE Linux version. A FREE Linux version packages as a .deb file! It sucks that they don’t have a source package available, or a binary file that will work on other distros, but I can’t complain that they offer a version for Debian, which is my OS of choice. I haven’t tested their version with Amavis, yet, but it’s on my todo list. It also appears that Avast! has a free Linux version (and they offer a .tgz file, too). I’m not crazy about needing to keep up with a key that will expire, but you really can’t complain about free.
Have any of you started planning, tried, or considered a Vista rollout. I know it is still early in the game and I personally will wait about another year before doing it in my company since I am still a one man IT department, and with that said R&D time is hard to find, also. I’ve seen a few local businesses here in Huntsville/ North Alabama try to use Vista in a tech support roll to much frustration on their own part. I’ve had a 3rd party technician try to help me trouble shoot e-mail trouble on his Vista staion and he finally gave up and RDP’ed my XP station so he could help effectively. I’m mostly wanting to hear a voice from a group of intligent people that I know I can trust an opinion from since the internet is full of opinions of questionable value. I hope to scrape up enough budget to buy one Vista Business station for testing purposes, but I work for a small company and I don’t konw when that will be.
This is for you SAMBA people out there.
Originally found on Terminal23’s blog:
http://www.terminal23.net/2007/05/diggnation_news.html
Original site can be found here:
http://www.doubleviking.com/…/5215-p.html
You absolutely must visit the doubleviking site to read the comments. The first three are hilarious.
Before I start my little rant, first let me say that Red Hat has done a lot for the Linux community. My very first Linux install was Red Hat 5.2. It lasted about 2 days on my machine, but it was my first.
Red Hat is also deeply involved in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project which I think is absolutely great. If you want to see the laptop in action there are two short videos posted on RH’s site: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/.
Now, on to my rant.
Original articles:
http://dmiessler.com/archives/1315
http://dmiessler.com/archives/176
Maybe I’m alone here, but I had no clue about Firefox’s quicksearch ability. Apparently, just by typing ‘g keyword’ in the URL bar, you’ll automatically search Google.
Back in 2005 Daniel Miessler expanded this feature by configuring FF to also search MSN and Technorati, which are also both very cool.
Well, now Google has added the ability to use command-line switches to their search feature such as /img to search images, /maps to search Google’s maps, /groups to search Google newgroups database, and so on.
You can find a great explanation for all the search functions here: http://projects.felipc.com/gcl/
To quote Daniel’s 2005 post, this is how you configure FF to also search MSN and Technorati:
1. Create a new bookmark in Firefox.
2. For the URL, add the text below for MSN:
“http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%s&FORM=QBRE”
3. For the prefix, add “m” (or whatever you want to use).
4. Create another bookmark.
5. Add this for the URL:
“http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=%s”
6. Use “t” for the prefix (or whatever you want to use).
Thanks, Daniel, for bringing this to my attention. I can see myself using this ALL the time.
I ran across this site today and wanted to share.
thebroken is an underground technology show with a hacker mentality that caters to the elite (or wannabe 1337) computer user using a mixture of seriousness and irreverent comedy … If it’s shady or underground, it’s thebroken.
I thought Ramzi’s tips were especially useful. Very funny … and educational. Some of the videos in the other sections of the site are worth a look too, so check those out.
Later on I might create one big entry with my little Windows shortcuts, but for now I’m always wishing I had written these instructions down.
For the original article by Jeff, click here: http://www.averageadmins.com/blogentry.php?id=61
For now, I’m going to keep it simple and just add the two commands that, if you want, can be easily changed to match your situation.
netsh interface ip set address local static 192.168.1.254 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 1
netsh interface ip set dns local static 192.168.1.1
For a DHCP-enabled interface:
netsh interface ip set address local dhcp
Other resources include:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=242468
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/…
Personally, I have an AdBlock entry that blocks Google AdWords and a lot of other advertising sites. I know that by displaying ads, you’re opening yourself up to HTML, Javascript, and any other nastiness that doesn’t originate from the site you’re trying to visit. I also don’t click on those paid advertising links from a Google search because usually they’re for a commercial product when all I need are simple instructions.
Here are two sites by people that have personally dealt with the maliciousness of Google AdWords.
http://www.dynamoo.com/blog/2007/04/malware-via-adwords.html
http://explabs.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-sponsored-links-not-safe.html