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    Machine infected with virus W32.Rontokbro.B@mm

    I have a few machines that are infected with this virus W32.Rontokbro.B@mm in my customer's environment. I have tried booting up in safe mode and run a full scan using Symantec Antivirus coporate edition 10.0. No threat was detected. When the machine boots into Windows, Symantec...
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    Does such an appliance exist for Small Businesses?

    A Fortinet 50a will do the trick. It can do application layer filtering, IPS, antivirus, and site to site and remote access IPsec VPN. Although there will be subscription for Antivirus, IPS and Web Filtering.
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    Technical folks, ever felt sick of technical books?

    I am glad that I am not the only one. It's just that my work is draining me out as I work close to 60 hrs per week.
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    Technical folks, ever felt sick of technical books?

    Hey technical folks out there, Anyone of you in a similar position as I am? I work as a Network Engineer in a Systems Integrator company. CCNA and am pursuing my CCNP. Lately, I have been getting sick of technical books and just can't seem to read more than 1 page of it at one go. books like...
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    Who else is excited about Ubuntu 6.06

    Whats new in Ubuntu 6.06? I am still on 5.10
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    OT: Marketing tool for mass mailing customers

    Hi guys, a little off topic here. The marketing department in my company frequently sends out email to customers on the latest promotion that we have in our company and we gotta manage 3000+ email address. I am looking for a better tool to manage this. This is because most of the time...
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    Configuring Cisco 1801w with vlans

    On a Cisco 1801w too? So how did you go about configuring the wpa-psk for wireless? Through the cli?
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    Configuring Cisco 1801w with vlans

    Here's the error message when I try configuring WPA-PSK under SSID mananger in Cisco SDM. It says that the SSID should not be associated with a vlan to configure this option. http://img146.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled5rz.jpg My config. clock timezone PCTime 8 ! ! ip...
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    Configuring Cisco 1801w with vlans

    I am trying to configure a Cisco 1801w with 2 vlans. vlan1 for the wired network and vlan100 for the wireless. vlan100 will not be able to access vlan1 but only able to access internet. Should be easy, create vlan100 and tie it to the ssid, and create another dhcp pool for vlan100, nat...
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    Network Monitor, linux based?

    I will reccomend catci as if you wanan do snmp-polling. Catci has a great community at forums.catci.com OpenNMS is another option but Catci wins because of the great community they have.
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    Outlook 2003 Cached Mode

    You mentioned remote sites, so cached mode is a must if not it will be a huge hit on your bandwith. But when first setting up outlook for users on remote sites, it will take a little longer as outlook will be caching its first copy of pst on the local disk.
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    Group Polices and OU's help

    Check that the workstations have an account in AD computers. And as a thumb of rule, always configure your workstations to use your AD as the primary dns server. And configure recursive lookups in your DNS in your AD.
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    does a list of free email websites exist?

    www.dnsstuff.com has a tool that you can lookup the domain name to check if the MX records of that domain is a free email provider.
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    [H] network engineers, Please help me solve an issue

    Good choice. I love squid. Now you can monitor your http access for your users and you will be the Big Daddy in your company. Now you can submit a weekly report on the sites that your users go to and you can post a Top 10 most visited Site for your company. :p
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    Server 2003 - No Internet Access

    Let's troubleshoot this going through the OSI layer. 1st step. Do you see any led on the NIC? If Yes, procced to the 2nd step, if no. It's a cable issue. 2nd step. Do a ipconfig /all. Ping the gateway. If you can ping the gateway, check that your firewall does a PAT or static NAT for...
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    [H] network engineers, Please help me solve an issue

    Yeah. I know how annoying it is for someone to be choking up your internet link by just 1 huge file download and slows everything else to a crawl. So now you know http traffic is the culprit. This is why network monitoring tools are so important. If you dont have statistics to back your...
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    Firewall recommendations for sync 10Mbps connection

    I will go with Cisco PIX 515E. But you might want to take a look at Fortinet. Their offerings are getting impressive. SSL VPN out of the box, IPS, antivirus, content filtering.
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    [H] network engineers, Please help me solve an issue

    I have a similar problem like yours. From my experience, http traffic takes up a huge chunk of internet traffic. You can setup ntop and SPAN the ports to monitor which protocol is choking up your pipe. Is it your site to site VPN links or your http traffic? Seeing that you dont have managed...
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    Syslog server

    I am intending to implement a syslog server for my company. I intend to send the cisco pix log and switches to the syslog server. Anyone have any reccomendations for free syslog server? I have no preference whether it needs Windows or its open source as I can do both.
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    Microsoft CAL licensing question

    I am in the plans of purchasing SQL server 2000 with 10 CAL license for my company. I have a question. You can create 20 users in SQL but since the CAL is 10, will the 11th consecutive user be able to logon? I know that the event viewer will prompt, but my question is will the 11th user still...
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    What Vulnerability Assessment tools you use?

    Just wondering what free Vulnerability Assessment tools you guys used? I used namely nmap for open port scan and Nessus to scan for known Microsoft vulnerability? And Ethereal to sniff the traffic. Am looking for a more comprehensive Vulnerability assessment tool that works like Nessus.
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    Are Cisco "PIX" industry standard?

    I beg to differ. Tolly.com has a whitepaper when they ran test on 3 different firewalls, Checkpoint, Juniper netscreen and Cisco Pix. Here's an example quote from tolly.com whitepaper. All 3 firewall was configured to permit SSL traffic. Only Checkpoint SmartDefense protection was able to...
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    Norton Installation error 171

    Norton antivirus is a pain in the ass if you've a single registry or file missing. I had a bad experience in trying to remove Symantec Antivirus Coporate edition. Trying searching symantec.com for the error. If not search for how to manually remove it.
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    Career advice needed.

    That job will be basically desk-bound monitoring and analyzing IDS log files for DOS, virus attacks etc and wont be out going to client sides. Basically, when I accepted the job offer from my present company, I thought it will be a chance for me to learn about systems stuff but slowly, I...
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    Career advice needed.

    I am 23 and in the midst of changing jobs and I need something to reaffirm my change. Presently, I am working in a SI company doing breakfix and installation of HP range of desktop of PC. My job title may be engineer but 70% of the time I am doing breakfix and installation stuff. But I was roped...
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    WTB: Cisco 2912, 2924 Switches and 2523 router

    I am looking for Cisco 2912 or 2924 enterprise edition switches and Cisco 2522 or 2523 routers. These will be used for my CCNP lab.
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    Domain names for $1.99

    http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ Register your domain name here for $1.99 per year. Pretty hot to me.
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    2005 CCNA exam...advice/opinions?

    Just passed my CCNA on my second try last week with a score of 948. Thought I might give you guys some inputs. Get your concepts right. Yes, study the book. If you feel that you dont get something, ask. Practice and more practice on subnetting. CCNA basically is lotsa subnetting. Get some...
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    HP procurve 5300xl mirroring

    I'm working on HP procurve switches for the first time and please bear with me. I'm trying to do port mirroring on the HP switches. The reason is I want to do packet sniffing for packets bound for the HP-UX server we have. And here's how the port mirroring will go. That is. port 1 mirrored to...
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    Easy Cisco PIX question

    No it will not work as far as I know on a PIX 515E with 7.0 ISO and on an outside interface with a security-level of 0. PIX has an implicit deny any host/port rule on all access list.
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    Windows Server 2003 takes 2-3 hours to start up

    Will checked on it tommorrow. Any more suggestion guys? The user has called microsoft on this issue and Microsoft advise was rebuild the system! All I can say is wow!
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    Windows Server 2003 takes 2-3 hours to start up

    Hi, I've a machine and it is a Dell POWEREDGE 1600SC. It is running Windows Server 2003 and is taking 2-3 hours to startup. I know that there could be numerous issues that will cause this. ie. HDD failing, services taking way too long to load, MS SQL indexing. etc. Anyone can provide me...
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    File permissions. Read only not copy

    Facing some constraint in file permissions for samba. I want to be able to do the following. In linux, am I able to let the user read and execute the file, but when the user list the directory contents, he is unable to copy the files. Am I able to do this? Is it possible? Any ideas? From...
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    Want to Read only not copy on Windows NT

    I've a Windows NT server. I want the users to be able to read the file, but not able to copy the files. I understand that this is not possible in Microsoft techology. Are there any 3rd party applications that allow such things?
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    Squid wont load https sites on Redhat 7.3

    Thanks! went throught the squid.conf file and found that the following is missing. will allow it and see how it goes. http_access allow SSL_ports Thanks
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    Squid wont load https sites on Redhat 7.3

    Am helping my co-worker on this problem of his. We've got a customer whos gotta a Squid server and when we try to load a https site as the default homepage, it will give us an error. This error will also occur when we click on a https link from a http webpage. The work around for this problem...
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    Dual Boot XP/server & Linux -- suggestions

    I second that. nVidia linux drivers are better than ATI. btw, ati just released a new version of their linux drivers. Here are the links: Features: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.14.13.html Installer: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.14.13-inst.html#176980...
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    Made a jump into Linux, any tips or advice for a n00b?

    Welcome to Linux. Regarding your USB drives, its as simple as editing your /etc/fstab in console as root, type gedit /etc/fstab and add this into the config file. /dev/sda /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 And regarding your USB printer drivers, google it.
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    Analyze WRT54 Logs in Linux

    Anyone knows of a similar package like Wallwatcher in Windows that does monitoring and analyzing of network logs in WRT54G? Will love to monitor my WRT54G logs on my Linux workstation.
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