What The Internet Knows About You

This is an interesting site relating to the privacy issue with your browsing history in  web browsers. Worth a look and maybe an alteration of the history setting in your web browser.

What The Internet Knows About You

FreeRaser - File Eraser

FreeRaser

A very quick and no brainer way of securely deleting files with an easy and quick method. Simply bring up the secure shredder trashcan, drag you files over, release the mouse and watch them get eaten and secured from recovery.

Defaults to the fast destruction method so you might want to alter the setting for more security although of course it takes longer to delete the file.

Supports

1. a fast destruction (standard 1-round filling of random data)
2. a forced destruction (3 rounds of filling according to DoD 5220.22M standard)
3. an ultimate destruction (35 rounds of filling with data according to Guttman algorithm).

Tested on Windows XP without problems though on Windows 7 I could not drop anything into the trashcan to be securely deleted and had to uninstall it.

LongURL

Short Urls people love them and there are a number of services available (for example such TinyURL) but then so do the spammers, phishers and malware attackers who do not want you to see the real destination of a short url.

Personally I hate short urls because of the security risk but if people are going to send them then you might want to use LongURL which allows you to see the true destination of a link when you give it a shorturl. Currently LongUrl works with 208 Url Shortening services. You can also get a firefox extension for quickness.

Simple but very useful.

Enable Drag & Drop - GoogleWave and Ubuntu 9.10

You can drop content from a webpage into a wave but not by default. To be able to drop content into a wave you need to have Google Gears installed. In Ubuntu simply

1) Go to the synaptic package manager under system > system administration

2) Search for "gears"

3) Check the box for "gears" - Browser extension that enables more powerful web applications

c4) Click apply.

Once gears has installed you will be able to drag and drop content from a website into a wave, for example a photo from a website into a wave without having to download it and then upload it to the wave.

Amarok - No Sound When Playing Ubuntu 9.10

Finally finally found it. Amarok lost sound when I upgraded to 9.04 having completed an upgrade to ubuntu 9.10 i thought it was about time I got it back since I can't quite get Amarok out of my "I NEED IT!!!" media player favorite zone.

After some searching the solution is:

1) Download this file: libphonon.conf

2) Put it in /home/[your username]/.config/kde.org/ (you might need to create the directory, you will also need to view hidden folders to see the .config directory.)

3) If you don't have phonon-backend-xine install it.

sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-xine or use the synaptic package manager

4) Restart Amarok 2

You now have sound!

Phishing Tests - Test Yourself

Antiphishing tools are all well and good but they can lure you into relying on them and like anything they are not perfect. Education is an important part of computer security. You can use the following Phishing Quizzes to test your knowledge and how good you are at spotting Phishes.

Quiz List
SonicWALL Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz
Content Verification Phishing Quiz
Washington Post Phishing Quiz
PayPal Phishing Quiz
CyLab Usable Privacy And Security Laboratory Phishing Quiz

Of course, if you do not pass with flying colours it is time to brush up on your skills.

Netcraft Toolbar - AntiPhishing (IE & Firefox)

Netcraft Toolbar

A community based antiphishing toolbar to report on the reputation of a website and in particular whether it is geninue or a phishing site as determined by the community. It also provides a risk rating, web hosting company information, date the site was created and other information which may be of use. It also provides a means of reporting suspected phishing sites.

The toolbar supports Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Toolbar was tested on both FireFox (3.5.3) and IE (8) in Windows XP. Firefox had no difficulty but the install failed on Internet Explorer 8 and had to be uninstalled via the uninstaller in the control panel. An install on IE 8 in Windows Vista also failed and had to be uninstalled.

FSecure Rescue CD 3.11

Fsecure Rescue CD 3.11

I have yet to test the number of AntiVirus livecds I have and how useful they are as a way of removing viruses and malware (Fsecure renames virii files rather than removing them). However notably Fsecure have released a new verison of their LiveCD, which now contains a few more utlities. Needless to say I've downloaded it and it is sitting on my drive to be tested at some point.


The new tools included on the disk are:-
PhotoRec is a tool that can be used to recover data that has been accidentally deleted or lost due to a corrupted file system on a disk.
TestDisk is another data recovery tool that can be used to recover a lost partition, for example.
smartmontools contain utilities that can be used to inspect S.M.A.R.T. values of hard disks. By analyzing these numbers you may get a hint if your hard disk is starting to show signs of breaking down

HouseCall 7.0 Beta - "Personal Antivirus" Malware Removal

Last friday I encountered "Personal AntiVirus" a fake antivirus product which had got past Norton 2006 (yes you read that right) and was causing havoc with the usual scare tactics via pop up balloons. However all was not quite what it seemed.

Installing to the system was a no go. Norton 360 which the person had bought would not even run the setup nor would other setup programs run. The system clearly was being prevented from running installers and this was proven due to spybot and other malware tools failing to load and be installed as well as some none security based software.

I thought I would be sneaky and throw on panda cloud antivirus its still in beta at the current time but maybe being so new it would get past the aggressive stance of "Personal Antivirus" or whatever else was on the system. It did, panda cloud antivirus installed and a scan was off and running. It found 2 results one being "Personal Antivirus" and another trojan. It reported they were cleaned - the pop up balloons stopped all looked good until Internet explorer was loaded.

Internet Explorer was suffering from the remains of a browser hijack, which now instead of pointing to a pop up window screaming the website is trying to obtain your details or the site is infected and has been blocked a nice blank window appeared. Personal Antivirus was not quite dead. Surfing with Internet Exploer was impossible.

Online scanners were still not loading, a flush and restore of the hosts file did nothing and still not able to load spybot things did not look good. To provide the person with a working browser I managed to download (with a workaround) firefox, it installed and I updated java. It struck me. Housecall over at Trend runs under Java unlike the current Fsecure Online Scanner which requires Internet Explorer and the instalation of a Active X control. Off I went, a little skeptical but i had nothing else left to try.

I let Housecall 7.0 beta do its work and when it was done 11 trojans including further files of "Personal Antivirus" were removed. A quick reboot and everything was back to normal.

Fix a corrupted user profile - Windows Vista

If you tried to log on to Windows and received an error message telling you that your user profile might be corrupted, you can try to repair it. You will need to create a new profile, and then copy the files from the existing profile to the new one.

To create a new user profile

To create a new profile, you must first create a new user account. When the account is created, a profile will also be created. 1. Open User Accounts by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking User Accounts and Family Safety (or clicking User Accounts, if you are connected to a network domain), and then clicking User Accounts. 2. Click Manage another account.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. 3. Click Create a new account. 4. Type the name you want to give the user account, click an account type, and then click Create Account.

To copy files to the new user profile

After you create the profile, you can copy the files from the existing profile. You must have at least three user accounts on the computer to complete these steps, including the new account you just created. 1. Log on as a user other than the new user you just created or the user that you want to copy files from. 2. Open Documents by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Documents. 3. Click the Tools menu, and then click Folder Options. If you don't see the Tools menu, press ALT. 4. Click the View tab, click Show hidden files and folders, clear the Hide protected operating system files check box, and then click OK. 5. Locate the C:\Users\Old_Username folder, where C is the drive that Windows is installed, and Old_Username is the name of the profile you want to copy files from. 6. Select all of the files and folders in this folder, except the following files: • Ntuser.dat • Ntuser.dat.log • Ntuser.ini 7. Click the Edit menu, and then click Copy. If you don't see the Edit menu, press ALT. 8. Locate the C:\Users\New_Username folder, where C is the drive that Windows is installed, and New_Username is the name of the new user profile you created. 9. Click the Edit menu, and then click Paste. If you don't see the Edit menu, press ALT. 10. Log off, and then log back on as the new user. If you have e-mail messages in an e-mail program, such as Windows Mail, you must import your e-mail messages and addresses to the new user profile before you delete the old profile. If everything is working properly, you can delete the old profile.

Project Honey Pot

Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.

To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. We handle the rest — automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate. As a result, we anticipate installing Project Honey Pot should not increase the traffic or load to your website.

We collate, process, and share the data generated by your site with you. We also work with law enforcement authorities to track down and prosecute spammers. Harvesting email addresses from websites is illegal under several anti-spam laws, and the data resulting from Project Honey Pot is critical for finding those breaking the law.

F-Secure Online Health Check

F-Secure Online Heath Check

F-Secure Health Check will tell you if your computer is protected. It checks that you have up to date security applications and finds vulnerabilities in your installed software. It then guides you to a solution when issues are discovered.

Internet Explorer and 32Bit version of windows only.

Very easy to use and a good way of checking your system to ensure your running the latest and secure software versions. If you administrator account is separate from your normal user account, you will need to log into your administrator account to run the check.

Twitter Blocker - Twitter AntiSpam

http://tweetblocker.com

"Tweetblocker is a free resource for Twitter users and application developers. Using highly advanced filtering, we catalog and rank the top spammers on Twitter, allowing users to quickly and easily find spammers."


Tweetblocker provides an easy way to run and assessment against your followers and obtain a rating against them. Whilst not flawless with its ratings it also provides a way of reporting spammers to improve the service.

PhishTank - A Community Project

http://www.phishtank.com/

Able to spot a phishing email in your mail? Submit it to the phishtank community or alternatively join the community to verify phishes submitted to the tank to help other internet users. There is not set time you need to devote to submitting or verifying phishes so you can devote as much time as you like to helping the community.

Every bit helps.

Mount A Hard Disk (EXT3 / EXT4) Automatically at bootime - Ubuntu

First you will need to make a directory for the hard drive to be mounted to.

Open a terminal.
sudo mkdir /etc/media/disk-1

Then you will need to edit fstab to mount the partition on booting. I am going to assume you know how to back up the fstab file, once backed up.
sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add an additional line
/dev/sdb1 /media/disk-1 ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,users,user_xattr,user 0 0

then save.

(If you are mounting an ext4 filesystem simply change ext3 to ext4)


Now we need to take ownership of the partition otherwise you will need to keep opening it as root to write to it.
sudo chown -R YourUserName:YoursUserGroup /media/disk-1

Now reboot. When Ubuntu loads the partition should feature on your desktop and accessible for read and write.

ScribeFire Blog Editor - Firefox Add On

ScribeFire Blog Editor

ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. Supports a lot of different blogging platforms, tags (categories, multiple blogs, entry viewing, posting, drafting and more) and is extremely easy to use. This is the firefox plugin I use often to update this blog from within Firefox rather than having to open and log into blogger in a different tab.

Countermeasures - Trend Micro Blog

Countermeasures - Security, Privacy & Trust

A blog from TrendMicro which covers various security threats from hacking, general security news like spammer take downs, malicious threats on social networking sites. Worth adding to your RSS reader.

Panda Cloud Antivirus FREE

Panda Cloud Antivirus FREE - The first free cloud antivirus against viruses, spyware, rootkits and adware

I have not yet had the opportunity of installing Panda Cloud Antivirus. An antivirus using the cloud for free? Smells a little like a live beta before rolling out a subscription service but its the principle of using less resources which attracts me since traditional antivirus are extremely heavy on a system.

If those not familiar with "cloud" computing be sure to watch the video.


Since this a beta I suggest you also keep an eye on the blog as well.

Flock Web Browser Updating - Ubuntu

Method 1:
Go to getdeb and find yourself a .deb package for the newer version.

Method 2:
Open a Terminal type in

sudo flock-browser

Go to the menu "Help" in flock and select "Check for Updates"

Flock will check for an update, download it and install it if one is available when prompted restart.

Sometimes you need to restart more than once for the upgrade to be successfully applied. When done and you see the upgrade confirmation screen. Close flock and then close the terminal so your not running as root and reload Flock with your usual icon.

Ultra VNC - Remote Control Software for all

Ultra VNC - Remote Control Software for all

"UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free software that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen. The program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it, right from your current location. If you provide computer support, you can quickly access your customer's computers from anywhere in the world and resolve helpdesk issues remotely! With addons like SingleClick your customers don't even have to pre-install software or execute complex procedures to get remote helpdesk support."

Simple and easy to use but also has a host of advanced features and solutions for a wide range of situations.

Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI)

Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI)

The Secunia PSI is a free security tool designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer against vulnerabilities in programs.

Firefox Plugins - Download Statusbar

Download Statusbar

View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

Simple but very effective.

Rsync - Home Backup to Secondary Drive

Objective
To backup all users home directories to a separate hard drive.
To Schedule a cronjob to run the rsync script automatically.

rsync command used
rsync -av --progress --delete --log-file=/home/yourusername/rsync/$(date +%Y%m%d)_rsync.log /home /media/disk/backup


Ubuntu Linux
Need to modify the command slightly due to permission error failing the backup
rsync -av --progress --delete --log-file=/home/yourusername/rsync/$(date +%Y%m%d)_rsync.log --exclude "/home/your-username/.gvfs" /home /media/disk/backup

Multiple Home Directories
Rather than backup a single user home directory you can backup all user home directories by using *.
rsync -av --progress --delete --log-file=/home/yourusername/rsync/$(date +%Y%m%d)_rsync.log --exclude "/home/*/.gvfs" /home /media/disk/backup

Rsync Variables Explanation
-a = archive
v = increase verbosity
r = recursive: preserve the file timestamps and permission
--progress = shows progress during transfer
--delete = delete things from the remote rsync server that are also deleted locally
--log-file = output to a log file in the user directory /home/dragon/rsync and time stamp the file name with the year, month and day.
/home =start the backup in the /home directory
/media/disk/backup = the backup location disk must be mounted

First step
Create a new file called rsync.sh and open it for editing
At the top of the file insert #!/bin/bash
Copy the command above and insert underneath the above.

Save and exit


Second step
Right click rsync.sh left click Properties
go to the Permissions tab
Make the file executable by clicking the box Allow executing file as program
Close

Third Step
Copy rsync.sh to /etc/cron.daily (or another cron directory depending on the frequency you want to run it)


Fourth Step
Configure a cron job to run rsync.sh in /etc/cron.daily as root

Squid Not Starting On Boot Up

Problem
Squid fails to load on boot up but works when restarted or shutdown and reloaded via the console.


Solution
You need to add a dns_nameservers entry to squid.conf from data found in /etc/resolvconf

Thunderbird Plugins - View Headers Toggle Button

View Headers Toggle Button

This extension adds a toolbar button that allows the easy toggling of viewing all message headers.

Requires the additional addon of
Header Scroll Extension
which adds a scrollbar to the extended all header view so that it doesn't take all the space when viewing all headers.

Web Filtering / Censorship - Multi Users - Ubuntu Linux

Situation

To achieve filtering for a users web browsing to protect minors from undesirable content while allowing adult users to entertain themselves as they see fit in the home environment.


Solution

Install Squid and DansGuardian from the Synaptic Package Manager

Squid Configuration

Edit the squid configuration file with
sudo nano /etc/squid/squid.conf

setup who is allowed access to the proxy. Find the http_access section. Uncomment these 2 lines and add your network allocations.

acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
http_access allow our_networks

Open /etc/resolvconf and make a note of the IP address.

You need to add a dns_nameservers entry to squid.conf from IP address /data found in /etc/resolvconf

Save & Exit

DansGuardian Configuration



Edit the dansguardian configuration file with
sudo nano /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf

Comment out the UNCONFIGURED line
#UNCONFIGURED


Check that the following are set:
filterport = 8080
proxyip = 127.0.0.1
proxyport = 3128


Find the Auth plugins section and uncomment
authplugin = '/etc/dansguardian/authplugins/ident.conf'



Filter Groups
We now are going to set up 2 groups the first group will be for children using the default filter settings and the second group will be for adults.

Copy /etc/dansguardian/dansguardianf1.conf
rename the copy dansguardianf2.conf

We now need to edit dansguardianf2.conf
Find
# Defaults to 0 if unspecified.
# Unauthenticated users are treated as being in the first filter group.
groupmode = 1

The default group is filtered. Change the value in the group mode to the corresponding groupmode value to 2 for unfiltered for adult users.

Save & Exit


Now we need to identify users for the two user groups. If a users is not defined Dansguardian will implement the default filters in dansguardianf1.conf thus will we only add adult usernames.

Edit the file filtergroupslist located in /etc/dansguardian or /etc/dansguardian/lists

add the users to use the adult filter dansguardianf2.conf
example
dad=filter2
mom=filter2


Save & Exit



Authentication of Users In Order That Group Filters Can Be Applied
Via the Synaptic Package Manager install
Ident2

Open a console and enter sudo ident2


Firewall Configuration
In this case we are going to use Firestarter, which is available from the Synaptic Package Manager.

Go to the tab Policy > Select Inbound traffic policy
Add the service port 113

You may need to add service ports for squid 3128 and dansguardian 8080






Final Setting Up


Set your web browser to use 127.0.0.1 and port 8080 to use the proxy.

Alternatively use Preferences > Network Proxy > Manual Proxy Configuration


Instalation complete.

Open-AudIT - Computer And Network Audit

Open-AudIT

Great way of keeping an eye on software, hardware, licenses, etc across a network. Simple to install and use. Best of all its free.

From The Site:

"OpenAudIT is an application to tell you exactly what is on your network, how it is configured and when it changes. Open-AudIT will run on Windows and Linux systems. Essentially, Open-AudIT is a database of information, that can be queried via a web interface. Data about the network is inserted via a Bash Script (Linux) or VBScript (Windows). The entire application is written in php, bash and vbscript. These are all 'scripting' languages - no compiling with viewable source. Making changes and customisations is both quick and easy.

Windows PCs can be queried for hardware, software, operating system settings, security settings, IIS settings, services, users & groups and much more. Linux systems can be queried for a similar amount of information. Network devices (printers, switches, routers, etc) can have data recorded such as IP-Address, MAC Address, open ports, serial number, etc, etc. Output is available in PDF, CSV and webpages. There are export options for Dia and Inkscape.

Open-AudIT can be configured to scan your network and devices automatically. A daily scan is recommended for systems, with network scans every couple of hours. That way, you can be assured of being notified if something changes (day to day) on a PC, or even sooner, if something "new" appears on your network."

PHP - Email from Non-Local Host

Situation

Drupal was installed on an intranet (windows system) however no email server software was installed on the server making it impossible for Drupal to email users. This was reported by drupal.

Durpal Reported

warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\xampp\htdocs\includes\mail.inc on line 193. Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site admin, if the problem persists.


Solution
PHP.ini was edited to

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = 192.168.1.3
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.sendmail_from = [user a local domain]


Then Apache was restarted to reload the PHP modules and attributes to enable the change.



Note:
If the external email server is on a domain the SMTP line would read:
smtp.somedomain.com

XAMPP - Easy Installer

XAMPP

Provides a free package to easily install the following open source programs on Windows, Linux. Mac OS X, and Solaris

• Apache HTTPD 2.2.11 + Openssl 0.9.8i
• MySQL 5.1.33
• PHP 5.2.9
• phpMyAdmin 3.1.3.1
• XAMPP CLI Bundle 1.3
• FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.31
• Mercury Mail Transport System 4.62

Packages updated as necessary.

Hijack This

HijackThis™ is a free utility which quickly scans your Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware or other unwanted programs. HijackThis creates a report, or log file, with the results of the scan.

IMPORTANT: HijackThis does not determine what is good or bad. Do not make any changes to your computer settings unless you are an expert computer user.
Advanced users can use HijackThis to remove unwanted settings or files.

Not an expert? Just save the HijackThis report and let a friend with more troubleshooting experience take a look. A large community of users participates in online forums, where experts help interpret HijackThis scan results to clean up infected computers.

Cannot Open Bayes Database - SME Server

Situation
Error Message logged in the spamd/current error log

Error Message
"2009-04-27 11:55:43.098059500 [7011] warn: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: Permission denied"

Solution
chmod 0644 /var/spool/spamd/.spamassassin/bayes_*


Summary
Chmodding will allow spambayes database to be accessed and updated via auto learning.

CD Rom Icon Missing - Windows XP

Situation


CD Rom drive does not have a icon on the desktop.The drive is working and Windows System Restore fails to restore access to the drive as well as reinstalling the device drivers.




Solution


The Windows Registry needs to be edited to restore access. Here's what you need to do:


1. Click Start, then Run, then enter REGEDIT to open the Registry Editor



2. Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class entry



3. Under the Class entry, double click on {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}



4. In the right-hand pane, click ONCE to select the UpperFilters entry



5. Make sure the UpperFilters entry is highlighted, press Delete, then Yes.



6. In the right-hand pane, click ONCE to select the LowerFilters entry



7. Make sure the LowerFilters entry is highlighted, press Delete, then Yes.



8. Close the Registry Editor by clicking File, Exit.


Restart your computer, and the CDROM drive should now show up on the My Computer screen. You may need to re-install your CDROM software if it's not working properly.

Conficker Eye Chart

Conficker Eye Chart

Conficker (aka Downadup, Kido) is known to block access to over 100 anti-virus and security websites. The above link provides a quick "Eye Test" using logos to determine whether you are infected with Conficker or a variant.

Website - String Functions

String Functions Online

Provides a means to easily:-
Reverse A String
Calculate String Length
Count The Occurrences Of A Substring Within A String
Convert A String To Uppercase Or Lowercase
HTML-Encode A String
HTML-Decode A String
Convert A String To Hex
Convert Hex To String
URL-Encode A String
URL-Decode A String
Convert Hex Values To RGB
Convert RGB Values To Hex

Thunderbird Extensions - Attachment Sizes

Attachment Sizes
Ability to see attachment sizes

• in the attachment box on messages
• in the attachment box on composes.

Prevents you from sending a huge emails without realising.

Thunderbird Extensions - Mail Redirect

Mail Redirect
Very useful for postmasters. Allows you to quickly and easily redirect email messages to another user(s) whilst not adding messy headers like forwarding does.

Thunderbird Extensions - Filter Button

Filter Button For Thunderbird
You guessed it... Provides a filter button to enable quick access to run all filters rather than navigating through menus.

Thunderbird Extensions - Lightning

Lightning
Manage your daily schedule directly within Thunderbird.


Ideally needs a google calendar account and an additional extension
Provider for Google Calendar
which allows bidirectional access to Google Calendar

Firefox Plugins - StumbleUpon Toolbar

StumbleUpon Toolbar

Installs a toolbar to participate in the StumbleUpon community from Firefox

Firefox Plugins - Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

Provides

• Ability to subscribe to an automatic filterset for updates
• Ability to add your own advert filtersets
• Ability to disable Subscribe to a free filter source for updates
• Ability to unblock / whitelist websites carrying adverts you want to support
  

Smart Defrag - A free Defragmenter

Smart Defrag is a free disk defragmenter which supports

• Scheduling
• Auto Defrag in the background
• Disk Map
• Ability to adjust idle time settings if needed (default setting is ok)
• Ability to adjust load settings if needed to prevent a system slowing (default setting is ok)
• Automatic checking for updates

PDF Exchange Viewer - Alternative to Acrobat Reader

Adobe Acrobat Reader is currently notoriously slow at loading along with it's patching program for vulnerabilities.

PDF Xchange Viewer is a free PDF viewer, which is quicker to load, is updated regularly and has browser plugins making it a free viable alternative to Acrobat Reader whilst keeping those essential features.

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats

If you do not have the lastest Microsoft Office 2007 the following File Format Converter from Microsoft enables you to open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 from within a previous version of office.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

Free Multiple Antivirus Engines Online Scanner - Virus Total

VirusTotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by multiple antivirus engines.

Offers

• Virus Submission by uploading direct via the website
• Virus Submission via Email and automatic email response with result
• Virus Submission via Windows using VirusTotal Uploader
• Hash search

This is a list of the companies that participate in VirusTotal with their antivirus engines.

AhnLab (V3)
Antiy Labs (Antiy-AVL)
Aladdin (eSafe)
ALWIL (Avast! Antivirus)
Authentium (Command Antivirus)
AVG Technologies (AVG)
Avira (AntiVir)
Cat Computer Services (Quick Heal)
ClamAV (ClamAV)
Comodo (Comodo)
CA Inc. (Vet)
Doctor Web, Ltd. (DrWeb)
Emsi Software GmbH (a-squared)
Eset Software (ESET NOD32)
Fortinet (Fortinet)
FRISK Software (F-Prot)
F-Secure (F-Secure)
G DATA Software (GData)
Hacksoft (The Hacker)
Hauri (ViRobot)
Ikarus Software (Ikarus)
INCA Internet (nProtect)
K7 Computing (K7AntiVirus)
Kaspersky Lab (AVP)
McAfee (VirusScan)
Microsoft (Malware Protection)
Norman (Norman Antivirus)
Panda Security (Panda Platinum)
PC Tools (PCTools)
Prevx (Prevx1)
Rising Antivirus (Rising)
Secure Computing (SecureWeb)
BitDefender GmbH (BitDefender)
Sophos (SAV)
Sunbelt Software (Antivirus)
Symantec (Norton Antivirus)
VirusBlokAda (VBA32)
Trend Micro (TrendMicro)
VirusBuster (VirusBuster)

RSS Security Feeds

The following feeds are worth subscribing to:-

Fescure AntiVirus Research Blog
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/weblog.rdf

Latests Alerts From Websense Security Labs
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/alertsRSS.xml

McAfee Avert Labs
http://feeds.feedburner.com/McafeeAvertLabsBlog

Microsoft Security Bulletins
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/secrss.aspx

Sanesecurity phishing/scam signatures for ClamAV
http://sanesecurity.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

TrendLabs Malware Blog
http://feeds.trendmicro.com/Anti-MalwareBlog

Webroot Threat Blog
http://blog.webroot.com/feed/

ClamAV - ClamScan

Command
clamscan -r --infected /home/e-smith/files/users

Scans the directory location /home/e-smith/files/users and all subdirectories and only reports infected files to the console. Does not remove any infections found.



Command
clamscan -r --infected --remove /home/e-smith/files/user

Scans the directory /home/e-smith/files/users and all subdirectories, reports only infected files to the console and removes infections found automatically.

Editor - SME Server 7.4

A simple text editor comes with SME Server pre-installed, which will enable a file to be loaded into it and edited.

Command
Pico [filename]

Opens a text editor.


Pico Commands
Use CTRL + X to exit - This will also prompt the user to save any changes with a Y / n prompt