Analyze a Bot-Infected Host with Wireshark
Here’s a video by Laura Chappell analyzing the network traffic from a bot-infected host.? Good stuff!
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Windows Media Server doesn’t like NAT
We set up a Windows Media Server just like we’ve done many times before, but this time we were not able to connect to the streams from outside the local network.? After spending a lot of time verifying that it wasn’t a firewall problem, I found this article that gave an answer: the media server [...]
Acronis True Image won’t write to Server 2008 shares
We were trying to write some machine images to a Server 2008 share with Acronis True Image.? True Image would see the shares, but would fail with a strange “bad file name” error. It turned out to be the same issue that stopped Mac OS 10.4 from talking to my Server 2008 shares at a [...]
Dotnetnuke Menu Bar Broken in Firefox
When our users started upgrading to Firefox 3.0.10, they began noticing that our Dotnetnuke intranet’s menu bar was broken — only “Home” showed up, not the rest of the page titles. It turns out that DNN uses a config file to tell it what capabilities the various browser versions support.? For some reason, the user [...]
Word Mail Merge fails to see MS Access data source
We have an Access database that has been used for years as a data source for merging Word documents.? A button in the Access app would run a MakeTable query and then launch Word, which would open a document that looked to the table as a data source. Two weeks ago, the mail merge documents [...]
VNC to Mac OS 10.5 from Windows
I’ve been trying for a while to get the Mac “Screen Sharing” to work.? I want to control the Mac from a Windows Vista machine.? Even though Screen Sharing is just a VNC server, my RealVNC client would seem to connect for a split second and then the connection would go away. I finally found [...]
iTunes lost my music library
Hoping that this will help someone who experiences this in the future, I thought I’d briefly write up what happened when I switched my Windows machine from one domain to another, and my iTunes library disappeared. What happened:? My machine had been a member of domain A, and I had redirected “My Documents” and all [...]
Do I Really Have a Virus?
Here’s a great article at Lifehacker about how you can know if a file is really infected, or if your antivirus software is giving you a false positive (shouting “virus!” when there really isn’t one). Read the article and check out the online multi-engine scanning tools at Jotti’s malware scan VirusTotal Virus.org
BitSpitters: YouTube Videos from Laura Chappell
For some educational videos on WireShark from Laura Chappell, search for “bitspitters” on YouTube. You’ll find fun stuff, including the following:
Firefox: Open Search in New Tab
This is a great tip that I got from Tekzilla… If you’re like me, and you sometimes forget to open a new tab in Firefox before using the search box, this is a very useful tip. Browse to about:config, find browser.search.openintab, double-click to change it to true, and then restart Firefox for the change to [...]
