Sorry, little confusion here, are you trying to fix them or investigate them?
>From: "Sean Connolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Good freeware security utilities? >Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 02:13:16 -0400 > >Hey everyone – This is my first post to a bugtraq list, so please be >gentle! :) > > >Anyhow -- I'm currently working for a University Residential helpdesk and >generally have to deal with a lot of supposed compromises and viruses. Are >there any good tools for troubleshooting that anyone relies on? I'm >talking freeware / open source utilities - I'm not in charge of the >software distribution, and it wouldn't be feasible for my to put in >requests. > >We deal mainly with Windows 98/ME/2000 and XP systems, so it limits a lot >of utilities I've seen out there. So far what I've been using to check a >lot of systems are mainly just sifting through the configuration files. Is >there any other useful programs out there that can make some checks >quicker/more certain? > >I've been using a program called APorts to see what executable is talking >on what port. Also, we have a site license for Norton Antivirus Corp >Edition, so it makes detecting a lot of programs pretty easy. However -- >I'd like to be able to check out what happened to systems before installing >Norton, or in the case of a backdoor, be able to track it down fairly well >on the system. > > >So what would YOU use in your toolkit? :-) > >Thanks! > >Cheers, >Sean Chris Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator JM Associates "I have found the way, and the way is Perl." _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
