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  1. Also, have you checked the proxmox forums? While you might find help here, you would most certainly have a better chance there.
  2. DVDfab makes good stuff, as does Slysoft.
  3. If you guys are taking requests, can the banner be of shorter height?
  4. Time consuming, but look through Bugtraq or ExploitDB or some other source and find vulnerable versions of software to install on the boxes. It might require compiling rather than apt-get as the repos will have the fixed versions most likely. Also, randomly set some programs SUID for root and see if you can tip them over. Really, though, you are better running an older platform if you are just wanting to demo or study the exploit process itself.
  5. Stagers have less to do with AV evasion and more to do with the limitations of the buffer for the exploit. If your exploit only allows a small amount of shellcode, then a stager is useful because the code in the exploit is minimized.
  6. Have you tried running in compatibility mode? Right click on the file and choose Troubleshoot Compatibility. Go through the wizard and see if it helps.
  7. @hfam - Would you consider this "documentary" to be kid safe (11)? Any language concerns to report?
  8. Old computer with those specs? They sound like better than my new computers :).
  9. First, even before a VPN, turn on your firewall. If windows, make sure your wifi connection is set to public. If linux, we should not even have to tell you this. Once your machine itself is protected, then set up a VPN or SSH tunnel.
  10. I think SE is probably effective enough for most home users. They focus on in the wild viruses and have a reasonable detection rate. None (yes NONE) of the current signature-based av products are effective enough against targeted attacks. I have a few Sophos clients and a few SE clients at home, neither set of systems has been infected. So anecdotally I have no reason at this point to doubt the effectiveness of SE. Each to their own as always.
  11. Windows 8 has security essentials installed by default and should be enabled once you remove McAfee. I fall into a small minority it seems, but Windows 8 seems quite workable to me. Takes some getting used to, but was not the great killer of productivity for me that is seems to have been for others. As far as downgrading, you might be able to install windows 7 (digital river hosts generic ISOs you can use perhaps) with the Windows 8 key on the laptop. I have no idea if it would actually work, but you might try it if you are dead set on going back to Windows 7. I am pretty sure we are stuck with the UI that is Windows 8, so you might really try to get used to it sometime. I don't see Microsoft pulling it out anytime soon. Could be wrong, but I just don't see it.
  12. Some of the lower end Fortinet offerings will meet your needs. Check the Fortigate 40C, 60C/D and 80C. I know they support gigabit on the WAN side. They are more than consumer gear, though, but offer a lot of bang for the buck. BTW, I am struggling how to see that even a slow drive running on a SATA interface will be saturated with a 120mbit link. Running single spindles between two machines I can easily get 900mbit between two machines. You will NOT be limited by disk I/O at 120mbit. 120mbyte might become an issue, but not 120mbit.
  13. An H77 based mobo should be cheaper than the Z77. If you are not overclocking then the H77 is fine. I would not recommend overclocking a VM, though. Not saying it wont work, but why add question to it for really little real(virtualized? :))-world gain?
  14. What are you storing the VMs themselves on? Stay simple on motherboard, maybe use a h77 isntead of z77 if you don't want to overclock. I would also really take a hard look at the CPU and consider the i7-3770 (non-k) if you are primarily using it for vms. Also, get a good NIC (intel CT gigabit is fine for under $30).
  15. When you get down to it, Mega is protecting themselves from your content, not protecting your content from others. I don't care who the provider is or what you are storing, if you don't want the provider to read it, encrypt it yourself first.
  16. The tool in solarwinds is for older hashing cisco provided (10 years ago?). It worked well against those.
  17. I can see this link, digip. Not sure what is up with your end. Perhaps some odd DNS issue somehow? I know there was a lot of that when they upgraded the forums.
  18. I am sure this will be an unpopular opinion, but the reality is that minors do NOT enjoy the same rights as adults. There are plenty of rules in school that students have to follow, and I am sure possession a pineapple can loosely fall under one of the rules. It is a right to have a gun, but not in school. It is a right to vote, but not for minors. Should the OP have the device, sure. At school, probably a very bad choice. Think about it, in your day job (assuming it is not in security), and your security team was investigating a rogue access point and found yours, don't you think you might get into trouble? What is different here, other than the student is likely subject to even more restrictions that you are as an employee? I fully support learning and using tools such as these for the purpose of learning, but doing so outside of your home or direct job, really does require permission of those in authority (boss, school administration, business owner, LE, etc.). Like it or not, once you step outside of your little piece of the world, there will always be rules governed by others that we must follow. Otherwise, what else REALLY differentiates the different shades of grey between white and black (hat hackers)?
  19. In the past I have fixed this with AC3Config or other like programs where you can boost the stereo downmix volume or individual channels as needed.
  20. No, PCI-X and PCIe are not the same thing. PCI-X is typically backwards compatible to PCI.
  21. You can use the server to run Plex on the backend and then use lightweight clients with decent video (or Roku, or LG, or Samsung, or ATV, etc) attached to play the media via the Plex client. Works well for me and keeps the noisy stuff far away. Plex
  22. Mine is on 24x7 with battery backup and a luckily stable power supply. No WoL needed in my case. However, if you had it in the loft you would likely want something fairly easy to manage remotely. You could always pick up an IP enabled power distribution strip like hosting companies offer for customer control. My home lab is just a couple of switches, a firewall appliance, and a workstation and server. Nothing too fancy. I keep mine in the under stairs closet in the basement. Can be heard on stairs right above it, but not very loud really, just noticeable.
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