mleo2003

TrendMicro Enterprise Solution (old job used it)

Some AV products have random names for their scanning, so looking for process names may not help in some situations.

Seeing as I have had no dealings with Vista for long, and know nothing of UAC, I must ask the following question before going on Google in the hunt for my own answer (I know, probably should hunt first). Is the UAC a service that can be disabled with a few calls to the 'sc' command?

With Vista, you probably need to use a batch file to test for UAC some how, and if it exists, either just exit, or go old school on it, otherwise, go for the new/improved stuff. Might could even use a batch file to disable UAC, and then run the exe stuff. Just some options you have.

You know you can do the same thing with Dev-C++ Portable just by running it with a '-c .' parameter passed to it when you run it? Make <gasp>another batch!!!11!111</gasp> :-) that just runs the "devcpp.exe -c ." command. Or better yet, tell PStart/whatever other start menu type setup you use to use that as the shortcut to it. Not as special as making your own NSIS package (which I plan on doing for Ruby someday), but it works. My only issue with using something other than .bat's is on some systems (even XP), it prompts you and asks do you want to run this executable for exe's. I don't think that's a concern with .bat files, but I could be wrong.

So, if I were to plug the router in to one of the LAN ports, and all other clients also either plugged in to LAN ports or were wireless, that they would still be under jurisdiction of the QOS rules? This may require some testing later.

I have an upgrade I would like to do in my home network, but I'm at a loss as to how to accomplish this. I currently have dial-up (only thing available where I live currently) coming in through a linux box I setup for the soul purpose of being my modem/gateway router box. For now, it handles DHCP, DNS, firewalling, and everything like that itself. The rest of my network connects to it through a 4 port small Netgear wireless router, meaning I have wireless dial-up. This leads to my wife and I taking turns with the internet (i.e. she needs it, and I have to get off). Since I'm pretty good with computers, I started looking for a solution. The simplest solution I could find was QOS, where I just divide the traffic between us evenly. I thought of trying to just add this to my Router box, but I am afraid to mess with it, as it took me awhile to get it working with the particular modem I have, and I'd hate to loose it and not be able to quickly ask questions and get answers on how to fix a problem. I recently purchased a WRT54GL, and put dd-wrt on it, to play with, and because I knew it could do QOS like I wanted (even if I need custom ip tables to do it). It works fine, and I like it, but here's where things get interesting. It can do QOS, but I'm betting it has to be the router for the network to shape traffic. As such, I need to reconfigure the dial-up box to be a "pass-through" box, and not to do any kind of traffic management. I'm kinda stumped as to how to proceed from here. I need to turn off NAT and the like from the dial-up box and let the dd-wrt do all that (gonna let it do DHCP and all that as well), but I'm stumped as to how to do that. I keep thinking I can just let the dial-up box pass the raw traffic it gets from the internet straight to the dd-wrt, and vice versa, to let it do all the networking tasks, but I can't find any articles/help on doing that. I feel like the solution is right in front of me, but I can't see it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I left out some detail that you need, I'll be glad to provide more info to help.

Thanks for all the suggestions. My list is growing quite nicely now thanks to all that you've said. I had a few things that were suggested, so I'm gonna try to fill in the gaps in my kit. Now if I just had a bag of infinite holding to tote all this in... @Blunderboy You mention the use of a crossover cable to transfer files from PC to PC. Would a USB cable to do the same thing work faster, or would that depend on the nic's involved? I can't remember which one would be faster, USB transfer or crossover cable.

Over in the Hacks, Mods, and Code section, a topic on Hacker Backpacks was brought back from the dead, and it lists a lot of neat tools that aid in hacking. Shortly after it was revived, I needed some tool at work (computer tech for a school district) to test some PCs we think have bad power supplies now (lightning bolt, blown transformer, etc...). I didn't have one, so we ended up borrowing one from a neighboring district. After that, I was told to order that and anything else that I might need to help fix computers. Loving the fact that I now have a basic open ticket to order supplies, I'm at a loss as what all I should really have in a repair kit for PCs. So, I thought I'd ask here and see what the generally accepted list of parts is, and go for that. What would you say is the essential gear for fixing PCs? The tool I needed was just a Power Supply tester, so I know that one is a must. I've seen posted around the web a device you plug into PCI slots and it tests the motherboard post codes, as well as the power supply too, so that might work better. http://www.casemodgod.com/new_page_2.htm is something I'd love to make, as well as other do-it-yourself kits like that, but I still need parts for those. If you have any suggestions for networking tools as well, I'm all ears, as I tend to fix those problems too, along with just about anything else electrical (I've had to take apart VCRs to recover VHS tapes for teachers in the past). I know a good multi-meter would be a wise investment, just not sure on what kind of those to get either.

Not to add more clutter, but a recent LifeHacker article seems very applicable to this situation, with some modifications, of course. I'll leave those up to you. http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-liv...e-cd-292972.php

Well, it's not really the init.d part that is holding me up. I've got the script saved in there just fine, it's the updating the system init file. Since you have it setup on Ubuntu just right, maybe you could tell me, what part of the initial start up of the machine does it ask you for the password? After /proc and others are mounted? Before networking? If I had a clue, I could update the script myself.

Hey, I'm trying to do this on a PCLinuxOS install, and I've run into a small spot of trouble. I'm at the "update-rc.d" step, and have discovered that I do not have this program, as it is Debian based. So, I cannot to that, but I've been studying what it did. As far as I can tell, it would have added links in the rcS.d folder for the truecrypt.sh script to start, but another problem: PCLinuxOS doesn't have that folder either. So, I'm betting this needs running at the system startup, I'm just not sure where. If you could help, I need to know where to add the links, and when it should be asking to run truecrypt.sh. If I can find that out, I'll be set. Thanks in advance if you can help out.

Saw the segment, loved the idea. For those of you wanting some tools for yourself, and to give Mubix more time with new baby, here's a website with links to a ton of tools that will work on a thumbdrive. Note: Some of these tools will be flagged as virus stuff, but, like a lot of the tools we use, it's harmless itself, it's just been given that status through other people's ill intent. http://dirk-loss.de/win-tools.htm I have a copy of almost every last one of those tools, still trying to get them all categorized, and then put into a PStart menu, not to mention add on other tools I may need as well. Gonna put these both on my USB stick, and a BartPE/UBCD4WIN disc, for use once booted from the CD. Have fun, and practice safe hacking.

Having went to college to be a Web Development major, I can honestly say listen to nullspace, and you'll be fine. Everything he recommended, I was required to learn, and with the books being outdated so easily, we should have just used online materials to learn from any way. I also like his order for learning the topics. As for links, his w3schools is the top one to visit, but here are some others that helped me starting out: www.htmldog.com - Very nice HTML & CSS references, as well as different levels of tutorials on those subjects www.htmlgoodies.com - A huge repository of tutorials on almost everything web-dev. I have more specific ones for other purposes (PHP, Perl, etc...) but those helped me out at first.

Well, I guess I get to represent the other side of things here. I am one of the Tech guys for not just one school, but an entire school district. That's 6 schools, the VoTech, the main office, and the Technology lab (where we have trainings and all setup). I thank all of you for showing me the different ways that the kids might get through what we have setup (no worries from anyone on here, unless you happen to live somewhere in Central Mississippi). From what I've read, that is what some kids try normally. Right now, we are using a Clark Box (filtering system based on CentOS) as well as WebSense to filter the entire district's content, and we block a lot of stuff... except for https traffic, as someone else noted about another school. This is a real problem, because the school district has to be SIPA compliant, which means we have to filter everything (even ourselves) or we get in government trouble. It auto filters port 80, but we can't seem to figure out how to filter 443 traffic just yet, and simply blocking it would render certain services unusable. Of course, I agree with a lot of you on here, a lot of the times, we are way to strict on what all we block. Some of this comes from the higher ups, and some of it is just stuff we don't feel is educational. We have several requests each week from teachers who want x site unblocked, and we have to go unblock it, or try to explain to them why it can't be unblocked, or at least shouldn't. Though, there are times when I unblock my IP to get to some pages I need to see. The real thing I worry about, mainly because it is almost unbeatable unless we disable USB ports all together, is Torpark, or OperaTor. As a side note, if anyone on here can make suggestions as to how to filter that port 443 stuff, please let me know. I know, the main purpose of this thread (and albeit forums) is to get around people like me, but like I said, we have to implement this. Not to mention we also have to protect some of the "unintelligent kids" from themselves, to keep them from giving out real name and other such info on the internet. I'd rather just have the kids educated on not doing such blatently obvious things, but I can't make policies, only implement what I'm told to.