that never even crossed my mind, thanks for the advice

pjayes

counterspy is very good and free to use, the new avg also comes with antispyware and again is a great free tool.

The first thing i try to fix when i walk into any job is the customer. sometimes they are angry and ready to throw the machine out the window. Fixing the computer is the easy part. I just try to not make them feel stupid and to assure them that i will take care of it. That approach has worked great so far and living on a small place like capecod, word of mouth can make or break a business here.

Thanks alot
pjayes

Hello, I have started my own company and I have been pretty succesfull
I also do some independent contract for a few larger companies. Nothing really in the security field as of yet, mostly set up and maintain small networks, break/fix, wireless, virus and spyware removal. I have a lab set up at my house that i do a ton of pentesting on, I am facinated by that concept and always have been. I love working with computers and i love haveing my own business and taking good care of my customers. I have just got my A+, NET+ and linux+, and i am currently enrolled in a great security program at clark university, i will be taking my security + in a couple of months and i plan of taking and passing the ceh exam through self-study, being the corprate world never really interested me much, can one have a successful career in the security field as a independent contractor, or is it better to get established with a company. I love the security field because no matter how much you know, there is always more to learn, i would love to be able to put my skills to good use, on the other hand i dont want to abandon my current customers.

sorry the post is a little drawn out
pjayes

I agree with number one, that is also proberly the hardest to defend against, i think number 7 should be a little higher on the list, what threat is the easist to defend against / the hardest to defend against.

pjayes

i really like ubuntu 8.04. i up graded from 7.10 and all my toys still worked, and i havent seen any problems yet, i however have not seen a reason that if your old version is working nicely to upgrade, i did it out of curiosity and i am pleased, but no major changes that i can see as of yet. Ubuntu was the first disto of linux i started using on a regular basis, and i would recommend it to anyone who wants to start learning linux. it is easily installed and configured, networking is well supported, wireless with the exception of wpa is simple to set up and there is a nice gui to use while you play around with the terminal and become a command line junkie. Check ou nubuntu as well.

pjayes

the host is XP Pro, I run them at the same time all the time because i set up a team so i just power up the team, do you think i could add a third without upgrading the ram or would that be pushing it.

i have 2 windows xp pro boxes, my laptop is vista business, with vm workstation loaded with ubuntu 8.04 and backtrack2, i have one more box which has small business server 2003 on it

i just installed vmware workstation version 5 and loaded ubuntu and windows server 2003 on it, i have 2 gigs of ram, i have not had any problems, am i just lucky or should i expect some issues with it.

what are the chances that who ever was behind that attack will be caught?

i dont see html on there, is that a dying code?

i am in the middle of upgrading to ubuntu 8.04 i will let everyone know how it is, i am installing it in vmware along with backtrack2, its a beautiful day here and i have been hunched over my laptop for about 6 hours,
i hate computers sometimes

Thanks alot, i checked the version and its 5, i guess its time to upgrade,
thanks again.
pjayes

i have just installed vmware and i got a error message saying vista is not supported, i figured i would try anyway, i am in the middle of installing ubuntu, which i plan to customize with a bunch of goodies. So far everything is going smooth, has anyone else run into problems with vmware and vista?

Thanks
pjayes

Hey Negrita, awsome link. i must have been on that site for 3 or 4 hours

Thanks
pjayes