freenode themselves have some general info relating to SSL , i.e.
http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#ssl
http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#sslaccess

normal ls -l will give mtime, but you can get atime with ls -lu and ctime with ls -lc
It may also depend on what filesystem is in use, not just how the file was copied.

Hmm check again.  Looks to me like the block is registered by the telco in Canberra, and that IP isn't located there.

Welcome Deadpool614.  Good luck with your studies.
Another suggestion/idea for a scripting language to learn: Lua.  I don't know it myself, but may be worthwhile, for Nmap scripting.  Python is great and I much prefer it to Perl.  Not sure how good it is, but there's a book Dive Into Python available free online.

Another non security one.  Presumably 'done' doesn't necessitate passing.
Optivity for HP OpenView.  But I started the 3-day course on the 3rd day.

Hi Dark Knight.
I think you're right; you can now do GIAC certifications without writing a paper, and that gives you the "Silver" type of certification.

Gold requires you do a paper - see http://www.giac.org/gold/

There's also Platinum/Expert - http://www.giac.org/gsx.php

Just wanted to mention, the idea of good viruses, goes back much further.  Dr Fred Cohen wrote some interesting papers about it.  Most AV companies won't even consider the possibility, because part of what they are selling is trust. 
That said, the Morris worm is a classic example of why even a good/research worm, might not be a good idea.  No matter how careful people are, only testing a worm on a private network, lysine deficiency type stuff..  Things can still go wrong.  Particularly when on the Internet, it's a lot harder to guess/programatically determine what OS a host is running, what strange drivers/other malware/other network apps are running etc., and be sure that your worm will run as you want.

This is just my impression, but I believe CISSP is meant to be a more general, risk management type course.  Yes it's long, difficult and expensive, but if you are interested in technical skills, it may not be so helpful anyway.  I would perhaps look at GSEC (vendor neutral, which is always a plus I think), or CCNA.  As much as it bugs me that a lot of people, primarily recruitment staff and managers, see Cisco certifications as being security-related, they will help you get jobs.  A CCNA should get you a reasonable networking job, which you can leverage to find a security-related position, and perhaps look at doing more specific security certs then.
Good luck!

Backtrack based on Ubuntu?  Since when?  It's based on SLAX.  Version 3 is anyway.  Personally, I don't like Ubuntu, but I will concede it's a good distro for those who are new to Linux and it's easy to install.  Slackware, Arch, Fedora and OpenSUSE are all worth consideration for a desktop Linux system.

I'm new to Python too, but how about this?
Same as yours, but it should strip out HTML tags.

import urllib2, sre, re, sys, string

def remove_html_tags(data):
   p = re.compile(r'<[^<]*?>')
   return p.sub('', data)

print "Enter The website: "
url = raw_input()

response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
data = remove_html_tags(response.read())

print "search word"
topic = raw_input()

matches = re.findall(topic, data)
print matches

Maybe this is partly a personal thing, but I think that it's almost always a bad idea to reinstall/format.  If it's a production box and you really need its functionality, I'd suggest you do something like restore from images/backups a duplicate system, or swap drives, so you haven't messed with the infected volume.  You can then get some resources onto identifying exactly what it was infected with and more importantly how, so you can ensure you won't get infected again.  Might also be worthwhile keeping evidence so you can if not pursue legal avenues, have samples of malware which you can send to your AV vendor.  I always find it odd that so many large corporates pay lots of $ for AV services, and don't bother sending in samples.  It's not helpful bitching about vendors not finding all malware, if you don't make sure they know which malware they don't find. 
If you reinstall, there's a very good chance, that the reinstalled machine will get reinfected; note it's possible for malware to survive a reinstall.

That's what an acceptable use policy is all about.  Note too, that as far as I'm aware, the laws between different countries vary considerable regarding how much monitoring is allowed, and whether or not the company has to have some just cause for doing a thorough audit of an employee's machine etc.
IDS rules won't be perfect.  You only have to look at spam filtering to see how limited machines can sometimes be at matching patterns etc without proper context!

Can't you do it with the administrator console?
Which is described I think in Solution ID 1035148 on Trend's support site.

Hi Scott,

You may be able to use a tool to 'fuzz' the pages under the main site, or spider the site, which might work if there are references to http://aaaa/bbbb/* from http://aaaa/*

Hi,
I know it's a bit of a smart alec response, but I think it's still valid:
Have you considered using anti-virus software? :-)
If you can, run it from a Live CD or floppy so that if there's malware on the Windows box, it won't be resident in memory when you do the scan.