December 2008

Advanced Spyware Fighting Techniques

December 31, 2008

This is a short late night post that will be expanded into a more comprehensive paper, however, due to the extremely nasty nature of some of the viruses in the wild today I wanted to give a quick intro on how to clean an infected PC. 1. Boot to safe mode, then open msconfig (via [...]

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5 sites to be a better informed citizen

December 30, 2008

As often as I rail against the ridiculous actions of our government it is ultimately the fault of a voting public that is more informed about the latest Lil Wayne lyrics than the actions of their elected representatives. (It bears mentioning that a cursory knowledge of history and economics can be quite handy as well.) [...]

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New York, New York

December 20, 2008

I insert very little of my personal life into KnowtheNetwork.com but I’m making an exception for this post. My wife and I leave for NYC tomorrow and we are ecstatic. It’s always been a dream of ours to spend Christmas in New York City and that’s exactly what we are doing this year. I’ve been [...]

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Google Chrome conflict with Symantec Endpoint Protection

December 20, 2008

If you install Symantec Endpoint Protection and you use the Google Chrome browser you are likely to see the following error. "The Application Failed to Initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application" If you get this error there is a simple fix. Right Click the Google Chrome Shortcut and select properties, in [...]

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Google Streetview gets a massive update.

December 14, 2008

The official Google blog announced that their Google Maps Streetview feature has just received a massive update. Their United States coverage has more than doubled. To get an idea of the scale of the coverage increase check out the before and after. I dig Streetview and I’m glad to see the coverage expanded. You can [...]

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Introducing My Friends

December 11, 2008

I’m all about community and I’ve got some great friends that you should check out. Therefore, I’ve added a sidebar section entitled, "Sites I Follow". The list contains blogs and websites that I regularly read. However, it is a special list because all of these sites are written by good friends of mine and I [...]

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My Yahoo! Pipes

December 10, 2008

I love RSS and I often use Yahoo! pipes to help filter and manage some of my feeds. Since I find these useful I thought I’d share a list of My Yahoo! Pipes. US-Cert Combined Pipe (RSS) – This pipe combines the US-Cert summary and alert feeds. SearchSecurity.com Combined Pipe (RSS) – This pipe combines [...]

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How to Configure OSPF within your LAN.

December 10, 2008

Over the past year I’ve become a big proponent of using Layer 3 (L3) routing protocols within large LAN networks. There are several benefits to using routing protocols at the LAN level but the driving force behind my support of L3 in the LAN is to mitigate Layer 2 (L2) security attacks. (For more information [...]

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