Microsoft Security Essentials has been tested on about 6000 different viruses and trojans and the result is that you’d better not trust it!

Its database doesn’t contain many virus signatures and it can be a problem for your systems and the documents on your hard drive.

ig33ku tested Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7 and he noticed slow performance when the Manual Scan is running. Did you noticed the same? Any comments?

Thanks to ig33ku for allowing me to share this video.

Yesterday we have noticed some suspicious behavior, thus the decision to higher the security on this blog.

Should any of our readers notice something strange going on here, please contact us.

Your feedback is important to us.

Sincerely,
Sergio

·         Employees that have blocked access to some web sites and want to access them in the work-place – of course after manager approval, otherwise it is illegal;
·         Employees that have blocked access to all web sites, but company and/or partner web sites and want to access them in the work-place – of course after manager approval, otherwise it is illegal;
·         Home users that need a secure tunnel to another place and surf encrypted;
·         Home users that want t cheap VPN;
·         Cool people that like this kind of stuff

It is common for many companies to block internet access for the employees.
Sometimes internet is blocked for all the web sites – sometimes only some web sites are filtered, for example YOUtube and FaceBook or Skype are usually blocked by the IT staff of most corporations.

Sometimes internal policy wants it blocked, but if you want to use internet even with this filter you can use this guide.

You must get the approval of your manager (because some employees may have some privileges) before going through this guide otherwise the company may take legal actions against you for “surfing the web against the policies”.

Home users sometimes need to surf anonymously from some locations. Home users that go to some place and do not trust this place, they can use this guide to build a cheap Virtual Private Network to surf safely from every place in the world… how?

Encrypting all the traffic between the place where you are and your home! Nobody can capture and read what you do between your place and your home, and with a very easy tuning you can also encrypt the DNS requests so that hackers cannot find out what web sites you surfed.

This is what I have tested and it works perfectly:

You need:

Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS (in this example I use WRT54G)
Firmware: DD-WRT (in this example I use DD-WRT v23 SP2 (09/15/06) std (SVN revision 3932))
1 internet connection with a public IP address
Access in/out to one port, for example port 22 from the place where you need to use the secure connection – remote. (if you need assistance in finding an open port, please contact the experts at www.security-exchange.net.

This is my Linksys:

You need to change the firmware of your Linksys to the DD-WRT firmware, which can be downloaded here. www.dd-wrt.com

In the back of your Linksys you have 4 LAN ports and 1 WAN port. You need to connect the internet cable to the WAN port. If you want, you can also connect to it home computers to the LAN ports and/or via wifi.

Please configure your Linksys router so that internet works and your home computers work as well.

If you need help configuring your router you can write for free to our experts at www.security-exchange.net – you will receive help very fast in the forum

Tunnel Configuration:
When your Linksys is up-and-running you are ready to start the tunnel configuration.

1.       Go to the management page of your Linksys router – usually is http://192.168.1.1
2.       Go to the Administration panel
3.       On the Remote Access field enable SSH Management
4.       Choose a SSH Management Port – The SSH Management Port needs to be the same open and reachable from the remote place (for example from your work place)
5.       Click on Save Settings
6.       Go to the Services tab
7. In the Secure Shell field enable SSHd and Password Login
8. Choose the same open SSH Management port that you have chosen before
9. Choose a Password

Here I show you how the configuration of my Linksys looks like:

4.       Create a text file with your Notepad and put the Public IP address and port as in the following example:

This example would be good if the public IP of your Linksys is 10.100.10.30 and if the chosen SSH management port is 22.

In this example we have the following:

• A Windows XP computer with English keyboard

And we will make it support Polish characters!

Let’s START

1) Click on Start

2) Click on Run

3) Type intl.cpl and click OK

A similar window will appear:

4) Click on Languages (the tab in the middle)

A similar window will appear:

5) Click on Details (the only Button on this window)

A similar window will appear:

In this window the language in use by your keyboard will appear. In this example the main language is English.
What does it mean? Having English here will allow you to use only the English characters and signs, according to the English keyboard layout (how the English keyboard and key position will look like in English keyboards… expecially United States Keyboard in this case).

Let’s add now the support to Polish language

6) In this windows click on “Add”

A similar window will appear:

Here you will chose your language. In this example we choose Polish language and click OK.

You will see now a similar window:

As you can see now you have two input languages set, English and Polish. You can click OK in this window and close it.

By default a little square showing you the current language should appear near the clock. Something similar to the next one below:

Now when you have to write in a language or in another you can change the input language by clicking alt+left shift, or by manually chosing the language you want from the taskbar. This is the default, but different Operating Systems can have different default settings.

If you need specific help for your case, you can write to us on www.security-exchange.net we will give you the support you need

I found the time to write this post because I consider it important to say THANK YOU!

Yes, thank you all of you. Thanks to all the people that read and continue to read my blog.

Thanks to all of them who commented and continue to comment my news.

And thanks to all of them solving problems in the security-exchange.net forum!

Regards, Sergio

We all know about Chinese government and how do people live there. I have already written in this post about the Chinese Skype, a new version of the program designed for Chinese customers only, made to filter and control their conversation; but this is not enough for China.

There will be soon a new law there. All the computer companies, before selling desktops and laptops will be obliged to install a program that filters the web. We still don’t know what this software will actually do, but the Chinese press says that it is made to filter the porn sites. This new law had to pass in the last days, but it has been delayed, because – as they say, computer makers need more time to apply the new mandatory configuration on the new computers.

The program that is going to be installed is called “绿坝 花季护航” and you can find the trial for free download here. I am not sure this is the right program, but internet sources like Reuters seeme to confirm it.

What this program does in my opinion is funny, for us that we are not affected. Please let me share with you what Reuters wrote about this program:

When the software is installed, and an image scanner activated, it blocks even harmless images of a film poster for cartoon cat Garfield, dishes of flesh-color cooked pork and on one search engine a close-up of film star Johnny Depp’s face.

So Chinese people won’t be able to see Garfield anymore?

This software will scan the images downloaded on the web and… you can read more on Reuters…

More informations on: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSPEK21140620090702

I am sorry, I would like to write more… but I think I have never seen a cartoon of Garfield. And I think it’s the good time to see one.

cannot read more of those things… if you have some opinion about this, you are welcome.

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In this message an update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express has been released. It also adds that this update is critical and provides you with the latest version of the Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express and offers the highest levels of stability and security.

All of this is FAKE.
This is the original text of the email:

Brief Description
Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express. This update is critical and provides you with the latest version of the Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express and offers the highest levels of stability and security.

Instructions

* Install Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721). To do this, follow these steps:
1. Run attached file officexp-KB910721-FullFile-ENU.exe
2. Restart Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express

Quick Details

* File Name: officexp-KB910721-FullFile-ENU.exe
* Version: 1.4
* Date Published: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:03:27 +0300
* Language: English
* File Size: 81 KB

System Requirements

* Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 98; Windows ME; Windows NT; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP; Windows Vista

* This update applies to the following product: Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express

The good news is that the best antivirus that are up-to-date should protect our computers from this malware. Some of the best protections are Cisco IronPort and Sophos. If they are updated, they can protect against this kind of attacks.

Sophos will detect this trojan as Troj/Spy-CU and describes it as a backdoor banking Trojan which allows a remote user to access and steal sensitive data and provides an intruder with remote access to the compromised system.

Thanks for your attention

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How to be more secure? How can we prevent people from capturing our keystrokes?

The first thing that comes into my mind is the cable keyboard! In this way our data cannot be captured by anybody, because everything goes through the cable. We can also have a password or more to access to our computer, so that nobody is going to install any keylogger or other malicious software…

All these possibilities are good choices, but even using a keyboard with a cable, there is a risk.

There are “physical” keyloggers, as you can see here.

It’s as easy as unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back into the computer! Everybody you don’t trust can do it to you, just pay attention, especially if you live in a dormitory and many people can access to your room and have physical access to your computer.

There are many of those keyloggers, there is the white and black version. They attach the PS/2 cables as this one on the picture.

But what about USB keyboards?? You think you are sure? Well… there is also the USB version of this keylogger, but it costs something more.

They are bad simple things, because they can captures EVERYTHING typed on your keyboard, like E-mail, instant messaging, chat room activity, website addresses, and much, much more, just “everything”, and they are compatible with every operating system.

Here you can see the usb version for sale on Amazon. This one has even the capability to register date and time the keys were captured!! Amazing!
Now that you know this, you will feel more secure, because you know something more about protecting your privacy.

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Let’s have a search in google and you will see what I am talking about; type in google the following sentence filetype:inc intext:mysql_connect

The result is a big list of web sites with the inc files indexed in google, with the username and password of the users of the databases, for example the root user.

Be secure…

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This is completely illegal. Why to punish a woman with family that downloaded 23 mp3 when there are in the world much worst things like people that allow other people to download programs and much more illegally and for free?

For example, look at this site: http:// shara.ws  / Here you can just chose the program that you want and u have it!

How is that possible that nobody closes this site? It’s ridiculous…

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