Archive for the 'Security' Category

Avast: How to schedule boot time scan before window start?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Avast anti virus provide schedule boot scan before window start. if your PC got infected by virus, try to run a schedule boot scan before window start. This is to make sure the virus can’t load itself into the system memory while window start.
To schedule boot scan using Avast, follow the steps below:-

How to remove XP Antivirus Protection?

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Received a call few days ago from my client saying that their PC now load “XP Antivirus Protection” whenever windows start. I’ve no idea what “XP Antivirus Protection” is at that moment. After googling for while, i found out this “XP Antivirus Protection” is another “AntiSpywareShield” or “virprotect” a like software. Generally speaking this “XP [...]

Mod Security - Open source Web Application Firewall

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

What is mod security (mod_security)?
ModSecurity is an embeddable web application firewall. It provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring and real-time analysis with no changes to existing infrastructure.
It is also an open source project that aims to make the web application firewall technology available to everyone. [...]