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Entries from November 2005

XP User Accounts - Limited accounts are a hassle - why use them?

November 22nd, 2005 1:34 am · No Comments

In the past year, most customers are not fired up about one proven security measure I grew to appreciate in my Unix days: user versus root accounts.

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Tags: Windows

Files downloaded from web server get cut off

November 8th, 2005 11:44 pm · No Comments

I recently had trouble after installing Panda Platinum Antivirus onmy webserver - any files that got downloaded were cut off at 128Kb.

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Tags: Apache

Apache - htaccess password protected directories

November 5th, 2005 12:20 am · No Comments

#####Background
There are two files needed for to password protect directories in Apache - a .htaccess file and a password file.
This is a rudimentary solution - simple and effective security measure to password protect a portion(s) of a site.
This tutorial is written for windows users - however this method [...]

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Tags: Apache

Panda Antivirus Control Panel -enable and settings keys greyed out

November 4th, 2005 6:20 pm · No Comments

Panda Antivirus Control Panel -enable and settings keys greyed out
I ran into this with a a customer - turned out the issue was remaining pieces of Norton Internet Security was killing the Panda config script iface.exe.
Solution: use rnav.exe at Microsoft’s site or find it at Symantec.com
After this, Panda should work - or else reboot [...]

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Tags: Notes

Internet Explorer cannot access the internet

November 4th, 2005 6:19 pm · No Comments

First see if your internet connection is up - can you use windows update or Mozilla/Yahoo Chat/MSN Messenger to access anything on the net? Click on the “refresh” key on your browser to ensure its not pulling up a cached page.

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Tags: Windows