February 2007

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Strange DNS Queries from my DNS server

I have logged some strange DNS traffic [queries] in my Juniper 5GT firewall.The traffic originates from the same IP and PORT that regular DNS queries are comming from but they are pointed to a completely other set of DNS servers on the internet. I have…

Written by Teus on February 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Men make plea deal in MySpace case - CNN.com

Men make plea deal in MySpace case - CNN.comThere few things that give me greater pleasure than hearing criminals being caught and convicted. Today, Shaun Harrison, 19, and Saverio Mondelli, 20, of Suffolk County, New York pleaded no contest to charges…

Written by Winston on February 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Reduce Firefox Memory Consumption

Reduce Firefox Memory ConsumptionI am a big fan of Firefox, Mozilla’s open source web browser. Unfortunately, Firefox has been plagued by memory leaks which have been present since Firefox 1.x. However, there are ways to curb Firefox use of memory, suc…

Written by Winston on February 27th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Ideas For Features / Enhancements to Sysinternals’ Process Monitor

I’ve written about Sysinternals’ Process Monitor utility before:Microsoft / Sysinternals Process MonitorUsing Process Monitor to Troubleshoot Internet Explorer 7 Performance IssuesI have had a few months now to work with Process Monitor, and it certain…

Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on February 18th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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More on Isolating Shared Services in Windows

Previously (Troubleshooting Performance Issues with Automatic Updates / How to Isolate A Shared Service Hosted by SVCHOST.EXE) I had detailed some steps that one could follow to isolate a shared service hosted by SVCHOST.EXE, in the context of the Wind…

Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on February 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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PortQry V2 is sweet….

PortQry version 2.0 Displays the state of TCP and UDP ports Command line mode: portqry -n name_to_query [-options] Interactive mode: portqry -i [-n name_to_query] [-options] Local Mode: portqry -local | -wpid pid| -wport port [-options] Command lin…

Written by Teus on February 5th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Unspecified Potential Security Risk! Take 2

Some additional questions have been raised here and elsewhere about what precisely causes the “Unspecified Potential Security Risk” dialog - the one from Internet Explorer that looks like:Internet ExplorerThis page has an unspecified potential security…

Written by «/\/\Ø|ö±ò\/»®© on February 1st, 2007 with comments disabled.
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