Re: Good freeware security utilities?

From: Chris Berry (compjma@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/26/02 

From: "Chris Berry" <compjma@hotmail.com>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:57:57 -0700

Sorry, little confusion here, are you trying to fix them or investigate
them?

>From: "Sean Connolly" <hades@psu.edu>
>To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
>Subject: Good freeware security utilities?
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 02:13:16 -0400
>
>Hey everyone – This is my first post to a bugtraq list, so please be
>gentle! :)
>
>
>Anyhow -- I'm currently working for a University Residential helpdesk and
>generally have to deal with a lot of supposed compromises and viruses. Are
>there any good tools for troubleshooting that anyone relies on? I'm
>talking freeware / open source utilities - I'm not in charge of the
>software distribution, and it wouldn't be feasible for my to put in
>requests.
>
>We deal mainly with Windows 98/ME/2000 and XP systems, so it limits a lot
>of utilities I've seen out there. So far what I've been using to check a
>lot of systems are mainly just sifting through the configuration files. Is
>there any other useful programs out there that can make some checks
>quicker/more certain?
>
>I've been using a program called APorts to see what executable is talking
>on what port. Also, we have a site license for Norton Antivirus Corp
>Edition, so it makes detecting a lot of programs pretty easy. However --
>I'd like to be able to check out what happened to systems before installing
>Norton, or in the case of a backdoor, be able to track it down fairly well
>on the system.
>
>
>So what would YOU use in your toolkit? :-)
>
>Thanks!
>
>Cheers,
>Sean

Chris Berry
compjma@hotmail.com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"I have found the way, and the way is Perl."

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