Jon’s Network

The AV Fight Club at LinuxWorld was an interesting AV comparison sponsored by Untangle. ClamAV, Symantec and Kaspersky came out on top at 100%…Sophos caught 94%. There were only 25 viruses in the sample set. The interesting thing is that I have seen other tests with much larger sample sets that show ClamAV near the [...]

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I thought my 27 page bill was enormous, but there are plenty of others with quite larger bills - some up to 300 pages that arrive in boxes. I thought I was going to have to hassle with changing this but it turns out AT&T has fixed it for everyone. I just got [...]

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From Chris Mitchell at SophosLabs Blog:

Today a piece of malware (Troj/Bancos-BDF) crossed my desk that at first did not look like a Banker Trojan at all. It eventually turned out to be one of the most nefarious and brazen Banker Trojans I have ever analysed and it managed to do it all with only one [...]

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I spoke to a network admin recently that runs a Mac network for a small architecture firm. Over the years, they have accumulated a good collection of Windows macro viruses in docs stored on his network. Since they weren’t affected by these viruses, they never bothered to clean them up. It is [...]

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Rob Newby is my hero today. He got a mention in the WSJ, my favorite paper, (even though I canceled my subscription a couple months ago). He submitted an article to Vauhin Vara after she asked him for “tips that employees can use to do a better job using IT without violating company [...]

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In June, OpenDNS announced a partnership with St. Bernard Software to offer OpenDNS users the option to filter their network traffic for phishing sites and various adult categories using St. Bernard’s iGuard URL filtering. All you have to do is point to the OpenDNS servers and they do the rest.

This is a perfect [...]

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I may like company X’s algorithms for scanning traffic but hate their GUI. Why does one have to be attached to the other?

Rob tipped me off to some commentary by Mark Curphey about taking advantage of the long-tail phenomenon that the internet has made possible.

What Mark essentially suggests in part 1 is that we [...]

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In June 2006, Blue Coat Systems bought NetCache from NetApp. The purchase removed their largest competitor from the field and took a key partner away from another of their competitors. It also gave them 1000 new customers and all the support revenue they generate. Brilliant right? Yes, brilliant, but it can [...]

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