Monthly Archives: June 2009
Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better
Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better… That’s what I searched when I got a ticket from one of the AIX boxes here complaining about CPU being 99% used up. Of course, you can use vmstat with interval, but for those sysadmin folks who are use to using Top, its still more comfortable using … Continue reading
Tools to Help Harden Solaris
There are several checklists on the Internet to help you lock down an out-of-the-box installation of Solaris. But, if you have followed any of them, you know how time consuming they can be, especially for a large enterprise. The Solaris community, however, is in luck when it comes to system hardening because a few forward-thinking Sun engineers have built some tools that can help to automate this procedure. In this article, I will discuss two such tools, TITAN and JASS. Continue reading
wpv991242765100 – viruses, spyware, adware, trojans, rootkits, worms?
wpv991242765100.exe – What is it? You may be wondering what this filename or process is when you try and searching for any malicious application running in you Windows XP/VIsta machine.. (via Task manager). wpv991242765100.exe’s could be viruses, spyware, adware, trojans, rootkits, worms, information stealers, keyloggers, bots… I for one is not sure, but I also … Continue reading