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Friday, July 12, 2002
New file "BEST PRACTICES on File blocking at Mail gateway" from Lee Fisher of NAI lists file extensions and why they are dangerous. Please contact Lee_Fisher at nai.com with comments and feedback.
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Friday, April 26, 2002 Clicking the next link opens (in a new window) a GeoApps test page which should cause a "stack overflow" in any version of IE. Wednesday, April 10, 2002 New McAfee Admin Mailing List created After the oldMcAfee AV Forums [Tuesday, September 24, 2002 -- Link broken - forums NOW CLOSED. New forums at http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/] went down yesterday, I thought there should be a non-McAfee place for network administrators, especially those like me with smaller networks, to discuss issues related to administering McAfee AV products. So I created a new McAfee Admin Mailing list. To subscribe to the list, please visit http://www.geoapps.com/mailman/listinfo/mcafee_geoapps.com. For more info on this and other lists, click the [Lists] button on the top left of this page. Monday, April 1, 2002 NOT an April-Fool's Joke Effective today McAfee VirusScan v4.03 is no longer supported. If you are still running 4.03, SuperDat and Xdat updates are no longer being tested against v4.03 and may not work. Update to v4.51 or 6.02Bi. McAfee EOL Info http://www.networkassociates.com/us/products/mcafee/end_of_life.htm http://geoapps.com/virusinfo.shtml Thursday, March 21, 2002 Novell Zenworks has just updated their very interesting page on Distributing McAfee Updates
Alert and Support Pages	Download Pages
Alerts McAfee Alerts Page McAfee Newly Discovered Viruses Page McAfee Recently Updated Viruses Page Sophos VirusEye Command Systems Computer Associates F-Secure Symantec F-Prot Virus Info Page F-Prot info page is dated, but F-Prot is the most cost-effective AV solution for people who don't need tech support. F-Secure and Command Systems (above) both use the F-Prot engine and signature files. GeoApps uses a registered version of F-Prot for home and Win9x systems, and McAfee AV for other systems. Thanks to Harry Waldron, of Atlantic Mutual and the McAfee AV Forums, for some of these links. The most recent Personal Links page that Harry has sent me is available by clicking [Here], and Harry has generously shared his "Best Practices" page as well. Harry's "Links" page was last updated[an error occurred while processing this directive] and his "Best Practices" page was last updated[an error occurred while processing this directive] . Support GeoApps McAfee Administrator's Mailing List TVDUG Group on Yahoo Groups McAfee Virus Info Library http://vil.nai.com/VIL/default.asp McAfee VirusScan Forums http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/ (NEW FORUMS for retail support as of Tuesday, September 24, 2002] McAfee Help http://www.mcafeehelp.com/ (Click "My Membership" near top-right for a list of forums). Check your system for parasites (requires IE) http://and.doxdesk.com/parasite/ Check your real-time virus shield Clicking the link below opens (in a new window) a GeoApps test page linking to two identical files which can test whether or not your real-time virus shield is working, and also if your browser bypasses your virus-shield by interpreting HTML files with .JPG extensions as .HTM files. http://www.geoapps.com/eicarstart.htm GRC - home of many useful tools and a lot of hype http://grc.com/	Downloads McAfee Download Sites During the week of Tuesday, June 17, 2003, McAfee/NAI re-organized their website. These are new locations effective Tuesday, June 17, 2003. Documentation VSC Docs https://mysupport.nai.com/DocsFAQs/docs.asp McAfee Knowledgebase https://knowledgemap.nai.com/phpclient/homepage.aspx SuperDATs and Updates McAfee / NAI / Network Associates http://www.networkassociates.com/us/downloads/updates/ VirusDefs FTP ftp://ftp.nai.com/virusdefs/4.x/ SuperDAT FTP ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/antivirus/superdat/intel/ Security HQ Tools http://www.networkassociates.com/us/security/tools.htm Daily BETA SuperDAT - always has the latest detections http://vil.nai.com/vil/averttools.asp McAfee Home Users (v 4.0.3) http://download.mcafee.com/updates/4xa.asp McAfee Home Users (v 4.5 and newer) http://download.mcafee.com/updates/updates.asp McAfee DATfiles FTP (no SuperDAT) ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/datfiles/english/ As of Monday, December 3, 2001, the McAfee Home Users page no longer includes a link to the 4.1.40 engine. If you still need the 4.1.40 engine and cannot find it elsewhere, *AND you are a GeoApps* consulting client, please request it by e-mail from GeoApps** . Email address is at the bottom of this page. Other AV Sites Symantec Downloads http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/defs.download.html F-Prot Downloads http://www.f-prot.com/f-prot/download/ ftp://ftp.complex.is/pub/ avast! AV Virus Cleaner (free tool that will help you remove selected worm infections) avast! Home Edition (free for home users) AVG from Grisoft AVG Free edition (for all single home and non-commercial end users worldwide) GPL Linux AV Sites Open Antivirus http://www.openantivirus.org/ OpenAntiVirus is not another virus scanner to put on a computer! OpenAntiVirus is a platform for people seriously interested in anti-virus research, network security and computer security to communicate with each other, to develop solutions for various security problems, and to develop new security technologies. Moreover, OpenAntiVirus will also provide an integrative platform for different developing projects related to virus protection and computer security already existing within the Open Source Community. AMaViS - A Mail Virus Scanner http://www.amavis.org/ Most people will say: "A virus scanner? For UNX? Why? Viruses do not work in a UNIX environment." On the first glance they are right (even if there are at least two viruses which run under Linux - well, actually they are Trojan Horses) On the second view though, imagine a heterogene network environment with both UNX and DOS / Windows / Macintosh workstations. Now think of an UN*X server that serves Windows and/or Macintosh workstations via a POP3 service. Would it not be nice to ensure attachments coming via email are scanned for viruses before they reach a system they are able to infect? Well - that is what this package is for. It resides on the server that handles your incoming mails. When a mail arrives, instead of being delivered via procmail directly, is parsed through a script that extracts all attachments from the mail, unpacks (if needed) and scannes them using a professional virus scanner program. Clam Antivirus http://clamav.elektrapro.com/ Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit written from scratch. It is licensed under GNU GPL2 and uses the virus database from OpenAntiVirus, which is an another free anti-virus project. In contrast to OpenAntiVirus (which is written in Java), Clam AntiVirus is written entirely in C and its database is KEPT UP TO DATE. It also detects polymorphic viruses as well. Clam AntiVirus works with Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, AIX, Mac OS X, Cygwin B20 on multiple architectures such as Intel, Alpha, Sparc, Cobalt MIPS boxes, PowerPC, RISC 6000.
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Unpatched IE security holes http://jscript.dk/unpatched/ Cisco Internet Security Advisories http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/advisory.html as of Thu, 4 Oct 2001 Includes the following links: PSIRT Advisories List of posted security advisories... Responses to security vulnerability reports on BugTraq... To report a vulnerability for a Cisco product... Reference information / white papers Current Nimda virus information Current Code Red worm information Microsoft Pages Microsoft Security Home http://www.microsoft.com/security/ Current Microsoft Security Bulletins http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.asp Microsoft Security Tools http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/stkintro.asp Microsoft Windows Update (only works in IE) http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ Georgi Guninski Security Research http://www.guninski.com/ Pages on Internet Explorer security, Windows 2000, Netscape issues Security Administrator (Panda AV) http://www.secadministrator.com/ http://www.pandasoftware.com/ Network World Security Page http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/security.html Current Security News and links to other security-related items off NWFusion SecurityFocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/ Current Security News and bug-tracking The World Wide Web Security FAQ http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/ Version 3.1.1, September 12, 2001 from the W3C consortium NIST Computer Security Resource Center http://csrc.nist.gov/ Google Security Directory and Search http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Security/ http://www.google.com/search?q=security Ignore the "Social Security" and other non-computer security pages. Security Watch http://www.securitywatch.com/ National Infrastructure Protection Committee (NIPC) http://www.nipc.gov/ Best Practices for Wireless 802.11b Security http://www.nipc.gov/publications/nipcpub/bestpract.html Password Protection 101 http://www.nipc.gov/publications/nipcpub/password.htm Seven Simple Computer Security Tips for Small Business and Home Computer Users http://www.nipc.gov/publications/nipcpub/computertips.htm Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) http://www.cert.org/ Home Network Security http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/home_networks.html This document gives home users an overview of the security risks and countermeasures associated with Internet connectivity, especially in the context of "always-on" or broadband access services (such as cable modems and DSL). However, much of the content is also relevant to traditional dial-up users (users who connect to the Internet using a modem).