Some Articles I have written

I hope that these articles will help you learn more about security and how to get more from your computer and its software.  Generally I try to keep them simply with lots of screen shots as I'm a visual person as well and believe that step by step pictures can help people see and understand (plus I'm not into writing novels as I'd rather write software).  None of these articles are meant to be the definitive and entire matter on any subject, but hopefully get you going in the right direction.

• How to capture and watch Malware
• Outlook Filters are your Friend
• Attack Detection
• DMZ Dangers
• Messenger Spam
• Windows Meta Files (wmf) Attack
• Scans and Attacks a Comparison of February 2004 to February 2005

I also post a number of articles and such on online such as at DSLReports for example:

• Place your bets - Closed or Stealthed
• How do you like your updates served to your Mother's System?
• How do you like your updates served?
• One Trillion Dollars and then some
• Taking off the gloves, help me get punched out
• El Cheapo Router Challenge (this one was one of my all time favorites)
• Difference a years makes, good news, bad news
• How 'bad' are spyware cookies
• Bottom up security
• Messenger Spam on 1026 - Bad news kids
• New Worm - UDP Port 1434 - SQL Server Monitor (I was one of the first to notice and post an alert about SQL Slammer, but even then it was too late by this time SQL Slammer pretty well infected every system it could)

NOTE articles on particular attacks and viruses are located in the Scans section under whatever port they use.

Page last updated on January 03, 2007