This is going to explain some ideas for a really simple way to make your own backup routine. (more…)
Tag: hard drive
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Suspicious Emails inderectly leading to virus infection
According to The August 4th entry of the isc.sans.org handlers diary, there are some peculiar emails going around. They claim to be for an article claiming an explosion kills 140 in Iraq. It contains a link to a news article that has been altered from it’s original (140 instead of 14 for instance.) It also contains some nasty surprises for the visitor. There is an exploit that requires no user intervention, A cross-site scripting vulnerability (MS05-001) is exploited which runs ppp.hta from your hard drive, which creates a file called netlog.exe, which is launched by Media Player (??), which then retrieves a copy of win32sba.exe, which is the robobot backdoor.
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Using a linux livecd for Data recovery
This one makes into the hardware AND software categories. I don’t remember how many times I’ve replaced a failing hard drive. Usually the biggest headache and anxiety is if you’ll be able to get any data off of the old drive. Sometimes if luck holds and the system can read both the old and the new drives, you can easily. You can just copy data from the old drive to the new one. But sometimes you’re not as lucky, the drive starts to have reading errors and things go from bad to worse.
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Data Security
One of the things that apparently is commonly overlooked in the area of computer security is what happens to the data on your hard drive when you get a new computer.
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