I was thinking tonight about anti-virus programs used today. And with the many malware attacks that aim to cripple your anti-virus solution, how can one test if its working or not. To get past that fale sense of security; because what we don’t know will hurt us. That said I suggest using a test virus (known virus saved on […]
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The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module […]
So you are running VMware ESXi 5 and enabled remote and local shell access. What you have found by doing this is a nice warning screen like the screenshot below waiting for you each and every time you are logged in. Getting rid of this is simple. Go to your host, click the configuration tab, […]
I had some time to tinker after an upgrade of my system Wanted to learn something new, and play I found some useful commands The first useful command i could run is to list all registered guest on my host. vim-cmd /vmsvc/getallvms Get power state of a VM vim-cmd /vmsvc/power.getstate <Vimid> From the image above you […]
I wrote some steps on this in a previous post. I am back again to take you for my ride in upgrading to update 1 for ESXi 5. Direct download update link: https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/OFFLINE/release-328-20120312-212851/update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update01.zip Once you have the upgrade zip, you will wan to SCP this over to the ESXi 5 server. I use my datastore […]
To hide media in a specific folder from the player apps do this: Windows: Open notepad and save an empty file as filename “.nomedia”. Linux: In a terminal window create a file called “.nomedia” by typing “touch .nomedia”. Connect your Android phone by USB and copy the file into all folders you wish to hide […]