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	<description>Company site for Greg Fischer { GregTheGeek }</description>
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		<title>Web site timeouts with PFSense firewall and Qwest DSL modem</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/10/25/web-site-timeouts-with-pfsense-firewall-and-qwest-dsl-modem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/10/25/web-site-timeouts-with-pfsense-firewall-and-qwest-dsl-modem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FreeBSD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qwest / Centurylink DSL Web site timeouts, hangups, or failures while running a firewall or router with static IP addresses. Recently I setup the Qwest DSL service in my home. It worked great, but after a couple days I started to get hang ups and timeouts or hangups while browsing the web. Speed tests still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Security Center Says Automatic Updates Are Turned Off</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/06/18/windows-security-center-says-automatic-updates-are-turned-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/06/18/windows-security-center-says-automatic-updates-are-turned-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antivirus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PC Repair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I ran into a problem while repairing a computer that had a partially cleaned up virus. I completed the cleanup that my client attempted, ran all my antivirus tools, and thought I had everything working. That is, until I noticed the little red shield for Windows Security Center. It said, &#8220;We&#8217;re Sorry. The Security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reset your Windows password with Chntpw using System Rescue CD</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/03/11/reset-your-windows-password-with-chntpw-using-system-rescue-cd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/03/11/reset-your-windows-password-with-chntpw-using-system-rescue-cd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 06:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Registry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Password Reset]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quick note about using chntpw command to reset Windows passwords. Mostly, I just couldn&#8217;t remember what the command line program was or the switches. Boot to System Rescue CD. mount the Windows drive RW (mine was RO) cd to the config dir: cd /mnt/sda1/Windows/System32/config Backup your sam,security,system,software (just copy them to another directory) Now run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nmap network discovery port scan</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/03/10/nmap-network-discovery-port-scan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/03/10/nmap-network-discovery-port-scan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Network Discovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nmap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ping Scan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are like me, you don&#8217;t have time to run nmap scans and do other network maintenance. Running nmap is one of those really fun and useful tools that are easy to use, but since I rarely use it, I never remember the options.  Today was one of those situations where I needed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting MsMpEng.exe Antimalware service executable high resource usage</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/02/23/revisiting-msmpeng-exe-antimalware-service-executable-high-resource-usage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2011/02/23/revisiting-msmpeng-exe-antimalware-service-executable-high-resource-usage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antivirus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MsMpEng.exe &#8211; Antimalware service executable I generally do not have any issues with Microsoft Security Essentials. It just works, and does its job quite well.  From time to time I notice some weird issues on my client computers, where MsMpEng.exe (Antimalware service executable) is using way too many and high resources and cpu time. (extra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rootkit from fes.sk/files</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2010/02/09/rootkit-from-fes-skfiles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2010/02/09/rootkit-from-fes-skfiles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a client recently that had their browsers hijacked. Everything they typed in the browser ended up redirecting them to some test_s.php file at “www.fes.sk”.&#160; (Don’t open that, or you might end up with a virus!&#160; I just wanted people to find this in case it might help clean this bug off!) Not sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Security Essentials MsMpEng.exe using high CPU Time</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2010/02/01/microsoft-security-essentials-msmpeng-exe-using-high-cpu-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2010/02/01/microsoft-security-essentials-msmpeng-exe-using-high-cpu-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MsMpEng.exe &#8211; Antimalware service executable I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64, but I think this might be problem in any version. I keep having issues with MsMpEng.exe hogging the cpu.  Basically, using a large amount of resources, like 100%!  It&#8217;s eating the CPU time and a lot of memory.  The system will work just fine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ZFS CIFS and ACL Inheritance</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2009/07/24/zfs-cifs-and-acl-inheritance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2009/07/24/zfs-cifs-and-acl-inheritance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just another one of those things that didn&#8217;t make any sense and only partially does now. At least NOW I know there is more at play here than the simple solutions in Samba using create mask and create directory mask. In Linux, that&#8217;s how I would get around the issues of Windows directory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Folder redirection user permissions block access to Administrators</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2008/03/19/folder-redirection-user-permissions-block-access-to-administrators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2008/03/19/folder-redirection-user-permissions-block-access-to-administrators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When using Folder Redirection on a Windows 2003 server, the default policy is allow only ownership and permissions to the user. No admin account would have access to this folder. For example, you create a Group Policy to redirect user&#8217;s My Documents folders to a home directory on the server. Once a user logs on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resetting NTFS permissions are not taking effect on child objects</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2008/03/19/resetting-ntfs-permissions-are-not-taking-effect-on-child-objects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2008/03/19/resetting-ntfs-permissions-are-not-taking-effect-on-child-objects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I went to reset a user&#8217;s home directory permissions on the server to allow them full control over each file/folder in their home directory. I setup all the normal accounts and of course the actual user account, with Full Control. I then went into Advanced and selected &#8220;Replace permission entries on all child objects&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a hardware firewall really a software firewall anyway?</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2008/03/05/is-a-hardware-firewall-really-a-software-firewall-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2008/03/05/is-a-hardware-firewall-really-a-software-firewall-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love how people always say that a software firewall like IPCop is a &#8220;lesser&#8221; product than a hardware system. I ran into one site speaking of Netsentron as a hardware solution. I&#8217;d also include Endian Firewall and Untangle when we talk about a &#8220;linux based hardware firewall&#8221;. Well here&#8217;s my thought. These systems offer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing Grub and IPCop boot on Linux after cloning a hard drive</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2007/10/22/fixing-grub-and-ipcop-boot-on-linux-after-cloning-a-hard-drive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2007/10/22/fixing-grub-and-ipcop-boot-on-linux-after-cloning-a-hard-drive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you clone or image your Linux hard drive with Ghost or Drive Image (or any other imaging software) you might not be able to load Grub. Usually just running some Grub commands off a Linux System Rescue CD will fix it. I think most any bootable Linux Live CD will work. You would run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPCop 1.4.15 with PPTPd would not run because of libpcap link</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2007/10/03/ipcop-1415-with-pptpd-would-not-run-because-of-libpcap-link/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2007/10/03/ipcop-1415-with-pptpd-would-not-run-because-of-libpcap-link/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fought with this one for a while, like several hours. I installed the pptp addon for IPCop, which, by the way, you must Google for. I installed version 0.2.9 (pptpd_0.2.9.tar.gz) and found that on a forum somewhere. If you go to the addon&#8217;s from IPCop, you will only find 0.2.6, and that wont work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open file security warning on mapped drive</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2007/07/06/open-file-security-warning-on-mapped-drive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2007/07/06/open-file-security-warning-on-mapped-drive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When opening files on the network over mapped drive OR UNC, you receive a &#8220;publisher&#8221; or &#8220;security&#8221; warning before running the file. Very annoying. In IE, you add the server or domain to your &#8220;local intranet&#8221; security zone. In my case, my server was: main.domain.localIt was mapped on O: drive.   So in the zone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Signed IIS SSL Certificates using OpenSSL</title>
		<link>http://www.1stbyte.com/2007/06/18/self-signed-iis-ssl-certificates-using-openssl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.1stbyte.com/2007/06/18/self-signed-iis-ssl-certificates-using-openssl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.1stbyte.com/2007/09/01/self-signed-iis-ssl-certificates-using-openssl/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gregs Uberfast version: Linux: openssl genrsa -des3 -out CA.key 1024openssl req -new -key CA.key -x509 -days 3650 -out CA.crtchmod 400 CA.keychmod 400 CA.crt (the above made a new CA, you want to install the crt into IE&#8217;s trusted certs.) Win: Make cert request in IIS – take to Lin. Linux: (All one line)openssl x509 -req [...]]]></description>
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