Securely Managing Your Credentials and Identity Details

With the ever growing internet access facilities, to today’s all critical services, one need to know how effectively and securely they can manage their various credentials and identity details. Here is a simple way of securing your details using a password managing software called KeyPass.  KeyPass is an OSI certified, free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.   Using KeyPass: Access to your whole data saved in keyPass file is controlled via master password that you specify while creating your KeyPass file.   For ease of verification/confirmation, software allows you to show the password text you entered by clicking […]

Read more

Officially Recognized Platform Names

Here are the major Officially Recognized Platform Names.   Short Form Long Form Comments BAT BAT Malware that requires a DOS or Windows command shell interpreter or close clone. Boot Boot Requires MBR and/or system boot sector of IBM PCcompatible hard drive and/or floppy. (Rarely used in practice.) DOS DOS Infects DOS COM and/or EXE (MZ) and/or SYS format files and requires some version of MS-DOS or a closely compatible OS. (Rarely used in practice.) EPOC EPOC Requires the EPOC OS up to version 5. SymbOS SymbianOS Requires Symbian OS (EPOC version 6 and later). Java Java Requires a Java […]

Read more

Steps to Troubleshoot When Symantec AntiVirus (SAV) Client Gets Disabled

o Connect to PC and check if you can observe anything unusual and fix. You may be able to identify and fix issue remotely.   o Analyze client event logs to find clue on why SAV got disabled. Check the client logs.  You may understand that SAV is able to get/download the latest definitions. Couldn’t find any other relevant errors.   o Check in SSC, if you can completely/partially able to manage the client. You may be able to partially manage the client (like was able to push the defs to client, run the scan) but couldn’t get the logs. […]

Read more