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Security Tools/Data Recovery
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its ‘Photo Recovery’ name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.
Issues with WSUS after dcpromo
If you already have a wsus on server 2003 you will probably have issues after you run a dcpromo on that box. you will notice that you cant uninstall wsus or windows internal database. To fix the issue follow the following steps:
Server 2008 x64bit Not Installing on VMWare esxi 4
If you get errors when installing x64 bit OS’ you will need to enable the virtualization mode inside the bios of the physical box. This is what Dell calls it, some vendors are different.
Disabling Apache Directory Browsing
Disabling directory browsing on apache2. First thing you will need to go is browse into the following directory:
Sniffing Snoop on Netscreen/Juniper Firewalls
If you want to sniff traffic on a juniper netscreen firewall you will need to use the snoop command. The best thing to do is the following:
Adobe Flash Error Fix
If you get the following message in C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\install.log
Errors Installing Adobe Flash
While attempting to install Adobe Flash, if you get the following message: MessageBox: 12582960, ”Failed to install. For troubleshooting tips, please see http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_19166″
Malware Search List
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com is a good site to visit if you want to check if a certain site is known to have malware present.
Php Script to Append String Into Text File
Use a simple PHP script to append string into text file:
Checking NIC Speed in Linux
To check the link speed for Linux, the easiest method is to issue the following command:dmesg | grep 100. This will bring up anything with 100mb or higher, so if you have a 10mb NIC, or think you do, then change it to 10 instead of 100.

