Every network administrator at some stage in their career will come into trouble with the influx of spam during their career because, quite simply, spammers are smart. If you did a Google search for “Linux Anti-Spam”, you’ll be bombarded with tutorials using the infamous, free, SpamAssassin software. However if spamassassin isn’t quite cutting it, you [...]

The other day I noticed something weird when I performed the command “ls -l”. Bash was reporting some strange output and the first thing I did was throw it into Google…. which revealed one thing; my Linux box had been comprised. Freaked out at first, I started researching everything I could; I was already aware [...]

Ezbounce is a cool peice of software that has many useful features for the hardcore IRC user. If your a regular IRC user who wants to hide your identity, stay connected to channels whilst offline and have a centralized IRC session - be sure to check this guide out.
From the ezbounce website.
ezbounce is an Internet [...]

A friend had the following problem on his machine and of course, I was called to the rescue. I had tried all the normal things, reinstalling MSN, turning off firewalls and anti-virus software but still no go. The machine could browse the net fine, except msn.com and MSN messenger would not work.
This was the error. [...]