My oh my how the landscape of malware has changed over the last 10 years. The traditional “virus” is all but dead, and the transports for new threats are evolving almost faster than the security services can adapt. The latest trend of malware is web-borne annoyance-ware like FakeAV, which tries to trick you into buying something and then essentially makes doing any task on your computer so obnoxious that you can’t even use it. Is FakeAV dangerous? That depends on how you look at it. Is FakeAV a big problem? Absolutely. » Read more: Let’s stop web-borne malware – Qualys
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Let’s stop web-borne malware – Qualys
March 1st, 2010Websense Remote Filtering – x64, Vista, Windows 7
November 6th, 2009We have been a Websense customer for quite a few years now and while the basic functionality of the system has always been acceptable, I’ve always found everything else to be a tedious and slow process with them.
For example, when we first implemented Websense we had a Cisco PIX firewall and integrating Websense with the PIX was a snap. Eventually we replaced the PIX with a Watchguard and had to find a new method of integrating Websense into our network. We had a Cisco router as our LAN gateway, and Websense had an integration for Cisco routers so that seemed like the logical road to go down. After spending over a month working with their support crew without getting the integration to work, one of their techs asked “why don’t you just use it in standalone mode?” Naturally I had assumed that standalone mode would require the Websense server to be physically between the clients and the internet gateway, or to have the clients configured with proxy settings. Neither of which was something that I was willing to do. Turns out, neither is required. Why wasn’t this the first road for tech support to show me? It turned out that standalone mode was SO easy to install and configure, that I still can’t for the life of me understand why they even have integration options. » Read more: Websense Remote Filtering – x64, Vista, Windows 7
