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When using an NT (or 2000) OS, one might encounter problems routing Oracle access through the firewall, since the default communication is NOT done using ONLY one port. anyway: A LOT of pages on the web suggest adding " USE_SHARED_SOCKETS " in the Oracle registry entry (HKLM-LocalMachine/S...

[PROBLEM] executing some command like this (which should work according to man-pages) gives the error "target problem": iptables -t nat -I OUTPUT 2 -p tcp --sport 1234 -j DNAT --to 127.0.0.1 or "invalid argument" when using " iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT... ". [SOLUTION] c...

[PROBLEM] I was playing around with WOL (wake on lan), and I've downloaded 'wol' from http://ahh.sourceforge.net/wol/ - but the target machines simply didn't show any response to the 'magic packets' [SOLUTION 1] It seems that the OS must enable the WOL functionality after shutdown (which is the case...

[PROBLEM] Files/Directories having wrong userids and/or groupids after copying data on a disk mounted in a foreign system (e.g. Knoppix) [EXPLANATION] The problem is, that when copying files using 'cp', the system resolves names to IDs, but uses the IDs of the currently booted system (which was in o...

[PROBLEM]
After updating to PAM 0.77, the changing passwords by using 'passwd' didn't work anymore, because it complained about some kind of version
mismatch.

[SOLUTION]
In the file "/etc/pam.d/passwd", replace 'pam_pwcheck.so' with 'pam_unix.so'.

ok. so finally I've found a way to produce quite promising vacuum pump: the compressor from a refrigerator. It looked very promising and passed the first test (sucking air out of a glass until its cover collapsed and got sucked in - perfect.) I attached it to a vodka-bottle and hoped that the water ...

Seems like I got rid of this evil little menace, but I took some valuable information with me:

1) it seems to be a variant of "Win32.Winshow.N"
2) some files have different filesizes (e.g. 9786, 9788,...)
3) all executeables are compressed, so only parts of strings can be identified.

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/viru ... x?id=39520

Looks pretty familiar to me, although they're listing far more files then I've found - but maybe this helps (finally)?

Sorry, but it seems that this bastard is not THAT easy to remove:

- look for *.dat files in your windows directory with the following sizes:
2.814 kBytes
11.388 kBytes
~89 kBytes (size varies)

...even after deleting ALL those files, this pain in the ass still re-appears after reboot!

[PROBLEM] - Browser displays ad-popups no matter which site opened. - notepad.exe closes automatically after a few seconds. - AdAware finds MalWare entries, but symptoms reappear after removal. [SOLUTION] This adware produces 3 different kinds of files in the subfolders of the windows directory, all...

[PROBLEM] Novell's iFolder places the Synchronisation Information in the server installation directory - and this cannot be changed from within the Administratration frontend. [SOLUTION] In the registry, there's a key named: " [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\W3SVC\iFolderServe...

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[PROBLEM] 1) Windows tries to install something called "Deterministic Network Enhancer Miniport" 2) After accepting the non-Micro$oft certified driver, the network connection says it's up (according to the 'connected'-icons in the systray), but disappeared from the 'ipconfig' listing compl...

[PROBLEM] For no reason at all, a properly functioning network suddenly won't receive DHCP information - even rerequesting them won't work. [SOLUTION] Try unplugging the power of your network-switch, wait a few seconds and then plug it back in. For some reason they might 'hang'. (We're having this ...

[PROBLEM]
The help within Visual Studio is behaving strange and producing errors (scripting errors, mainly)

[SOLUTION]
Try installing the latest windows-scripting-host.