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Null. Zero. It’s all the same to me. Or is it?

I think I’ve finally sussed WPAD, expect a blog post

My work laptop is a Vista machine, a random conversation came up the day about fragmenting (Defraging) the hard drive; since switching to linux at home “pc maintenance” hasn’t really been on my mind, I know that vista does “stuff” in the background and internal IT install a heap of “stuff” that runs in the background that generally slows things down.

The guys in the office recommended that I should run JKDefrag to help “optimize” things. I downloaded a copy, and read that you have a variety of options to run the software including a screen-saver; my laptop is on pretty much most of the time so I’ve decided that I would run JkDefrag as a scheduled task over night.

I’ve not scheduled anything on Vista before and in my investigation I found that vista by default at 1am every wednesday defrags the hard drive!

This changed my plan, instead of scheduling JkDefrag to run, I would replace the default defrag task.

If you would like to do the same, download a copy of JkDefrag and unzip it into a directory, take a note of where you unzip the files as you’ll need the directory path later.

To get started open the vista task scheduler (it’s in admin tools). From the tree in the left browse to:

Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Defrag

Next download the XML file attached to this post (Nicks Scheduled Defrag) and within the Task scheduler, click on “Import Task” from the action bar on the right hand side… browse to and choose my file, once done right click the old “Scheduled Defrag” task and disable it, you should end up looking at a window like this…

Cool! You’re nearly there, the task you’ve installed is a copy of the default defrag task, with the date and action changed to suit my need, you will need to do the same! You remember you wrote down a directory path earlier, well you need it now….

My scheduled task runs Jkdefrag from a directory called C:\Users\nick.bettison\Software\JkDefrag-3.36\, I’m 99% sure you won’t have that directory

Right click on NicksScheduledDefrag and select properties , click the actions tab, select “start a program” and click edit. Change the path C:\Users\nick.bettison\Software to where ever you have your JkDefrag, you will need to make changes in both the “Program / Script” field, and “Add arguments field”…

When done, click Ok. If you feel like it you can change when it runs under the “triggers” tab, edit the “weekly” trigger to suit your needs.

You can now choose to wait (until 1am saturday night – or whatever you changed it to), or click run; either way after the task has run in your JkDefrag-3.36 directory you will hopefully have log.txt showing the results of the defrag!

2 experts in Social Engineering, Chris Nickerson of TruTV’s Tiger Team and noted speaker Mike Murray, show you proven techniques that get us stupid humans to click, click, click, click, click. April 30 at Noon CDT.

• Tomboy 0.14.1 Announcement
  Tomboy 0.14.1, which represents the beginning of our stable support for Tomboy on all major desktop platforms.
  (tags: tomboy linux windows mac)
• JkDefrag v3.36
  JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64.
  (tags: windows software tools freeware opensource)
• » Proxy Auto-Detect (IE and Firefox) -> Pavlov Scope
  Good tutorial on proxy.pac & WPAD configuration.
  (tags: proxy firefox internet network reference wpad)
• SSUpdater AntiSpyware test No.2 – SSUpdater.com Forums
  Independent review of anti-malware products
  (tags: antivirus anti-malware report)
• McAfee Artemis
  McAfee Artemis Technology is the first always-on,�real-time protection that secures enterprises and consumers from threats as they strike…. aparently
  (tags: mcafee Artemis antivirus reference)
• VirusTotal – Free Online Virus and Malware Scan – Email/Uploader
  Cool Virus Total uploaders, either e-mail or Win32 send-to thingy!
  (tags: security antivirus online)
• FindProxyForURL.com – PAC & WPAD Resource
  Good proxy.pac file reference
  (tags: proxy pac browser reference)

What a cool url!! http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com

• pactester – Google Code
  Pactester is a tool to test Proxy Auto Configuration (PAC) files.
  (tags: proxy pac tool javascript bluecoat)

I’m a big dropbox fan, if you saw this tweet (via twitter) you’ll have seen I’m pushing for DropBox referrals … they entitle me to more online disk space

Today I got my 1st onel this is the e-mail I received:

Hi Nick,
Wakawaka Snook registered for Dropbox, so you get 250 MB of bonus space. Thanks to Wakawaka

I wanted to say thanks to you Wakawaka Snook, I’ll be putting that extra 250 Mb to good use shortly. If you want to know what this dropbox thing is click here, give it a try and help me get more space – w00t!

Thanks All.

sudo yum install yum-presto

• Catalyst 6500 Series Switch SIP, SSC, and SPA Software Configuration Guide – Overview of the IPsec VPN SPA  [Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches] – Cisco Systems
  This chapter provides an overview of the release history, and feature and Management Information Base (MIB) support for the IPsec VPN SPA.
  (tags: cisco security ipsec vpn spa 6500 module)
• Information Security Careers | studISCope Self-Assessment Exam
  >Maybe you’ve been building your career over several years but you’re not sure that you possess the level of knowledge you need to pass either the CISSP® or SSCP® certification examination.

  … this one is probably me

  (tags: cissp test questsions quiz)
• Free practice exams for the CISSP
  CISSP Practice Questions & Quizzes.
  (tags: security certification free cissp Training)
• OSSEC to Twitter
  This is a nice alternative to twittermail, but can you get enough information in 140 chars!?!?!

  >Want to see your OSSEC alerts on twitter? We just added support for that on the latest snapshot.

  (tags: twitter ossec security)
• VMware exploits – just how bad is it ? – isc
  This is very cool stuff, being able to break out of a guest machine is a hacking mecca!

  …tiz a shame it happen'd tho, it will put a lot of sec-heads off visualization and there are some good cases to use it.

  (tags: virtualization vmware exploits sans)
• Blue Coat Support Forum • View topic – SSH ENABLE PASSWORD
  The Cisco like shell always confuses me! I don't know why I can't remember this!!!

  How can you change the enable password when connecting via PUTTY?
  > security enable-password <new_password>

  (tags: bluecoat password security)

Get 2GB of online disk space here http://TinyURL.com/carvjz …. DropBox Rocks!

Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla’s designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels.

NAC L3 OOB designs are a bit of a pain if you can’t afford IOS images to run VRFs!

I can has chocolate now.