Well this is an article written by me for Palaside -magazine. This is just a brief article (good for begineers) about basic stages of malware and virtual keyboard fight.

Ahaa!! Microsoft seems to be really pissed off by the impact of conficker worm that it has announced an award of $250000 for the arrest of its author. Conficker is the real latest worm that has badly hit millions of users using Microsoft Windows. Well good luck for catching the author but here I will mention some tips which can help in conficker arrest.

1. Admin access. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. Also a study also found that eliminating Admin rights would have stopped or mitigated: Read more »

Hi guys!,
Yet another version released purely thanks to those who submitted the outputs and suggestions. This release is a complete rewrite of the project. Now MetaScanner uses the xml output provided by nmap and so has a lot of false positives reduced. However as this is  a rewrite, you can expect a lot of bugs : P.

Please report any bugs or any other issues together with out.xml to kalgecin@maestro-sec.com
Read more »

Hi all system admins…we again have some work to do : )

Microsoft released 4 patches this Tuesday. Details are as mentioned below.

Read more »

Good news to you all!  Some of you may have experienced a blank page on my site during the weekend but it’s all fixed now. The problem was in uploading the home page to the server. the connection must have been reset at some point Anyway it’s all fixed now and i’ve spent the weekend enhancing and reducing the false positives of the script (thanks for the feedback/scan outputs from all of you). The final version of MetaScanner is out!!! You can download it from here. If you’ve got any question, suggestion or want to submit your scan output, please mail me at kalgecin@maestro-sec.com