Tools to control your security on the net

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Spyster

Spyster is a utility to view a list of all IP addresses connected to your machine, or those on which you are connected at this time to display a page of a website..



Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) to detect from a single computer security vulnerabilities from a PC or a network including machines running Windows NT 4.0/2000 and XP. This utility does, however, that since a computer running Windows XP and 2000. Once launched, MBSA scans the following Microsoft products: Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 and Xp, Windows XP, Internet Information Server 4.0/5.0, SQL Server 7.0/2000, Internet Explorer 5.01 and above, as well as office suites and Office 2000 XP. MSBA ultimately delivers a detailed report précédure vulnerabilities that present the positions analyzed, and appropriate solutions (patches and configuring appropriate applications). To perform an analysis of multiple PCs simultaneously from a network, in addition to the presence of Internet Explorer version 5.01 minimum on the computer from which MSBSA is executed, the component "Common Files" in Internet Information Services (IIS) installed (Panel Setup / Add or Remove Windows Components).

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The netstat command
To learn more about the people who connect to your machine, be aware that there is a handy DOS command. To do this, open a DOS window! Click Start, Run, and type CMD in the field. Enter then on the phone, the netstat command and press the Enter key. You get a list of all IP addresses connected to your machine, or those on which you are connected at this time to display a page of a website.



Netstat options:
To know all the options of the netstat command, type in the window of the DOS command prompt, netstat? Either:
Displays protocol statistics and TCP / IP network connections being

NETSTAT [-a] [-e] [-n] [-o] [-s] [-p proto] [-r] [interval]

• a Displays all connections and listening ports.
• e Displays Ethernet statistics. This option can be combined with option-s.
• n Displays addresses and port numbers in digital format.
• o Displays the identification process for each connection.
• p proto Shows connections protocol specified by proto, proto may be TCP or UDP.
  Used with the-s option to display protocol statistics, proto may be TCP, UDP or IP.
• r Displays the routing table.
• s Displays statistics by protocol. By default, statistics are shown for TCP, UDP and IP-p option can be used to specify one of these protocols.

Displays the statistics interval selected by the specified time interval (in seconds). Press Ctrl + C to stop the display of statistics. By default, netstat displays configuration information only once.