Website, hosting question

[Chopper Mozart]

Hiya! Guess I'm late, Quacking Plums has already nailed it!

If I can hazard a guess at your hardware setup, I cannot stress highly enough that you NEED a hardware firewall with a secure DMZ for your web server. If you are running even faintly public web services (i.e. anything with a FQDN on port 80), then your 'main' or workstation PC should NOT be your web server machine.

There are many products that can deliver dedicated firewall functionality, but if you go to www.smoothwall.org you can download a limited version of the Smoothwall firewall for free. All you need then is a fairly basic PC to act as a dedicated firewall device, and then you can protect both your web server (DMZ) and your workstation separately. I would point out one thing in connection with this software... it's FREE, i.e don't expect support beyond the supplied documentation. Having said that, if you've already got a web server running then you most probably can get all you need out of the supplied info and understand the issues involved.

hth,

QP - anything to add?

 

[n00bballer]

Free

If your strapped for cash and only need like 30 megs there are plenty of free hosting sites out there. And if you want to shorten up the domain name use a free one like cjb.net or even buy a domain that redirects you for 10 bucks a year.

 

[Skeet]

Yo dude..i dont know sh1t about virus's, but, could the virus be on your backup drive..?
Like, mines partitioned for recovery purposes, everytiime the computer gets switched on, it checks the info between the drives, or something, so the virus is coming out from there maybe...
Virus checkers like norton etc, cant check the partitioned drive (apparently)
Someone else explain what i mean please!!
Gaz

 

[F3Z]

No. unfortuantly i found out today that the virus is stored on my bios. Confirmed by many, laughed at by many!! Grr any ideas on how to remove worm from bios!! i didnt ever realise it was possible but i geuss if you can update a bios you can infect it with a virus *******S!

 

[Philip]

What bios is it? What version?

 

[snowythehobo]

Originally posted by QuackingPlums
1. Most cable connections, regardless of how fast the advertised download speed is, will still only give you about 256kbit upload.

2. How many PCs do you have on your network? If you have more than one then you need to disinfect ALL of them, otherwise they'll cross-contaminate each other.

If you have a firewall and TCP ports 135 and 4444 blocked, and UDP port 69 blocked, the Blaster cannot replicate. Blaster doesn't have mass email functionality, so it won't be coming in via email. It's an exploit on the RPC function.

It also does not infect the boot sector, which I *think* your little grey box is telling you. It copies itself to the System32 folder.

Running the standard MS-issue Win2k/WinXP patch will stop further infection, and any number of blaster removers will remove any remnants of it from your system.

If little grey boxes still popup, then it's not blaster, it's something else. Try http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp for a free virus scan.

jeez! is there anything this man doesnt know about computers!

 

[jamphi24]

www.101-webhosting.com are good and cheap. And accept solo.