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Nice new security tool: Mandiant Red Curtain

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Mandiant Red Curtain
http://www.mandiant.com/mrc

A tool to manually scan folders or files for suspicious criteria, such as entropy/randomness, binary packing, compiler signatures, digital signatures, and other characteristics that generate an overall threat score. While not fool-proof, it does find some interesting files -- especially on computers used by kids.

Note: Mandiant Red Curtain requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

BTW, to obtain a sanity check of Mandiant's file scoring, submit individual file samples (those marked red in Mandiant with high scores) to...

VirusTotal
http://www.virustotal.com/

...which further scans them using 32 separate virus scanning engines with their latest signature DATs.

Note: Opera binaries are packed using ASPack, and are not digitally signed with a code-signing certificate, which apparently qualifies them as yellow in Mandiant. Obviously, you can ignore Mandiant's ranking of Opera binaries.

Enjoy.

Grisoft AVG Free and encrypted All Users\Application Data folder = bad

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Hopefully this post will save others from the hassle of debugging a non-updating AVG Free 7 installation...

I recently decided to encrypt some folders on my laptop (for added security in case of theft/loss). Anyhow, one of the folders I decided to encrypt was my C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data folder. Well, one sub-folder under this was Grisoft. Sadly, after encrypting that folder (and all subfolders and file contents therein), my AVG Free 7 refused to update successfully. A simple uininstall/reinstall did not fix the problem, which was frustrating.

I fired-up Filemon and noticed AVG was trying to do something in one of my recently encrypted folders. Which led me to my fix...

  1. Uninstall AVG Free 7.
  2. Reboot.
  3. Unencrypt just the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Grisoft folder (and all subfolders and file contents).
  4. Reinstall AVG Free 7.
  5. Perform the AVG Free 7 auto-update.

NOTE: Success finally!

Enjoy