Analyzing network data with appliance router

[NoOp]

On 06/12/2011 05:51 PM, Ernest Doub wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 5:29 PM, NoOp ...
>> Better router :-) That said, when my trusty BEFVP41 started going wonky
>> on my I had to back up to my Netgear & that router sucks as far as
>> traffic logs go. For a small home network, you might want to install
>> etherape to watch your network periodically. It will give you a
>> graphical view of your network traffic.
>>
>> Unfortunately the repositories for maverick only offer 0.9.8 & 0.9.12 is
>> the latest:
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/etherape
>> http://etherape.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> I'm not aware of any 0.9.12 deb's (haven't looked actually).
...
>>
> If you are truly concerned about bots, viruses, etc. I hope you are
> not depending on the anti-virus software provided by Micro$oft.  You
> have to have a good 3rd party monitor. [belt and suspenders approach]
> IMHO AVG is probably the best of the freeware offerings but NOD32 fro
> ESET is the best available and a bargain for the peace of mind it
> affords.

I've purged all AVG (free & otherwise) and use Avast instead on my
Windows Virtual Machines & others. I'll not go into reasons why, as this
is not the proper place to do it.

For the VM's I use bridged networking so that the VM has it's own IP
address so that I can easily scan from the network using Bitdefender for
Unices. That way I'm scanning it from a linux machine rather than from a
Windows machine. I use a "test" machine to do the scanning so that it
doesn't take up resources on my regular machines. To do that, I mount
the machine's drive & then direct BDU to scan; browse to the ~/.gvfs
folder where it gets 'virtually' mounted. I do the same for a remote
machine on the network.

For a dual boot machine, I just mount the ntfs & do it on that directly.