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htop : top for colorful people
Sep 18th
Being a sysadmin by profession top is one of the command that i use most of the time when i face some issues. Now its a great tool, no denying that, but for my laptop which has colorful themes, icons, wdigets, even the terminal, it seems a bit out of league. So i use htop. Its same as top but provides things in more readable way by making things colorful and acii graphs of ram, processor and swap usage. You can install it by
apt-get install htop
OR
aptitude install htop
For details, check it man page.
Eml and HTML:Nimbda Virus cleanup using shell
Sep 18th
I encountered a system at office which was running Linux + wine and got infected by eml + HTML:Nimbda virsues due to copying and running an infect game from a windows host.
First let me explain how it works. You system will have .eml files almost everywhere within a directory where there is a html type file and this eml file will send spam emails (if you hosts, on which these files are located, supports sending emails). By itself these eml files are no harm as they can’t do anything. Problem comes in the second part. Here all you html type More >
