Five Quick Steps to Begin with HiJackThis’ Log Analyzer

HiJackThis is a fast growing malware tool that quickly helps clean your computer to improve log analyzing. It is one of the most frequently used programs for producing detailed log files for analysis. HiJackThis detects anything that should not be on your computer through the log software and then prompts you with the best advice on how to easily remove it.

Since HiJackThis is a more advance log analyzing malware tool, it may be confusing for

inexperienced users to upload it to their computer to begin speeding up their computer and store the log analysis data. This is why I am going to walk you through the five quick steps you will need to do to begin with HiJackThis.

HijackThis has an immense database that will immediately recognize if an entry is safe, unknown or harmful to your computer. 

1.                  To begin, do a scan using HiJackThis and press the [SCAN] button. Also you will need to save the listing after the scan onto your desktop [SAVE].

2.                  You can upload a log file from your computer, then select the option to show the “visitor ratings.” This is extremely useful and should be left enabled.  The user ratings and scoring system are very handy when viewing the results, because you can easily see what other people think about each entry in your log file. You also have the ability to share your own ratings and opinions. This will only display the entries that it advises you to do something about.

3.                   If you receive an “UPLOAD ERROR” when trying to upload the log file, try manually pasting in the log content into the textbox.

4.                  After you have saved this file, print out the listing and analyze the data. This listing will show you what programs are running (mainly virus programs). When you come across any unwanted data programs, you will then want to [DELETE] them. One way to hunt out hidden viruses is to search the registry name online—search engines can usually determine if a program is/has a virus and you should see these hits online.

5.                  Lastly, you can Copy and Paste your HiJackThis Log into the log analyzer at wwww.hijackthis.de to automatically highlight any known “Harmful” entries or viruses.

HiJackThis is extremely simple to upload. Users will immediately be notified of unwanted viruses and wanted safe programs. You will be able to view all data on your log analysis and be able to analyze which programs you actually want, to run a better more efficient business.

Creative Minds: Making the Most of Web Analytics

Creative Minds: Making the Most of Web Analytics: If your business is successful, chances are you are using a web analytics tool . However, if you have never utilized web analytics bef...

Making the Most of Web Analytics

If your business is successful, chances are you are using a web analytics tool. However, if you have never utilized web analytics before, it is going to be difficult for you to know how to take the data you receive and understand how to easily interpret it. 

Web Analyzers connect with your IP addresses and view the contact coming and going to each desired website. For example: if you use web analytics to connect with your main business website, they will be able to tell you how many visitors are coming to your website each hour, where they are coming from, how long they are staying, whether or not they are purchasing the products after visiting your site, etc.

By having all of this incredible information, the next step is to learn how to make the data work for you to make your business run more effectively.

1.                  How are your customers getting to your website? Do you have business information posted on other social media sites?

a.       If not, you may want to. One of the best ways to generate the traffic coming to your website is to create more options for your customers to find your website. For example, with my online business, I love using HubPages and Drop Jack to write articles and post links that will direct customers to my website. I have found that by doing this, I nearly double my traffic generation.

b.      If you do use other social networking sites to increase the amount of customers heading to your website, you will want to take the next step and find out where your customers are coming from. Do most of your customers start out by viewing your company’s Facebook page and from there they purchase products linked to your website? Or do they find your site by searching specific keywords in Google that take them to an article you have written? However your customers are getting to your site, this information you help you be more productive in your marketing program.

2.                  Utilize the site origins where your customers begin before they purchase a product and improve them. Brainstorm with your co-workers and think of ways to improve your social networking sites. Offer promotions that will attract more sales and more visits and write more articles that will make consumers want your services. This is the fun part. I love thinking of new ways to improve my business – especially when I know where to focus my efforts.Web analytics help me know where to spend my time and advertising budget.

Symantec SIEM Gives Real-Time Security Information

Symantec Security Information Manager is a comprehensive SIEM solution that offers enterprise-wide log collection, management and retention. It enables organizations to centralize and analyze large amounts of diverse log data. 

One such example of how Symantec has helped companies is PGi.  This innovative webinar and mobile conferencing company needed to protect its diverse, heterogeneous environment of 2,000 endpoints. To accomplish this, PGi turned to Symantec security solutions. Key benefits included improved risk posture and protection of its valuable customer data.

Symantec’s industry-leading correlation engine brings together organizational data, security event information and threat intelligence. It allows organizations to prioritize security incident response activities based on business risk. This proactive approach allows online business owners to more effectively defend their enterprises from threats while demonstrating compliance with industry regulations.

Key Features of Symantec:

• Supports virtual environment deployments
• Soft appliance deployments
• Custom log management/universal collectors
• Over 150 out-of-box compliance reporting templates
• Multi-conditional correlation rules

Key Benefits Associated with Symantec’s Features:

• Leveraging its highly scalable architecture to aggregate and normalize large quantities of diverse event data, Symantec Security Information Manager gives security leaders a composite view of potential threats and security exposures.
  
  
• Symantec Security Information Manager brings together event, threat and organizational data, allowing organizations to prioritize and remediate incidents based on business risk. Symantec Security Information Manager collects and analyzes events in real time using rules-based correlation.
  
  
• Offering over 200 predefined source collectors, Symantec Security Information Manager’s log collection capability gathers event logs from a wide range of sources throughout your infrastructure. If required, custom collectors may also be created to collect information from unique business applications and data sources.
  
  
• Symantec Security Information Manager provides a real-time correlation engine with more than 80 predefined rules, covering a wide range of security signatures, to detect and identify malicious activities.
  
  
• Symantec Security Information Manager helps security leaders demonstrate compliance by offering more than 400 out-of-the-box dashboards, reports and queries. Because all content is available in easy to use templates, customization is significantly simplified.

In fact, Symantec was honored as one of the world’s most ethical companies. In an official blog, Symantec states why that was the case: “Operating with integrity, and with a sharp focus on ethics and compliance, is the foundation of the corporate responsibility we have for all of our stakeholders. What we do and how we do it matters. It matters to our employees. It matters to our customers. It matters to our shareholders, our suppliers, our partners, and everyone we work with around the globe.”

If you need a proven, trustworthy SIEM partner, choose Symantec.

Log File Management

Log file management (LFM) deals with large volumes of computer-generated log messages that are also known as audit records, audit trails and event-logs to name a few. LFM covers log collection, centralized aggregation, long-term retention, log analysis (in real-time and in bulk after storage) as well as log search and reporting.

Log management is driven by reasons of security, system and network operations (such as system or network administration) and regulatory compliance.

Effectively analyzing large volumes of diverse logs can pose many challenges — such as huge log-volumes (reaching hundreds of gigabytes of data per day for a large organization), log-format diversity, undocumented proprietary log-formats (that resist analysis) as well as the presence of false log records in some types of logs (such as intrusion-detection logs).

Users and potential users of LFM can build their own log management and intelligence tools, assemble the functionality from various open-source components or acquire (sub-) systems from commercial vendors. Log file management is a complicated process and organizations often make mistakes while approaching it.

Because of this, we’re asking online business owners to honestly answer the following questions concerning their log file management:

            Can you access all your logs from one central location?
            Can you quickly search and analyze your logs to troubleshoot issues, meet compliance
                        requirements and investigate security threats?

Business owners with answers not in the affirmative are turning to Splunk to improve how they use and analyze log data. Splunk automatically indexes all the data, including complex multi-line application logs, enabling you to search on all the data without need for custom connectors and without limitations inherent in database schemas. 

Once in Splunk, you can quickly search and report on this data - and Splunk interprets the data as you search providing a more complete context. The result is a more flexible and complete approach to using and analyzing log data, enabling you to diagnose issues and troubleshoot security incidents fasterwhile providing repeatable and affordable compliance.

To talk to a Log File Management expert, contact DJ Skillman with Splunk.

http://www.splunk.com/index.php/ask_expert/default/3107