Re: Some 'new guy' questions

On 2003-07-21 Sayo Venchetti wrote:
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> Hey, kind of a new guy to the security field...I only have basic and

Probably not.

> I was wondering if there's a command to manually close those

Several Windows services are listening locally (some even remotely). You might want to read [1] to get an idea of how to find out what's what.

> Also, I was wondering, as I'm getting more and more into security and

You have no idea what you're talking about, don't you?

Run a Command Prompt and type "help". Read. Next type "help <command>" for every command "help" had outlined. Keep reading. Type "net help". Continue reading.

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After you did that, come back here and say again you want to use DOS instead of CMD.

> Also, how exactly do I compile programs from source documents?

By using an appropriate compiler. What compiler would be appropriate depends on the sources you have.

[1] http://www.med.unc.edu/ois/faqs/windows_os/faq_removetrojan.htm

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Ansgar Wiechers