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How to fix the MBR in 7 easy steps

January 30th, 2012

Daniel

How many of you broke your MBR while trying to add another Operating System. You are in luck, to fix it you do not need more than 5 minutes.
Here are the steps to do it:
1. Select from BIOS the Cd-ROM/DVD-ROM as your first boot device.
2. Save options and exit
3. Put the bootable Windows 7/XP/Vista in your CD-ROM and press any key when you see the prompt “Press any key to boot from CDROM”
4. You will get prompted with a blue screen. Press “R” for repair
5. Select the Windows you have installed(7, XP, Vista) and then enter your Administrator password.
6. You will see a DOS/CMD prompt. Just type in “FIXMBR”.
7. After the MBR is fixed typed in “EXIT” for the system to restart.

That is all! The MBR should be fixed now.

Good luck!

Bruce Schneier: The security mirage

January 30th, 2012

Daniel

Hello,

I have found a great video that i find really interesting.

Hope you enjoy it:

Insecure Magazine

January 30th, 2012

Daniel

Hello,

Whenever i have the change i read the following Magazine that i highly recommend.

Here is the download link: Insecure Magazine

Hope you enjoy it!

Fortigate Tips and Tricks

January 27th, 2012

admin

Fortigate Tips and Tricks

This article presents some useful commands/tricks that you can do to your Fortigate.

Debug Addresses:
Many times it happens that we have a lot of firewall policies for one address defined in our address Pool.
Let’s take an example:
We have “WWW_Server” defined with the IP of 172.18.1.10. To see what policies are using this Address we can use the following:

#diag sys checkused firewall.address:name 'WWW_Server'

Fortigate | Fortinet Antivirus

January 27th, 2012

admin

Hello,

It this post i will talk about the AntiVirus feature of Fortigate. Since the firewall from Fortinet has a lot of features it is normal that AntiVirus is one of them.