Pablo Endres’s Blog

Have you ever scanned a pile of documents on a “non enterprise” o home scanner, or just got distracted when using the big Xerox machine in the office.  You’ll end up with a ton of individual pdf files.  After a little google and man reading I found these 2 solutions.

1. On linux just use pdfmerge:   sudo yum install pdfmerge or download the windows version
2. Do it by hand with ghostscript:

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf Scan001.pdf Scan002.pdf

Have you ever tried to connect to an ftp server on a windows box?

I had to do it today and that thing doesn’t know the command: PASV !!

Well after surfing for while I found the workaround: just type:

LITERAL PASV

That bypasses the checks on the client and just sends the command to the server.

About a year ago I went through the process of evaluating AV’s for the company I was working for. What I did was setup some detection tests using Eicar and some “wild” viruses. Additionally I asked the vendors I chose from instinct: symantec, Sophos, Panda, Fortinet and looked up their listed vuln. in the past year (ovdb) and the time it took them to issue and install an update. I compared the upgrade strategy: engine, threat DB, application; some vendors don’t automatically give you all of that. Used info from http://virusbtn.com to compare some results in time. Setup demos to see them in action, and test their reporting capabilities in real time. After all that of coarse $$$ came into play. With that information I made a BIG table and put some weights on the items and let the best player win. For those who will ask, Sophos came out with the best results in our environment.