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How to detect anomalous resource consumption reliably?

This question is about a whole class of similar problems, but I'll ask it as a concrete example. I have a server with a file system whose contents fluctuate. I need to monitor the available space on this file system to ensure that it doesn't fill up. For the sake of argument, let's suppose that if it fills up, the server goes down. It ...

Accidentally created a virus?

I've seen it happen reasonably often: I write an application in Delphi and when I compile it, the virus-scanner tells me that I've created a virus and then immediately deletes the executable again. It's annoying but reasonable easy to fix by doing a full rebuild, deleting the *.dcu files first and sometimes by simply waiting. It happens...

Gmail/Hotmail Flag email as spam

I have a simple .NET app that is sending out email using SMTPClient. I am sending from an authenticated account on the local server with an SPF record, and the host (gogrid) is unsure what else they can do to solve the problem. Any email from my simple app is flagged as spam, but any other email sent using that smtp server, or through ...

My program is getting a false positive from AVG.

My program is getting a false positive from AVG. Its just our companies branded version of Ultra VNC. Its only this one company that's identifying it as a virus and we've been using the same copy of that program for almost a year. I know its possible to tell this Anti Virus program the VNC client is safe, but I can't do that for all of o...

HaXe download claims to have Lineage.gen trojan in it

I am setting myself up with FlashDevelop, and i went to download and install HaXe (which is the language i want to use) from this page (the windows installer), when my Windows Security Essentials said that Lineage.gen got stuck in my win32 directory from the downloaded installer (i didn't even run it yet). Did i download from the wrong s...