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I have taken some time to go through and update the Self-Help section, so please check it out!
This was at first to be a place for non-technical people to get help protecting and tuning-up there PC, but I had quickly let it become a list of applications/scripts to fix problems and remove virus which required much more technical skill. I plan to add another page to list these kinds of applications/scripts for others wanting to clean-up computers to have for reference.

If you use SunShop and are wondering about how to keep your digital downloads off-server check this out!

After having it reported to me that the sv_search_key tended not to work with any Add-Ons turned on I did some research and found that the fix was renaming “dead air.vpk” to “dead_air.vpk” That VPK by itself was fine, but ran with the others I have it wouldn’t allow me to find the server using the sv_search_key as long as the space character was in the name. Renaming it and then enabling all the Add-Ons seems to have worked.

NOW to finish setting AIDE (“best” IDS list) and SELinux up on the Left 4 Dead server.

I just finished some Server Hardening of the Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) server. It included working with iptables rules, audit, sysctl.conf, sshd_config, SELinux, AIDE, and a few other minor things. If anyone playing on that server notices any issues that started sometime between Friday and Sunday of this weekend please contact me ASAP so I can look into them before I apply these to Left 4 Dead.

Knowing how Linux Mint is I’m thinking I want something a bit better… therefor thinking about Sabayon (http://www.sabayon.org/) instead!