Providing Information Technology and Information Security consulting services since 1981. Hawke Enterprising (dba) is a service offering by Dev 2 Dev Portal LLC - www.dev2devportal.com Hawke has been working with computers and information technologies since 1981 and providing Information Security services since 1996. He also is a strong advocate for, and has been working with, Open Source products such as Linux since 1994. Hawke has for many years been a very proactive advocate for security, both at the physical and "virtual" levels. Hawke has been retired since 2003, except for special circumstances (read on for more information) such as guest speaker for events, educational, and other roles. His dissertation/thesis/practicum on VPN technologies and Microsoft's VPN vulnerabilities, for the SANS Institute has been published as the definitive guide and FAQs answer for this topic at http://www.sans.org/resources/malwarefaq/pptp-vpn.php. If you simply perform a search on google for, pptp malware, the number one link (out of over 4,500 links), connects directly to his document (reformatted for the FAQs by the SANS Institute). You can download the original document at: http://www.giac.org/practical/Hawke_Robinson_GCIH.zip.