configuration Questions


Found Trojan.ByteVerify on my computer
Hi All, Symantec recently discovered Trojan.ByteVerify on my computer. I run system checks weekly and am always cautious about the e-mails I open, the web sites I go to and what I click on, so I was pretty surprised to find I had a Trojan. It was quarantined and removed, but I’m worried about what [...]

Answer Question   |  June 24, 2010  10:20 AM
Administration, Architecture/Design, backdoors, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, IDS/IPS management, Incident response, Installation, Intrusion management, Management, Network security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security Program Management, Service and support, Signature updating/Management, Spyware, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Wireless, worms
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Internet Explorer vs. Firefox
Hello, I’m the Assistant Editor on SearchWindowsSecurity.com. I’m looking to start a discussion about what browser people are using and why. Also, is anyone considering switching from IE to Firefox, or are your plans to stay with IE? Here’s some food for thought… As of Feb. 2005, an estimated 35 million users had switched from [...]

Answer Question   |  June 29, 2012  2:14 PM
Addamark, Administration, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Application security, AppSec, Architecture/Design, ArcSight, Bindview, Biometrics, Caymas, CipherTrust, Compliance, Computer Associates, configuration, Courion, CRM, Cylant, Database, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, e-Security, Emerging technologies, Encryption, Enterasys Networks, Entrust, Exchange, Features/Functionality, GuardedNet, Hardware, Host-based IDS/IPS, IBM/Tivoli, Identity & Access Management, IDS vs IPS, IDS/IPS management, Imprivata, Installation, Instant Messaging, Intellitactics, Internet Security Systems, Intrusion management, Juniper Networks, KavaDo, M-Tech, Magnifire, Managed security services, Management, Maxware, Microsoft Windows, Netegrity, NetForensics, NetIQ, Network Associates, Network-based IDS/IPS, NFR Security, NGS Software, Novell, Ounce Labs, Outsourcing, Outsourcing/Managed services, Passlogix, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product evaluation, Product/Service evaluation, provisioning, Risk management, RSA Security, Sana Security, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Service and support, Service contracts, Service evaluation, Single sign-on, Snort/Sourcefire, SPI Dynamics, StillSecure, Tech support, Teros, Thor, Tripwire, TruSecure, Vendors, VeriSign, VPN, VSecure, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Watchfire, Waveset/Sun Micro, Windows, Windows XP
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Safe user sandbox?
*This question is from a SearchWindowsSecurity.com reader: I’m in a position to redesign our IT systems (network, servers, PCs, software, etc.) this summer, and I am undecided on which path to take. I’d like to disconnect our systems from the Internet so that we don’t have to deal with all of the garbage that comes [...]

Answer Question   |  April 13, 2005  2:15 PM
Application security, backdoors, Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Development, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Exchange, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Management, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product evaluation, provisioning, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on, Spyware, Trojans, Vendors, Viruses, vulnerability management, worms
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I’ve been hacked — I think….
I’m an IT administrator with a little over 500 end users, running Windows 2000 and XP. One of our users is experiencing a problem with her Internet connection suddenly dropping for no apparent reason. When she restarts her computer, everything works fine for awhile, but then the connection drops again. The funny thing is, she’s [...]

Answer Question   |  August 2, 2009  9:52 AM
Administration, Application security, Architecture/Design, Bigfix, Biometrics, Cisco, Citadel, Compliance, Computer Associates, configuration, Configuresoft, CRM, Cylant, Database, DataCenter, Desktop antivirus, Desktop management applications, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, Ecora, Encryption, Enterasys Networks, Exchange, Features/Functionality, Firewalls, Forensics, GFI, Hewlett-Packard, Host-based IDS/IPS, Identity & Access Management, IDS vs IPS, IDS/IPS management, Incident response, Installation, Instant Messaging, Internet Security Systems, Intrusion management, Juniper Networks, Managed security services, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network Associates, Network Elements, Network security, Network-based IDS/IPS, NFR Security, Outsourcing, Outsourcing/Managed services, patching, Patchlink, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product evaluation, Product/Service evaluation, provisioning, Redundancy, Risk management, Sana Security, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Service and support, Service contracts, Service evaluation, Shavlink Technologies, Single sign-on, Snort/Sourcefire, St. Bernard Software, StillSecure, Symantec, Tripwire, Vendors, VPN, VSecure, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Wireless
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trojan horse downloader
hi i have a win NT4.0 sp6 server.its a DNS and web server. from few days the IE was redirecting the sites to some search engines.when i scaned with AVG it detected some trojan horse downloader.i healed the trojan and restarted the DNS.the problem was solved.but after some hours the problem arise again.since then i [...]

Answer Question   |  November 2, 2011  3:57 AM
backdoors, Backup & recovery, configuration, Current threats, DataCenter, Hacking, Hardware, Help Desk, human factors, Installing/upgrading operating systems, Intrusion management, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Security, Server management, Servers, Spyware, Tech support, Trojans, Viruses, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management, Windows, Windows on Intel, Windows Server 2003, worms
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MS Exchange Mail Queues Constantly being Filled
I have an MS Exchange 2000 Server that was being used as a mail relay. This was stopped and the mail filtered from the spam. The problem is that the mail queues keep getting filled up. I have even disconneted the server and emptied the queues but they still just fill up again. I have [...]

Answer Question   |  February 4, 2005  1:32 PM
Biometrics, configuration, Digital certificates, Identity & Access Management, Networking, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, provisioning, Security tokens, Single sign-on, Tech support, vulnerability management
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Access to security log in Windows 2000
In my company we want to give full access to the security log of Windows 2000 only to the security manager, but we want to give only read access to the support people, Is there how to do it ?

Answer Question   |  January 12, 2005  3:29 PM
Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, DataCenter, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Managed security services, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on, Tech support, vulnerability management
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DOS attack, DNS question
My question has two parts, first: today at the place where i work we lost the internet, and after checking the firewall (sonicwall, this is a non profit organization so they cant afford the best stuff) i discovered it was more than likely a DOS attack. nobody could access the internet, and i could not [...]

Answer Question   |  January 13, 2005  6:07 PM
Compliance, configuration, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Information risk management, Intrusion management, IT architecture, Managed security services, Network security, Networking, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product/service procurement, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Tech support, VPN, vulnerability management, Wireless
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Event viewer err Msg.
Good day, 1.In our organisation, we are using windows2000 smallbusiness server with EXCHANGE , ISA server and DNS configured. but all the client pc’s are given static ip address instead of dynamic ip. will this create any problem ? daily i’m receiving many application error logs.particularly 2 type of source error is repeating continuosly. (a).MICROSOFT [...]

Answer Question   |  November 23, 2004  2:38 AM
802.11 networking equipment, Active Directory, Administration, Auditing, Biometrics, configuration, DataCenter, Digital certificates, DNS, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Exchange Server ActiveSync, Firewalls, Forensics, Help Desk, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Installation, Intrusion management, Maintenance, Management, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, Network security, Outlook, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, provisioning, Security, Security tokens, Server management, Servers, Service and support, Services, Single sign-on, System monitoring, Tech support, Third-party services, VPN, vulnerability management, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, WINS, Wireless
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What’s your experience with Microsoft tech support?
I’m doing some research on the effectiveness of Microsoft’s technical support, possibly for an article on SearchWindowsSecurity.com. Our site readers continually need help troubleshooting Windows security dilemmas. Some seem to find what they need on Microsoft’s Web pages, and others don’t get enough technical detail (i.e. steps for fixing a specific problem). Do you have [...]

Answer Question   |  November 3, 2004  3:10 PM
configuration, Desktop security, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Security, vulnerability management, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 95/98, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Server 2003, Windows tools/WSRM, Windows XP
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Unable to Delete c:winntsystem32os2 folder
I am trying to remove the OS/2 Subsystem components installed to harden my Win2000 server. Although I managed to delete all files in c:winntsystem32os2 and in all its subfolders (by clearing dllcache), I still couldn’t delete c:winntsystem32os2 and c:winntsystem32os2dll. I have already completed the necessary removal of the following: MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOS/2 Subsystem for NT MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerEnvironmentOs2LibPath [...]

Answer Question   |  October 11, 2004  9:44 PM
configuration, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Service and support, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, vulnerability management
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Alternate way to stop Oracle Services on Win 2K Server-2
Our database server is a Machine running Windows 2K Server. We make our backups stopping the Oracle Service and then copying the files to other location (and then to tape), but in order to do this, the user loged in on the server must be an administrator, and this is a problem, because the backup [...]

Answer Question   |  August 2, 2004  2:25 PM
configuration, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Desktop security, Hardware, Oracle, Oracle 8i, Oracle Application Server, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Security, Servers, Software distribution, Standard Edition, vulnerability management, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance
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