After updating both Windows XP and Spybot - Search and Destroy, the latter is reporting DS0 exploit registry entries on two computers not colocated on a network. Could this be as a result of a vulnerability being introduced with the August Windows XP security patches? Can you comment on the...
Hi all, Thanks to all those who answered to my question"FTP sites" Can anyone of you let me know about the available products that we can use for our organisations IT security..Also let me know what products are available to find out vulnerabilities in a network. Appreciate your response. Thanks ...
We have recently switched to allowing only Power User rights on notebook computers. We have a set of notebooks we loan out to employees with desktops when they need to travel. Currently those users will login with an account named loaner and use scripts and webmail to access the network. ...
Hi, I am a United Stated Marine stationed overseas since 2003, majoring in Information technology with National University. I am still an idiot in the field and thats why i joined this group. To get a glance of what to ecpect in the future. I am asking for your help in guiding me through whatever...
Hey there... I am curretly running Exchange 2003 on W2k3 member server. I installed Certificate Services and produced my own certificate and all works well with OWA. I recently found out that SelfSSL is available but not quite as robust, which would probably be good. I removed Cert services and...
Hello, I use the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser 2.0 to retrive information about shares in some local servers. I can not understand the diference between the information give in the report, about authorizations in the column Share ACL and Directory ACL. If some one can help me, Thank you...
It just depends on your definition of "hack" I've heard the "There has never been a virus on an AS400" argument all too often. However - the definition of a virus/hack goes something like: "Process or person who alters data when they should not be able to". Do we agree? So... while not being an...
A short time ago, author Wes Noonan wrote some tips for SearchWindowsSecurity.com about <a href=http://searchwindowssecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid45_gci1007026,00.html>deperimeterization</a>. He explained how security is always pitted against business needs, and...
As the editor of SearchWindowsSecurity.com, I often speak with users about their Windows security responsibilities. One senior systems analyst in particular sent me an interesting note recently... To give you some background, he's in charge of configuring and administering desktop systems...
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...
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...
*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...
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...
Do you hear that question or something similar too often? We're taking an informal survery on SearchSecurity.com to find out what the most common security-related user questions are. Results will be compiled into a question and answer tip that you will be able to post or handout to your users. ...
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...
I am working on a Project for making an antivirus.I have 2 other project parteners. But we don't have an guidance on how to develop the antivirus.Plz give me any relevent Information on this subject.(like components of AV,Algorithms(efficient),methods,general dection & removal of virus).(Also tell...
I use MS office outlook 2003 but this is not adding the e-mail addresses to the address book/contacts automatically when I reply to someone. This feature is available in Outlook express but I didn't find this feature in MSOO 2003. Is there any simple way I can add e-mail ids to contacts /address...
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 no idea where...
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 ?
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...


