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The theory Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC) is an additional layer of security built into Vista and Windows 2008. This particular layer helps Windows protect itself from harmful intentional and unintentional changes to important objects. Among the objects protected we can find files, directories, registry...
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Overview UAC (also called Admin Approval Mode) is a new feature introduced with Windows Vista. The main goal of this feature is to protect the operating system from malicious or accidental damage. This goal is achieved by requesting consent from the user when an administrative action is attempted (installing...
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OK,so I was troubleshooting and odd issue with an FTP server and one of the things that caught my attention while using Network Monitor (on a Windows 2000 server) was that some(actually almost all) of the TCP checksums (originating from the server) were found to be incorrect. At first I thought I was...
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Most administrators use the command prompt to run administrative tasks. The problem is that if you are using Vista, opening the CMD will not allow you to run commands as an administrator(unclear to me as to why couldn't they simply let the UAC take care of it). To solve this you could start the CMD using...
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The most common reason for such a question to come up is security. TCP/UDP ports are virtual windows on the walls that represent your computer. If a perpetrator would like to gain access to your system he would do such using one such window. We might close all those windows (and it is advisable to do...
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Hmmmm... This one really got me going(on the other hand this shouldn't be a usrprise since it had me up unttil 3am). What makes a vulnerability more dangerous/famous then another? How come there are dozens of vulnerabilities yet you really remmember only some of them such as Blaster? The answers may...
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Microsoft has released a tool we have been waiting for-a tool that enables SysAdmins to control conccurent logins to their AD environment. Based on the short time I have been exposed to this tool I can say that it looks cool but it has its limitations. The download can be found at: http://download.microsoft...
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MS announced yesterday of a Security Cooperation Program intended for goverements. The program will help governments deal with security threats(in MS products). Take a look at: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-02SecurityCooperationpr.asp
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From the article: “ Microsoft has released the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool to help remove specific, prevalent malicious software from computers that are running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP, or Microsoft Windows 2000. The Malicious Software Removal Tool...
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To protect a home system the following rules of thumb are provided: 1) Be careful (read my post called "Securing your computer") 2) Patch your system If a system has an unpatched vulnerability a worm might use it to automatically infect your system (eg Blaster). This is achieved by connecting to the...