In the past, I have been an advocate of AVG and, until this version, had no reason not to be. Unfortunately, it has been slowing my system down. The automatic scan, set to start at 01:00 hrs, was still running on the 160gb SATA drive at 09:00, with an 80gb IDE drive still to go. And, to add insult to...
At a Glance: Run as Administrator for third-party scripting tools Run as Another User Prompt Here as System for CMD and Windows PowerShell Drag-and-drop Elevation Gadget Download the code for this article: Elevation2008_06.exe (197KB) Read the rest... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510320...
Recently I was asked this question : "Why do we have to patch Windows all the time? Couldn't Microsoft have built a secure OS from day 1 for Windows 3.0, Windows 95 or any of the other OS's so it doesn’t have to be patched?" I was quite surprised at the question as I know the answer...
So you think your PC is secure. You have a resident Antivirus program, an Antispyware program and a firewall. You have Microsoft Updates set on ‘auto’ so that your copy of Windows is updated automatically as soon as one is available. You have set up all your third-party programs to notify you when any...
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Dorothy Gosling
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03-11-2008
Filed under: Infected PC, Vista, Computer, Protection, security, AV, Firewall, malware, Windows, Safe Surfing For Children, AS
Security - a major ingredient for every Enterprise to avoid the adversaries attempt to invade your customers’ networks and access their servers—to bring them down, infect them with viruses, or steal information about customers or employees, every day! The recent release of Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft...
There is a new forum that may be of interest to Windows, Linux and/or Cross-Platform developers. The Linux and Windows Development forum was started by my son Darin who has most recently been programming linux software. Interested in programming since he was a child, he continues to find it a very satisfying...
Metasploit 3.1 was unleashed on the world today. According to the press release posted on the metasploit.com site, this “latest version features a graphical user interface, full support for the Windows platform, and over 450 modules, including 265 remote exploits.”
The legitimate value of...
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Tony Bradley, Microsoft MVP
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Anonymous
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01-28-2008
Filed under: security, News and Info, vulnerabilities, exploits, metasploit, top 100 security tools, canvas, core impact, windows, framework, nmap
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...
Here is a quick snippet on enabling a SQL login to password expiration and password policies as per the Windows server: Open the SQL Server 2005 Management Studio. In the left pane, go to the desired server and navigate to the Security folder and expand it. Expand the Logins folder. Right-click on the...
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Anonymous
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01-07-2008
Filed under: sql server, security, windows, BOL, password, best practice, authentication, books online, policy, logins, sql authentication
What is the Kerberos Authentication? What are the security features difference between Windows 2000 and 2003 versions? How it is behaved within Failover Clustering? How to enable Kerberos Authentication Including SQL Server Virtual Servers on Server Clusters? Let us see how the user access to SQL Server...