http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/1/ Microsoft's general security discussions and announcements en-us Tue, 13 May 2008 17:31:03 -0400 info@secure-gear.com http://www.secure-gear.com/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Existing-untrusted-Root-CA-article23589.htm I have a Win2003 AD domain with an untrusted root CA (it is installed on a DC) that I would like to remove. I have already built a new offline root ...The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here Tue, 13 May 2008 13:11:56 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Creating-Site-Server-Signing-Certificate-Template-article23577.htm Windows 2008 Im trying to create a certificate by following directions from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/bb694035.aspxBKMKsiteserve...... The post has 2 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Tue, 13 May 2008 01:48:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Test-environment-article23574.htm Hello, does anyone know if it is documented anywhere that a test environment should be physically and logically seperated from the production environ...... The post has 2 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Mon, 12 May 2008 19:32:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Any-advantages-by-running-a-twolevel-certificate--article23573.htm Hi Im looking into creating a twolevel certificate hierarchy and Im just wondering, are there any advantages by running this as opposed to a single...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Mon, 12 May 2008 19:12:02 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Password-complexity-article23571.htm Hello: I have an enterprise with multiple domains. The domains have Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. The Windows servers have software ap...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Mon, 12 May 2008 15:02:17 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Bypassing-domain-and-OU-GPO-settings-using-the-Sec-article23565.htm Gurus, This is a repost of a message sent solely to the grouppolicy NG. Im copying a wider audience here to engage some discussions amongst you IT ...... The post has 5 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Sun, 11 May 2008 21:40:59 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/url-locations-of-patches-and-md5-hash-article23564.htm Ive been trying to find a central location of where the url locations of patches for different languages and the md5 hash. Havent found such a websi...... The post has 2 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Sun, 11 May 2008 15:44:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/How-to-monitor-privileged-user-access-article23560.htm Hi all. Please excuse me if this issue has been covered before, I searched but couldnt find any substantial answer. I have 1015 privileged users acc...... The post has 6 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Sun, 11 May 2008 04:10:59 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/DNS-and-DSL-modem-article23555.htm I normally use a Speedtouch 585 DSL modem/router. Sometimes, I connect to another modem when Im on the road. I think its a Linksys (not sure if it m...The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here Sat, 10 May 2008 20:04:44 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Windows-Firewall-and-Norton-360-both-report-that-t-article23552.htm iIn Vista, SP1, Windows Security Center, under the Firewall tab, it reports that both Windows Firewall and Norton 360 are quotonquot. Im not aware ...... The post has 6 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Sat, 10 May 2008 16:55:29 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/certificate-Services-will-not-startup-on-specified-article23549.htm Hello All, I hope you can help: I keep seeing errors when I setup a Enterprise CA. The Certsvc request is configured in component services to utilize...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Thu, 08 May 2008 17:02:34 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Vulnerable-Outdated-Dangerous-DLLS-article23548.htm Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of dlls that are considered dangerous, outdated, and vulnerable As an alternative, are there online (or inst...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Thu, 08 May 2008 16:12:14 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Windows-Defender-History-article23544.htm Hi all, WXP Sp3 Im unable to access Windows Defender History. Installing it againg didnt work. Any help Thanks, Andrea ... The post has 2 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Thu, 08 May 2008 13:49:08 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Trying-to-manually-generate-a-windows-security-eve-article23535.htm hello: I am trying to generate event 536 The NetLogin component is not active. I have tried to disable that service, but I still can login and the...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Wed, 07 May 2008 12:12:18 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Security-issue-sharing-folders-on-local-network-article23532.htm I am running a local network with 3 machines, administrated and used only by myself. I prefer to run as the quotAdministratorquot user on all 3, beca...... The post has 2 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Wed, 07 May 2008 06:48:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Virus-or-not-Virus-article23531.htm When I scan my PC using FSecure, I find no virus, but when I use the online Norton antiVirus, I find following infected files. our computer is infec...... The post has 3 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Wed, 07 May 2008 06:18:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/how-to-success-OpenScManager-for-local-machine-whe-article23530.htm Hello All, I logged in as a local user which do not have administrator privileges on Vista. Then I tried to use: LogonUserA(user, domain, password,...The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here Wed, 07 May 2008 04:34:21 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Big-folder-of-exe-files-article23528.htm Hi group, I want to encript a very huge folder of my hard disk, that contain my installer files, i.e, exe, msi files, etc, but I m a bit worried that...The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here Tue, 06 May 2008 21:44:26 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Updating-Trusted-Root-CA-article23526.htm If you are working on a quotlegacyquot system on windows where do you go to for an update of the trusted root CA lists If any have expired or have gon...... The post has 3 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Tue, 06 May 2008 16:31:18 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/AccountPassword-Policy-Using-GPO-Not-Working-article23522.htm Hello All, I have a Windows 2003 AD based domain with primary and backup domain controllers. Client workstations are 95 Windows XP, 4 Mac, and 1 Win...The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here Tue, 06 May 2008 09:25:05 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Store-private-key-in-assembly-article23521.htm Hi I want to know if theres any way to store a private key into an assembly. I want to encrypt the comunication between COM object and .Net object an...The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here Tue, 06 May 2008 05:56:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/MBSA-21-RELEASED-article23514.htm The latest version of Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1 has been released for immediate download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detail...... The post has 3 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Mon, 05 May 2008 19:59:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Suddenly-All-users-are-allowed-VPN-access-article23513.htm ISA Server 2004 SP3 Windows 2003 SP2 On Active Directory:........ AD User DIalIn Tab has quotAllow Access through Remote Access Policiesquot By ...... The post has 3 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Mon, 05 May 2008 17:56:35 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/rolback-a-security-update-(941672)-article23511.htm Hi Ive a problem on our Primary DNS server. After we installed sp2 and this hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kbid941672 The DNS service uses to m...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Mon, 05 May 2008 15:27:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Direct-ACL-article23510.htm Hello there, I have created the below listed folder structure: D:DataCRM CRM folder does not inherit permissions from data and has system direct ACL ...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Mon, 05 May 2008 14:49:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Credential-Roaming--EFS--how-to-cleanup-user-cer-article23509.htm quotHi We have a major issue. Thousands of EFS certificates have been issued to various users. The problem was only found because a user got an erro...The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here Mon, 05 May 2008 14:49:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Private-key-Not-Exportable-article23508.htm My users download digital certificatesfrom our payroll company for access to the online payroll application. We get an email with a link, that auto...The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here Mon, 05 May 2008 12:47:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/urgent-Help-I-have-posted-some-personal-informati-article23500.htm Please help me ... The post has 5 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Mon, 05 May 2008 03:23:46 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/IE-6-is-freezing-on-me-article23496.htm Dell Optiplex GX260 Win 2K, sp4: I suspect the last or the before last Black Tuesday Windows update did this to my computer because it never did th...... The post has 5 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Sun, 04 May 2008 15:55:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Export-list-of-issued-certificates-from-a-CA-to-CV-article23494.htm Greetings all, Was wondering if any know if it is possible export a list of issued certificates to a cvs file Ive created a certificate template and...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Sun, 04 May 2008 12:25:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/cannot-open-remote-registry-when-login-with-a-doma-article23492.htm I have logged into a machine with a user who is only a domain user, and used api RegConnectRegistry and then RegOpenKeyEx to query another machines re...The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here Sun, 04 May 2008 09:44:49 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/windows-firewall-article23491.htm I cant turn on windows firewall. I keep getting errors that windows cant turn it on. ... The post has 2 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Sun, 04 May 2008 05:01:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Runtime-Error-article23486.htm I get the following message when Im on the internet: A Runtime Error has ocurred. Do you wish to debug Line 186 Error:document.getElementById(...) is ...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Fri, 02 May 2008 15:35:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/How-to-give-nonadministrators-the-ability-to-rebo-article23475.htm Server 2003 How do I give nonadministrators the ability to reboot a server while logged on through remote desktop connection The people responsible ...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:16:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/bitlocker-and-error-0X8007001B-article23472.htm Hello : I am trying to setup bitlocker on my laptop and while running the bitlocker preperation tool and am encountering the following error: Acce...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:06:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Automatic-certificate-deployment-for-8021x-networ-article23466.htm Hi all I have a problem setting up ab big number of Windows XP (SP2) PCs for using IEEE802.1x authentication on the wired network. Im searching for a...... The post has 3 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:01:58 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Homedirs--NTFS-permissions-article23465.htm Hi all, is there any recomended ACL setting for user homedirs Ide like to do following: users are owners of their homedirs (we use ownerbased quot...... The post has 7 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:49:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Certificates-Autoenrollment-Credential-Roaming-a-article23458.htm Hi, I have a user cert set up for autoenrollment. The cert is published in AD and the quotDo not automatically reenroll if a duplicate certificate e...... The post has 4 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:53:03 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/MCITP-in-Security-article23455.htm Hi all Does any know if there will be (and if so, when) an MCITP focused on security, like the MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator Cheers An...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:02 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Unreliability-of-CD-Boot-article23454.htm Just a general comment, but wondered what other admins feelings are on this: In the days of floppies, if you inserted a boot floppy, then the machine...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:58:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Left-over-certificates-article23452.htm I have a number of CA Exchange certificates in my issued certificates. They are all expired. They have the message of quotThe certificate has a non...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:27:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Password-policy-in-domain-2003-article23445.htm Hi As far as I know there can be only one password policy. I configured the main GPO in the root for specific password policy, I have an OU with blo...... The post has 4 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:21:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Track-usercomputerip-by-Caller-Logon-ID-article23441.htm Greetings All, I got a situation where account was deleted from AD using domain admin account and would like to track it to IP or Computer that was...The post does not have any replies yet. Read more and discuss here Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:20:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/NAVOPTXDAT-article23431.htm c:NAVOPTX.DAT contains these two lines: NSPlugin Enabled0 The file sounds like a Norton antivirus (NAV) file. Since I no longer use NAV, Id like to...... The post has 4 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:42:19 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Best-Way-to-Track-Service-Being-Turned-On-article23429.htm I have a strange situation on a firewall I need help with. The server is Windows 2000 running ISA Server 2004. For reasons I cannot determine y...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:06:50 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Password-Lockout-article23427.htm I reset my password for logging onto windows and forgot it. What should I do to access my info without going under as a guest I really need help caus...... The post has 4 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:16:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Getting-rid-of-my-Certification-Authority-article23420.htm We dont really use this anyway, although some people did, in the past. I have to decomission the hardware on which the CA lives and for the nearterm...... The post has 7 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:56:00 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Certification-Authority-0x8009480f-error-article23417.htm Certification Authority 0x8009480f error : the dns name is unavailable and cannot b e added to the subjectalternatename. This error I get all the tim...... The post has 3 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:15:01 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/Whats-the-best-antivirus-for-XP-article23414.htm Ive had bad experiences with Norton AV and AVP. What do you recommend I try now It doesnt have to be free. It shouldnt have a firewall I have Wind...... The post has 4 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:31:14 -0400 http://www.secure-gear.com/microsoft.public.security/7/AVG-75-backup-CD-article23413.htm I got a backup CD with my AVG 7.5. Is this CD only to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.5, or is it when you have no AVG at all I wrote to them at support but a...... The post has 1 replies so far. Read more and discuss here Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:28:35 -0400