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    - firewalls I am thinking of installing a firewall such as zonealarm ..should I switch off the in built firewall thats with XP or is XP's firewall suffienient .................. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50571
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    - belgian.com removal Hi, I got some trojan from belgian.com and it pops up ads randomly. I think it also killed my Windows Media Player. I have tried Spybot Search and Destroy and it doesn't remove it. Any advice would help. Thanks in advance. -Manny Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50570
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    - microsoft email of patch i keep receiving an email from microsoft advising me this is an april 2004 cumulative patch for security update is this safe to open it has attachments but i'm not 100% its a valid email as i was told microsoft don't email patches. please advise Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50565
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    - Help with Possible Virus/Trojan? My Win98se machine has started to act very strange during the last week. I have the Microsoft Office Toolbar on the top of my Desktop which includes shortcuts to MSWord, Notepad, Windows Explorer, etc. When I try to use the MS Word shortcut icon on the Office Toolbar, Sygate Personal Firewall tell me that "Microsoft Word For Windows is trying to connect to crl.verisign.com (64.94.110.12) using remote port 80.....". I instruct Sygate not to allow the connection, then everything slows down and it takes a long time for Word to load. When it finally does load, everything has slowed down and it takes forever to Open files, Save files, etc.. I have never gotten this warning from Sygate before and why would activating Word from a shortcut on the Office Toolbar, cause it to try to connect to the internet? I get the same Sygate message when I try to launch Windows Explorer from the Tool Bar. Sounds like some kind of Virus/Trojan/Hijacker has infected my computer. Any help or ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Mike H PS: I've run Norton Antivirus, Spybot, Stinger, and CWshredder. All are current. They don't find anything on my computer. Occasionally when I'm on the internet I get the "About:Blank" window on the bottom of my screen. I don't know if that has anything to do with the current problem. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50564
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    - start page.eb trogan horse can't delete this trogan horse. my computer continues to rebut. help! i start my anti-virus software, then the computer start to rebut. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50560
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    - thanks to Bbonner Thanks Bill. You have alot of great stuff you share. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50552
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    - securtity patch I am using Windows 98SE. I continuously receive a Windows update notice for Security update #823559. I have downloaded and installed this update many times but I continue to receive this critical update notice. Why? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50551
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    - Not enough storage is available to complete this operation After installing SP2 for XP on both client & servce machine, callback registration with server failing with error "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation". Before installation of SP2 for XP, this was working properly. Can someone help me? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50550
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    - MSN Been Hacked My hotmail account has been hacked and Microsoft's website is about as helpful as your average bureaucratic mess - ie: none at all. If someone can direct me to the correct place to lodge for my account to be returned to me I'd be very grateful. I cant remember the psuedonym I used to signup with so the automated response sheet is useless to me. My password and Secret Question have both been changed. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50549
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    - redirected to http://searchpage.cc/ everytime i use a program such as vzones or any amazon as soon as i try to log in or listen to a music sample i get redirected to the page http://searchpage.cc/ for no reason. Not only this but also toolbars have appeared on my browser which i have not loaded. What can i do to fix the problem? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50548
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    - Can visit to website endanger security? I received a spoof email asking me to update my CitiBank details. It was obviously created by an oriental English speaker, but I was curious because the link therein led to an https: site (ie, secured site). So I had a look, and was redirected to an insecure site. I looked there, thinking they would have a form for us suckers to fill in giving away passwords etc, but the page was totally blank, and even though my browser said "Done" I still had my hourglass (but this often happens anyway). Has my curiosity made me vulnerable? I don't have a firewall because when I installed ZoneAlarm I didn't understand it. (I know... but all it seemed to do was list IP numbers and I just carried on as normal. I don't normally visit dodgy sites. Obviously I won't do it again, and yes, I do know what curiosity did to the cat. Patricia Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50547
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    - Problems after applying MS04-011 to 014 After the installation and reboot (using WindowsUpdate or manual methods) RemoteDesktop can no longer connect to the patched computers (RemoteDesktop computer was patched previously)--all you get is a black window. All are servers, all are Win2Kw/SP4 and had all previous patches applied. DameWare works. Anything you guys at Microsoft want to tell us about these patches?? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50546
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    - Spybot Search and Destroy 1.2---->Replacement for the program ? I have run Spybot since it first came out and love the way the program works. It seems to work well with Zone Alarm Pro and Ad-Aware Plus picking up the things the others miss. However...Not sure if the Spybot people are on a long vacation or too busy with Beta 1.3, but there have been no updates for almost 6 weeks (Since 4 March) and in the past, they usually have a new update about every week. Also they are not responding to email support, before they always did within a day. Does anyone know what is going on with them ? I hope Mr. Kolla did not "retire" as its a great little program, but no updates in this long a period is not a good sign to me. Anyone have an alternate to Spybot that I can use until (if..) Spybot starts updating again ? I have seen a few names tossed around in here, but never really paid attention to the comments as Spybot had been working so well for me. Looking for something that works well on Windows XP Pro (I am also using the SP2 RC1 release) Thanks ! -- Tedd Riggs PDA Square Content Developer www.pdasquare.com Redmond, WA Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50543
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    - activex control and internet explorer i am doing a project which contains an activex controls the problem faced is when am i trying to veiw my site on some other m/c within intranet, a messagebox for downloading the activex control is shown with message that the certificate is not in the trusted root and it ask for installation of the certificate before installing the control. how can i auto install a certificate in IE while downloading an activex control without the message for installation for the certificate. the control is signed and certified on the server and there it shows a message of a valid certificate. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50538
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    - SUS Question Hello Everyone, I have searched the KB and looked for an SUS newsgroup, but there appears to be nothing available. I have a problem and I guess that this is the best place to request assistance. Here it goes: I installed SUS on a Windows Small Business Server 2003 machine and redirected SUS to work off of the "companyweb" web site. When I attempt to Synchronize the server and approve the updates, the server appears to synchronize correctly, but when I go to approve the updates, I receive this error message: "No Packages ar available to be approved. This may be a because a synchronization has never been performed of because your Software Update Services Server is not functioning correctly." The approval log appears to work fine, but the approve updates page does not... Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Stewart Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50535
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    - 3rd Party Server monitoring! G/day forum, I've been asked to recommend a software that sits on a file server that montors usage activity, users, access, etc. I've enabled a high level of user monitoring through GPO but its difficult to analyse the high volume of logs generated. Is their a 3rd party application that i can use to comprehend these logs? Seperate 3rd party logging? Host intrusion protection? Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. Regards, Steve. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50533
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    - MSN CRITICAL UPDATES I have a critical update, # 835732, that when downloaded, uses all of my PC's resources and I am unable to use my PC. I then have to delete this update in order to use my PC. Has anyone had this problem? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50532
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    - wipe old hard drive I am selling my old pc and want to know if there is a way to encrypt or fully erase all the old data on it. I know that reformatting it won't be safe enough. Any suggestions? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50529
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    - security options for embedded objects in MSWord I have recently tried desperately to set password protection on a word doc object embedded within another word document (what I'm really wanting is to keep part of a word document password protected, this is the only way I could think of doing it) but without success. I have tried the normal way, by opening the embedded doc and using Tools|Options|Security tab to set a password but as soon as I exit this dialog box and close the embedded doc the password protection settings appear to get wiped. Does anyone know if what I'm trying to do is possible, or is this a bug? Or do you have any suggestions on a better way to do what I'm attempting as described in the brackets above? Thanks in advance C Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50528
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    - spying on me? someone get me educated! 1.) I am using Windows ME. And, does creating a logon password helps protect my computer? 2.) How do i determine if someone is spying on my computer? is netstat a way? 3.) If netstat is a way. How do i use netstat and to determine whether or not i am being spied? 4.) If i am being spied or easily hacked, how do i protect myself? someone please reply Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50527
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    - Windows Failed Updates I have 2 update failures of security updates, and i attempted to reupdate a second time but the scan no longer recognizes those updates as being updates that I need. I checked the log and I am sure that those specific updates have not been installed. 2 updates that are more recent have been installed but I am not sure if these include the other updates. Does anyone know? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50523
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    - Zone Labs Security Scanner I just got an e-mail from Zone Labs (makers of the firewall ZoneAlarm). In it, they are advertising the new Zone Labs Security Scanner, which is "a Web-based scanner that detects tracking cookies. It utilizes server based content and updates to assist users in blocking the latest threats." Anyone using this yet, and if so, what do you think? I'm thinking it's useless for me since I'm frequently deleting my cookies anyway, but I like ZoneAlarm firewall so far so I'm thinking I should give this scanner a try. Any thoughts or opinions? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50520
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    - EZ Armor LE Just received this CD from Microsoft. To install it says I must uninstall Norton Anti Virus. Is EZ Armor better than Norton? Very new at computers. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50515
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    - new start up program???? I am now getting a window that pops up asking if I want the program "Watson Subscriber for SENS Network Notifications" in my start up menu. Can someone explain what this is? It apparently comes from microsoft. Thank you. David Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50513
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    - Trojan Downloader Virus I have been having problems with my computer. It showed a lot of color and then it showed what looked like a lot of worms. Then I was notified that I have a Trojan Downloader:Win32/Agent. H Virus. Can anyone tell me what to do about this. Pelase help. hummingbird@compuwise.net Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50510
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    - locked out of computer My password isn't working and I can't get into my computer. Any one can help?????????? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50502
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    - Policy change, hacker attack ? Event Type: Success Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Policy Change Event ID: 612 Date: 4/15/2004 Time: 5:18:52 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Computer: CP250405-A Description: Audit Policy Change: New Policy: Success Failure + + Logon/Logoff + + Object Access + + Privilege Use + + Account Management + + Policy Change + + System - - Detailed Tracking + + Directory Service Access + + Account Logon Changed By: User Name: CP250405-A$ Domain Name: MSHOME Logon ID: (0x0,0x3E7) For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Looks like a hacker attack that wants to prevent detection ? What do you think ? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50501
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    - Internet browsing problem Whenever I start browsing the internet and I enter an internet address my search gets hijacked and this appears before my entered address:- WWW.NKVD.US/1251/Yahoo.com(example) I've tried everything and it won't stop. Please help Regards Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50492
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    - http://www.windows-patch.info/ is this a bogus site? i keep having this message popup that i cant stop this is one of the sites it leads to... should i download the patch? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50491
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    - script (member of) I am trying to get for spesific user to what member of user belongs on a server name:test I can't see where my error is. Please hel Set objOU = GetObject ("LDAP://cn=Users,dc=NA,dc=companyname,dc=com" ObjOU.Filter= Array("user" For Each objUser in objO Response.Write & objUser.cn & " is a member of: Response.Write "Primary Group ID: " & objUser.Get("primaryGroupID" arrMemberOf = objUser.GetEx("memberOf" For Each Group in arrMemberO Response.Write & Grou Nex ' Response.Write vbTab & ; "memberOf attribute is not set Next Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50489
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    - How do you guys handle security in NT4 domain?? I already posted this in another NG. Sry. No1 replied thats why I posted here. I'm new at posting, I'll remember next time to post in multiple ngs the right way.... Hello, Just started looking at this ng. I was wondering in an NT4 domain , do you guys rely on group policies only for security at the workstations? about three yrs ago our company final thought it might be a good idea to implement security for the night shift users. I went through setting up group policies for the night shift. I restricted their logins to run only 3 company programs and removed all the unnecessary stuff such as regedit, run, etc. It "seemed" like group policies were enough, however i found out its easy to get to DOS prompt, other programs,network neighborhood, and local drives. In addition to group policies, i had to change NTFS permissions on various exe's and dll's to further "lockdown" the NT4 workstations. I was just wondering if any1 else does the same thing. Just in case any1 wants to know, here's our setup : NT4 Domain 90% of local workstations are NT4 SP6a (not all are patched. However, all test machines where fully patched.) 1 pdc, 2BDC SP6a patched. 95% of user profiles are mandatory. thanks for any replies --willc Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50478
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    - security downloads Hello, Every time I turn on my computer and access the Internet, there are more security downloads. Is there a way that I can download these without incurring Internet charges? I pay by the hour, and lately I'm using a lot of hours trying to download the security stuff (and the downloads are not always installed correctly for some reason). Also, if I'm not sitting at my computer, the Internet access logs out automatically after about 20 minutes of no use. What happens to the download information? Does it all get lost? I have logged back in a couple of times, and then after I thought everything downloaded, I got messages that the information was downloaded but not installed. What does that mean and how do I fix it? I am beginning to wonder why I got a new computer with Windows XP Home Edition. I never had any issues with my Windows 98. Thank you for your attention to this. Please let me know how to download information with correct installation, and please let me know if it can be done without constant Internet access. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50467
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    - Virus included in emailed update from MS I downloaded critical updates from MS website. My system has been degraded and I am no longer able to access the internet from that PC (WIN 98 see post under 98 internet & security) Subsequently I have received 5 emails from Microsoft and Yahoo has identified them as infected with a virus. Virus "W32.Swen.A@mm" found. I still am down and I am concerned about how to fix the problem. Does anyone know about this problem? Barry Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50464
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    - MS PKI Certificates: where to find application policies and their related OIDs ? Dear All, could someone point me to an URL or give me more information on the following subject "A mapping table between "MS certificate application policies" and IETF-like certificates profiles (including the various EKU OIDs, etc). By application policies I mean the terms that a user could see when making a "view cert" in Internet explorer Ensures the identity of a remote compute Proves your identity to a remote compute Ensures software came from software publishe Protects software from alteration after publicatio Protects e-mail message Allows data to be signed with the current tim Allows you to digitally sign a certificate trust lis Allows secure communication on the Interne Allows data on disk to be encrypte Windows Hardware Driver Verificatio Windows System Component Verificatio OEM Windows System Component Verificatio Embedded Windows System Component Verificatio Key Pack License License Server Verificatio Smart Card Logo Digital Right Qualified Subordinatio Key Recover Document Signin File Recover Root List Signe All application policie Directory Service Email Replicatio Certificate Request Agen Key Recovery Agen Private Key Archiva Lifetime Signin Thanks in advance for any help in that matter regards, Fre Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50460
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    - DNS permissions? We've noticed security permissions assigned to each entry in the DNS database, as well as each subnet. Could anyone explain why these permissions are there? My guess is that it allows you to restrict lower level admins from making changes to critical DNS entries. Does this make sense? Thanks in advance. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50457
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    - metrics for security I would to start a discussion to take the security progress metrics beyond theoretical and into the practical, realistic and usable to measure progress and relative security. I've had a couple of brainstorm sessions and given it some thought, but for the criteria to become useful, I think there should be an active community discussion that asks hard questions and refines the criteria to an accepted set. If we achieve that, we may even enable some good independant apples-to-apples analysis. I've given some thoughts to the criteria and I think: . The criteria should be measurable and distinguishable . The methodology should be repeatable by objective 3rd-parties . The criteria should support real world scenarios . The criteria should be useful for business decisions . The criteria should support measuring version over version improvements . The criteria should support competitive comparisons My strawman proposal for security criteria has the following high level areas: assurance, security quality, protective capabilities, manageability & automation, security update tools and security update policies. I have also added one other category based upon previous feedback on the strawman. My examples below in each category are not meant to be comprehensive, but just a good starting point for the discussions. Assurance is an area that experienced security professionals will recognize. In the days of the NSA's Trusted Computer Systems Evaluation Criteria, different assurance levels were tied to different features sets. The Common Criteria, in use today introduced a more flexible model that has separated assurance levels from the feature set - EAL4, for example stands for evaluation assurance level 4. So, in the assurance area, I can think of several measurable sub-criteria: 3rd-party certifications, source integrity protections, established change control processes, quality assurance processes, and penetration testing. Security Quality is the term I have begun using for things like vulnerabilities that are found in code. In this category, I can think of several sub-criteria: number of vulnerabilities fixed, number of public vulnerabilities unfixed, average time to fix a publicly-reported vulnerability, number of open listening ports, and number of listening services or daemons. Protective Capabilities are the capabilities that might protect the software from attack even in the presence of a vulnerability. Sub-criteria include: port firewall capabilities, antivirus/worm capabilities, strong authentication, behavior monitoring, backup, and security policy enforcement features. Manageability & Automation is a category to capture software technologies designed to make mistakes less likely to decrease security and the less expertise is required to deploy and manage a product with low security risk. Sub-criteria would include: security configuration wizards/tools, lockdown tools, vulnerability assessment capabilities, security reporting capabilities, and central security management capabilities. Security Update Packages & Tools are a complementary part of measuring security until either security quality or protective capabilities reach 100% effectiveness. Sub-criteria should include: automatic update capabilities, patch approval capability for enterprise updates, patch deployment tool, uninstall capabilities, re-compile requirements, reboot requirements, size of packages, and works with 3rd-party deployment tools. Security Update Policies is an interesting one that I think there should be a lot of discussion about. Sub-criteria for this are would include: security lifecycle time period of products, patches all publicly disclosed issues, issues security advisories, follows responsible disclosure, offers mitigation guidance, patch test quality criteria, and patches all versions/languages at the same time. If I am the responsible administrator deploying and managing a dynamic web farm, for example, these criteria might be strong considerations when selecting my software components. Workload Required Security Features is one I have added based upon feedback I received when I published an earlier strawman in the Microsoft Security Newsletter. The work to flush this out still needs to be done, but the idea is as follows. What security features are necessary to lock down the security for _any_ OS deployment? What security features would be necessary for a secure deployment of a dynamic web server in a particular business scenario? A database server? For a given scenario, we would work to identify features like identification & authentication, # of biometrics supported, remote encrypted connectivity, comprehensive security auditing, etc, that would be useful decision making critiria. If security metrics is an area you care about, then comment on these high level categories. Are they too narrow, too broad? If/once we get some refinement on the high level criteria, we can split off some individual threads for each category and try to flush out a list of criteria. Jeff -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Jeff Jones <jrjones@online.microsoft.com> Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50456
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    - Why is XP listening on these ports? I have just installed XP Pro + SP1 out of the box onto a new machine, starting with a full disk format. The machine has no network card or modem yet, so it has had no opportunity to talk to the outside world. I have made no attempt to configure any services, and have not installed any other software (not even the Feb 2004 Security Update CD). So I am a little mystified as to why netstat -an reports the following: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TCP: 0.0.0.0, listening on ports 135, 445, 1025 and 5000. UDP: 0.0.0.0, ports 135, 445, 500, 1026 127.0.0.1, ports 123, 1028, 1900 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What's going on here? -- Ian Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50450
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    - can't install new security updates I'm having problems when some of my users run windowsupdate. This is the error they get. No Updates Were Installed The following items failed to install. To try installing them again, click review and install updates, and then click Install Now again. Security Update for Windows XP (KB######) I have a good copy of the executable files, but when I copy and run them from certain users machines, I get the a setup error: KB835732 Setup could not backup registry key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\MUILanguages\RC\r tcdll.dll to file C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB835732$\reg00003. 1314: A required privilege is not held by the client. Anybody know what the issue is? Thanks in advance Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50449
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    - Smart card enroll station and windows 200 clients Scenario PKI deployed in a Windows 2003 enterprise server environment, 2000/XP client smart cards are mainly used for logon authentication is the domai several MS documents say that if a smart card has to be used on a 2000 client, the enrollment station by which the smart card is prepared must run on windows 2000 (not XP); is has to be used on XP or 2003 it can be prepared on 200/XP/2003 Is it right? Actually I have 2 win2000 client that are able to logon even if the smart card has been prepared on a XP enroll station Am I worng or I have misunderstood something TIA Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50441
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    - Good Resource http://www.pacosdrivers.com First thing I would like to say is that if you scroll down the page and look on the left side you will get to a section titled free software, and under that is a section of free anti-virus and firewalls. Just fyi for people looking. Also, the search does a decent job for returning relevant posts for people who use searches a lot. It has several other features that you all may find interesting such as dll search. Enjoy. -Bill Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50440
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    - windows security updates I've tried to install the IE security updates that I need. The update dialog box appears and the downloads and installs are supposed to be occurring but nothing actually happens. I've tried this a couple of times. What could be wrong? there is no progress indicated on either the downloads or installs. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50435
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    - Passwords Where are passwords and user names stored in Windows and browsers? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50432
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    - something has possesed my computer,I need an exorcist! hi..I am at wits end, I have yahoosbc as my isp, xp and explorer 6.0. I am being plagued by a virus which is directing me to 4 different ads at different times. They have icons planted on my startup,their names are in my favorites (in fact some of my favs just link right to them),they are also listed in my tools section. I have Norton antivirus,zone alarm pro and noadware. Norton did detect and delete a virus called download.tagdoor and something called crypt.win32 was detected in my comp. memory but it could not do anything about it. I tried turning system restore off, restarting in safemode,running scans,etc. Nothing shows up anymore in the antivirus scan but my computer has been taken over by these ads called timeclock,tramadol,sell future payments and another telling me that i am surfing porn and need to be protected. Adware does not detect anothing either. Please...I am not that computer savvy what can i do? I also now have firewalls installed and all the latest patches etc...I want my computer back! Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50431
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    - Pabear can you help? I am wondering why i cant install deepsiteextractor4.exe from symantec. Please do not say to contact them cause i know i can do that. I have win98se and was wondering if anyone else had this problem with installing that download. thank you so much jrrsygirl@aol Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50419
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    - BROWSER HIJACK Greetings, I keep having my browser hijacked by the following: mk:@MSITStore:C:\WINDOWS\start.chm::/spplain.html Every time I open explorer, there it is. Redirecting my home page to this url. I have installed pest patrol to no avail. I visited a quite a few websites recently, and realised that a dll by the name of hooks.dll was placed on the desktop. I also noticed an .exe in the temp folder named lokk.exe I deleted them but have not yet emptied the recycle bin. Can someone please help. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50414
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    - ZoneAlarm update For those of you using ZoneAlarm firewall, there is now a new version (4.5.594.000). You're welcome. Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50413
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    - any conflict with Symantec? I had to uninstall my Symantec Norton Internet Security software to install the MN-700 Broadband Networking Wireless-G Base Station. Is there any conflicts that should prevent me from reinstalling the Interent Security progam now that the Wireless base station is working? Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50407
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    - UNCLEARABLE "READ ONLY" ON DIRS I WANT TO SHARE I can't seem to clear the "read only" attribute on directories in the All Users and Shared Documents directories and so cannot access them through any of the other computers on my peer to peer network. What am I missing here? Stressman Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50402
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    - WE NEED TO STOP SPYWARE!!! I use the internet alot, and i get way to much spyware. I hate it and I hate all those people who make it, we need to stop spyware, I think it is rediculious how we can get no privacy and no control on this, this is what is killing computers, such a great invention. Its funny because, we pay so much for a computer and we can't use it with out being traced or invaded, we really need to have something done, we need to form some kind of organization to get rid of this nasty thing for good, I think, we need to unite and fight this thing. I have spyware and ad removers, I do, they work like crap, I have like 6 of them, of coarse they help, they work well but not good enough, we need to have something done. Im thinking that if we don't use Kazaa and those kinds of spyware programs, we can go to other programs that are spyware free like shareazaa(if correct spelling). Other programs as well that use it, should not be used anymore. I think microsoft is partially responsible for this fiasco as well, they build great software and allow companies to invade our computers and we cannot control this, it is actually the biggest load of B.S. ever. I am angered greatly since I do web design and design programs and I have to deal with all this junk. I can't take it and I know people who do have it, don't like it. I am calling out to people who read this to help do something. We all need it. Another thing that amazes me as well, that some companies make money off of our information that they take with out my or anyones permission, they take everything of ours and can control browser settings, make icons on your computer, practically hijacking your computer and you have no control. This is all I have to say to the big company Microsoft, you make such good software, then defend it and protect your investment. We pay darn good money for this and others play us like they're our puppet master, we can't do anything, so next time you make another Internet Explorer, defend your product and help us, you started a legacy and now its turned into a disgusting show. I can barely use it now, I have to go to other browsers that are not popular or really connected to IE, like Real One Player Browser and Netscape. Finishing this message off, WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING, SO PLEASE HELP US!! (E-mail me if you have anything in mind about SPYWARE at vrakas@vrakas.cjb.net) ------------------- Haralambous Vrakas vrakas@vrakas.cjb.net CEO and President of Vrakas Company http://www.vrakas.cjb.net Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50381
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    - info on efs Hi and i need the option to remove the data without the coiche of restore it from hard disk... The usal solution of use NT security and delete the file is not very enaugth becouse i think there is some tools for restore the file from HD.... Im thinking to go in that way..... Use EFS. i take a user remove recovery agent i export the user certificate on a CD When i need to delete the file i will encript the file with user certificate and then i delete the user.... Is still possible rescue the file without the certificate ? nay opinion is apriciated daniele Tag: Effects of Port-Blocking on Applications Tag: 50380

Hi, I am considering blocking certain ports on my workstation that are well known to be used by viruses. For example
I could block 2283 which the W32/Dumaru.ad virus listens on.
I don't expect to be running any servers on this port
However, some programs like Internet Explorer, occasionally use this port to go outbound
From what I can tell, Internet Explorer, Outlook, MMC, and other apps seem to just tr
ascending ports and if they can't connect on 2283, they'll connect on 2284. Is that true?
Also, will blocking 2283 or other non-registered ports (i.e. i am not talking about port 80) for all communications have bad effects on any Windows/Microsoft programs
Thanks

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