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    - How to call a remote program through SSH tunnel and pass a local file as parameter? Ok, If I would have the program on the local machine I could call this from the command line by a statment like myprog myfile.dat Unfortunately the program is on another machine installed. Between the two machines there is an already successfully running SSH connection. How do I call in this scenario the remote progr myprog and pass the local file myfile.dat? cu Peter Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67314
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    - trusted root certification authorities in win xp 5.1 hello just recently browsed thru the list of trusted root certs installed in my xp machine's trusted root store and was a little bit shocked to find some certs that do not look at all familiar, ones that i'm sure i did not approve (would remember it)...eg, does anyone who this root ca is: CN = NetLock Expressz (Class C) Tanusitvanykiado OU = Tanusitvanykiadok O = NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft. L = Budapest C = HU -- security guru wannabe Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67311
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    - Ext Drive Encrypted Files Deny Access Posted to: microsoft.public.security; microsoft.public.security.homeusers; microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin; microsoft.public.security.crypto: Is there a better group? HI, If this looks familiar, that's because it is. Originally I posted this to two ng's, neither of which I can find now. You'll understand why shortly, if you consider my short-term memory problems <g>. I think I can restate it a lot better now, too. Any and all assistance/advice much appreciated. XP Pro, completely updated SP2/hotfix, two 80Gig internal, not RAID et al, one ext 160Gig external, no SCSI. Short Story: 1. Accidentally encrypted data on external ACOM USB 160 Gig drive. Included my Full/Incremental backup done recently. It was a mis-click and I stopped it, but it had already finished. Folders also were encrypted. Then of course, I "forgot" it happened: until I needed the files, of course. They are WINZIP files, encrypted, I'm fairly sure, by XP EFS, but could not swear that winzip didn't do it. It -looks- like EFS did the encryption. 2. Later, trying to track down files disappearing for no reason, eventually C became trashed. 3. OK, got our my ASR floppy, booted on it, all went fine until it wouldn't accept my backup CDs as valid files. They were created with the system Backup function. I don't remember doing a Verify operation. 4. Upon boot, got an error message; bad hardware. Didn't believe it. 5. Reformat/reinstall XP. 5a XP CD would NOT let me delete the partition on C, nor would it let me install to C. It was so adamant, and yes, I've used it before and think all I had to do was delete the partition first, to put XP on C., that I finally acquesced and said OK, put it on D. No problems, boots fine from D for the boot disk. I'll worry about drive letter assignments later; right now I've only got a minimal install anyway - nothing but XP, Norton, Firewall; no antispy stuff yet. SYNOPSIS: -- I ass-u-me when I formatted, I got new keys and certificates, right? And that's why I can't access the files on my external USB drive? -- I DID manage to decrypt the Folders, so future files won't be encrypted; that's why I think it's EFS produced encryption and not Winzip's. But, I can't find a way to get at any of the Files that are encrypted. -- OK, I"ve managed to recover from lost passowords, all kinds of things, so there must be a way to decrypt those Files, either to the same drive or to another drive. Folders are UNencrpted now, but I can only copy them around their own drive, not to another drive where they might expand. None are R, H, or S. But danged if I can find it! I"ve seen a couple of similarities on these groups, but none with a solution that worked for me; either they weren't applicable or the thread ended with a terse microsoft reference, most of which I'd already looked at and tried. I've been thru many MSKB articles with no joy. I've tried Cipher also, to no avail. My resources are about exhausted, so I'm looking for help here. So the ultimate question is, in view of the above information: HOW can I load, decrypt or otherwise manipulate those encrypted files in order to recover them? Although it doesn't appear an advantage, I'd easily consider another format if it would open up any avenues. I'm no guru, but you can talk about how to get to and use most of the Admin Tools, etc., so you don't have to completely hold my hand, but ... this is new territory for me, so please keep that in mind. I also have Partition Magic 8, though not loaded yet, if that means anything to anyone. Pop --- Microsoft's Security might not be all that good, but, so far, it's PERFECT with those files! Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67304
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    - AZEsearch scumbag hijacker prog. How can I get rid of this scumbag hijacker and unwanted crap that my kid unwittingly downloaded and accepted?!!!!!! Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67301
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    - Child Domain Security Mark Minasi's Windows 2003 book states that one of the reason to create seperate Domain instead of OU is security. DC at an unsecure branch office for example. According to Mark's book if the DC at an unsecure branch get's compromised, since it's a seperate domain, only that domain will be compromised. I'm planning on doing the same thing with my network. We have a Company.dom domain and I'm planning on creating child domain for each branches ex) west.company.dom, east.company.dom etc. Is creating seperate domain for security reason that I stated above a good practice? Does parent AD really gets protected when child domain gets compromised? Does child domain DC contains a copy of parent domains AD? Does what kind of trust relationship that child domain have with parent domain matters in the case? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67299
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    - win update connecting to unknown level 3 address while updating my machine at v4.winowsupdate.microsoft.com I find that some of the updates are being downloaded from an "unknown level three .net" address. Obviously these addresses do not resolve back to Microsoft. Are these updates genuine or has my machine been hijacked? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67296
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    - Local Workstation Admin I would like to get a feel for suggestions on the local admin account. Do your field techs know what the password is? Do you change it when one of them leave? Are there any standards posted on the Internet? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67286
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    - Account Lockout Event 675 I am seeing a very strage issue on my network. My user account and others are being locked out multiple times per day. After checking the Security logs on my DC and using the various lockout tools, I notice that dozens of computers in my location make attempts to logon with my user credentials. The same computer doesn't keep trying but lots of them just try once, eventually locking out my account. I have checked the obvious, services using my account, mapped drives and everything else I read in the Account Lockout white paper. Anyone have any ideas on what this could be? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67279
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    - False MSN advertisement or not? First a strange thing has happened when I turned on my computer. A passport login window came up out of nowhere asking for my password. I am afraid I may have inadvertently allowed myself to be hacked. How can I find out for sure if I have? Secondly after this I immediately received this in my e-mail: From: MSN Search Date: 02/03/05 19:51:06 To: soulsentinal@hotmail.com Subject: Introducing the more precise, more powerful new MSN Search. The website address comes up as: http://www.imagine-msn.com/search/tour/desktop.aspx The claim of this site is that it can give you a more precise serch engine on your desktop. Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67278
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    - Windows XP SP2 and IE 6.0 security settings -- web pages on local drive I have a Windows XP Home SP1 system to which I have applied SP2. The system is completely up-to-date according to Windows Update. I am using Internet Explorer 6.0 with the default browser security settings. This problem started after applying SP2. I have built several web sites on this machine. When these are uploaded to a server, I can view them with Internet Explorer 6.0 without any problem. (IE 6 show the security zone as "Internet".) If I try to view the SAME files on my local drive, the "Information Bar" pops up with the message "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer. Click here for options...". (IE 6 shows the security zone as "Local Intranet".) I have tried every Local Intranet security setting. There doesn't seem to be any way to display local web pages containing active content without a security alarm. I've even tried defining the local directory as a Trusted site. Other software that generate local HTML that is viewed via Internet Explorer, Belarc Advisor for example, have the same problem. It looks to me like it's an Internet Explorer problem. I'm baffled as to why content from the Internet would be allowed, but the SAME content from a local drive would be disallowed. (I guess it's because the pages are reading graphics and other content from the local drive.) If anyone knows of browser setting or some other work around that would eliminate this problem, I would be happy to try them. According to a friend, it doesn't happen with the Firefox browser. I would like to continue to use Internet Explorer to verify the sites. Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67277
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    - Cant Access My Account I cant access my old account, my password was hacked and i cant remember my secret question. what can i do to get help? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67275
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    - windows update errors i had to reinstall windows (clean install) but i can not update through windows update no matter what i do i have searched and done 90% of the knowlege based articles and still i can not update windows Also im getting alot of pop ups like "nixad" "antieye" "errorfix" "updatenow" etc. i have ran spybot windows beta and avg antivirus does anyone know what is going on or how to fix it Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67273
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    - Shopping Wizard Yesterday I was doing some window shopping when suddenly any new page I went to pulled up this wierd generic info page. I installed and completed several scans with Antispyware (which I have sereval other issues), but the big problem I think I have is the program that installed itself on my C drive called Shopping Wizard. When I try to remove teh program it takes me to an uninstall websit that does not have a signature. The address is: http://looking-for.cc/uninstall/ShoppingWizard.html. I am afraid to download this to get rid of the program. Has anyone heard of this?? Is it safe?? -- carol Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67260
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    - User cannot access resources remotely Windows 2000 AD Domain Microsoft Exchange 2000 Windows XP Professional Microsoft Office 2003 User uses VPN to connect to the Corp. network via the dial-up ISP. When connected to the network locally the user has full access to all file shares, printers and the exchange server. When the user connects through the VPN using a dial-up ISP, they cannot access the network resources. When attempting to access file shares or exchange server, two entries are made in the system event log. Similar to the ones listed below -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Event Type: Warning Event Source: LSASRV Event Category: SPNEGO (Negotiator) Event ID: 40961 Date: 2/3/2005 Time: 1:56:48 PM User: N/A Computer: 8CXLX41 Description: The Security System could not establish a secured connection with the server cifs/server.domain.com. No authentication protocol was available. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Event Type: Warning Event Source: LSASRV Event Category: SPNEGO (Negotiator) Event ID: 40960 Date: 2/3/2005 Time: 1:56:48 PM User: N/A Computer: 8CXLX41 Description: The Security System detected an attempted downgrade attack for server cifs/server.domain.com. The failure code from authentication protocol Kerberos was "There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. (0xc000005e)". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a user specific issue and doesn't seem to be related to the machine. A second user can log on and access the network resources from this machine and the first user connects using the same method on a second machine and encounters the same problem. I've contacted Microsoft Product support and they recommend I contact the computer vendor, but Im pretty confident that its a OS issue. Thanks for any and all advice Tom Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67259
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    - W2K Server -- local settings versus effective settings Hello, I have a domain of W2K SP 4 member servers and domain controllers. The domain policy is set to allow only members of Domain Admins and Domain Users to logon locally. This is the effective setting, no local settings are configured. Today I was recovering a box from image (and at the time, the box wasn't plugged into the network). After the image loaded, I was unable to logon locally to the box (with the local administrator account); I received an error stating that I was not allow to log on locally. This is where I get confused. The effective settings come from the domain. But the box wasn't plugged into the domain when it rebooted. If there are no local policies set and the box didn't get the domain policies when it booted (because it wasn't talking to the domain), then how did I prevented from logging on locally with the local administrator? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67257
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    - Re-applying old patches Hello, It was recently discovered that the Windows Update website shows that security patch 835732 (4/04) is missing from the W2K machines in our company. This is strange, because this patch was originally applied to our W2K image using the Windows Update site. Also, if a recent patch is run wth the /L switch on the command line, it shows that 835732 *is* installed. In any case, if the patch is re-applied to the machine, Windows Update no longer sees it as missing. So, management has requested that it be re-applied to these machines. When we do this, will all subsequent patches need to be re-applied as well, or are the patches "smart" enough not to overwrite newer files? -- -Jstep Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67250
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    - Error while consuming web services over SSL-The underlying connec. Hi, I'm trying consuming web services over SSL by an ASP .Net client without success. System Architecture: My Server side contains the following layers, starting from the client side: (Client side) WSD firewall Weblogic server. The webservices deployed On the weblogic Protocol: SSL. Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573 Symptoms 1. The handshake completed successfully, (taken from the MMC): â??An SSL client handshake completed successfully. The negotiated cryptographic parameters are as follows. Protocol: SSL 3.0 Cipher: RC4 Cipher strength: 128 MAC: MD5 Exchange: RSA Exchange strength: 1024â?? 2. Iâ??m getting the error message: WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.] emtv1.WebForm1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\emtv1\webform1.aspx.cs:69 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() Facts: 1. Other client (java client) consumes the same services successfully. 2. Overriding the GetWebRequest method not solved the problem. What am I missing? Thanks in advanced, Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67242
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    - BlackHole Adware? I know there is a list of spam sites people can access to use as 'black hole' addresses. Can the same thing be done for ad-ware/spy-ware sites? I don't have the resources to set such a thing up, but if it existed I would push very hard for my employer to use it. I realize the black hole list hasn't stopped spam, so maybe it is a waste of time. Comments? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67241
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    - Error 0x80094001 while enrolling User Certificate I have W2K3 forest with two domains ad.test.com (forest root) and sub.ad.test.com. I have Enterprise CA installed on server in sub.ad.test.com. I modified Cert. Templates security to let users (ib sub domain) Enroll certificates. I configured Computer certificate enrollment with GPO. Most of comps get their certificate. But I cannot Enroll User Certificate using Web or MMC. When I try I get: "Certificate Services denied request 106 because The request subject name is invalid or too long. 0x80094001 (-2146877439). The request was for SUB\Administrator. Additional information: Error Constructing or Publishing Certificate" Still I can Enroll Basic EFS certificate. Please Help! Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67240
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    - COM Object Shutdown Rights Hello! I have windows 2000 server with some COM objects. Some of them sometimes stop working (hang) after object Shutdown and started again it works fine. So I would like to give rights () to shudown object (it maybe even right to manage all of Component Services) to my HelpDesk people without giving them Admin rights on server. Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67239
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    - Delegates viewing files I need to know if there is a way to find out if a delegate has opened up attachments in my mailbox. Also, is there a way of detecting this in the future. I am running Windows XP Pro with Office XP on a Microsoft server 2003. Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67229
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    - Ports Security Hi, I would like to know whether it is possible to block a specific port number for outgoing or incoming connections? I am using windows 2000 professional and would like to know any solutions for the same. For example, if I want to block a port number say 1255 for outgoing connections but allow it for incoming connections. Also can I do it dynamically, i.e. with out restarting my machine. Any information would be of great help. Thanks, Abhishek. Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67228
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    - Safe mode hangs I have a persistent istbar trojan and any attempt to run spyware cleaners in safe mode causes it to hang. I have winXP SP2 and the problem is the same for 3 different spyware programs. They work fine with a normal boot, just not in safe mode - however removing the istbar trojan this way causes it to return. Any advice appreciated. Jen Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67216
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    - hotmail hijack I have suspision that an ex-girlfriend has hijacked my hotmail account, the password was a strong password, and she was the only one that knew it. Any way the security question in the account has been changed to denie me from resetting. The bad part is that she is logging on to my msn and pretending to be me, I had a lot of contacts and cannot notify them all. She is also sending email pretending to be me. I have got the police involved (prank phone calls also) but they are currently unable to do anything. My question is, is there anything I can do to have this account closed? or get it back? - please help Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67215
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    - Email requesting info for MSN Received email from someone reporting to be MSN requesting information and stating that my account would be deleted within 4 days if we didn't answer the questions Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67211
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    - Email requesting info for MSN Received email from someone reporting to be MSN requesting information and stating that my account would be deleted within 4 days if we didn't answer the questions Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67210
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    - How risky are these open ports for online gaming. My PC XPsp2, has a up to date firewall and antivirus. I want to play and host games online, but the gaming arena/website requires me to open these ports: 6667 (IRC) TCP 3783 (Voice Chat Port) TCP 27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat) UDP 28900 (Master Server List Request) TCP 29900 (GP Connection Manager) TCP 29901 (GP Search Manager) TCP 13139 (Custom UDP Pings) UDP 6515 (Dplay UDP) UDP 6500 (Query Port) TCP how risky is this, and is there a way of still being secure with the ports open. Thanks. Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67206
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    - internet explorer security settings certan items dont open when i open pages on internet explorer it say check settings and refresh what should internet explorer security settings be set at in advanced settings ? what should be ticked and not ticked ? please help if you can thank you PIPP -- ukpipp Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67205
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    - what is this dllhost.exe is dllhost.exe a virus or is it a window file? can i shutdown this process? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67193
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    - help on window security update? How do i find out if the window critical security update is truly installed techically? because when i had hp media center 2004/sp2 and all the critical update and when I upgraded it to HP media center 2005 upgrade cd, i went to add/remove after installing media center 2005 and notice all the critical security update was not there anymore, so i went to window update and check and notice there is seven critical window update available but there all 0KB/0mb size with exclamation point next to those security update saying its already installed on your computer, i went to check add/remove and its not there at all, so i decided to installed it again when i did it didn't download the update instead it intiliazing....done installed.. after seeing this i went to add/remove to check if it's installed and all the critical security update are installed. this is why i want to find out if its truly installed? what is intiliazing? does it mean all the 7 critical security update file is on my computer already and window update is just reinstalling the security update again. please help? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67192
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    - Virus?!? Hey, I dled something of the internet, and it only opened and went to a black screen and closed. I tried to delete the file after restarting but it tells me the file is currently in use. I am assuming its a virus, How can I find a way to delete the file? -- North Coast Smoker Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67189
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    - Significant sub-authorities in determining duplicate machine SIDs We've been trying to troubleshoot some GPO problems lately and while doing so determined that some of our computer labs had duplicate machine SIDs for our XP clients. Some of the computers had exact duplicates of the SID. Others had duplicate RIDs in the SID sub-authority components. Does it matter if any portion of the SID is a duplicate of another? Or does the entire SID have to be a duplicate for it to matter? What should I be looking for? Thanks! -- David Shriner Systems Administrator Newport News Public Schools Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67187
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    - Certificates - What am I missing? To secure communication between my citrix server and its secure gateway in the dmz it is recommend to use a server certificate. I have an internal enterprise CA set up on a Windows 2003 server. When I go t0 the the web page to request a certificate from the CA the options I have available are: User, Administrator, EFS Recovery Agent, Basic EFS, Web Server, Exchange User, and Exchage Signature Only. What am I missing? I'm confused about what type of certificate I should be requesting. Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67186
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    - base line XP kernal protection and folder protection, any? Base line security: 100% new hardware. new xp+sp2 pro no Domain, two accounts: admin and nobody admin is normal install admin. nobody is group USERs only.( no other groups assigned) Is is possible to have a user defined ( using builtin groups or custom) that will be locked out of the windows folder. To my knowledge , the answer is no. ( whole or in part) I wish this feature to protect the windows folders from a virus , etc. I am aware XP has a builtin protector but it has been breached by some worms already. Is there any 3rd party programs that will protect windows.? " OS Code Protector, etc " Is there any hope that Long horn will improve this issue? Print and file sharing is off, fire wall Sp2 is fully active and default. Thanks for any help. My goal is to protect folders from other users and to protect the windows folders from all by admin. PS: I am already aware that I , as a user can set my folders to only accessable by me and admin. I am not asking for Anti Virus or Antispy where as I have this in spades now. Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67181
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    - TroubleShooter workaround The recent service pack for ie.6, kb889293 has knockout the troubleshooter in win98se again. The workaround hotfix is still available but TShoot.inf cannot be found to reinstall. Any ideas for quick fix? Also, somewhat less functional Files&Folders search after installing kb889293. -- Harry Domain Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67169
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    - W2K3 RRAS P2P Tunnel w/ 3rd Party Appliances Can anyone provide success stories, or recommendation with regard to setting up a Point to Point VPN Tunnel Solution with 3rd Party SOHO products at WAN sites back to a Windows 2003 Server running RRAS as the VPN Host Server? Thanks, Jeff Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67168
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    - SQL Server over the Web, what are my options? SQL Server DB is at location A IIS Server with the website is at location B The website at location B needs to be able to run sql queries against the DB at location A over the internet. The options I am considering are: 1) VPN between A and B. What are the pros and cons? 2) On the firewall at B, forwarding traffic from A to SQL server. Would use SSL encryption for the DB connection but still not sure this is secure enough. Do those sound like valid secure options? Are there other options I should be considering. Thanks -- Darren Jensen Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67159
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    - GPO on computers desktop Hi. I created a OU and moved a computer account on it. I created a computer policy (GPO), but when i restart it, the computer not show the policies apply. If i create a policy for user, this work. So what i can do ? Thanks Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67155
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    - Monitor Group Membership Changes Although it's possible to detect an update to a group using the security event log, this doesn't give the detail of the change. Does anyone know of a mechanism or tool that would allow the state of a group to be logged before and after a change was made ? In other operating systems, this sort of thing can be done with a configurable "exit" - i.e. an event trap that could call user written code to perform a required action, e.g. log something to a file, generate an email, etc. If a configurable exit were available between the membership change being requested and being actioned that would allow the content of the group to be writen out. Similarly, after the change had been committed an exit could allow the logging of the group post change. This would allow an audit trail of exactly what changes were made to a group over time. Does anyone know if this exists in an Active Directory environment ? If not, are there any third party tools that might achieve the same result and any speculation on how they achieve this ? Thanks for any information or suggestions. Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67151
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    - Unidentified Files I have recently acquired several files of the form BQSHYJ2R.ocx in the Windows folder. From a 'Goggle' search I understand these files are associated with ActiveX controls but in what respect I couldn't determine. Are these files dangerous in any way and require removal or are they an essential part of the 'system'? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67144
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    - thanks Thanks for your help. I finally solve the problem. - OP1 <ohpusone@yahoo.co.jp> Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67139
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    - I have been asked to leave the company for having spotted serious security breaches Dear Colleagues: At the tail end of this post is my original post with regards to this matter. Basically, I went and told my superiors that our network was seriously exposed. Today I had a meeting and, guess what, it was suggested that I find another job. This is great, essentially having the dipshits at work side with a completely ignorant person who knows nothing about security. Guess what industry I work in? Education! Thats right folks, education. Maybe the people who are in education need a bit of it themselves. And we wonder why our system is so screwed up! Curious George Dear Colleagues: For the life of me I don't know why I have to ask this question since the answer is so obvious, however, I need to have others tell me that I am not completely insane. I work at a place where we have a myriad of wireless access points and NO, I am not writing from there at present. NONE of the wireless access points has any form of security on them whatsoever. No WEP, no CHAP. . . no nothing. Everything is open so you could walk into our joint, grab an IP address and surf the web to your heart's content. Here is the problem. My boss insists that its "no big deal" and that since the servers are on the inside and protected, we really don't have a thing to worry about. Furthermore, my boss is under the impression that since we are situated in a wide area, that nobody would be able to get into our network because of this distance. Needless to say, my boss does not consider somebody sneaking into a parking lot with a laptop, a good network card and a directional bazooka antenna a possibility. So here is what I have to explain to my boss' boss and, perhaps, the board of directors. . . and here is where I can't help but laugh. I hope that I will be able to keep a straight face come Monday when I have to explain myself to people why its important. Okay, so I know the analogies. For example, I understand that not having a secure wireless network with many Waps and high gain transmission antennas is the same as putting cables out to anybody within 'x' amount of yards with a sign that says "free internet access", but since I am going to be asked these obvious questions, just what type of damage could somebody do? Yeah, I know about denial of service attacks, yeah I also know about enumeration and password guessing, but considering that we have an SQL server on the inside of our network (no, the sa account password is not null) what are we talking about. I can envision so many things. Like somebody just sitting there caputring packets to get things like usernames, passwords and the like, but come on. . . what else could they do. I have read my boss the riot act many times, but this is now going to go in front of somebody over my boss' head, so, aside from giving them worst case scenarios, end of the world analogies, etc., how else could people break in. Creative responses are appreciated and will be rewarded with much praise. I can't believe that I have to actually explain this to people, and this entire thing would last about two seconds when it comes to talking with a computer professional, but you see, my boss is under the impression that they are a computer professional because they received a Master's degree in Comp Sci back in the 80's. I know that this line of thinking is dangerous, but I really want some creative answers to put my point across strongly, and yet professionally. Although I realize that this post will likely be the butt of many jokes (which I will appreciate immensely) I never the less would appreciate a bit of useful information in your responses. I am going to have a serious drink now, and then bang my head against the wall. Thanks in advance, CC Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67126
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    - spam I find this in my email today and it looks wierd. I guess that I am trying to alert people to this email but I don't know how. This is the message that I received from HOTMAIL STAFF today. Can someone find out if it is real or not ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From : Hotmail Staff <suspension@msnusers.com> Sent : Monday, January 31, 2005 10:41 AM To : vppaul@msn.com Subject : Members Support | | | Inbox Dear MSN Member, During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedure, we have detected a slight error in your information. This might be due to either of the following reasons: 1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address). 2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process. 3. An innability to accurately verify your selected option of subscription due to an internal error within our processors. Please update and verify your information by clicking the link below: https://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=6528 If your account information is not updated within 48 hours then your ability to use your MSN account will become restricted. Sincerely, Please do not reply to this e-mail. If you have general questions regarding your account, please click Help in the upper right corner for the MSN Hotmail comprehensive online help. Â© 2004 MIcrosoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The link wants to know your SS# and I know that's a bad thing. I felt that I should do something. Paul Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67125
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    - Cannot open encrypted files Hi all, I have HP server with Win2000 domain controller and 10 clients, my problem is one of these clients has encrypted files (large document, mail, photo) in all the suden the DC crashed (SW issue) so i did a new installation for DC and ISA and Exchange in other directory...But still I can't access the encrypted files How to solve such problem??? Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67110
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    - 560 Audit Failure I am seeing the following event in the security log for all of our Win2k3 servers. We use a security template to configure items like auditing events, user rights, etc.. I am not seeing the event in the Win2k servers. Any help would be appreciated. Event Type: Failure Audit Event Source: Security Event Category: Object Access Event ID: 560 Date: 1/31/2005 Time: 9:21:01 AM User: NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE Computer: <ServerName> Description: Object Open: Object Server: Security Object Type: File Object Name: \Device\NetbiosSmb Handle ID: - Operation ID: {0,20574410} Process ID: 900 Image File Name: C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe Primary User Name: LOCAL SERVICE Primary Domain: NT AUTHORITY Primary Logon ID: (0x0,0x3E5) Client User Name: - Client Domain: - Client Logon ID: - Accesses: SYNCHRONIZE ReadData (or ListDirectory) WriteData (or AddFile) Privileges: - Restricted Sid Count: 0 Access Mask: 0x100003 Thanks, Brian Cohen Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67101
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    - Internet Access - Require logon Hi all, I was hoping someone may be able to point me in the direction of an enterprise app that would allow us to require users to log on when they wanted to access the internet (browse, ftp, telnet ect) We'd also need to only allow certain individuals any access at all. We're running Windows Servers 2003 and completely WindowsXP workstations. While at Ford for training, I noticed they use something similar to this. Anyone know what that product may be? Thanks! Matt Tag: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties Tag: 67099
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I'm wondering if anyone has experienced the following: we recently moved and
purchased a new PC and new internet service. Neither my husband nor I can
hardly access MSN or Hotmail (two different accounts). We both receive a
message that we have been blocked for trying to log on too may times with an
incorrect password, which is not the case. We've had our accounts for so
long that we can't remember the answers to our secret questions, etc. so we
cannot change our passwords. Any ideas why this may be happening?

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Re: Hotmail and MSN major difficulties by Chris

Chris
Sat Feb 05 03:46:50 CST 2005

Months ago I had some weirdness happen to me along the line of what you are
describing. I had to contact Customer Support and they were able to help.
Unfortunate I never got an answer to what was causing the problem.

Just in case, make certain that your computers are not infected by any
viruses, worms or SpyWare.

I know that this doesn't help much. Just wanted to let you know that you may
not have caused the problem.

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Chris Rolon

"Chula" <Chula@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:56829B74-7A2B-496F-B29C-B59AFF6D4669@microsoft.com...
> I'm wondering if anyone has experienced the following: we recently moved
and
> purchased a new PC and new internet service. Neither my husband nor I can
> hardly access MSN or Hotmail (two different accounts). We both receive a
> message that we have been blocked for trying to log on too may times with
an
> incorrect password, which is not the case. We've had our accounts for so
> long that we can't remember the answers to our secret questions, etc. so
we
> cannot change our passwords. Any ideas why this may be happening?

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