Techno Babble

DEP Compliance

February 12, 2009 by Guest pkelley

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I have a C# .Net application (EXE and DLL) that I want to make Data Execution Prevention (DEP) compliant. What do I need to add to my code to do this? What the application does: The EXE loops around with a list of e-mail user ID's (uids), passing each uid down into the DLL where the DLL makes a SOAP connection to Exchange Web Services (EWS) to retrieve calendar information. In my unit test, I purposely pass down an invalid uid and wait for, and catch, the SOAP/Web Exception. At that point, I get the dreaded, "...Windows has closed this program..." message box, and my EXE is no longer permitted to execute. The uid's that follow, are valid uid's and wh…

Last reply by Guest, February 12, 2009

Windows defender error message during scan

February 12, 2009 by Guest PClinks

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During a Windows defender scan i get the error message "0x8050800c" The last successful scan was on 04/02/2009, prior to an new update for Windows defender definitions. This message was displayed every time the scan hit a registry entry for VNC. As I no longer had VNC installed i removed the entry and scan was able to continue past that point. However it now fails at the following reg entry; HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Internet Settings\Zonemap\Ranges\Range1\\:range I am thinking there is some sort of malware that is causing the error. I have installed Spy bot, Ad-aware, CCleaner run scans with all. And have been running TrendMi…

Last reply by Guest, February 12, 2009

Export Certificates in PKCS #12 format

February 11, 2009 by Guest BillL

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Hi, I'm trying to export certificates in Personal Information Exchange format. When I try to use the Certificate Export WIzard from the CA or from the Certifcates mmc snapin on my desktop the option to export to a PKCS #12 format is always greyed out. I've also tried to do a certutil -getkey using the certificate's serial number but it comes back with "cannot find object or property" . The certificate template does have the box "Allow private key to be exported" checked. Is there a setting in the Certifcate template that must be set to allow it to be exported in this format? Or am I missing something else? Thanks.

Last reply by Guest, February 11, 2009

Removing malware from an infected PC - battling antivirus programs 1 2 3 4

January 20, 2009 by Guest ~BD~

75 replies
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Quote: "Malware can be so hard to remove that walking away from an infected copy of Windows and, instead, restoring a known clean copy (such as the factory fresh state) will often be the right approach. " http://blogs.computerworld.com/battling_an...?source=NLT_SEC

Last reply by Guest, February 11, 2009

NPS Authentication

February 11, 2009 by Guest Anthony

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Hi, I have a Windows 2008 server which I am intergrating into our network and now want it to handle RADIUS Authentication with our Sonicwall firewall as its client. I have follwed the instructions on the following site: http://bunkerhollow.com/blogs/matt/archive...entication.aspx I have also changed the IP address on the Sonicwall but when I try to do a test I get the message Authentication Failed. Can anyone help? Thanks Anthony

Last reply by Guest, February 11, 2009

VLAN Security

February 11, 2009 by Guest Mark Sassman

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I have a network with servers and desktops that I want to put on one vlan segment, and laptops on a seperate vlan. I have seperate security zones on the router for laptops and desktops. Laptops are used with full admin rights, so my concern is a laptop infecting the rest of the network. I would like to open ports between the 2 security zones for file sharing, exchange email, antivirus updates, etc. My question is, if I open ports for these functions, am I defeating the purpose of segregating my networks.

Last reply by Guest, February 11, 2009

Re: How to assign a User certificate to an ADAM User.

February 10, 2009 by Guest Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]

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This would best be asked in the security newsgroup. I have copied them in on this question. -- Paul Bergson MVP - Directory Services MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci 2008, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4 http://www.pbbergs.com Please no e-mails, any questions should be posted in the NewsGroup This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "sh" <sh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:24E4C427-684F-42C7-B03D-48E73596D26C@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue"> > Hello, > I had a Question about ADAM User. > We have a PKI based on Windows 2003. Also we have an ADAM Instance …

Last reply by Guest, February 10, 2009

Help on disabling windows system restore on Vista Home Premium

February 8, 2009 by Guest Charlie R

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I need help on disabling windows system restore, I followed the procedure that windows help provides but i can not uncheck the c drive on: computer/(right click) properties/ system protection because there is a message that says "configuration is disabled by group policy". You should know that this is my home computer, is stand alone not connected to any network or domain and I am running as administrator. thanks.. -- Charlie R

Last reply by Guest, February 10, 2009

XP sys restore to infected point and M$Defender problem?

February 10, 2009 by Guest poster

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After MS Defender update, it cleared spyware(that Nod 32 left unnoticed) ,but then dsl modem stopped working and cannot be uninstalled(reinstalled again, because uninstall utility says it is already uninstalled although it is there). Restoring to some point before Defender update when modem was ok and comparing with the registry copy after the Defender intervention(with which tool?) would allow to remove manually the spyware key from reg and keep the modem, provided the sys restore also restored some system files that Defender possibly (accidentally) deleted. What chance is the spyware will not be working without its key and how about some other suggestions ho…

Last reply by Guest, February 10, 2009

Outlook 2007 Read Receipt Security Hole?!

September 30, 2008 by Guest Tyurin, Andrey

10 replies
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I have discovered that Read Receipt feature in Outlook 2007 contain security hole that doesn't appear to be fixed or even described. In "Options\E-mail Options\Tracking Options" I've feature named Read Receipt set to "Never send a response". Recently I received a few messages with titles "Undeliverable mail: Read: ....". After inspecting this mail messages I've found that their mime-headers is OK and it looks like Outlook sent mail messages (without any notifications) titled "Read: ..." to a few SPAM messages in my inbox (IMAP4 account). Of course these spam-messages have Read Receipt option set. I've made simple test to determine is that really bug b…

Last reply by Guest, February 10, 2009

Wifi Security

January 12, 2009 by Guest Sinbad The Sailor

13 replies
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Good Morning All. Over the weekend, I have been helping my neighbour with her wireless internet. It has been set up OK, and has WEP protection, but I want to be sure that it is totally secure. To make sure, I took it upon myself to collect a few tools and attempt to break into her wireless internet connection. The tools in question were popular ones such as AirCrack, AirSnort, Easy Wifi Radar, etc. I want to use them on my laptop, which is an Acer Extensa 5220 with an Broadcom 802.11g Wireless Adaptor and using Windows Vista Home Basic SP1. I cannot configure the wireless adaptor to work with the above programs! I attempted to start AeroDump (to collect …