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Re: Hosts file acting up?
by Guest kc- 0 replies
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Penang wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > Dunno what happened, but somehow my hosts file has been acting up. > > This isn't a joke, it's happening ! > > FYI -- Dual core cpu, 4GB mem, XP SP3, 750GB hd. > > I've never played with the hosts file. Never set anything, ever. > Didn't even know its existence until something gone wrong. > > For no reason at all, the host file has the following entries --- > > = = = = = ===================================== > > 127.0.0.1 go.mail.ru > 127.0.0.1 nova.rambler.ru > 127.0.0.1 google.ad > 127.0.0.1 www.google.ad > 127.0.0.1 google.ae</span> …
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Clear the Paging File at Shutdown What's happening.
by Guest Chuckgo- 5 replies
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182086 Explains How to Clear the Windows Paging File at Shutdown As I can expect shut down will take longer. I am curious, what is going on during this time? A fellow SA said Windows is writing random 1's and 0's Is this in fact what is occuring? -- Chuck Gogolin MCSE Security MCP+I
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Eventlog showing unsuccesfull Login but not which user is trying
by Guest Daniel Lüngen- 0 replies
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I've got plenty of this messages within a Windows 2003 Server which is used for Symantec Backup Exec. Can anybody try to help me to find out which process / user is trying to connect to the server? Additionally I checked all other event-logs and found no corresponding messages that somethin isn't working at the dedicated time. regards, Daniel P.S. "Konto ist gegenwärtig deaktiviert" means that the account which is trying to login is locked. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fehlgeschlagene Anmeldung: Grund: Konto ist gegenwärtig deaktiviert Benutzername: Domäne: Anmeldetyp: 3 Anmeldevorgang: Authz Authentifizierungspaket: Kerberos Name der Ar…
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forgot login password on gateway
by Guest mrnewgui- 4 replies
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My roomate forgot his password on his new gateway desktop. he never set up the password recovery disk or any of that jazz? is he screwed? or is there anything he can do? thanks for your help! -- mrnewgui
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RE: How do I manage local admin accounts without a domain or ADS?
by Guest Matt Maslowski- 1 reply
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Terry, I've been in the same situation in the past.....Please take a look at www.autocipher.com....this is a solution that was developed just for that purpose....and the best thing out of it all....it works like a charm style_emoticons/ Let me know if you have any additional questions. Regards, Matt "Terry" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > I have been tasked with changing the local admin account password on 1500 PCs > in my office. We do not have ADS or a domain. How can this be done? What > recommendations are available?</span>
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Removing Zango spyware
by Guest Swiss Steve- 7 replies
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My computer is infected with Zango and ZangoSAHook.dll which will not delete. Am a very novice computer user - any help would be useful. Many thanks
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FTP connection timedout when Vista Windows Defender active
by Guest Golard- 18 replies
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Hi, Since few years, I'm developping a professionnal software. I want to make it work on Vista SP1, with Windows Defender active. WITHOUT windows defender, it's OK. With Windows Defender active, I've got a FTP error (error n°10060: The current connection has timedout). With Windows Defender active, FTP commands are working in a command console I've add an inbound and an outbound rule in windows defender to open port 20 & 21 but nothing change... My application is using a COM object to do FTP. Please can you help me to make my application work ???
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Please help, no administrator access!
by Guest Nicholas Hanson- 6 replies
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I was led to believe that if you remove your user account from the Administrators group UAC would prompt you when Administrator rights were needed and you could supply the Administrator password to do what you like. In XP when you move your user account out of the Administrators group (I ran as a Power User in XP) it would automatically activate the built-in Administrator account. In Vista this does not seem to occur and so when I removed my account from the Administrators group the only account remaining is the still-disabled Administrator account. With no admin rights I can't add myself back to that group, I can't enable the Administrator account, etc…
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Re: Spoofing Mick Murphy
by Guest Mick Murphy- 4 replies
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The spoofer uses a Newsreader. I use Web Interface. Spoofer crossposts through Newsreader; Web Interface can't. If you click on my name in the reply posts of mine here, my details are visible: name, total number of posts, date of joining, users helped, etc Click on the spoofer's name in HIS reply posts here: my FAKED name, and whatever Address he wants to use, if he wants to use one; and that is it. -- Mad Mike
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Old fool Murphy thinks Jack is spoofing him, the old worthless Sherlock.<VBG>
by Guest Jack the Ripper- 0 replies
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Murphy, you old clown , you couldn't investigate your way out of a paper sack. <g>
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An EFS encryption question.
by Guest Brian Komar- 5 replies
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Not a good idea. The first time that you forget to import the PKCS#12 before you attempt to access a file, a new EFS certificate will be generated From that point on, all newly encrypted files will use the new default EFS key If you want to have the removal of the EFS certificate from software, then I recommend you move to Vista and use a smart-card based EFS certificate Brian "bagassa" <not@available.com> wrote in message news:e8Eqa9INJHA.5692@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> > Good afternoon everyone, > > What I like to do is lock some of my sensitive files using the windows EFS > encryption so that if someone …
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Recreatable: dexplore.exe acts like a malware
by Guest elburze- 0 replies
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on My laptop dexplore.exe acts like a malware. Steps to recreate: 1) open Visual Web Developer 2005 [windowsXP home] 2) go to help menu and click “how do I†3) help window opens, but the mouse pointer icon alternates fast between thinking and idle icon 4) open task manager, and I see dexplore.exe takes 70% of CPU time and never ends even after 10 minutes note: This is recreatable. If I open task manager before the step1, then dexplore.exe stops taking CPU time after 2 seconds; so, seems to me it should be virus/malware. What should I do about this?
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Suitable USB flashdrive to secure Bitlocker
by Guest glr- 0 replies
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Unfortunately, my laptop does not include TPM. So I intend to use the alternative, a USB flash drive. Like most laptops, my PC has ports for the USB flashdrive but also the flash card which phones and cameras use. Can I use the later to secure bitlocker? Thanks in advance for advice. Regards, Greg
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tool to export pfx to file
by Guest hypnotix911- 0 replies
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Hi Is there any non-gui tool to export user certificate in pfx format? I need to script that style_emoticons/ Tnx
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Tracing a Logon ID: for a policy change
by Guest BillK- 2 replies
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Hello, I'm trying to track down who made a change to the default domain audit policy, and the event includes this info (data altered) in an event ID 612: Changed By: User Name: DOMAINCONTROLLER$ Domain Name: OURDOMAIN Logon ID: (0x1,0x4B7) How do I decipher that Logon ID? I've checked a couple of different DC's (including the PDC Emulator) but it still doesn't show me the proper user ID.
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DeepSec In-Depth Security Conference - 10% discount on tickets!
by Guest DONE-IT- 1 reply
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DeepSec In-Depth Security Conference - 10% discount on tickets! Top brass of hackers and IT security meet in Vienna DeepSec conference set on closing dangerous security leaks Vienna - Usually you won't find them on the same side: hackers and security specialists who fend off their attacks. Yet the security conference DeepSec, which takes place from November 11 to 14, is one of the rare events they have joined forces for. "Despite what is generally believed, hackers are not necessarily criminals. Many have made it their goal to point out potentially dangerous security leaks that need to be closed as soon as possible in everyone's interest", says René Pfei…
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Ping: PA Bear
by Guest ~BD~- 14 replies
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Please see: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c...0c-51de7d99758f Comment(s) here - in this thread, please. TIA Dave --
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virus ?
by Guest Didier DIAS- 1 reply
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Bnojour j ai installe un logiciel (rm to mp3 converter) et depuis il a ferme avast antirus et je ne puis plus l ouvrir. il me dit qu avast n est pas une application win32 valide de meme que spybot et ccleaner que faire merci d avance pour votre aide hi there i installed rm to mp3 converter and since i cannot open avast anymore it says that avast isn t a win32 valid application as spybot and ccleaner most of online antiviruses can t find a virus but each time i restart my computer it doesn t load avast and spybot..... please help !!!! thanx in advance and greetings from france my machine vista familial premium edition -- P.S.B. JUDO 3 chemi…
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virus
by Guest Didier DIAS- 0 replies
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Bnojour j ai installe un logiciel (rm to mp3 converter) et depuis il a ferme avast antirus et je ne puis plus l ouvrir. il me dit qu avast n est pas une application win32 valide de meme que spybot et ccleaner que faire merci d avance pour votre aide hi there i installed rm to mp3 converter and since i cannot open avast anymore it says that avast isn t a win32 valid application as spybot and ccleaner most of online antiviruses can t find a virus but each time i restart my computer it doesn t load avast and spybot..... please help !!!! thanx in advance and greetings from france my machine vista familial premium edition -- P.S.B. JUDO 3 chemi…
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security update problem
by Guest eyeguy- 1 reply
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i'm having a problem with an automatic update that keeps appearing daily even after installing it ~ the udate is ~ SECURITY UPDATE FOR MICROSOFT XML CORE SERVICE 4.0 SERVICE PACK 2 (KB936181) ~ should I turn off the auto update function, ALSO I only have service pack 1 installed ~ I made the mistake of always installing it and now have several copies of it ~ not sure if there is an error thats causing it or if its operator error!style_emoticons/ any help would be appreciated ~ thanks -- eyeguy