Threads Replies Last Post 22 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22   Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2007 Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: July 5, 2007 Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: July 10, 2007 This is an advance notification of six security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on July 10, 2007: 3 Bulletins rated as Critical that affects Office, Excel, Windows and .NET Framework 2 Bulletins rated as Important that affects Office, Publisher... 1 05.07.2007 19:27:17 Stop Keep Blocking Program Hello , I recently installed this program. When i opened it it said me that windows had blocked it and gave me two options : Keep Blocking and Allow Program. Maybe you might recognize this because windows shows you this screen quite often. I clicked on Keep Blocking by mistake. Now everytime i want to open the program the computer just does nothing , doesn't open the program. I trie... 2 05.07.2007 19:14:02 Profile migration upon change of SID doesn't work and causes problems with Vista. For a long time, many years, I have been manually migrating user's profiles if/when their SID changes, for example an unknowledgable person might setup the user as a local user and not join the computer to the domain, so I will join the computer to the domain and migrate the user's existing profile over, or when replacing a server where a new domain will be created and everybody in the o... 6 05.07.2007 19:12:02 Vista Firewall Control For those running Vista I found an excellent Firewall Control program that allows easier specific program control of Vista's Firewall. The Free version allows Four Control Zones for each program that attempts to access the web : Enable All, Disable All, Incoming Only, and Outgoing Only. These cover the areas that Vista's Firewall is setup to manage and allows more specific control with easier... 6 05.07.2007 17:24:23 How to CreateNamedPipe with FILE_CREATE_PIPE_INSTANCE access rights i want to create a named pipe with FILE_CREATE_PIPE_INSTANCE access rights. for that i have to create one security discriptor but i dont which type of secirity discriptor i use to cerate namaed pipe with FILE_CREATE_PIPE_INSTANCE rights. while creating security discriptor i dont want to use ConvertStringSecurityDescriptorToSecurityDescriptor funciton because i am going to build this code... 4 05.07.2007 16:35:36 internet software, administrator access, and security. i downloaded poker software from a popular internet site. the icon on the desktop shows that it requires administrator access, and indeed when i open it i get the 'unidentified program wants access to your computer' message from user account control. the site seems reliable and legitimate, but i am wondering if granting the program access to my computer leaves me and my computer vulnerab... 6 05.07.2007 12:24:03 MMC Console Questions I just build a new machine and installed Home Premium. I use to have an older machine with XP Pro. There were some snap-ins that seem to be not in the Home Premium version. I want to be able to control certain things like locking the system out when passwords fail after 3 attempts, and clearing page files on exit. Would these snap in only be in the Ultimate version?... 2 04.07.2007 22:36:42 I have vista home premium oem and they motherboard was broken i got a prebuilt pc with vista and they motherboard was faulty and they replaced it and now vista won't work any way i can sort this... 5 04.07.2007 22:08:54 Alps driver install Hi I was wondering if anybody could help. I have Vista Ultimate installed onto a Sony Vaio laptop. Once I'd done this I lost some functionality of the mouse. I therefore installed Alps Pointing Device Software Version 7. It works great apart from the fact that I keep getting security alert messages under start-up for 'apoint.exe', 'apmsgfwd.exe' and 'apntex.exe'. Even if I allow these t... 4 04.07.2007 19:35:51 Need to fix System Volume Information Long story, I ended up resetting SVI's permissions to general access. I tried setting them back to only the SYSTEM account, first the folder then its individual files but I just can't get the old permissions back without getting an ACCESS DENIED error everytime I try to make a restore point. Furthermore, I have some rather large restore point files on another of my drives, possibly from... 3 04.07.2007 08:08:01 Computer Management via MMC "Error 5: Access Denied" I am logged-on to the Windows 2000 Server domain controller as the domain Administrator, and I want to view the Event Log, and Stop/Restart some services on a Vista Business machine which a member computer in the domain. I am receiving "Error 5: Access Denied" messages, although on one occasion I was apparently able to stop/start a service, the problem returned immediately after, follow... 2 04.07.2007 03:30:00 How can I give a service administrator privileges in Vista Whenever I try to write from Vista to a folder on the XP partition I get an access-denied error. Now I wouldn't have been surprised atproblems writing from XP to folders on the Vista system partition (although I haven't tried that yet and I have no problem accessing Vista folders (not junction points) by network shares from other machines running XP). I've discovered that for an applicati... 2 04.07.2007 00:18:05 settings could anybody tell me how,when i start a web search it drops down with previous search history under that letter of the alphabet.i wish to delete these and stop it happening in future for my own privacy ?... 5 03.07.2007 22:46:04 security center not working in the bottom right corner of my toolbar i have a red x that says: "windows security alerts", also when i double click on it it says i need to turn on the security center, wel when i click turn it on it says: "the security center service could not be started". How can I fix this problem... 3 03.07.2007 22:14:01 IExplore and Firefox - why do firewall requirements differ? I use Vista Home Premium with the Windows Firewall ON In addition to that I use the simple firewall Vista Firewall Control from: http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html For each application this firewall can be set to one of four states (it calls them "Zones"): DisableAll, EnableAll, IncomingOnly, OutgoingOnly. The firewall itself can also be switched globally via the system tray ... 3 03.07.2007 08:19:08 Unable to create new threads I am participating in a online class and cannot seem to create new message threads or respond to anyone's message. I can read the messages, click on replying etc but it will not give me a box to type text in. Can anyon help? Thanks... 3 03.07.2007 05:10:32 Securing / Hardening Windows Vista Business Wondering if anyone has any documentation or point me in the right direction (URLs) in order to gather some insight on securing/hardening a Windows Vista Business workstation. Any help into this matter would be appreciated. José Carlos ... 11 03.07.2007 03:19:12 ACL Invalid in Vista Ultimate, can't access files I was noticing some access problems on Vista Ulitmate PC. When I accessed a folder on my primary drive and looked at the security settings, I get the following information where the "Groups or user names" should should be shown. --------------------------- No permissions have been assigned for this object. Warning: this is a potential security risk because anyone who can access ... 6 03.07.2007 02:42:00 Cannot rename Lotus Folder! I still use Lotus WordPro and Organizer, so I installed it to my new Vista PC, then planned to simply replace the new Lotus folder with the old one to use all my old files and settings. This way of moving programs from the old to the new PC has worked fine, up until now - I cannot rename the new folder in my Vista PC, which is the first step to bringing in the old folder. Additionally, I ca... 3 02.07.2007 18:13:15 Unblock not taking... When trying to run a program I downloaded from the net, a dialog pops up saying it's from an unidentified publisher - which I know. So I uncheck the "Always ask..." box and say OK, but next time I open the program it pops up again. I thought this might have something to do with Vista blocking the program for coming from another computer, and sure enough I open the properties and the U... 2 02.07.2007 17:15:42 how to run program with other account i cannot run "Active Directory user & Computer" with another AD account under Vista. but i can use "Run as..." run it under XP. how can i do it under Vista.... 2 02.07.2007 17:08:56 Windows Fails to Start Windows Firewall Service When I try to start windows fire wall i get a pop up telling me the service isn't running, and I tell the pop-up to start the service. It then says that the service has failed to start. It gives me the service-specific error code 5. (0x5) Any ideas on how to fix this? Any way to reinstall the windows firewall service?... 30 02.07.2007 08:59:17 Standard user needs regedit UAC prompt Hello. The term 'Admin' is the main administrator on the computer (run by a person, not the actual 'Administrator' hidden account). Here's what's happening: I am NOT an administrator on my family's computer. The Admin, however, is a control freak. I am not supposed to know my own password to my account, but I do anyway and the Admin doesn't know that. I have opened backdoors to give ... 8 02.07.2007 06:57:52 Did I remove Norton Firewall? I used Norton Removal Tool and then manually deleted all references in the Register that I could find for "Norton" and "Symantec." Windows Security Center still reports that both Windows Firewall and Norton Internet Security are turned on. Norton came preinstalled on my new laptop, and I want to get rid of it. I still can't kill the beast. What more can I do to delete all of Norton's hoo... 5 02.07.2007 06:56:04 Vista security is driving me nuts! A simple question, I think. I want to copy one of my screen savers (.SCR) from my XP machine to my new Vista PC, but although I can see the contents of the C:\Windows\System32\ folder, I cannot copy my screensaver to it. Can anyone help? Is there a writeup to explain about owners, administrators, etc. and how to use these "features" for the novice? Thanks, Bill... 7 02.07.2007 05:48:41 22 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22