Threads Replies Last Post 30 Pages: 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30   Confused - OneCare with ad-aware Hi, I have a new computer and purchased One Care. I was told that is all I need. A friend sent me a ad-aware to download and said I should be using additional sercurity downloads like ad-aware. I'm new to all of this, do I need to run additional security checks? Is ad-aware compatible. If so, it would have to be easy (ie. download and hit run). If I'm required to turn stuff ... 3 4/20/2007 5:00:01 PM Prblems with Complete-PC backup When I try to start a Complete-PC backup i get this error message: "It occurred a error which is not temporarily on the printer. If you try to run the backup again, the error probably will show again. (0x800423F4)" This is translated from the Norwegian error message, so the English error message will probably be different. I tried to back it up to my secondary hard drive. Why is this m... 1 4/20/2007 4:00:03 PM Hidden Admin Acount Hi Guys If you enable the hidden administrator account In Vista , How can you disable it ? I enabeled it just to check it out and see what it does compared to my regular Admin. account. How do I disable it back to the hidden state. Thanks -- Carl G ... 5 4/20/2007 4:33:42 AM Bypassing User Account Control dialog window User Account Control asks for permission each time I load an "unidentified program", no matter how many times I load it. Is there a way to bypass this message so the program loads normally? In other words, can Vista be instructed to trust certain programs so it doesn't need to ask permission to load them? Thank you. Barney ... 14 4/20/2007 3:23:50 AM GPO - Removable Storage Access (Bypass) Escenario: - Active Directory Domain - Pc whit Winddows Vista (for this example Bussiness) - Config. a GPO (Computer and User config) Administrative Templates \ System \ Removable Storage Access “Removable Disks: Deny write access” Enable - Apply the GPO in the OU for Windows Vista computers. - gpupdate /force And the configuration registry is: (1) for: HKEY_CUR... 2 4/20/2007 12:42:02 AM Vista 64 uninstall virus and it still listed working in security c I have tried 5 forms of virus programs and uninstalled them all but when I open the security center and most are listed as working to protect my computer even though I have uninstalled all traces of these programs.... 2 4/19/2007 1:35:58 PM windows defender Hi, I installed apache 2.2.4 on my vista ultimate and each time i start my computer, windows defender display ApacheMonitor among "blocked startup programs". How can i do to make ApacheMonitor not be blocked by windows defender ? thanks a lot, Al.... 1 4/19/2007 7:39:13 AM newbie, in new york city, seeks to become reasonably proficient in the security arena I recently came across this while wading through ms's instruction/explanation notes: ================================================================= Win32/Alcan creates a hidden folder for itself under the "Program Files" folder and copies itself there. It will set a registry key to make itself run on startup out of this folder. This hidden folder will have a name like "winupdate... 1 4/19/2007 2:14:26 AM UAC Police hi. I configure The policies "UAC: Run all administrator in Admin Approval Mode" Enable in a Domain controler. HOW COULD I CONFIGURE A LOCAL ADMINISTRATOR TO AVOID IT CHANGE THE USER ACCOUNT CONTROL (UAC)? ANY RECOMMENDATION?... 4 4/18/2007 8:08:01 PM Vista service - session 0 isolation I'm having a problem with a windows service running on a Vista client. Situation: A windows service running as LocalSystem hosts a .net remoting object. When some event raises then the service starts a process. That process is a windows forms applicatation. That process must run under the LocalSystem account because it needs some (local)admin privileges. Under XP we used the "interact wi... 3 4/18/2007 7:20:12 PM Code Access Security for native Apps Hi everyone, Is there a way to assign permissions to native applications in Windows? Like app x can only access this and this directories, app y cannot impersonate the remote users, etc. Something similar to the .NET Framework code access security mechanism. Regards... ... 2 4/18/2007 6:22:26 PM ODBC permission problem Hi, I have just recieved my new Dell PC With Vista Business installed. First I have joined our company domain, and created accounts in the user control panel that have admin rights. I have installed the ORACLE ODBC client whilst logged in as the computer administrator, and then set up the relevant system DSN. Then when I log in to my MSAccess DB it works fine, but when I log out as ... 2 4/18/2007 11:59:15 AM Laptop - Identity Theft Hi guys, I was thinking about how to avoid identity theft when selling a laptop on and wanted to see what others thought was the best way? (other than bitlocker) 1. Delete all personal data (temp internet files, docs etc) 2. run cipher.exe /w on your disks 3. rebuild ... 6 4/18/2007 9:15:10 AM Lost manually added firewall exceptions I have added an FTP server to my Vista computer, and I added program and port to firewall exceptions manually. Today, I putted my system to Halt (sleep) and now when it resumed I discovered that my FTP server was no longer listening. And it was completely removed from the exception list. -- IT/MsC/ITAdm Engineering Services... 4 4/18/2007 6:49:01 AM Import Certificate Problem When I tried to import a certificate the "trusted root certificate authorities" doesn't appear in the wizard. Any idea why ? Whereas when I try user CERTMGR.MSC, it appears there and when I try the import certificate option I get an error message " The import failed because the store was ready only, the store was full or the store did not open correctly" Any idea? If you want screen ... 3 4/17/2007 4:58:02 AM Firewall rule created, but firewall drops Hello everyone, I have a Dell Notebook from work with Vista (it's in a domain and firewall settings are configured by group policy). At home I have a XP SP2 machine. I'm able to connect with Vista to XP. I tried everything I know, but it doesn't work from XP to Vista. If I try by UNC or IP I always get "Network Path was not found" On Vista machine, the private profile is active at... 2 4/16/2007 11:52:01 PM Security Problem... Hi; With Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 2, I have next trouble... I lost a user's profile, and delete it for rebuild it. But after this can´t open files .zip from network sites or download this files type from internet. Show the message --------------------------- Security Alert --------------------------- Your current security settings do not allow this file to ... 2 4/16/2007 11:46:01 PM Login script Hi All I have some trouble connection to our domain, when my PC is running a vbscript I have to say OK to each line in the script. Is it possible to turn that off? BR Ove Hvam Andersen ... 2 4/16/2007 11:44:01 PM Access to Terminal Via Remote Destop at Windows Vista In Vista plateform, I discovered that my username is registering in my register Key at HKCU and somehow someone could exploit this information too easy by collect these registres with all specified detail into this server. \\HKCU\Microsoft\Terminal\ Server Client....... 1 4/16/2007 6:42:02 PM Joost I applied to beta test Joost when I had Windows XP. Finally got the email to set this up but I have VISTA now. Does anyone know anything about Joost? Not sure if it's safe to install or not.... 4 4/16/2007 4:34:25 PM installed NIS 2007 on vista laptop, now I cannot connect to the internet when I uninstall nis2007, I'm fine. reinstall, and I cannot access the internet again. I cannot find any settings. Once the laptop does the post-NIS2007 live update (from the trial that came with the new laptop) then I cannot access the internet. Has anyone else experienced this> Rich ... 5 4/16/2007 3:37:33 PM Java Programming Problem I have administration privilages on my computer but when ever I try to save a java file off of NotePad into my C:\ drive or any of their sub folders except my documents, I get a message box saying I dont have permission to save the file in that place and to contact my administrator. I just got vista so I don't know much about how to work it yet.... 3 4/16/2007 1:37:44 PM PDH library can not be accessed through Vista 64 bit . Hi , I was trying to get processor related information through PDH library . This works well on all platform but in Vista 64 bit , I have some problem . Here is my code : =============== Sample.java =============== class Sample { //Declaring native method public native int queryCPU (); static { //loading the myLibrary DLL System.loadLibrary("CPULoad"); ... 1 4/16/2007 1:05:36 PM Unable to create an Event Log entry I am attempting to make an event log entry, but get the following exception: System.Security.SecurityException: The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched. The code is: if (!EventLog.SourceExists("VCS 2005 Recipes")) { EventLog.CreateEventSource("VCS 2005 Recipes", "Application"); } EventLog.WriteEntr... 1 4/15/2007 4:08:01 AM 30 Pages: 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30