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May 28, 2008
In case you missed out the free AVG offer here is another free anti-virus product. Once you create a free account on the CA site they will send you link to download it. There words regarding the account. "This information will be used to create your FREE account in case you are in need of any support. Your information will be kept private and will not be shared with any third parties." Get FREE One Year Subscription of CA Anti-Virus - Tweaking with Vishal Regards, Anthony Anthony Clendenen...
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Filed under: Security, Downloads, Free, antivirus
October 09, 2007
I used to hate the second Tuesday of every month. I honestly liked it better when patches were released as they were ready. What happens with the scheduled updates is that everyone knows that it is coming and that means that everyone expects their SMS Engineers to have the patches deployed that night, no matter how late, no matter how many people, no matter what! And on Wednesday morning, usually around nine, everyone wants to know the status of the deployments. For me I had some advantages, one...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, Security, KB Articles, Rants, Packaging, Patching, Reports, SCCM 2007, Funny, SUP, ConfigMgr, Configuration Manager, SCCM
July 11, 2007
Released today is a new free tool from Microsoft, this is a solution accelerator with scanning tools included. This includes making a WindowsPE CD to boot from to scan a computer for malware. "This guidance provides a set of tasks that licensed Windows® users can perform at no cost to create the Malware Removal Starter Kit. Recommendations for free malware-scanning tools are included. You can use these tools in combination with the kit to conduct scans, detect problems, and remove malware from...
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Filed under: Security, News, Microsoft
May 27, 2007
A new version of Windows Defender is available for download. Highlights are below. Overview This is the most current release of Windows Defender. If Windows Defender informed you that an update is available, you are running an older version. We encourage you to upgrade to this version. You can check your version of Windows Defender by clicking the down arrow next to the help icon and choosing ‘About Windows Defender’. This release includes enhanced features that reflect ongoing input from customers...
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Filed under: Security
May 07, 2007
Speaking of a NAP, I am finally getting used to the time difference over here in London and I got up at 4 AM today. BTW you can get a sense of what site I have seen over the weekend by checking out my pics here . Get a look at NAP from more than what you have read in the SCCM docs during this Webcast. Jeff is the release manager of NAP and this is the same presentation given at the MVP summit. Come and see a live webcast of NAP and Longhorn Server Beta 3 Published 07 May 07 01:00 PM | MS NAP Team...
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Filed under: Active Directory, Security, System Center, Longhorn, TechNet, NAP, Webcast
April 05, 2007
Yesterday Kevin C. asked a question on the SMS email list that I get several times a year. "I have a group of servers that a vendor has banned the SMS client from being installed on. We are auto-pushing the client to all servers that are discovered. I do not have the ability to change the OU the servers are in to prevent AD discovery. " There were several responses and if you have thought about doing this or think you might want to do this here is a summary of the options available to accomplish...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, Security, KB Articles, myITforum
February 06, 2007
The company Finjan has announced a browser plugin for Internet Explorer and Firefox that will detect and alert the user to malware infested links, ads, and search results with their new tool titled SecureBrowsing. It works by scanning the pages code in real time and then highlighting potentially malicious links in red, and clean ones in green. The scanning is built on their behavior based technology. The tool will be available in March and no price was given. Source and Donna's site . Regards, Anthony...
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Filed under: Security, News
November 24, 2006
Is this old news and I missed it? I have never even heard of this company – Rod? Chris? This is surely a death sentence for this company however. Why would you even decide that this was a viable option for your product? Sure I can understand your frustration, maybe even anger, but that is a conversation you have in a conference room, let it out, and move on, it shouldn’t turn into a project plan… Source . Microsoft Decries Vista PatchGuard Hack By Matt Hines October 25, 2006 Microsoft...
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Filed under: Security, Vista
October 24, 2006
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&displaylang=en Specific features of Windows Defender include: A redesigned and simplified user interface – Incorporating feedback from our customers, the Windows Defender UI has been redesigned to make common tasks easier to accomplish with a warning system that adapts alert levels according to the severity of a threat so that it is less intrusive overall, but still ensures the user does not miss...
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Filed under: Tools, Security, News
August 23, 2006
There are a number of articles on how to secure the local administrator account on Windows computers and most of the have the same advice, rename it, make the password very strong, etc. But I was asked this question a few days ago and after doing some reading and research I don’t really care for this approach. I think I prefer the idea of setting a very strong password, using a tool that generates a password based on criteria you supply for the local admin account and then disabling the account...
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Filed under: Active Directory, Group Policy, Security
July 09, 2006
One of my pet peeves, besides confirmation dialogs (YES I am SURE!), is people who store the personal information of others on a laptop. There is no real need for this any longer, Verizon broadband anywhere, VPN/SSL, Bluetooth Internet connected phones, etc. The total stolen records on this page is 88,000,000+, the total just from laptops being stolen is over 27,000,000. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/07/a_chronology_of.html “The data breaches noted below have been reported because...
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Filed under: Security, Rants
July 06, 2006
If you are not familiar with Donna or her blog you are MISSING out. Well, if you are into computer security at all. I remember her back from my days on dslreports.com. I am not sure how to feel about Metasploit but I have to applaud them in part on this move. Actually notifying the vendors before hand AND not releasing code that will allow anyone to use it as a RCE. Hacker promises month of browser holes The creator of a widely used hacking tool has promised to publish details of one browser security...
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Filed under: et. all, Security
June 30, 2006
Come one now…I love the part where they take your computer for months. Are they trying to find networks or uppatched computers? Is this really something Sherrifs are qualified to do? And what wireless network is secure? Shouldn’t they focus on drunk drivers instead of sitting out in front of a residence for hours at a time? Or maybe handing out tickets to people that drive 40 in a school zone? Can’t wait to hear Rod and Chris’ comments. The Sherrif's department is fitting...
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Filed under: Security, Rants
April 25, 2006
David Power - Program manager Some pretty cool stuff, some of it is redundant. What's new? New in Vista is that GP's no longer run under Winlogon but instead run as a shared service and the service itself has been hardened by requiring local admins to have elevated privileges to stop the service, the service will also auto restart from any error. Network Awareness - policy application is not network sensitive, no longer a 90 minute wait before refresh if a DC is detected. If a system comes out of...
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Filed under: Group Policy, Security, Vista, Microsoft, MMS 2006