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I would imagine that this would affect any XP machine. I am not sure about other versions. The problem is when you lock down your system to Guide...

This is happening on all the computer we have applied the patch to. It is not corruption. If we remove the patch the problem goes away. It appears that Microsoft is changing permissions on the...

We follow many of the "Standard" lockdown procedures suggested NIST and others. We have had a major problem after applying the MS05-051 patch. The problem that we are seeing is that all the network...

Nice job! I have never taken to time to find out how tracert works, I guess I just took it for granted.... You are right it is a very simple but very elegant hack. Nice Tut,, very straight...

I have had a chance to review these patches in much more detail now. I want to let you all know that Microsoft’s rating of these are right on the mark! These are critical! Most of the...

Ms is addressing 20 vulneribilitie with 4 seperate patches.

MS04-11 address 14 vulnerabilities
CAN-2003-0533
CAN-2003-0663
CAN-2003-0719
CAN-2003-0806
CAN-2003-0906
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Microsoft is still updating these links. They are currently very unstable.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-011.mspx
Security update for Windows (835732) - Critical

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-012.mspx
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I recently had a similar problem on a machine running in VMWare. The problem was the update services themselves. I had to manually download the patch and install it myself. It installed fine then....

There are several problems tha you will run into. I can't think of all of them off the top of my head but here are a few:

The print spooler (as you mentioned) needs to have athenticated users...

A few more things to look at are:

Services: stop and disable any service that you don't have to have.
IP filtering: Turn on an use IP filtering. Only allow the ports that you absolutely have...

Since you are using RIS it should not be a problem. When you use RIS to deploy an image it first installs the OS from scratch then copies everything else on and modifies the OS settings. Ite SID is...

We keep pretty close track of any P2P traffic at work. It is not allowed. What they do at home is another matter though. I did not see any signs of it on the laptop. I did several searches on...

We have been seeing some strange behavior on one of our computers. We first noticed that the computer was trying to send out several thousand emails in a very shot period of time. Thanks to our...

I have used a program for Windows called "Drive Rescue" It seems to work real well but it is pretty slow. This is Freeware and you can get it from: ...

Her is a more delicate way of fixing the problem. Please note that there is a different reg hack for Server and Workstation/Professional versions.

This article should help you. ...

This may be more drastic than you are looking for but if you stop and disable the server service these shares will go away. If you do this, please test thuroughly, it will break a LOT of stuff.

MS04-008: Security Update for Microsoft Windows
Vulnerability in Windows Media Service Could allow a DOS (832359)
Rated: Moderate
Affected Software: Win2K SP2/3/4 with...

After the code leak MS is now advising customers to move to IE6SP1. Although they are still down playing the risks of having their code all over the internet they are suggesting users quickly move...

Just a couple of suggestions....

Many personal firewalls now have an integrated IDS. If this is the case with his your port scans may be failing because the scan is to agressive. Try slowing the...

Since when is removing an “unacceptable symbol” a critical update. Recommended maybe, but not critical. Don’t get me wrong, I like MS products ( all there flaws included) but this is a good...