Crimeware is still in its infancy with regard to the evolution of malware,
and does not have an official definition. However, as its name implies,
crimeware is malicious software used to initiate a crime that is typically
Internet-based. During the past two years, crimeware ...

How much of a risk is bearshare to our system.  A few of our users like it
but I have questions.    We have one Windows Server 2003 and 50+ XP
workstations, 5-10 Windows 98SE
Can hackers use it to break into / steal info from our system?

After the last windows update the Malicious Software Removal Tool got
installed on my windows 2000 pc.
Is there a way I can disable this and only run it when i want it to run.
At the moment its killing the processing on my pc and cant do anything on it

I've just setup a new Windows Web Server 2008 machine.
I installed the OS and joined it to my domain, setup some shared folders and
copied some files on to it.  I had it running really well on the LAN.
Then I insttaled a 2nd NIC which I connected directly to our external router

I use acronis to backup and recover the system and partitions, but sometimes
I found that the image has been corrupted in one of the partitions.
Now I placed the images on one external hard disk which is IDE but attached
in the USB box. Acronis told me that I could not

We have the following problem : we created on a partition a folder called
data which has been encrypted with EFS.  We always want to keep that folder
encrypted.
Unfortunaly a user can decrypt that folder via the 'Advanced Attributes'

What ports do SSTP and IPSEC use?  I want to know this because my firewall
is only set up to do secure web traffic which I assume is port 443.

Hi!,
I have just discovered that for some reason the domain users in my
server2003 environment can access administrative shares on the servers in my
domain. This is a server 2003 domain.

Can some one please help me. I am running Vista Home Premium 32 bit on a Dell
manufactured computer, on startup it connects to the internet and
automatically goes to a web page and downloads pictures into my picture
viewer on the desktop. How can i stop this from happening, ...

Getting a "... You may not have appropriate permissions ... " message when
trying to run an exe.  The exe is on a small business server (2003) and the
message occurs when the user is logged on to a windows 2003 server.  No
problem when running from any other client machine

The default domain policy's password policy has "enable reversible encrypted
password" disabled and since there can be only one account policy per domain,
this one takes precedence right?
I found this though "To enable reversibly encrypted passwords for a specific

Update on the situation: MS apparently "recalled" the Defender update
released on 24 Jun-08.  If the Defender "Alert!" icon is still displaying in
Notification Area, open Defender and click on Check for Updates.  You should
get a "No updates available" response and Defender ...

We have hired a new Systems Admin.  We created his account with the same
permissions as I have.  All the same groups.  He remotes to a server and he
can install things on it from a disk or from the internet.  If he tried to
install anything from the file server he can't.  I can ...

How do I control the Right click on the Start menu.
I need to disable some link in the menu.
I have a "User" profile, Who’s profile have to be protected/safe, a right
click on the "Start" menu gives the user access to areas, I don't want for

When I have used GPEDIT.msc to examine Group Policy settings I recieved the
following warning :-
' The Group Policy secuity settings that apply to this machine could not be
determined.