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Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:47 PM

UAC - The Emperor's New Clothes

I heard a complaint the other day about UAC - User Account Control - that was new to me. Let's face it, as a Security MVP, I hear a lot of complaints about UAC - not least from my wife, who isn't happy with the idea that she can be logged on as...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:55 AM

CS-RCS Pro on Vista

I've been trying back and forth to get CS-RCS Pro , a version control suite, to work on Windows Vista. I like CS-RCS Pro for a number of reasons: Files stored in CS-RCS Pro are kept in a simple format, open and well-documented. As a result, if I ever...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:19 PM

Vista's Secret Windows Firewall hole

First, the good news - it's not a flaw in the operation of Windows Firewall on Windows Vista. It's a design feature, it makes sense, and it fits in with the principle that the firewall should keep out unsolicited traffic. It's not really a...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:24 PM

Waiting for Vista SP1?

In a previous article, I wrote about how to sound stupid by saying " let's wait for Service Pack 1 before we deploy Windows Vista ". Now here are a few ways to sound clever, by pointing to specific issues that will be fixed by Windows Vista...
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Friday, January 11, 2008 9:03 PM

Why you don't run as root

[... or administrator, or whatever] I like Roger Grimes, he's a nice guy, and he generally makes me think about what he has to say. That's a good thing, because otherwise he'd either be part of the same choir as me, or he'd be the sort...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007 11:23 AM

Is a NAT a security device?

I've been working lately on a couple of IPv6-related projects. First, there's a chapter for an upcoming book, and second, there's the effort to make WFTPD and WFTPD Pro work on IPv6, since it's enabled by default in Windows Vista and Windows...
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Monday, September 03, 2007 8:51 PM

Why complain about UAC prompts?

Jesper's article in TechNet Magazine on the purpose and future of UAC in Windows Vista and beyond reminded me that there's a whole slew of behaviours more annoying than UAC's prompting (which, as Jesper points out, is only the most visible...
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:08 AM

Let's just wait for Service Pack 1

Every so often, I'll hear it said, and frequently not in jest, "let's wait until Service Pack 1 before we deploy Vista", or sometimes "Server 2008". While it's true that Microsoft has indeed announced plans to test, and...
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 2:02 PM

diskpart 'shrink' needs a little work...

I'm playing with BitLocker a little, and I need a small temporary partition to encrypt and decrypt on a frequent basis. No problem, right? I can just open up Computer Management, select Storage, Disk Management, and then shrink a volume that has lots...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:13 PM

Wireless PC Lock - part 2

Over the last several days, I've been getting more and more requests for my updated Wireless PC Lock software that I described way back last year . Possibly, it's because of stories like this one : At New York-based Big Four accounting firm Ernst...
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Friday, June 15, 2007 9:46 PM

Context menus not working in Vista?

I spent a while the other day trying to figure this one out. Under "Start", I have a 'pinned' Command Prompt item. I can't get a context menu (aka "right-click menu") to appear when I right-click on this Command Prompt...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 2:58 PM

Public, Home and Work networks

Here I am at TechEd, and I want to connect back home. No problem - I can use a VPN, because I have one set up on my server back at home. [Perhaps that's not normal, but I'm a geek] Now I want to browse my home network, partly because I want to...
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