how do I reset the bios password on a dell inspiron notebook when I don't know the current password?
I have dell xps1330 noteboook with fingerprint sensor, the system comes with fingerprint reader suite ver 5.6 software. i downlaod fingerprint reader suite 5.8 form net(link was given in wind...
No security tab (Sharing or customize tab) when I right click any folder: therefore I cannot share/change icons, etc
Windows XP home sp2
I followed directions in this post: http://techrepubl...
Hi,
I've lost touch in this :
Is it possible from my PC (or a Unix station) to find out a remote host's
MAC/ethernet hardware address?
Thought we can clear our PC/Solaris's arp table...
I want to disable autorun on all my drives and I dont want any autorun execute on my computer. That should be exactly the same for CDs USBs and native drives .How could I ?
I have a system that got infected with some kind of rootkit. It infected the svchost.exe and sent out emails on port 25. Virus scan 8.5 blocks the port 25 attempts and viewing active port, i...
My MD has given me his computer it was virus riddled and i need to try and keep searching and go into REGEDIT, it is his family computer and his kids are responsible for this hickup and I can ...
I have to urgently develop a scheduled agent that must access and rename folders on the file system of a data server.
The agent is almost done and I am testing it on local.
Of course I obtai...
I would like to prevent users from changing the system date time and I've found a method which is by changing the windows group policy. Below are the steps.
1. Go to start --> run --> key i...
Remote user's laptop that was originally setup on our domain. (Perhaps after automatic updates) seems to have lost locally cached security credentials. Use cannot login. Using local adminis...
We are experiencing random AD account lockouts on certain user accounts major system changes DC upgrades domain split new firewall etc etc making diagnistics difficult to say the least. I have...
For last couple of weeks when I do a search in Google and click on a link it sometimes redirects me to a web site not related to this link. Those sites normally contain more links or ads.
I...
We have always used Bastille to harden our CentOS 4.x installations, however we now have some CentOS 5.x installations and Bastille won't work even though we have tried to make it work.
Wha...
We have lost the servers password. Does anyone know the default password to a Canon ImagePass S2 RIP server?
We needed to create a user account in 2003AD that had Domain Acess. This was so the service that was running could logon to all servers. How do I disable this user from accessing AD related re...
I need to block the Services and Computer Management apps in Administrative Tools from being viewed or launched by non-Administrator users and I need to do this via Active Directory.
Speci...
I needed to install Norton Antivirus 2007 for a friend's laptop today - HP Pavilion 9417 or whatever it is.. I downloaded this keygen file separtely, as there was already a 60 day trial of Nor...
Windows Server 2003, all current updates installed
I am getting tons of these messages on my domain controller.
Event Type: Success Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Account...
Noticed problem earlier this week while trying to install new software on the server. Upon installation everything is fine, but the moment a service associated with the new software is started...
I took my HP xw8000 off of its network domain and reassigned the networking to "WORKGROUP". On reboot I couldn't log on with my old username and password and I don't know the Administrator pa...
The system was working great. I decided to upgrade the harddirve by cloning the existing drive onto a larger drive. I was using Apricorn cloning software and an IDE to usb 2.0 adapter. I tried...
It looks as though my DC / Exchange server was hit with a brute force attack on Saturday. I have approx 200 hits (not many) that all look like the 1st example below.
Tennis was the bogus user...
Hi Experts: I just installed XP Pro on the family machine, in order to have more control over what one of my kids can do on it. I set him up as a limited user.
He has an online game: EA Spo...
I have installed Enterprise CA on one of the server. As soon as I logged into my laptop, I received this root server certificate.
I am planning to use auto enrollment on one of the OU on th...
Hi,
I have attached an old hard drive which I used to use in an old PC to my current PC via a USB and external case.
I can no longer access the files (access denied) on the old hard drive be...
