Re: Accounts Being Locked Out

From: Joe Richards [MVP] (humorexpress_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/29/03 

Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:35:57 -0400

You multiposted instead of x-posted, see my response to your post in one of the other newsgroups. 

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Joe Richards
www.joeware.net
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"daskew" <daskew@usalco.com> wrote in message news:00cf01c33d8e$dd2892e0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a Win2000 network with approx. 40 users and various
> application specific user accounts.  I have accounts set
> to lock out after 3 failed attempts.  Lately I have been
> having seemingly random accounts being locked out.
> Recently I have been having almost all of them locked out,
> even the application specific accounts.  This seems to be
> happening farily quickly, say over a period of minutes.  I
> will notice that my account is locked out, then checking
> others, find that almost all of them are locked out as
> well.
>
> I thought maybe some one was trying to guess passwords on
> the higher-access rights accounts, but now it appears as
> if a process maybe trying to "guess" any/all passwords.  A
> possible trojan at work?  I have Netshield running on all
> of my servers, but not on the workstations.  Ideas?

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