Re: How to fix broken security in Windows 2000?

From: Karl Levinson, mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 02/08/05


Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:53:05 -0500


"Shannon Jacobs" <shanen@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Why did you (Karl Levinson, mvp) post all this stuff? Isn't that a
question
> you can actually handle? Since you have nothing interesting to say, why
not
> say nothing?

I ask you all the same questions.

By the way, thanks for all the extra brownie points. Keep arguing with me
for a few more posts, and I'll have enough for a trip to Bermuda.

Believe it or not, I truly just want you to follow the steps in the article
I posted, so we can help fix your problem. [Don't forget to perform step 13
from the article, which states "Put $50 into an envelope and mail it to..."]

> The security problem is Microsoft's,

I believe the security problem is yours. No one else besides you is having
this problem. You blamed MS, and us, every step of the way, even when you
thought the problem was that you had taken it upon yourself to delete old
certificates.

> but you (Karl Levinson, mvp) have not been any part of the solution.

The link I gave you is the solution, or part of the solution. You are just
too stubborn and arrogant to bother trying it and reporting back what
happens. I'm telling you that following those procedures and reporting back
what happened when you did them is part of the solution. You asked how to
identify and replace the certs MS uses for signing Windows files; that link
tells you that. You asked how to establish an association between those
certs and the signed files; that link also tells you that.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/822798

I don't believe you really followed all 8 of those steps in a methodical
order. But even if you did, you aren't able to tell us the necessary
information about what happened after you followed the instructions.
Example, "I followed the instructions and confirmed all certs are there, but
the X service still isn't starting and is giving error message Y, or one of
the DLLs couldn't be re-registered because it was missing." You say some
workstations are missing some certs, but can't tell us which certs are
missing, and haven't bothered to replace the certs despite having the
instructions on how to do that via the link I gave you.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/822798

We could tell you what to do next when the steps in that article fail, but
we would need to know how those steps failed exactly to guess what to
suggest to you next. Because you don't have this information, you need to
follow that article again to give us this information.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/822798

Your problem will probably never be solved until you follow the steps in the
article above and tell us, or someone, exactly what happened.



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