Re: Protecting Against Hacking Threats
- From: Erland Sommarskog <esquel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:08:38 +0000 (UTC)
Sacha Vieux-Roy (SachaVieuxRoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
I have good reason to believe that a hacker in my company hacked windows
vista ultimate and changed the security settings of my USB hard drive. I
have been working flawlessly for over 2 month with my USB hard drive.
After receiving a threat from a hacker, I was no longer able to move
files on my USB hard drive and my Visual Studio Key of my VB project
stopped working.
I need to protect my Windows Vista Ultimate server & SQL Server 2005
from hackers. What can I do? Does microsoft offer any products or
services to protect me from what just happened AndOr other hacking
threats. Are there any newsgroups or other resources free or NOT free
that I can investigate to protect myself.
Is there a way for a VB.Net client to SQL Server 2005 to authenticate
itself to SQL Server using a certificate, thereby garanteeing that only
that application can connect to SQL Server 2005?
This is not so an SQL Server question, and you are likely to get more
accurate response in a Vista newsgroup.
Vista comes with a quite few security features: incoming firewall, Windows
Defender and not the least the UAC. If you have disabled the UAC, that's the
first step of defense: reactivate it. Yes, it can be a nuisance, but it does
give protection.
What Vista does not offer is anti-virus and an outgoing firewall. An
outgoing firewall gives you control over which programs that access the
Internet. If you care about your personal integrity, this is a must, as
it gives you control over spyware.
There are several products on the market. Personally, I use Kaspersky
Internet Security for two reasons: they fared quite well in the tests
conducted by www.matousec.com, and it was one of the few products that
were available for Vista x64.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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