Re: Any known viruses change profiles on Win2k servers?

From: aladin (aladin168@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/29/02


From: aladin168@hotmail.com (aladin)
Date: 29 Sep 2002 08:36:13 -0700


I have resolved my client's problem. Here is just an update.

After I looked into my client's system that's holding roaming
profiles, I found out that they have re-built the profiles
directories. During the re-building process, security permissions for
the directories were not set correctly. The Domain Administrator and
Domain Administrators must have the security permission for the
PROFILES and its subdirectories, and the local administrator must be
the owner of the directories, otherwise the users profile changes
cannot be updated to the server.

Minor details... :)

Regards,
/Kyle

Kyle Lai, CISSP, CISA, MCSE
Information Security Consultant
Kyle Lai Consulting
508-380-2022
kyle@kylelai.com

aladin168@hotmail.com (aladin) wrote in message news:<bf0f8e77.0209261356.2fe0531e@posting.google.com>...
> Does anyone know if there's a virus out there that will change roaming
> profiles on Windows 2000 servers?
>
> This client has Active Directory and using roaming profiles. They
> experienced some problems with roaming profiles yesterday, and the
> system administrator restoreded the profiles. As of this morning,
> about 1/5 of the profiles were changed again, and many shortcuts were
> disappeared on affected users.
>
> any input?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> /Kyle
>
> Kyle Lai, CISSP, CISA, MCSE
> Information Security Consultant
> Kyle Lai Consulting
> 508-380-2022
> kyle@kylelai.com



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