Local Security Settings / secedit.exe

From: Stig Eksten (seksten@cressida.info)
Date: 01/08/03 

From: "Stig Eksten" <seksten@cressida.info>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 03:31:21 -0800

Hi there
I have the same problem - first I make changes to Local
Security policy, log on as service, access this computer
from the network etc, all changes go home and I can see
local and effective both checked. Good. When I reboot or
jus wait a few hours they are all lost again. What is
going on? W2K with SP3 applied. Have three other W2K
laptops with same spexes and they keep it, one not.
Stig
>-----Original Message-----
>I have two W2K SP3 machines networked thru a 10/100
switch. Each time I
>re-boot, I find that something is changing my local
security policy on one
>of the machines that is set to permit access to my hard
drive and printer.
>It's being changed from "everyone" to a blank record (no
one). I have only a
>simple work group, not a domain.
>
>Any ideas what may be changing the permission and/or how
I can prevent it
>from being changed?
>
>This is a relatively new problem, having just popped up
since I installed
>SP3 (which may not be related at all).. I've noticed that
secedit.exe is
>running at boot and I don't recall ever seeing it run
before. I would have
>suspected a trojan or other bad actor, except it resets
security to permit
>no one to access the macine from the network instead of
opening it wide
>open. Also, I've run norton to scan for viruses, etc as
well as runing
>regclean to search for strange programs. The only thing
new that's running
>is secedit.exe and it only runs at boot and then closes
out.
>
>TIA!
>
>
>.
>

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