February 2005 - Posts

New KB - SMS 2003 886102

Systems Management Server 2003 886102 A blank screen appears after you upgrade the operating system of your Windows 2000-based client computer to Windows XP  Read More

Using Automation in Microsoft Office Access 2003 to Work with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/odc_ac_olauto.aspUsing Automation in Microsoft Office Access 2003 to Work with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003Summary: Automation is the process of controlling one program from Read More

How to create a DSN-less connection to SQL Server for linked tables in Access 2003 and in Access 2002

How to create a DSN-less connection to SQL Server for linked tables in Access 2003 and in Access 2002 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;892490INTRODUCTION This article describes how to create a connection to Microsoft SQL Server Read More

You may experience decreased performance when you access network resources or when you use Microsoft Access in Windows 2000

You may experience decreased performance when you access network resources or when you use Microsoft Access in Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;843418SYMPTOMS You may experience decreased performance when you access Read More

Description of the Access 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 31, 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;893167SUMMARY Microsoft has released the Access 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package for Microsoft Office Access 2003. This article describes the following information about the hotfix package:•Issues Read More

Outlook 2003: Integration API Reference

Outlook 2003: Integration API Reference This reference contains conceptual overviews and reference topics to guide you in developing solutions based on the Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003 Integration APIs. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=135f4d99-f480-4a81-af8f-f6e4896611e2&displaylang=en Read More

Nwe Kbs - SMS 2.0 886685 and 889431

Systems Management Server 2.0 886685 Sending request files (.srq) are not processed and site routing packages are deleted before the routing request file is processed in Systems Management Server 2.0889431 Secondary site does not communicate with parent Read More

Weekly Top 5 Virus Incidents

Weekly Top 5 Virus Incidents=============================================The table below lists the top 5 virus and malware files submitted to Computer Associates during the week from February 14 to 21, 2005. 1. Win32.Netsky.Phttp://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus.aspx?id=386502. Read More

New KB - SMS 2.0

Systems Management Server 2.0 886097 How to manually modify SQL server connections in Systems Management Server 2.0 Read More

A different approach to a 2007 Camaro

GMI Staff Member Marc Silverman (Rex Raider)'s rendition of the 2007 CamaroEditors Note: Above Picture is simply an interpretation and is done with no more information about a new Camaro than is provided in this article. Please do not accept it as the Read More

Bropia.J

Bropia.JBropia.J is a minor variant of Bropia.G worm. Like the previous variants, it uses MSN messenger for spreading. It also drops a variant of Rbot on the infected system. Source: http://europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/bropia_j.shtml Read More

MyDoom.BF

MyDoom.BFMyDoom.BF appeared on February 20th, 2005. It is a minor variant of MyDoom.BB. MyDoom.BF uses a different site from which the worm attempts to download the additional Backdoor (Backdoor.Win32.Surila.o). This variant is not packed with executable Read More

Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Upgrade Checklist

Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Upgrade Checklist Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9DC84C5B-0FF5-4F52-B4CB-6191E323C617&displaylang=en This document outlines the steps you should take to upgrade Read More

W32/Mydoom.be@MM

W32/Mydoom.be@MM This variant W32/Mydoom is similar to previous variants, it bears the following characteristics:mass-mailing worm constructing messages using its own SMTP engine harvests email addresses from the victim machine spoofs the From: address Read More

New KB - SMS 2.0

Systems Management Server 2.0 889430 How to manually update the Security Update Bulletin Catalog file for Systems Management Server 2.0 Read More

New KBs - SMS 2.0

Systems Management Server 2.0 889410 Systems Management Server deployment packages are available for MS04-040 security updates for Internet Explorer 6 SP1885278 A race condition occurs when more than one Sender thread tries to process the same send request Read More

Study Finds Windows More Secure Than Linux

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/17/1616232.shtml?tid=172&tid=109&tid=106Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 17, @12:05PMfrom the an-interesting-definition-of-secure dept.cfelde writes "A Windows Web server is more secure than a similarly Read More

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Supported Configurations for Service Pack 1

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Supported Configurations for Service Pack 1 This document specifies the hardware and software requirements necessary to implement and maintain Microsoft® Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Read More

MMS - Code Repository

Just got confirmation on the time of this presentation. Dan Thomson and I will be presenting on April 20, 2005 (Wednesday) at 4:00 - 5:15 PM http://www.myitforum.com/blog/rcrumbaker/archive/2005/01/31/2823.aspx   Read More

DlDer

DlDer NAME:DlDer ALIAS:Trojan.Win32.DlDer, Troj_DlDer See below for Questions & Answers on this case TECHNICAL INFORMATION This two-component spyware-trojan was discovered in the end of December 2001. The DlDer spyware-trojan was supposed to be an Read More

Bropia.G

Bropia.G Bropia.G is a new variant of Bropia worm. Like the previous variants, it uses MSN messenger for spreading. It also drops a variant of Rbot on the infected system. Source: http://europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/bropia_g.shtml Read More

Microsoft bulletins have undergone a minor revision increment

The following bulletins have undergone a minor revision increment. Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details.* MS04-037* MS05-002* MS05-004* MS05-005* MS05-006* MS05-009* MS05-013* MS05-015Bulletin Information:=====================* MS04-037- Read More

IE7 is COMING!!

I got this in a blog today.  (http://bink.nu/?CategoryID=11)Everyone who said there was going to be no IE7 is now.. wrong.  This letter was delilvered to Featured Community Site Owners today:Featured Community Site Owners,Today at RSA, Read More

myITforum Speakers at MMS

I recently posted on my blog a list of MMS 2005 speakers who are columnists with myITforum.com The list WAS as follows:Rod TrentGreg Ramsey(Larry) Duncan McAlynnBrian RogersReed PorterDan ThomsonRon CrumbakerBut the following list has recently Read More

MSI tools for SMS 2003

MSI tools for SMS 2003 Details of an upcoming Webcast...Web-Seminar: New Tools for SMS 2003 Admins in using the Windows Installer ServiceMore and more customers are using MSI as their standard installer technology on Windows.  This session will cover Read More

Excel 2003 Add-in: XML Tools Add-in

Excel 2003 Add-in: XML Tools Add-in This add-in accompanies the MSDN article "Using the Excel 2003 XML Tools Add-in" available from the Related Resources box.  Overview Learn how to use the Microsoft Office Excel 2003 XML Tools Add-in Version 1.1. Read More

Top 5 virus and malware files submitted to Computer Associates during the week from February 07 to 13, 2005.

The table below lists the top 5 virus and malware files submitted to Computer Associates during the week from February 07 to 13, 2005. 1. Win32.Netsky.Phttp://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus.aspx?id=386502. Win32.Netsky.Dhttp://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus.aspx?id=384533. Read More

F-Secure is reporting Cabir found in-the-wild in USA

Cabir found in-the-wild in USA Well, it had to happen sooner or later. We've just heard about the first in-the-wild sighting of Cabir in USA. This was in California.This is not going to be the end of the world; the common Cabir variants have been proved Read More

MSDN Search Beta

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/searchbeta/Nice work from the MSDN Developers! Read More

Top 10 Most Prevalent Global Malware - Trend Micro

Top 10 Most Prevalent Global Malware (from February 4 to February 10, 2005) WORM_NETSKY.P HTML_NETSKY.P WORM_SDBOT.APA  ADW_APROPOS.51  JAVA_BYTEVER.A  WORM_NETSKY.D  SPYW_GATOR.B SPYW_GATOR.D  SPYW_GATOR.C  WORM_BAGLE.AZ Read More

Blog Enhancement - Blog Searching (New and improved)

Well, I have had a search on my Blog for sometime, but Dan Thomson has recently published a great article of a new and quite frankly a better way to allow searching on a blog than the way I had published earlier.You can read Dan's way of adding Read More

Update to the SMS 2003 Living Document of KBs

Mark Serafine has updated the SMS 2003 Living Document Nice work Mark!!  Read More

Microsoft Windows SMB message validation vulnerability

Microsoft Windows SMB message validation vulnerability Microsoft Word contains a vulnerability that can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Source: http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=32393 Microsoft Windows SMB message Read More

Microsoft Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger PNG buffer overflow vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger PNG buffer overflow vulnerability Microsoft Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger contain a vulnerability that can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.Source: http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=32391 Microsoft Read More

Microsoft Internet Explorer DHTML, encoded URL, and CDF vulnerabilities

Microsoft Internet Explorer DHTML, encoded URL, and CDF vulnerabilities Microsoft Internet Explorer contains multiple vulnerabilities that can allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges, gain sensitive information or execute arbitrary code.Source: Read More

Microsoft Windows DHTML Editing Component ActiveX Control security zone bypass vulnerability

Microsoft Windows DHTML Editing Component ActiveX Control security zone bypass vulnerability Microsoft Windows contains a vulnerability that can allow an attacker to gain sensitive information or possibly execute arbitrary code.Source: http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=32396 Microsoft Read More

Microsoft products OLE and COM vulnerabilities

Microsoft products OLE and COM vulnerabilities Multiple Microsoft products contain two vulnerabilities that can allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges or execute arbitrary code. Source: http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=32394Microsoft Read More

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-035 Vulnerability in SMTP Could Allow Remote Code Execution (885881)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-035.mspxMicrosoft Security Bulletin MS04-035 Vulnerability in SMTP Could Allow Remote Code Execution (885881) Issued: October 12, 2004Updated: February 8, 2005Version: 2.0Summary Who should read Read More

You cannot specify conditions that control when an operating system deployment program runs in Systems Management Server 2003

You cannot specify conditions that control when an operating system deployment program runs in Systems Management Server 2003 Source: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;891351  Read More

How to Create a Database Browser Application for Pocket PC in Visual Basic by Using Visual Studio .NET 2003

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dnppc2k3/html/intro_winmobile_vb.asp   How to Create a Database Browser Application for Pocket PC in Visual Basic by Using Visual Studio .NET 2003   Microsoft February 2005 Read More

Didn't take long - Exploit code for MS05-009 vulnerability on the loose

Exploit code for MS05-009 vulnerability on the loose The exploit code has been released for the MS05-009 vulnerability. The vulnerability is exploitable via Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images. According to Microsoft, this vulnerability affects Read More

New KBs - SMS 2.0 and SMS 2003

Systems Management Server 2.0 892937 Systems Management Server deployment packages are available that include security update MS05-014 for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1894154 How to obtain and use the February 2005 Security Update Scan Tool in environments Read More

Trojan attacks Microsoft's anti-spyware

News.com is reporting "Virus writers have created a malicious program that can disable Microsoft's new anti-spyware application, security experts warned on Wednesday. " Read More

All you need to know about how the client calculates network saturation within SMS

Eileen Brown has a great writeup on SMS - How the Client Calculates Network Saturation  Read More

How to obtain and use the February 2005 Security Update Scan Tool in environments that use Systems Management Server 2003 and Systems Management Server 2.0

How to obtain and use the February 2005 Security Update Scan Tool in environments that use Systems Management Server 2003 and Systems Management Server 2.0 Source: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;894154 Read More

Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.0

Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.0 Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit 1.0 provides several tools that simplify the file server migration process and minimize the impact of file server migration on users.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d00e3eae-930a-42b0-b595-66f462f5d87b&DisplayLang=en Overview Read More

Minimum and recommended system requirements for Windows Server 2003

Minimum and recommended system requirements for Windows Server 2003 Source: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814617SUMMARYFor the most current information information about the minimum and recommended system requirements for Microsoft Read More

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 2 released to testers

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 2 released to testers Source: http://bink.nu/Article3414.bink Read More

MS05-005: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP could lead to Buffer Overrun (873352)

MS05-005: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP could lead to Buffer Overrun (873352) This update resolves a newly-discovered, privately reported vulnerability that could allow an attacker to run code on the affected system. The vulnerability is documented Read More

February Security Bulletins

Security Bulletin MS05-004Maximum severity: Important (What is maximum severity?) Update number: 887219 (What is an update number?) Supported software affected: •Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (all versions)•Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) Read More

Microsoft to Acquire Enterprise Anti-Virus Security Provider Sybari Software

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-08SybariPR.asp Microsoft to Acquire Enterprise Anti-Virus Security Provider Sybari Software Technology Will Help Businesses Protect Messaging and Collaboration Servers From Viruses, Worms and Read More

Bropia.F

Bropia.FBropia.F is a minor variant of Bropia.A. Like the previous variants, it uses MSN messenger for spreading. It also drops a variant of Rbot on the infected system.   When run, the worm copies itself as "msnus.exe" in the Windows system Read More

F-Secure is reporting - Bobic.B making the rounds

Bobic.B making the rounds A variant of Bobic, detected as Net-Worm.Win32.Bobic.b has been found. The worm will use messages with subjects such as:"Saddam Hussein - Attempted Escape, Shot dead", "Attached some pics that i found", "Osama Bin Laden Captured.", Read More

Trend Micro - Top 10 Most Prevalent Global Malware

Top 10 Most Prevalent Global Malware (from January 28 to February 3, 2005) WORM_NETSKY.P HTML_NETSKY.P JAVA_BYTEVER.A WORM_NETSKY.D  SPYW_GATOR.D  WORM_NETSKY.B  WORM_NETSKY.C DOS_AGOBOT.GEN  SPYW_GATOR.C  TROJ_ISTBAR.GM Read More

New KB - SMS 2.0 831757

Systems Management Server 2.0 831757 SMS 2.0 APM fails with the entry "The local device name is already in use" in Smsapm32.log when you use the software installation account  Read More

F-Secure is reporting - Bropia Spreading in the wild

Bropia spreading in the wild The Bropia worm has been making lots of news lately. But we didn't get too many real reports about it. However, it is out there. We just got a call from Costa Rica from a company which reported a large-scale infection. Read More

Scriptomatic 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=09dfc342-648b-4119-b7eb-783b0f7d1178&displaylang=en   Very nice update to Scriptomatic.Scriptomatic 2.0 Utility that helps you write WMI scripts for system administration.Overview Read More

So, how represented is myITforum at MMS

So far, there are seven active columnist/list subscribers of myITforum presenting at MMS 2005.   The list is as follows: Rod Trent Greg Ramsey (Larry) Duncan McAlynn Brian Rogers Reed Porter Dan Thomson Ron Crumbaker   I'm sure Read More

On 8 February 2005 the Microsoft Security Response Center is planning to release:

On 8 February 2005 the Microsoft Security Response Center is planning to release:- 9 Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for these security updates is Critical. Some of these updates Read More

PSP Next Month

Sony reveals the North American launch date for its new handheld game machine.Source: http://news.com.com/PlayStation Portable coming next month/2100-1043_3-5561916.html?part=rss&tag=5561916&subj=news.1043.5 Read More

Code Repository - Different approach

Dan posted this to his blog earlier : http://www.myitforum.com/blog/dthomson/archive/2005/02/02/2932.aspxThe following is a note that Bob Kelly (the author of the Admin Script Editor) posted to the myITforum VBScript forum http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m.asp?m=94471&appid;=&p;=&key;=&language;=&tmode;=0 Read More

New KBs - SMS 2003

Systems Management Server 2003 891997 The Import Object Wizard cannot locate a Managed Object Format file in SMS 2003 886156 Advertised programs may not finish successfully in Systems Management Server 2003 886105 You cannot create Read More

PortRptr from Microsoft - Very nice utility

Port Reporter (PortRptr.exe)Download Port Reporter a logging service for Windows that logs TCP/IP port usage data.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=69ba779b-bae9-4243-b9d6-63e62b4bcd2e&DisplayLang=en Overview Port Reporter logs Read More

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 Management Pack for Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Guide

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 Management Pack for Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Guide Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=CADD0484-A388-41B9-A0DF-E12E30B3EACB&displaylang=en   Read More

SMS 2003 Knowledge Base - Living Document

http://www.myitforum.com/articles/8/view.asp?id=7982SMS 2003 Knowledge Base - Living DocumentBy: Mark SerafineA wonderful living document of all the latest SMS 2003 KBs released.Nicely sorted by topic.Excellent write up!  Good work Mark!!Download Read More

New KB - SQL 891311

SQL Server 2000 891311 FIX: You cannot create new TCP/IP socket based connections after error messages 17882 and 10055 are written to the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 error log Read More

New KBs - SMS 2003 887308, 886149, 886094

Systems Management Server 2003 887308 "Error loading type library/DLL" error after you install Systems Management Server Advanced Client on a computer that is running Microsoft Internet Information Services886149 The "All System resources for a specific Read More