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Win2K VPN Connections
News Increasingly, network administrators are turning to virtual private networking (VPN) connections to link remote workers to LANs. Windows 2000 includes VPN functionality, and even if you're not using VPNs at your organisation, you'll need to be...
[June 18, 2002, 16:17]
Preparing For A WinNT To Win2K Upgrade
News There's nothing like experience to teach a network administrator the right way to do something. The first stab at implementing a new technology is bound to be fraught with difficulties. A lot of network administrators come to TechRepublic to tap...
[March 22, 2002, 16:30]
Need-to-know Info For Win2K Exams
News Over the past couple of years, TechRepublic's Erik Eckel has published prolifically about Microsoft certification. We've gathered several articles and downloads that provide advice specifically about Windows 2000 exams.
[March 17, 2003, 18:37]
UK Company Offers Crypto Email For Win2K
News London-based data security company Reflex has developed the first commercial encryption email application fully compliant with Windows 2000 as well as with latest S/MIME 3 technology. Reflex MailSafe applies a Triple-DES 168-bit algorithm to S/MIME...
[January 7, 2000, 12:06]
Win2K Bug Locks Users Out
News Installing Internet Explorer (IE) version 5.01 on Windows 2000 can permanently lock users out of the system, Microsoft has confirmed. Windows 2000 users who attempt to upgrade to 128-bit encryption by installing a new version of the browser have...
[March 22, 2000, 15:38]
Bill Gates 'will Blow Your Mind' At Win2K Launch
News Bill Gates will make six announcements, which will set "Windows 2000 head and shoulders above everyone else in the marketplace", at the official global launch of the new operating system tonight, according to Ann Mitchard, UK group marketing...
[February 17, 2000, 13:27]
Design A Win2K Infrastructure With This Download
News When you're planning the design of a Windows 2000 network, you need to consider a ton of configuration options -- especially when you deploy Active Directory. Keeping these options straight can be challenging.
[April 9, 2003, 10:27]
WebDAV Flaw Exposes Win2K Systems Running IIS 5.0
News Microsoft and administrators alike are learning in the worst possible way about a newly discovered buffer overrun vulnerability in the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol that sets a standard (RFC 2518) for Web...
[March 19, 2003, 10:08]
News Burst: Microsoft Readies First Win2K Update
News The answer should be available shortly, as Microsoft has started the formal beta testing process for SP1 for Windows 2000, according to a report on the WinInfo web site. The site reports that Microsoft has made the beta available to Microsoft...
[May 12, 2000, 18:08]
Smart Security: Network Scanners
Talkback Removing it from the desktop is addresses just one of the wounds this causes. This one is definitely a f***er. I found that it installed 4 .exe files (I have win2k, so windows dir is winnt, yours may be just windows).winnt\seksdialer.exe winnt...
[June 17, 2004, 1:07]
Cleaning Up After The MSBlast Worm
Talkback PG, I hadn't bothered to check the numerous helpful sites on this lit'l bastard msblast.exe. But I seem to recall Dan Rather talking about it.but I digress. My win2k system was hoplessly compromised, so I re-formatted and reinstalled win2k.
[August 13, 2003, 15:17]
Vista Versions Are So Last Century
Talkback Again Micro$oft miss the point - a revenue based model of functional groupings. For example, user 1 may want to watch TV and browse but user 2 may want to create music in a commerical environment - these both require different multimedia deployments.
[February 28, 2006, 0:34]
New Flaw In NT And Windows 2000 Servers
News Microsoft is getting off to a hot start in 2003. Its first Security Bulletin of the year (MS03-01) is rated critical because it addresses a flaw that can open up Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 servers to arbitrary code execution by a remote attacker.
[February 3, 2003, 10:37]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Well for those of you running on Windows platforms (or even MAC's) who are interested in getting your feet wet with Ubuntu to see what all the fuss is about, then I suggest you use a desktop virtualisation solution.
[October 23, 2007, 8:12]
Security Through Obscurity
News This mantra -- Security through obscurity -- has been chanted in IT security circles for ages. Basically, it means that one of the first steps in achieving a secure network is to provide as little information as possible to people outside the network.
[January 29, 2003, 8:03]
Dual NICs For Niftier Networking
News For one thing, they represent bottlenecks that can slow the transmission and processing of data across the network. For another, they represent points of failure. If a NIC fails, it could potentially sever an important connection.
[July 23, 2002, 8:32]
Cleaning Up After The MSBlast Worm
Talkback My WIN2K system has been infected with the blaster worm, but I don't see the msblast.exe or mblast.exe in my Task Manager. THere are strange things happening. I ran the fixbalst Tool from Symantec but I get the message "W32.Blaster.Worm has not...
[August 16, 2003, 10:04]
Windows 2000 SP4 Arrives - But May Need Patching
Talkback i just installed win2k sp4, but now the most used font on my machine is now a 'unrecognised font'.i`ve tried deleting the font and downloading it again but the result is the same - 'unrecognised font' is this a bug?
[September 23, 2004, 7:26]
Windows Won't Work? Time For A Mac
Talkback winlogon is the process Win2K/XP use to log a user in to the OS. Winlogin.exe is a Trojan, nicely named to confuse users into thinking it's a valid system process.
[February 25, 2004, 12:47]
