Does anyone know of a group policy/security setting that limits/stops
winpcap from accessing the NIC's in the client machines?
ie I want to stop winpcap from possibly running on XP machines.
Any help ould be appreciated.

In System Configuration Utility>Startup, there is an item called NvCpl.  I
learned that this is a worm and that I need to address it immediately.
I was directed to the following article:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-011.mspx

i have been experimenting with the account policy, and i have accidently
denied the built in administrator access.
can anyone help me??

I HAVE A WINDOWS SECURITY ALERT IN MY TASK BAR SAYING MY ANTIVIRUS IS
OUTDATED. I CHECKED McAFEE FOR UPDATES AND THEY SAY I HAVE MOST RECENT FILES
AND AM PROTECTED BUT THE ALERT IN BOTTOM BY CLOCK WON'T GO AWAY. ANY
SUGGESTIONS?

Until recently my computer was not downloading or installing Windows Updates
and in the process of finally finding the solution (in these threads) I have
apparently messed up my daughter’s and my son’s access to my computer. I use
Windows XP Home Edition on a Dell Dimension 4500 ...

I set my screen saver so that it will ask for a password before resuming back
to my desktop; however, even though it said my screen saver password would be
the same as my log in password, whenever I try it fails, and I need to shut
down and reboot. Is there a reason it's doing ...

Does anybody know how to allow/restrict users to start/stop some services?
Is there a possibilty to do it? I checked GP and couldnt find anything.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

hello,
When i start my computer and everything loads i go to click on aim, internet
explorer, norton antivirus, my computer and so on , i can't acess any of it.
My wireless router seems to be working. and my music sharing program seems to

Hello, I had Win XP pro on my laptop with a normal password (i remember it).
My laptop broke and so I bought an enclosure for my hard drive so I can
retrieve my files. When I connected the enclosure to another computer and
click on "My Documents" it says "Access denied"

I desperately need help..........
As the Windows XP Sp2 suggested I added my application to the Exceptions
list which means my application is now authorized to send and receive all the
UDP packets in the Windows firewall settings accessible from the control

I have used Lavasoft Ad-aware SE personal (version 1.05) in the past and on
many occasions the software has detected adware/spyware in my registry.  
From what i know it is not the best thing to tamper with the registry so was
wondering if infact by removing these spyware/adware ...

I recently installed a second hard drive on my computer. When I tried to
make a folder on the drive private, the check box wasn't available. The
drive works fine otherwise, and is formatted to NTFS. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

I have an XP Pro machine that has three partitions. The C drive is the system
drive with Windows and programs. The other 2 partitions are just for data.
There are 2 users on this computer. The first user is the boss at the office
so he has access to both of the "data" partitions. ...

is it good practice on xp to drasticly limit user rights?
i mean, *everything* on the system, except user's "doc & sett" folder to be
just *read_only*
it should keep user [who is not admin] from modifying anything on the

I need to set up the security on a few local pc's in a network. Some of the
users on the network may not store files on the local pc. Is there a way to
secure the whole pc from storing data on it ?
I'm using a server with SBS 2000, the clients are using Windows XP Pro. Is