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Date: 03/22/04
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:59:44 -0800
I'm getting a very similar error, but the sub-error code
is 1388 instead of 4511. Do I still need to apply the
hotfix?
Error:
"The service threw an unexpected exception which was
caught at f:\titanium\dsa\src\lra\abv_dg\abvdgs.cpp(1388)
For more information, click
http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp."
>-----Original Message-----
>BIG NEWS THIS WEEK......
>
>XP SP2 RELEASE CANDIDATE AND EXCHANGE ERROR 8331 FIX
>---------------------------
>
>http://msmvps.com/bradley/posts/4046.aspx
>Huge thanks to Damian for posting that if you are seeing
that error that
>manifests itself as :
>The service threw an unexpected exception which was
caught at
>f:\titanium\dsa\src\lra\abv_dg\lservagent.cpp(4511)
>
>There is a hotfix available.
>
>If you have seen those symptoms, are seeing it or even
if you have an
>SBS 2003 system that has 2 or more logical processors
and you are
>running Exchange, you can contact PSS and ask for the
hotfix found on KB
>article 837444. The call for a hotfix is a no-charge
call. In order to
>find the local PSS number for your country, go to
>http://support.microsoft.com, the
>US number is (800) 936-4900.
>
>-------------------------------
>XP sp2 RC1 now available
>
>To aid IT professionals in planning and testing for the
deployment of
>Windows XP SP2, Microsoft is making available this
preview, based on
>Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the SP2. Additionally, we
have established
>11 newsgroups for sharing information.
>
>Customers who download Windows XP SP2 RC1 will not be
eligible for
>support through the technical beta program. However,
Microsoft has
>created 11 new newsgroups to foster community-based
support.
>
>Customers are encouraged to download and begin testing
Windows XP SP2 in
>their environments through this release candidate.
>
>The download and related information is located at this
URL:
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/sp2preview
>
>Remember that us SBSers have a GP that wacks off the
firewall inside of
>our lans but it's still a great idea to test this out.
>-----------------------------------
>Per the FSecure Blog
>http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000106
>
>The Witty worm is going around fast...but only affects
users running
>BlackIce software. However, on infected machines the
worm seems to do
>really bad damage, overwriting random parts of the hard
drive as long as
>the machine is infected.
>
>Remember, disinfection is as easy as disconnecting the
machine from the
>internet and rebooting it.
>
>Unfortunately there might be lots of overwritten
machines waiting at
>workplaces on Monday morning.
>
>ISS (vendor behind BlackIce) now has a public advisory
on this at
>http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/167.
>
>
>----------------------------------
>Yukon and Whidbey pushed back
>http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/002496.html
>
>-----------------------------------
>
>Time Warner not selling AOL to MS
>http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/002
430.html?wbfrom=rss
>Thank goodness as you know how we just loooveee AOL
around here ;-)
>-----------------------------------
> Web Seminar: Monitoring and Maintaining a Secure SBS
Solution
>
>Date and Time:
> 3/25/2004
>10:00AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
>
>Okay so you've locked down your customers Small Business
Server.
>Now, how do you keep it secure? We'll spend an hour with
one of the SBS
>Product Managers discussing how to keep an SBS network
secure.
>
>We will discuss and demonstrate the Software Update
Service,
>Microsoft's Baseline Security Analyzer as well as the
Monitoring
>Tools built into SBS 2003. We will conclude with a
conversation about
>how to keep abreast of the ever evolving world of
security.
>
>
>To Register
>
>http://www.msusapartnerreadiness.com/eventregister.asp?
eid=173
>
>--------------------------------------
>WEB SEMINAR Configuring SBS 2003 as a Security Solution
>
>Date and Time:
>3/24/2004
>10:00AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
>
>
>Description:
>
>We will spend one hour demonstrating and talking about
SBS's
>security configurations with one of the team's Product
Managers.
>
>Our primary objective in the session will be to
demonstrate how to
>take a plain vanilla installation and lock down all of
the core
>components.
>
>We will discuss the technical specs as well as the
specific value
>that each of the core security components provide your
customers.
>
>
>To Register:
>http://msusapartnerreadiness.com/eventregister.asp?
eid=172
>
>----------------------------------------
>Find out about the new partner program
>Partner Letter - March 17, 2004:
>http://members.microsoft.com/partner/program/programlette
r031704.aspx
>
>---------------------------------------
>
>SBS2k3 OPK
>Microsoft Partner Readiness:
>http://www.msusapartnerreadiness.com/eventregister.asp?
eid=171
>Do you want to start competing with the big OEMs? Well
why not start by
>using the tools they use to reduce their cost per box.
We are going to
>spend an hour doing OPK demonstrations and talk with the
experts at
>Microsoft about how the OPK will accelerate your
installation of SBS,
>reduce your costs and provide you with a very repeatable
process for
>building your systems.
>
>------------------------------------------
>
>Microsoft Security Outreach Initiative:
>http://members.microsoft.com/partner/campaign/securityout
reach/default.htm
>
>"There comes a time in any industry that you have to
really step back
>and hear what people are saying and take those as
defining moments to
>galvanize action. That's the view we have at Microsoft
about security.
>It's our number one priority."
>
>*What you can do to better protect your business:*
>1. Conduct a security risk assessment to identify your
top vulnerabilities.
>2. Ensure proper configurations and settings for
firewalls and frequent
>anti-virus signature updates
>3. Build an automated and proactive patch management
policy
>4. Lock down servers, workstations and network
infrastructure
>----------------------------------------
>In other news
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>New Bagle worms crawl through old MS hole
>Four new versions of the Bagle e-mail worm appeared
>on Thursday, and anti-virus experts warn that new
>techniques by the worm's creator could make it
>harder to stop the new variants. Software updates
>and alerts about Bagle.Q, R, S and T have been
>released. The new versions of the worm, which first
>appeared in January, do not carry file attachments
>containing the virus. Instead, they use a months-
>old Windows security hole to break into vulnerable
>machines, experts said.
>http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?
fuseaction=displaynews&NewsID=1236
>http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,3914
9416,00.htm
>
>Vicious Worm Infects Without Attachment
>http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?
story_title=Vicious_Worm_Infects_Without_Attachment&story_
id=23458
>Microsoft urges users to protect themselves better from
viruses
>http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?
liArticleID=129328
>Flaw stymies Norton Internet Security
>http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5176442.html
>Report: Rise in virus attacks costs firms dearly
>http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5176420.html
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>Unholy trinity of Open SSL vulns
>Updated versions of Open SSL have been released following
>this week's announcement of three potentially troublesome
>security vulnerabilities. These could be exploited by
>attackers to launch denial of service attacks against
>routers or servers running the ubiquitous security
>protocol, security clearing house CERT warns.
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36400.html
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>Anti-piracy vigilantes stalk file sharers
>A pair of coders nurturing a deep antipathy for
>software pirates set off a controversy last Thursday
>when they went public with a months-old experiment
>to trick file sharers into running a Trojan horse
>program that chastises users and reports back to
>a central server.
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36391.html
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>AOL Blocks Spammers' Web Sites
>America Online Inc. has adopted a new tactic against
>spam: blocking its members' ability to see Web sites
>promoted by bulk e-mailers. The policy, which began
>earlier this year, opens a new front in the war on
>spam but also makes the Dulles company the first
>of its kind to push past the traditional Internet
>orthodoxy that service providers should be neutral
>conduits to anything the World Wide Web has to offer.
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9449-
2004Mar19.html
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>Report: Phishing attacks on the rise
>Despite a handful of successful criminal prosecutions
>and an increase in public awareness, February saw
>a marked increase in the number of new variations
>of the spam-borne swindle called "phishing,"
>according to a report from an industry group
>released Friday.
>http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8289
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>Internet industry fears wiretap plan could chill
innovation
>Before 8x8 Inc. launched an Internet phone service
>in late 2002, it drafted a business plan, set up
>its equipment, posted a Web site and began taking
>orders from customers. As with most online
>ventures, U.S. government approval wasn't needed.
>http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/edito
rial/8228362.htm
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>Model hacker behavior
>Forget about patches. Researchers at the Florida
>Institute of Technology are looking for ways to fight
>hackers by modeling their methods, or "exploits." The
>research could eventually lead to new types of security
>tools capable of stopping attacks that hackers haven't
>even invented yet.
>http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,
10801,91453,00.html
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>AMD announces antivirus chip
>AMD has launched a new 32/64-bit processor designed
>with hardware-level antivirus protection. Launched
>at CeBIT in Hanover, the AMD Athlon 64 FX53 2.4GHz
>will run on 32-bit or 64-bit software. It features
>an antivirus system designed to block activation
>of executable malware by marking all memory with
>page tables and making it non-executable.
>http://www.vnunet.com/News/1153631
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>Study says security appliances are the way forward
>Small businesses are rolling out security appliances
>in place of security software, to reduce the cost
>of increasingly complex security requirements.
>Spending on server security appliances increased
>in Western Europe by 24% in 2003, with year-on-
>year growth of 46% in the final quarter of the
>year, according to IDC.
>http://www.microscope.co.uk/articles/article.asp?
liArticleID=129306
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>In search of a cure for DDoS attacks
>You may not be aware that your business and personal
>Internet connections can be indiscriminately targeted
>for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack at
>the whim of just about any other Internet user to
>whom your connection's IP address is exposed. What
>may also come as a surprise to you is that there
>isn't much you can do about it--not technically
>or legally.
>http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/In_se
arch_of_a_cure_for_DDoS_attacks_.html
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>Security vital to successful remote working
>Wireless technology is fast becoming a ubiquitous
>business tool. Advances in technology and the rollout
>of broadband are both responsible, as is the growing
>number of parents working remotely from home thanks
>to flexible working regulations which came into
>force last year.
>http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1153653
>
>Symantec wants to police small firms' networks
>http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,3914
9421,00.htm
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>Internet fraud: little tricks and large losses
>Computer related crimes may cause weighty
>circumstances: irreparable loss of especially
>high-value information, break of important technical
>facilities, e.g. defence systems, navigator systems.
>In cases like that if caught and convicted the
>hacker could face up to 7 years of jail.
>http://www.crime-research.org/news/19.03.2004/141
>
>Computer crimes fade into the background
>http://www.crime-research.org/news/19.03.2004/142
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>Smile! I'm calling police: Camera phones help nab crooks
>When Lisa Johnson saw a man exposing himself to her in
>a parking lot, she reached for her cell phone -- not to
>call 911, but to snap a picture. The images captured on
>her camera phone led police to the capture of the former
>principal of a nearby high school. After his arrest on
>public indecency charges last month, he resigned from
>a lower school job.
>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/19/crime.fighting.camphone
s.ap/index.html
>http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/edito
rial/8227182.htm
>-----------------------
>Fox Fires 2 After Finding Film Downloads on Server
>Two employees of Fox Entertainment Group have been
>terminated after the company's discovery of illegally
>downloaded movies and software on a Fox computer
>network server. The titles found on the server
>included "Bringing Down the House," "Daddy Day Care,"
>"Old School," "Daredevil," "Deliver Us From Eva,"
>"The Matrix Reloaded" and "X2: X-Men United."
>(LA Times article, free registration required)
>http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-
piracy18mar18,1,4351880.story
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>Softbank says probe into data leak suggests inside job
>Japanese Internet company Softbank Corp. on Thursday
>said its investigation into the leak of personal data
>of millions of its broadband customers suggests that
>a worker with access to the company's computer system
>-- not a hacker -- was responsible.
>http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/edito
rial/8218842.htm
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>Computer security's new 'polybot' nightmare
>A new malicious computer program has been
>detected that can create networks of remotely
>controlled computers to take part in online
>attacks, send junk e-mail messages as spam
>and engage in other shady activities common
>to the bad neighborhoods of cyberspace.
>http://www.iht.com/articles/510902.html
>
>Experts downplay Phatbot danger
>http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,
10801,91365,00.html
>Phatbot Not So Phat
>http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?
story_title=Phatbot_Not_So_Phat&story_id=23452
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>Program for Hackers Is Causing Concerns
>Computer security experts in both government and
>the private sector are monitoring the emergence
>of a new, sophisticated hacker program that
>connects infected computers to far-flung peer-
>to-peer file-sharing networks.
>(LA Times article, free registration required)
>http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-
hacker18mar18,1,494432.story
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>Australia ranks fifth in hacking
>Australia is in the the top source of hacker
>attacks in the Asia-Pacific region because
>threats to steal information from computers,
>including banking and credit card, have risen,
>says thecouriermail.news.com. Anti-virus software
>company Symantec said in its half-yearly report
>on computer attacks in more than 180 countries,
>that Australia became fifth in the world for
>Internet attacks.
>http://www.crime-research.org/news/18.03.2004/139
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>Fake escrow sites on the rise
>Fake escrow sites are increasing in number and
>sophistication, police and online watchdogs
>have warned. Legitimate escrow companies offer
>online shoppers protection from fraud by acting
>as a third-party referee for buyer and seller
>in online transactions.
>http://www.vnunet.com/News/1153586
>
>Fraudsters prey on apathetic Brits
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/36373.html
>
>
>
>--
>http://www.sbslinks.com/really.htm
>
>.
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