Re: How to fix broken security in Windows 2000?

From: Rick Dilley (rdilley_at_tesslerweiss.com)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:14:50 -0500

Shannon,

I have read this entire thread with great interest.
Unfortunately I find you lacking in class, maturity, and common
courtesy...possible technical competence as well.

I did not see any mention of your technical background and level of
responsibility for your "own" computer, but you did mention that your
company's IT department MAY have caused or contributed to the problem.

In every installation that I have consulted at over the last 23 years and
the preceeding 12 years in corporate IT, there were always users that wanted
to delve deeply into technical problems and assist in the solutions.

Unfortunately those same pseudo-technologists had other corporate
responsibilities that they ignored to "fiddle" with their computer...

SO.... in my , occasionally humble, opinion you probably should have had the
corporate IT department fix your self-created problem and gone about selling
life insurance or whatever it is that you do to create profit for your
company.

Your drum-beat of criticism of the MVP's personally and as a group is NOT
shared by the MSNG community.

As in all things published here, a reader MUST:
1. read
2. understand
3. formulate a plan
4. provide a fall-back option
5. finally, implement at you own risk

I believe that my 35 years in this IT merry-go-round qualifies me to say
that you did not follow any of those 5 steps.

Stand up, be a man , and take your beating...you messed up and really do not
seem qualified to be doing anything but USING a computer....

If you were on any of the networks that I currently support, your desktop
would be "locked-down" tight specifically because you seem to think a lot of
your abilities.

To the MS NG community, I humble appologize for Shannon and the rest of us
mere mortals, I have personally used the MS news groups for many and varied
issues and am very pleased with the information I receive here.

Please continue to receive our stupid posts and be patient with the
loud-mouth idiots like Shannon.

TIA

RickD

"Shannon Jacobs" <shanen@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:eBqjHEp$EHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Actually I read so many of Microsoft's articles that I cannot swear for
> certain whether or not I read that particular one. However, I do remember
> doing the steps that were recommended there, though they may have been
from
> another similar article. I did find a solution, though not from Microsoft.
> Here it is:
>
> http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/patches/2kpro.php
>
> As already noted, I can only congratulate Microsoft for their success in
> destroying yet another free support resource (the MVP program of some
years
> ago) and I continue to wish I had the option the abandon Microsoft.
>
> Phillip Windell wrote:
> > "Shannon Jacobs" <shanen@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> > news:O3y3iGc$EHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >> This is exactly the level of "support" I have come to expect from
> >> MVPs. Does Microsoft have some sort of incentive program that
> >> requires you to say something even if you have no idea what you are
> >> talking about?
> >
> > The incentive is that we get to do this for free and get the benefit
> > of putting up with a thankless public in the process.
> >
> >>> Anyways, I would try restoring those certificates and possibly
> >>> rebooting. See the "Method 8" section of this KB article.
> >>>
> >>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/822798?
> >>
> >> Done that. Didn't work. "Possibly rebooting." Damn. Why didn't I
> >> think of that? Especially with regards to a boot-related problem.
> >> Shucks, still didn't work.
> >
> > Did you actually read the article?
>

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