xp professional security mystery

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I have windows xp professional on the computer which I use at home. I
use automatic windows updates and get all priority updates. Today I
downloaded belarc adviser from :

http://belarc.com/free_download.html

and ran it. The report shows among other things :

Missing Microsoft Security Hotfixes [Back to Top]
These required security hotfixes (using the 06/12/2007 Microsoft
Security Bulletin Summary) were not found installed. Note: CIS
benchmarks require that Critical and Important severity security
hotfixes must be installed.
Q931906 - Critical (details...)

I manually visited the update website and it said that there were no
critical updates to be downloaded. What is going on ?

Thanks for any help which you can provide.

Lonnie Courtney Clay

 

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From another recent thread which I started :

"I downloaded the package HijackFree from :
http://www.hijackfree.com/en/
and looked over the bloatware reported by it."
Use the help button to learn how to interpret the displays. Do Google
searches on names etc of interest....
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Links explored today :

Helpful information :
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Basic_Security
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...t/browse_thread/thread/1b26518e3ece0c7f?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...t/browse_thread/thread/3cf8c4d72621a860?hl=en
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...a?lnk=st&q=szkg&rnum=3&hl=en#3d7c2995ab71e11a
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...enter"+disable&rnum=10&hl=en#a7ca52c98965b88e
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa939611.aspx

disregard the belarc warning about Q931906....
http://www.pcqanda.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=2&topic_id=449671&mode=full
http://forum.shavlik.com/viewtopic.php?p=16275&sid=1bd613fa512ad9529d91c20cefc05a8a

Products to download/use :
http://linux-sec.net/Audit/nmap.test.gwif.html
http://belarc.com/free_download.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

Among other things which I discovered was that when I got a 3rd party
firewall a few weeks back, it disabled windows "security center"
wscsvc. I turned off the automatic startup of the 3rd party firewall
and closed it, turned back on the windows firewall for the wireless
network connection, then :
start
control panel
administrative tools
computer management
services and applications
services
find "security center" in list and click it
tab action
select properties
general tab
startup type - change from "disabled" to "automatic" and apply change
recovery tab
all three failure actions change to "restart the service" and select
ok to exit
back in the list, review everything which is "manual" or "disabled"
and note questions for later.
reboot
turn firewall on manually after windows task manager (ctrl alt del)
dies down to low activity
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start
control panel
administrative tools
computer management
event viewer + gets list of four types
review the four event type lists with particular attention to red
errors (a few) and yellow warnings (~10%).by click on an item then
action tab
properties
gives useful info for the "source" and the event
and use a different window opened by
start
search
type into "all files and folders" to find files associated with
"source".

It's been a lousy day!
Lonnie Courtney Clay

 

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See my post on thread :

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...spyware+doctor"&rnum=1&hl=en#7d6f5496538cbfab

Lonnie Courtney Clay

 

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See latest post on :

http://groups.google.com/group/lonn...&[email protected]&rnum=1#5222c2c7f37a85db

Lonnie Courtney Clay