Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
November 19th, 2006 @ 6:31 PM in Web Stuffs“In response to direct customer need for a streamlined method of identifying common security misconfigurations, Microsoft has developed the WMF Vulnerability Update
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. Version 2.0.1 of MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems. MBSA runs on Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, and Windows XP systems and will scan for common security misconfigurations in the following products: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0, and 6.0, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000, 2002 and 2003. MBSA also scans for missing security updates, update rollups and service packs published to Microsoft Update.”</p>
<p>Pretty useful if you ask me… <img src='http://michaelpark.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> It informed me that the Guest account on my XP was active which could be a security hole.</p>
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