Re: Windows: insecure by design?

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From: Al Stangenberger (forags_at_nature.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 11:57:59 PDT

And following up on Mark's excellent question, is there any way that a tool
could
be supplied to automagically do the many registry patches needed to really
secure a Windows box?

Having to use regedit to change 10-20 keys per machine is a big job even for
an experienced user.

-Al Stangenberger

At 11:40 AM 8/29/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Given the fact that a majority of campus are stuck with Windows, is it
>within some campus organization's mandate to act as a clearing house for
>Windows security information, e.g. create
>
>1. Instructions for disabling unused network services on Windows machines
>(e.g. the RPC interface through which the most recent worm entered)
>2. Instructions for configuring commonly used network services so that
>they are less vulnerable.
>
>Does something like this already exist? 

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