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A friend of mine works in an organisation and one fine day realised that he has local admin access on his machine. He swear to me that he didn’t have the privilege initially and needed to raise requests for installing any sof… Continue reading How to find who granted local admin privileges to a user?
What’s a good way to make a Debian VM reasonably safe for online banking if running Windows as a host system?
I thought of the following points:
normal usage of the Windows system as a restricted user X (I think its called… Continue reading How to set up a secure VirtualBox VM in Windows
When I try to share a folder using the share tab in file properties, if I go back and remove sharing options from the Share tab, it also affects the Security tab, removing inheritance of permissions from the parent and also r… Continue reading Why does Windows 7 remove Authenticated Users from file permissions when a folder is shared?
When I try to share a folder using the share tab in file properties, if I go back and remove sharing options from the Share tab, it also affects the Security tab, removing inheritance of permissions from the parent and also r… Continue reading Why does Windows 7 remove Authenticated Users from file permissions when a folder is shared?
consent.exe is responsible for showning the UAC dialog. Looking at the command line parameters with Process Explorer, I see the following:
consent.exe 1316 748 000000004385BD60
I have
read How does the Windows “Secure D… Continue reading How does consent.exe know what to display?
I was thinking about SYSTEM account on windows 7 and while researching about it, I came to know that it is predefined account used by service control manager (SCM),The account is not recognised by security subsystem what does it mean? I wa… Continue reading System Account in Windows
What is the purpose of the “Authenticated Users” group in Windows?
Under Linux it doesn’t exist and I’m starting to think this is another idiosyncrasy or over-engineering of the Windows operating system.
Here is why:
Assume I want to kno… Continue reading Windows groups and permissions: Authenticated Users group meaning