Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

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Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Microsoft has created a new tool, the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), to analyze Windows systems for common security misconfigurations. Version 1.0 of MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems. MBSA runs on Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems and will scan for missing hotfixes and vulnerabilities in the following products: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000 and XP.

[Bing Fung]

Thanks for the post Paul....

I'm sure Kevin will have a comment on letting MS scan his system :P




Bing

[Kevin P]

I'm sure Kevin will have a comment on letting MS scan his system :P

LOL :LOL:

Actually, I'm curious as to what this tool would find. I'd really like to run it on my work PC but it's NT, not 2000 (I'd have to find a Win2K machine on the network to run it from). And my home PC is running ME, so no go there either. I could scan my own laptop with it though! But I keep it up to date.

KJP




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