 cjsmithPremium
join:2000-11-03
Villa Rica, GA
| New MS Tool: 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.
MBSA uses a version of HFNetChk to scan for missing hotfixes and service packs for Windows, IIS, and SQL. MBSA will create and store individual XML security reports for each computer scanned and will display the reports in the graphical user interface in HTML.
• For More Information – »support.microsoft.com/default.as···;q320454
• Version – 1.0
• Release Date – 8 April 2002
• Estimated Download Size – 2.5 MB
System Requirements
The following are requirements for a computer running the tool: - Windows 2000 or Windows XP
- Internet Explorer 5.01 and later
- An XML parser is required (MSXML version 3.0 SP2) for the tool to function correctly. Systems not running IE 5.01 or greater will need to download and install an XML parser to run this tool. MSXML version 3.0 SP2 can be installed during tool setup, otherwise, you can download and install a standalone version of the Microsoft XML parser from the following location:
»msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/def···edoc.xml
- The IIS Common Files are required on the computer on which the tool is installed if performing remote scans of IIS computers
Download Now
MBSA is available for download at: »download.microsoft.com/download/···etup.msi
A technical white paper on MBSA is also available at: »www.microsoft.com/technet/securi···SAWP.asp
IMPORTANT DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS
Note Please view the readme.txt file before executing the tool. The readme.txt file contains important information on system requirements, scan options, and tool support options.
Select "Run this Program from its Current Location" to start the install immediately, OR
Select "Save this Program to Disk" to copy the download to your machine for installation at a later time.
MBSA was developed for Microsoft by Shavlik Technologies LLC ( »www.shavlik.com/ ).
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Source: Microsoft TechNet
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 Jamming777$Time Is Running OutPremium
join:2001-07-25
USA | Might want to check this Thread
»MS security updates not included in Windows Update
and Check the Thread inside that Thread 
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Jamming *Team Z Member* |
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cjsmithPremium
join:2000-11-03
Villa Rica, GA | Darn Jamming you sure make things difficult...
Who was to know, a well hidden an concealed secret such as this?.
Thank you for the heads up!  |
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| This is also worth mentioning if you plan to install this tool in a Localized Windows Build.
"MBSA version 1 can scan localized builds of the Windows operating system, however, this feature on version 1 is not fully supported or tested on non-English builds." |
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Great tool even with the new name... it was just changed from personal to baseline ...here are some more tools from Microsoft that some of you could use. |
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