August 01, 1997 03:01 PM

Service Pack 3 is Really Security Pack 3

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Microsoft recently released Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3), which includes more than 180 fixes for known problems. After examining SP3, I call it Security Pack 3, because it adds five strong new security features to NT, including a neat password-filtering tool for enhancing overall security. (This password filtering tool, passfilt.dll, first came with SP2, but almost no one knew it was there. I want to make sure everybody knows about this tool now that it's also in SP3.) The five securi...

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In Mark Joseph Edwards’ August 1997 article, “Service Pack 3 Is Really Security Pack 3,” the author writes that Samba does not support the new Server Message Block (SMB) signing functionality. Please check your source before you publish false statements (go to http://samba.anu.edu.au/
samba for more information).

--Francois-Xavier Peretmere

Francois-Xavier Peretmere 8/10/1999 10:40:03 AM


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