With the first half of 2012 now over, here is Arellia’s analysis of Microsoft vulnerabilities and those with privilege exploitation:

Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report Volume 12, released earlier this week discusses the continuing challenges of the Conficker worm in enterprises. Conficker came about in later 2008 and continues to plague Windows systems despite patches for the originally exploited vulnerability being available for over 3 years. Conficker continues to spread via one of two methods: exploiting weak passwords or unpatched systems and according to Microsoft’s Tim Rains, in an article by eWeek, 92% of recent infections are due to the exploit of weak passwords.

In terms of exploiting weak passwords, the Security Intelligence Report states “This type of attack uses the credentials of the logged-in user to access local or network resources, or else attacks password-protected resources using a built-...

Problem

• Unable to add new Item Link based on a filter

• The following item appears in the Altiris Log Viewer under Warning

Log File Name: D:\Program Files\Altiris\Notification Server\Logs\a.log
Priority: 2
Date: 1/25/2008 11:16:45 AM
Tick Count: 1378279890
Host Name: ****
Process: w3wp.exe (4184)
Thread ID: 6340
Module: AltirisNativeHelper.dll
Source:
Altiris.NS.UI.AltirisWebApplication.Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute
Description: provided fallback culture(en-US) for non supported languages. Maximum request length exceeded

Solution

Perform the steps listed in Tech Article 38973 but for step 1 use the web.config in the \Program Files\Altiris\CustomConsole\Web location.

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Check out the the Symantec Management Platform 7.1 SP2 Release Notes at the following URL: http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC4731. For issuses (fixed, known, and other things to know) specific to the (Activity Center) Enhanced Console Views look for the Symantec Management Console enhanced views sections of the Symantec Management Platform 7.1 SP2 Release Notes. 

Check out the Altiris IT Management Suite 7.1 SP2 from Symantec Enhanced Console Views Getting Started Guide at the following URL: http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC4858.