Norton Security Inspector

[veaswaran]

Security Inspector is a tool you can use to check your computer’s security settings.  Visit the Norton Labs Website for more information and the download of Security Inspector. SI checks the following:

• Whether your browser settings are set to a secure level
• Whether NIS is configured to protect installed IM clients (for example whether IM scanning is on, if you’ve got a relevant IM client installed)
• Whether any attempts have been made to modify your hosts file (for example redirecting your localhost entry)
• Whether your computer has insecure shared folder settings (for example if there are global shares – C$ D$ etc,  enabled, system folders are shared, hidden shares, etc.) – SI can close undesirable shares
• Displays a list of user accounts that have more rights (admin privileges) than they need
• Checks for windows services that should be configured to start manually rather than automatically, and services that should be    configured not to start.  The “fix” operation will only allow the user to change each service to start (or not start) according to our recommendation.
• Whether your machine has Windows user accounts with weak passwords. 

Security Inspector can only be run if you have a working copy of Norton Internet Security 2009 installed on your system.

Message Edited by veaswaran on 09-10-2008 04:27 PM