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Re: Lots of failed logon attempts

 
 
Anthony [MVP]
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      07-31-2009

Those sound like standard guessing attacks. You can't stop them if you allow
authentication to the service. The idea is to have strong passwords so the
chance of guessing is extremely low. Consider a pass-phrase, or else a very
long password that you store in the safe and don't use.
Anthony,
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"yaro137" <> wrote in message
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> They are coming from usernames like company, webadmin, admin....
> Logon type 3, Advapi, Workstation: it's the main server, and
> processes are
> store.exe and inetinfo.exe.
> How do I stop this and prevent for the future? Any way of finding
> which workstation
> could be really responsible for that?
> yaro


 
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