I'd like to be able to proactively watch for these events in the security
logs of about 50 computers in one domain.

This product looks good:

http://www.eventlogxp.com/

Can anyone recommend it or a competitor?


On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Ziots, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I agree but rootkits can hide the true intention of what is going on in
> the system and subvert anything you are seeing in the gui or logs, and
> its going to be pretty hard to tell what is legit and what isn't when
> you have a kernel rootkit on your system. Abeit there might be a
> few-tell-table signs. If its been compromised, incident response
> measures should be put in place the system quarantined, wiped and
> rebuilt from trusted media.
>
> Z
>
> Edward E. Ziots
> Network Engineer
> Lifespan Organization
> MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA
> Phone: 401-639-3505
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:46 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
>  Subject: RE: Unknown account created and added to local admins group
>
> Let's not get carried away with talk of a "rootkit" here.
>
> It could be a compromise. But rootkits are there to change the behaviour
> of the Windows kernel (hence "root" kit). For all we know, this is just
> a process running as LocalSystem (e.g. any number of services) that
> performed the changes. Still looks like a compromise.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2008 6:17 AM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Re: Unknown account created and added to local admins group
> >
> > I bet that's what the event log would look like if a rootkit running
> as
> > SYSTEM added local administrator accounts...
> >
> > Clubber Lang wrote:
> > > Thanks, James. Yeah, the user was the same for all events: NT
> > > AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
> > >
> > > 624 - User Account Created - 9:19:13 AM
> > > 626 - User Account Enabled - 9:19:13 AM
> > > 642 - User Account Changed - 9:19:13 AM
> > > 628 - User Account Password Set - 9:19:13 AM
> > > 636 - Security Enabled Local Group Member Added - 9:19:14 AM
> > > 637 - Security Enabled Local Group Member Removed - 9:21:28 AM
> > > 633 - Security Enabled Global Group Member Removed - 9:21:28 AM
> > > 630 - User Account Deleted - 9:21:28 AM
> >
> > --
> >
> > Phil Brutsche
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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