"Tube" good Guest account under Windows Server 2008

is the Guest account used or not, is this a problem? By default, many Windows systems automatically turn off the Guest account's enabled state, and many users who value the system security will not hesitate to "hit the Killer" on the guest account and not allow it to start running, in the view of these users, as long as the guest account is opened, Then the Windows system encounter hacker attacks will be inevitable! In fact, as long as we manage the Guest account skillfully, we can enjoy the guest account with the convenience of the same time, can also effectively ensure the operation of the system security! This is not, now this article on the Windows Server 2008 system as the operating blueprint, to provide users with a few "tube" good Guest account tips, I hope you can get help from the content below!

Potential threats to the guest account

To ensure that the system is always secure and stable, the Windows Server 2008 system specifically provides an Action account for those users who are not system administrators, and when using that account to manage the operating system, ordinary users can access only a small portion of the system resources in the corresponding system, while You can not arbitrarily modify the parameters of the system. On the face of it, the Guest account's activation is not a real threat, but many cunning hackers in the Internet network often use the Guest account to try to indirectly steal the administrator privileges of the system, so that if you enable the Guest account to run, That is tantamount to artificially for the system to open a backdoor, so that hackers or Trojans to the illegal attacks brought convenience.

To avoid all kinds of illegal attacks as much as possible, the Windows Server 2008 system automatically shuts down running the Guest account by default. If you find that the Guest account is already enabled, we can try to temporarily turn off the running state of the account by doing the following:

First log into the Windows Server 2008 system with System administrator privileges, open the Start menu of the system, click Programs/Administrative Tools, and then, in the list of system administration tools that pops up, double-click the Computer Management icon to open the Computer Management window for the corresponding system. and second, display the area on the left side of the management window, expand the System Tools/Local Users and Groups/Users branch options by clicking on the right side of the user branch option, and check that the Guest account is enabled correctly, and once you find that it has started running normally, We can double-click the account icon directly with the mouse to open the property Settings window as shown in Figure 1;

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