Having had to become a bit more involved with the Event Viewer recently it's becoming clear, pretty fast, that the viewer itself does not provide the tools necessary for proper monitoring of the ...

Active Directory account lockouts happen when too many failed login attempts trigger security limits. Configure the Account ...

In Event Viewer, the errors logged are common, and you will come across different errors with different Event IDs. The events that are recorded in the security logs usually will be either of the ...

Event 4688 documents each program a computer executes, its identifying data, and the process that started it. Several event 4688s occur on your system when you log into a system. For example, Session ...

This morning I turned the PC off at 8:30 before leaving for work. When I got back just before 19 I found the PC on. Looking at the Event Viewer/Security log I can find entries from 13:25 onwards, ...

In brief: The Windows event log and Event Viewer are supposed to help users diagnose security issues and other problems in PCs. However, Kaspersky researchers encountered one hacker who used the event ...

Microsoft has mistakenly tagged an ongoing Windows Firewall error message bug as fixed in recent updates, stating that they are still working on a resolution. Earlier ...