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If you remove the Read permissions for the Everyone group, remote users cannot see performance data on the machine.
V-18 | Hive: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | |
Key: | Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Port (and all subkeys) |
V-19 | Hive: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | |
Key: | Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Type1 Installer |
V-20 | Hive: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | |
Key: | Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\WOW (and all subkeys) |
V-21 | Hive: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | |
Key: | Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ Windows3.1MigrationStatus (and all subkeys) |
V-22 | Hive: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Key: | System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares |
V-23 | Hive: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | |
Key: | System\CurrentControlSet\Services\UPS |
Note that besides setting security on this key, you must also secure any batch or command file associated with the UPS service. Generally, if you allow administrators full control and system full control, everything should function normally.
By default, anyone can read your event logs; however, you might not want everyone reading some of the information in your logs. These registry entries let you restrict access to these logs from Guest and Null Logons accounts. A value of 1 restricts guest access and a value of 0 permits it. You must set these values for each log type: Application, Security, and System.
V-24 | Hive: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Key: | System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application | |
Value Name: | RestrictGuessAccess | |
Data Type: | Dword | |
Value: | 1 |
This value controls guest access to the Application Log file.
V-25 | Hive: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Key: | System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Security | |
Value Name: | RestrictGuessAccess | |
Data Type: | Dword | |
Value: | 1 |
This value controls guest access to the Security Log file.
V-26 | Hive: | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Key: | System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\System | |
Value Name: | RestrictGuestAccess | |
Data Type: | Dword | |
Value: | 1 |
This value controls guest access to the System Log file. Make sure you change the security on this key to allow only Administrator and System access to these values.
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