You work as the help desk support technician at Domain.com. The Domain.com network consists of a single Active Directory domain named Domain.com.
Domain.com employs Windows XP Professional as their mainstream desktop Operating System. Security is currently a major concern at Domain.com, and You would like to prevent any third-party program from temporarily storing plain-text passwords in the paging file.
Which of the following is the action that you should perform to accomplish this objective?
A.
Change the data value of the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value in the registry key to a value of 1.
B.
Change the data value of the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value in the registry key to a value of 0.
C.
Change the data value of the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value in the registry key to a value of -1.
D.
Change the data value of the ClearPageFile value in the registry key to a value of 1.
Explanation:
According to Microsoft KB:
Some third-party programs may temporarily store unencrypted (plain-text. passwords or other sensitive information in memory. Because of Windows NT’s virtual memory architecture, this information may be present in the paging file. Although clearing the paging file is not a suitable substitute for physical security of a computer, you may want to increase the security of data on a computer while Windows is not running. More information can be found at: this site