About the name (of this page)

I've met many people asking where this page get its name from. While some call it a tongue twister, actually it's kind of an abbreviation for what this website is about. Its name "ntsvcfg" means:

• nt ... New Technology, the family name Windows 7 belongs to.
• sv ... is the abbreviation of service
• cfg ... is another shortcut for configuration

Put all together: "New Technology Service Configuration". Remember that.

In October 2003, ntsvcfg.de website went online, with the mission to take up more awareness of computer security to everyday users' life. Our premises:

• Support and advise users in a way that is easy to understand and practice.
• Security at no costs by using tools and software that already exist.

For the coming months and years the idea gained in popularity, because users not just want spending a lot of bucks for a piece of some software, just make them realize it isn't worth anything in case of emergency. When Blaster, a computer worm agressive and infective in its nature, hit the stage, computers believed to be safe now suddenly became worm's first victims. Neither desktop firewalls nor antivirus applications seemed being able to stop worm from spreading in such an excessive way. Only computers whose windows services were set up according to ntsvcfg were reported resistant against this worm. By identifying and shutting down critical services known for their vulnerability, these computers run on safe ground - in the past, present, and in future.

To deploy service configuration on multiple computers, a script written by Torsten Mann has taken over this cumbersome job. It further received excellent feedback, from home users as well as from mid-sized business companies. With its passionated contributers, this website and its script has faced a long walk of improvements over the past years - to provide users with the best experience in computers safety and security.

About the author

Torsten Mann has been applying computer security for more than seven years. He has held several interviews for magazines, like PC World or PC Professional, whose readers urged to know what they can do to add more safety to their computers.

Founded ntsvcfg.de during his study in Transportation and Traffic Sciences, five years on he graduated from the University of Technology at Dresden with diploma, and scholarship for the A+ rated, faculty prize nominated thesis about algorithm to improve quality of cargo business processes. Joining Europe's largest airline at San Francisco Bay Area department in 2006, moving forward to headquarter located at Frankfurt/Main (Germany, IATA: FRA) one year on, he's currently employed with airline's world-leading IT devision in aviation.

Any comments about this website is highly appreciated - please send us your feedback at: admin@ntsvcfg.de.

This web site is free of any commercial intentions. It's understood as a private, complimentary website contributing to the de.comp.security.misc newsgroup. Any names or products used are brands and the property of their respective owners. Commercial use of this website is not allowed without approval, so please contact us upfront. Content on this website is provided to the exclusion of any guarantee and liability. Icons by courtesy of CrystalXP.

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Last Update: February 14th, 2010, 4:54am PST