{"id":38853,"date":"2004-06-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/16\/verifying-that-your-system-files-are-digitally-signed\/"},"modified":"2004-06-16T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T07:00:00","slug":"verifying-that-your-system-files-are-digitally-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040616-00\/?p=38853","title":{"rendered":"Verifying that your system files are digitally signed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to re-check that the files on your system  haven&#8217;t been tampered with, you can run  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows2000\/en\/datacenter\/help\/sig_verification_tool.htm\">  sigverif<\/a>  (by typing its name into the Start.Run dialog)  and tell it to start scanning.\n  (UI note: If you go into the Logging page on the Advanced dialog,  you can get trapped where it insists on having a valid  log file name even if you didn&#8217;t ask for logging!)\n  The signature verification process takes a while, so go and  do something else while you&#8217;re waiting. When it&#8217;s done, you&#8217;ll  get a list of all the system files that are not digitally  signed by Microsoft.  Just because a file is listed here  doesn&#8217;t mean that it&#8217;s necessarily bad, however.  For example, it might be a video driver or printer driver.\n  (Another UI note: You can&#8217;t right-click the items in the list  to view their properties, say, to see what company issued the files.)<\/p>\n<p>  One case when you would want to run sigverif is after you remove  <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2003\/08\/12\/54634.aspx\">  the test root certificate  which was causing your desktop to say &#8220;for test\/evaluation purposes  only&#8221;<\/a>.  That way you can find all the uncertified drivers that snuck in  under cover of the test signature.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to re-check that the files on your system haven&#8217;t been tampered with, you can run sigverif (by typing its name into the Start.Run dialog) and tell it to start scanning. (UI note: If you go into the Logging page on the Advanced dialog, you can get trapped where it insists on having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-38853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>If you want to re-check that the files on your system haven&#8217;t been tampered with, you can run sigverif (by typing its name into the Start.Run dialog) and tell it to start scanning. (UI note: If you go into the Logging page on the Advanced dialog, you can get trapped where it insists on having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}