Web-based DSS are computerized systems that delivers decision support information or decision support tools to a manager or business analyst using a thin-client Web browser like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer.18.
There are two types of attestation modes you can use with the host guardian service: 1  Admin-trusted attestation: Allows hosts that you have designated as guarded hosts in Active Directory to decrypt and start shielded VMs. You designate hosts as guarded by placing them in a global security group that is created in AD.
XP SP2 included a castration of the host file - securityfocus.com/archive/1/431032/30/0/threaded Assumed reason is people were using it to block ads while browsing. This is a guess as far as I know Microsoft has never revealed why they did this and why they are rolling it forward to everything since.