A system does not present an appropriate legal message or warning to a user who is accessing it.

A system-critical Windows NT registry key has inappropriate permissions.

A filter in a router or firewall allows unusual fragmented packets.

A WWW server is not running in a restricted file system, e.g. through a chroot, thus allowing access to system-critical data.

A network service is running on a nonstandard port.

A Windows NT administrator account has the default name of Administrator.

A Windows NT file system is not NTFS.

There is a one-way or two-way trust relationship between Windows NT domains.

A Windows NT account policy has inappropriate, security-critical settings for lockout, e.g. lockout duration, lockout after bad logon attempts, etc.

The HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT key in a Windows NT system has inappropriate, system-critical permissions.

The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key in a Windows NT system has inappropriate, system-critical permissions.

A Windows NT system's registry audit policy does not log an event success or failure for non-critical registry keys.

A Windows NT system's registry audit policy does not log an event success or failure for security-critical registry keys.

A Windows NT system's file audit policy does not log an event success or failure for non-critical files or directories.

A Windows NT system's file audit policy does not log an event success or failure for security-critical files or directories.

A Windows NT system's user audit policy does not log an event success or failure, e.g. for Logon and Logoff, File and Object Access, Use of User Rights, User and Group Management, Security Policy Changes, Restart, Shutdown, and System, and Process Tracking.

.reg files are associated with the Windows NT registry editor (regedit), making the registry susceptible to Trojan Horse attacks.

A router's configuration service or management interface (such as a web server or telnet) is configured to allow connections from arbitrary hosts.

Windows NT is not using a password filter utility, e.g. PASSFILT.DLL.

A URL for a WWW directory allows auto-indexing, which provides a list of all files in that directory if it does not contain an index.html file.