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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	i guess i am a bit into WinXP security first of all, to take out a bit of that sense of security you guys have, you can use [url=http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html]Belarc Advisor[/url] and see what you get in the security benchmark. It is in relation to what the experts at the [url=http://www.cisecurity.org/]Center for Internet Security[/url] believe to be a secure machine. My best security settings 'till present were awarded 6.6 out of 10. A bit below that level, things become a bit unpractical. In anyway, this only refer to OS security, and there's lots to be said about that. Here are my settings: passwords on users fully updated WinXP and drivers; For easy implemmentation of some system security policies i use a couple of programs, the rest i do manually; Uninstalling or disabling non necessary network protocols and system services; Avoid using programs from microsoft (they tend to be too integrated into the system); Software firewall, antivirus, a good registry cleaner, file cleaner, a couple of spyware cleaners with different searching methods; The philosophy i try to use is simple - Make it hard to get in, make it useless too. i don't often scan my system for stuff, as it is pretty much inoculated. When i do, it's usually for spyware. The full system scan for spyware, is watched by the antivirus, so it's a 2 in 1 thing. But i have no illusions, this is stil windows. But i dual boot with linux ;) [i]~this is not a signature~[/i] on a side note: What exactly is the advantage of turning off system restore and putting the page file to a minimum, before a full system scan and possible cleaning. i don't completely get that one [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/1639]Arthemis[/url] on 03-22-2006 07:08)[/small] Loading...
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