Thursday, February 17, 2005
Found some good and not obvious advice for XP home users
What do you do after the obvious things that everyone tells you to do, like firewalls and antivirus programs?
My fellow CISSP Tony Bradley lists intermediate-level security advice for Windows XP Home Edition. Things have changed a little since he wrote it. For example he says the Windows firewall is off by default, something Microsoft fixed last year in Service Pack 2. The advice is still good, and includes some tips I haven't seen elsewhere. You'll get the most benefit from his fourth point, which is to run as much as possible from "limited" accounts which can't change the system too much even when a virus takes them over. This is the same idea as my tiresomely repeated advice "don't run as an Administrator".
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My fellow CISSP Tony Bradley lists intermediate-level security advice for Windows XP Home Edition. Things have changed a little since he wrote it. For example he says the Windows firewall is off by default, something Microsoft fixed last year in Service Pack 2. The advice is still good, and includes some tips I haven't seen elsewhere. You'll get the most benefit from his fourth point, which is to run as much as possible from "limited" accounts which can't change the system too much even when a virus takes them over. This is the same idea as my tiresomely repeated advice "don't run as an Administrator".
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