Home Office - Online Security
What are the basic security steps needed for your Home Office PC ?1) Windows XP.
Windows XP best feature is the Restore Point. It allows you to undo installation problems and goback to a safe system restore point. However, sometimes you will need to use the Windows Rescue Disk. Take the time and create one !
2) Windows Update
Visit Windows Update and install Service Pack 2. Vist the site repeatedly until you have installed of the latest critical security patches.
Do not forget to turn on automatic updates.
3) Baseline Security Analyzer
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer helps you tweak Windows XP against hackers.
4) Norton Internet Security 2005
This peace of software got some bad user reviews in ZDnet - most concerning installation problems. However, technically speaking this is the best package availalble:
Best Antivirus, Smart Firewall, Intellegent Antispam and fairly well AntiSpyware.
A) Try NIS2005 before you buy
B) Follow the installation instructions to the letter (including "what to do before installing")
C) Install only on drive C: (not D , E , F ... - to avoid problems with Liveupdate). If you stil expirience activation problems see the activation hotfix or activation troubleshooting.
D) After the installation enter the control panel click Liveupdate and change to express mode. This will ensure automatic updates from Symatec Website.
E) Visit Symantec Security Check to make sure you set up your firewall correcty.
Itai
posted by Itai Frenkel @ 1:59 PM
1 Comments:
Hot dang, you're posting again! cool!
probably fairly useless to react to such an old post but here's my 2C:
1) I dislike the restore point for performance reasons: with system restore turned off most PC's (especially older ones) run at least 10% faster. I like symantec ghost for creating a full backup.
2) agree completely; but I remember once upon a time (during the NT era) MS put out a patch that prevented NT from booting after restart; I had 50 office PC's on automatic update and they all turned into worthless iron bricks overnight. I would advise against automatic installation.
3) good tool for semi-advanced users
4) I used to be a huge Norton fan (in the norton commander age) but after Symantec became this huge lumbering corporation I feel the quality of their software has steadily declined; mainly: it's become huge and bloated and slow, with a massive memory footprint. My favorite antivirus is still Symantec corporate version 8, with spybot S&D and spyware blaster for the spyware protection, Kerio personal firewall for the advanced users or Zonealarm for the 'mothers', and use Thunderbird as mail client for the spam filtering, coupled with Firefox for browsing.
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