Hello Garth, A friend of mine said that those windows administrator certificates apply to later versions of windows than windows 95. I do not intend to update even to windows 98 let alone windows xp and I never use outlook express but just use excel and word for personal use.
I do intend to upgrade my linux systems instead of upgrading windows. I find linux a lot more fun to use than windows. As soon as I have mandrake 9.0 installed I intend to surf the net usings only konqueror and email using kmail. regards, Michael ========================================================== On Saturday 25 January 2003 08:26 am, you wrote: > Another VERY important thing to do for Windows computers is to go into the > Internet Options/Prefs/Security and remove all the bogus Microsoft peer > certificates and well, ALL of them. They are not necessary except to do > more bogus updates or give Microsoft the power to cluster everyone's > computers and perhaps almost stop the Internet. Most of the rootkits out > there rely on those certificates to gain access to the entire system via > network or Internet. Microsoft will just try and put them back on the > first time you visit www.microsoft.com or one of it's affiliates anyway. > So unless you set stringent certificate policies, be prepared to remove > them more than once. : ) > > On Saturday 25 January 2003 14:08, you wrote: > > you forgot: > > > > DO install all security updates as they are published by your vendor(s). > > > > and if you are going to include info on avoiding worms as well (e.g. > > don't run unnecessary services), the same applies to modern windows > > systems... and if we're on the topic of worms, a firewall is a very good > > idea as well.
