I would be careful about using Microsoft Security Essentials if you have more than 10 computers or VMs. Micro$oft's license for business use of MSE states that you can only use it on up to 10 computers for free. After that they insist that larger businesses use Forefront. http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/eula.aspx
Microsoft can be pretty protective of their perceived profit losses... On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Chris McQuistion <[email protected]>wrote: > We used to have this problem regularly and have minimized it to a very > small number of incidents per year (out of dozens of Windows boxes) by > making the following changes. > > First, we use Untangle (free) as a transparent filter between our network > and the Internet and have the following free Untangle modules installed: > Spam Blocker, Phish Blocker, Spyware Blocker, Web Filter (we block p0rn), > Virus Blocker, Protocol Control (we block P2P), and Ad Blocker. I think > Untangle is responsible for 90% of our success. > > Second, we install Microsoft Security Essentials on every Windows PC. It > is free, works well, updates itself, runs weekly scans and auto-cleans, > doesn't slow down the system, and doesn't pop up warnings that freak out the > users. > > Third (on some systems) we install Firefox and the Adblock Plus plugin and > encourage people to use Firefox as their default browser. Some people still > use IE and some people (like me) have moved on to using Google Chrome. > > You could try Sandboxie. I don't have first-hand experience with it, but > I've heard a lot of good things about it. You can use it to "sandbox" > certain applications so they can't make any permanent changes to the actual > system. Basically, every time you close the browser, you flush the sandbox > and any spyware (or even cookies) that tried to install themselves to the > system get flushed. > > Chris > > > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Have a customer that keeps getting malware and rootkits on their Windows >> computers. What? You've heard that before? Oh, sorry. >> >> Here's a hint. Don't install WhiteSmoke Translator. >> >> I know that a couple of folks on this list have worked with NX / FreeNX. >> Is there a remote client to connect to a linux "server" from a Windows >> client so that a user may surf the web on linux from a Windows desktop. >> >> Don't even think VNC. Waaaaaay too slow. >> >> Howard White >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
