Michael Madigan wrote: > 100% secure, but what about 95%? You get to 80% by removing Internet Explorer, Outlook/OE, Office, and Windows Media, replacing with Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, and iTunes. You get to 90% by educating the users about safe surfing. You get to 95% by having an effective perimeter firewall (Windows Firewall doesn't fall into this category). You get to 97% by smartly installing the needed Windows Updates (this means doing it manually, not automatically).
Anti-spyware and anti-virus are performance hogs that add no value, except after your system is already hosed. So load them when you need them, but don't run them in the background unless you like that false sense of security and reading those annoying little messages all the time. Note that the percentages given are relative to possible security under Windows, not to possible security under any operating system. And this is all in my humble opinion only... -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
