I'll add one more little thing. Take admin access away from all end users
including yourself. There is no good excuse to log into any box as
admin/root unless you are doing maintenance. Period.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Daniel Owen danielowe...@gmail.com wrote:
Regardless of OS security
Our director had a nervous episode over the Conficker worm, and despite
reassurances that our machines were fully patched and supposedly immune,
she wanted more proof. Fortunately, the latest verson of nmap (or
Zenmap, your choice) has the ability to detect whether or not your
Windows machines are
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Drew cothar...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, it's off topic. However, in my experience the amount of knowledge
readily available on this list is huge, and I have a lot of respect for most
of the opinions expressed in matters technical here. But lets suppose, that
even
Ya, what Greg Donald said, put a good frontline firewall in (pfsense,
Untangle, Endian) and let the windows box spew it's warnings.. :)
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Drew cothar...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, it's off topic.
Yeah, thanks guys, I figured I was on the right track. I already told them I
had good traffic indications that nothing was going on, but I'll hit it with
some software just to make certain for the powers that be. The bottom line
is if spending a little money on it makes them feel better, at least
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:37:13AM -0500, Drew wrote:
Yeah, it's off topic. However, in my experience the amount of knowledge
readily available on this list is huge, and I have a lot of respect for most
of the opinions expressed in matters technical here. But lets suppose, that
even though
I like to install Windows Defender on every Windows machine, first of all.
It is actually pretty good and is self-updating and runs tests
automatically on a regular schedule. Next, I usually install Spyware
Blaster which performs spyware immunization of the machine and various
browsers installed
PPL that run windows and think they are protected by Windows Default
Firewall are sorely mistaken. Slam a firewall to head your Internet
connection and that will pretty much stop everything dead in its
tracks. I Use untangle at home and a few businesses in Nashvile i
have contracts with and
Untangle is great. I use it here to keep some spyware and viruses out.
I have noticed a marked decrease in those problems since we started
using it.
Chris
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On May 6, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Chris Faulkner cfaulkne...@gmail.com
wrote:
PPL that run windows and think they
