[olug] OT: "Securing" a WinXP Home Edition Machine

[Charles Bird]

spybot, adaware, MS updates, and usually a stick of ram if under 512MB.   

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert A. Jacobs" <r.a.jacobs at cox.net>
To: Olug <olug at olug.org>
Subject: [olug] OT: "Securing" a WinXP Home Edition Machine
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:00:49 -0600

> 
> Gang,
> 
> 	Despite my best efforts to talk some great friends into purchasing a
> Mac, they purchased a Dell machine with WinXP Home Edition; thankfully,
> I managed to convince them *not* to hook up to the Internet until I had
> a chance to prep their machine. So...now I need some security assistance
> from all of you WinXP users since I have absolutely zero experience
> working with WinXP (Debian at home; Win2K at work).
> 
> 	I intend to set them up with FireFox (web-browser) and Thunderbird
> (email) to immediately eliminate the IE/Outlook virus injection system.
> What I need to know is what I should be looking at with regards to
> patches (auto-updates), recommended spyware/adware programs, etc.
> 
> 	Any help is greatly appreciated.  I thought I was going to have more
> time to get this information but I just found out that they got their
> system today.  They are a very good friends and use this machine for
> business so I intend to help them out this weekend.
> 
> -raj
> 
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