I think the real question is why are you running IceSword, an (outdated) rootkit detection tool that requires considerable knowledge of the...
Yes, this is exactly what I was aiming to say. Out of the box, most Linux distros undeniably have far, far safer default settings than, say,...
Chronomatic, you raise good points - and I certainly don't mean to say that there is no difference out-of-the-box between Unix-based systems and...
Good post and interesting testing. UAC can stop certain attacks, and help security in so doing. The problem will always be that a lot of people...
Exactly. :) It also does not introduce any new vulnerabilities into the system (whereas running third party security software does, without making...
Like Joyethedude already said, the System Idle Process is an... idle process. It basically tells you the CPU's perspective on "How lazy am I...
I don't know what the safest browser is, but I'm happy with Opera. It, as of now, isn't so insecure it would bother me, and yet it has a rich set...
You're right, of course - security for home users or small business users doesn't have to be complicated at all. It does require users that are...
I have not tested that tool, but in any case, nearly anything is an improvement over registry editing, where the nearly inevitable novice user...
Yeah, Microsoft does have a great bucketload of docs for SRP, and just about everything else. For example, if you know nothing about how file...
When Microsoft started developing Windows NT, they certainly had a Unix-like (more "any multi-user OS" -like) security model that they wanted to...
Very well said, and I agree. In another thread here, there was someone who wondered why Microsoft didn't make things like running as LUA and...
Exactly right. It's easy to deal with code, but difficult to deal with humans! And really, when was the last time anyone saw a HijackThis log that...
No, I don't. Of course I don't. :) Limiting the privileges of the logged-in user and anything executed by said user is one of the essential basic...
I do not use Samurai, but I know one thing: do NOT trust any single result of any virus scan by any AV product. In fact, just plain don't trust...
0. All the software I use for security comes built-in in Windows XP Pro.
This is a good point, but frankly, I don't value signature based anti-malwares highly even for this role (to confirm whether a file from a...
I see. That makes more sense. Although I do not see how it differs from the present situation in Windows: since there is no wizard required to...
I don't see how that's any better than the current way Windows does things. Your suggestion sounds vaguely like a package manager, with the added...
This is not Microsoft's fault. It's the fault of OEMs, big PC manufacturers, installing Windows on their PCs in a very insecure configuration....
LUA and SRP make for a great security policy. Trustworthy, free and effective, and it's right there built into the operating system as security...
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