http://paulski.com/zpages.php?id=1611 "There is just one limitation with BiNG that has been a minor irritating and that is that it cannot format...
Question: Any value in watching the hard drive temperature, fanspeed, etc.? Instead of focusing on predicted lifetime of the hard drive?
"Conficker pwns British Parliament You almost had me there. For a moment, I thought Conficker was another bank.
For Linux (as for any OS) used for internet browsing, email, media streaming, IM, etc., OS and application updates are very important. If you are...
Linux w/KDE (openSUSE): Konqueror (default), Firefox (what I use 4 browsing) Linux w/o KDE (Debian and Ubuntu): Iceweasel and Firefox...
As a dial-up and linux user my recommendations are (in addition to the above suggestions): (1) mini-distro (puppy, dsl, etc.) (2) openSUSE (has...
A fair number of posts regarding securing /tmp, /var/tmp, /dev/shm on the internet. They are targeted towards securing a linux/unix server. As...
Tried the stable version approx. 1 year ago. http://www.slitaz.org/en/about/ Overview * Root filesystem taking about 80 MB and ISO image...
@Eice The linux world is much bigger than Ubuntu/Debian. Have a look at Arch Linux here: http://www.archlinux.org Do a package search...
This makes great sense. You should consider starting a thread on this topic. Another rmus quote:...
I voted for updating apps and the OS. Although I feel as strongly about a firewall and restricted user. Alternative OS's geared for the home...
Understood. I was tracing back to Lucy's post first mentioning parental controls. I guessed that you were replying to this. XP Home does not...
See posts #12, 15 and 17 on this thread " the future of SRP: AppLocker" here: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=234089 Parental...
Parental controls is a feature of Windows Vista Home (Basic and Premium). It is not a feature of Windows XP Home. Also, here is some generic...
Re: Maximising Windows XP security with LUA and SRP Another really good SRP thread (in addition to Lucy's here on Vista and Tlu's on XP):...
This is important. For Debian and Debian-based distros (e.g., Ubuntu), there are over 15K packages available to download and install. One-stop...
I have run into this issue with SRP enabled on Vista Business. As you describe, itt works fine with EXE files. But not for MSI files. I have to...
@zopzop "did you disable autoruns in the following location : Computer Configuration-> Administrative Templates-> System? Yes, but only for...
@rmus Ran 2 tests based on your post. Test 1 with Autorun.inf and user32.dll on a USB drive...
The dll angle you mention is interesting with the likes of rundll32.exe, etc. Drop a dll in the LUA $HOME and run it with a permitted system...
other: Have been experimenting with a "power user" on xp professional. With software restriction policy (SRP) in place and dropmyrights for...
@Lucy, What was unusable? With an LUA and application control enabled via parental controls in Vista Home, a user cannot write where [s]he...
True for XP Home. But for Vista Home (Basic and Premium), SRP is implemented via parental controls. Create a limited-user account and apply...
other: Ubuntu 8.10 guest account. Regular user $HOME (/home/<username>) is not accessible. Guest account is on /tmp and /tmp is flushed on...
@Mrkvonic, This addresses servers. What about *nix workstations used as desktop systems in the business environment? This is closer to...
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