Newbies - Lock Down Your PC

**Krell** · March 26th, 2004, 04:19 AM

This is a good basic article to increase awareness of securing ones PC, and preventing malicious atacks, virus, etc.

Lock Down Your PC

Hackers. Spammers. Even rogue coworkers and employees. How can you keep the bad guys out and the good data in? Safeguard your system's perimeter with these 29 beyond-the-basics security steps.

http://msn.pcworld.com/howto/article...27,pg,1,00.asp

They should have mentioned having a good pop-up blocker too. bastards.

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**The Hunter** · March 26th, 2004, 04:43 AM

The popup blocker Im using is Free surfer, and it will also lock your home page to prevent drive by page hijacking.

**shawners** · March 26th, 2004, 04:54 AM

Theres a IP website, that you type in any website.. What ever, and it tells you the ip, then i just start blocking it.. Blocked those stupid ads from google to. I have something more important to protect my pc from.. My spouse. After everytime im deleteing more and more spyware =(

**Krell** · March 26th, 2004, 05:11 AM

I just installed Free Surfer, and went back to the PCworld link above, no popups : )

**The Hunter** · March 26th, 2004, 05:17 AM

LOL, actually PC World was the reason I started looking for a blocker in the first place.

**begoodbebad** · March 26th, 2004, 05:38 AM

I tried pop up popper, pop up stopper etc etc . Now I have Google Toolbar and it works best. Stops everything. Has some useful search options too. And counts how many pop ups it stopped. It was up to many thousands before I built my new PC.

**kita** · March 26th, 2004, 07:01 AM

Thanks Krell

**rainbowdemon** · March 26th, 2004, 07:25 AM

Nice find, Krell!!

**Lord_of_the_Dense** · March 26th, 2004, 08:15 AM

Great article. Thanks Krell!

**Soonerpet** · March 26th, 2004, 08:18 AM

If you're worried about pop ups then stop using internet explorer and just use Mozilla, it's got all that stuff built in from popup blocking, to disabling scripts, and ad/ip blocking etc.. No need for several separate programs to do the job.

skorchedbellend · March 27th, 2004, 03:22 PM

Excellent article krell. Too many people believe security begins and ends with installing a firewall and virus scanner, while ignoring the fact that there are many changes which can be made to the operating system itself which greatly enhance a users security online.

Users interested in hardening the OS against potential risks may also find this article http://www.uksecurityonline.com/husdg/wxpp2.php useful, particularly the section on shutting down unnecesary ports.

The security of the machine begins with the os.