01-10-2005, 06:48 PM | #41 | |
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- Don't cruise the internet using the administrator account (most people do). Set up an account with "user" access and that will help. If you're feeling adventureous you can muck around with file permissions to limit the access your browsing user has to various directories (readonly access limits the mischief bad software can do). - A Hardware firewall helps a LOT (as long as it's set up properly, double check the docs and online help/forms for your firewall to make sure your setup is solid), - Keep XP up to date, turn on the auto-updates if they aren't already. - Get a good virus package (there's a lot of reviews on the net) and adware scanners. (Adaware and Spybot) - Give Firefox a try for browsing, IE's tight integration with windows (stupid idea of Microsoft's IMO) makes it a vulnerability. There are some things I don't like about it (like the fact that I can't get google toolbar like functionality) but it's free, compact, and about as reliable as IE (judging from the number of crashes I experience of each). Most of these things don't require much work but will help a lot... but the most important thing is common sense... no email attachments, never install anything that "pops up" during browsing, keep your updates, antivirus signatures, spyware/malware signatures up to date and scan regularly. |
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01-11-2005, 01:27 AM | #42 | |
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01-11-2005, 05:59 AM | #43 | |
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01-11-2005, 08:42 AM | #44 |
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A beta version of a software is a functional version released to (selected) users so that it can be tested and useful feedback gathered for release.
If you can just look at it, its not a beta. Anyway, link? All I can find is articles stating windows longhorn beta wont be out in 2003 ... wont be out it 2004 .. not till late 2005 ... [ 01-11-2005, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: andrewas ]
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01-11-2005, 10:16 AM | #45 |
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There is a longhorn client preview available on msdn, it includes a pre-alpha version of longhorn. I don't know if it's available for general download but if you're an msdn subscriber you can get it in the subscriber downloads section. It is the Longhorn build (Build 4074) provided at the 2004 Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC).
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