Re: My Solution to Securing Windows 98, ME Against Network Modification and Spying, using Linux.

From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 05/26/03

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    Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 16:43:13 -0700

    The number of Linux vulerabilities are on par with Windows
    vulnerabilities...both suffer from the same fate:

    SCU's. SCU's are the bane of every company, cause all security issues,
    all vulnerabilties, and are the root of most security issues..... what are
    SCU's? Stupid Computer Users. They open email attachments, the don't
    update their A/V software, they want to run Kazaa in their system, they
    download spyware programs....etc...etc...

    Every operating system ever built must live with this underlying flaw in
    the Operating System....... End Users.

    Security first and foremost is policy first, technology second.

    Susan

    n1pop wrote:

    > Just my two duckets ...
    >
    > On 25 May 2003 10:25:00 -0700, grunes@yahoo.com (grunes) wrote:
    >
    > >-----------------------------------------------------------------
    > >
    > >My Solution to Securing Windows 98, ME Against Network
    > >Modification and Spying, using Linux.
    >
    > Securing a system from most attacks takes only a little effort and
    > some knowledge. You need to know how attacks could be made and what
    > you can do to stop them. For example, no hacker in the world can get
    > to a computer that doesn't seem to exist on the net, and a decent
    > firewall can do that.
    >
    > You need to develop safe surfing habits; don't open attachments from
    > people you don't know, don't fall for scams like the MS security
    > update email (MS never sends unsolicited email containing a fix),
    > don't accept default program configurations.
    >
    > A little paranoia will help you play devil's advocate in ensuring your
    > system is safe, but don't let paranoia dictate how. Knowledge will
    > always make a better and more efficiently secured system than
    > paranoia.

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