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- navitatl, on 11/11/2007, -4/+53"Arm your PC from Hackers"?
Is that supposed to make sense? - craftyguy, on 10/27/2007, -2/+391. Create seemingly innocent tool
2. Convince people it 'protects' them
3. Exploit loophole you programmed into tool
4. ?????
5. Profit! - nexah3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+37Don't click on retarded ***** or download sketchy things and you'll be virus free.
- wwnexc, on 10/17/2007, -0/+26How about using common sense?
By the way, most of these tools seem offensive, instead of defensive, to me. - OBKenobi, on 10/19/2007, -3/+18Don't forget Comodo Firewall. It's free, so you don't have to do any swashbuckling to get it.
If you want something more advanced, then you may want to take a look at this: http://wipfw.sourceforge.net/
Otherwise, build a router appliance PC with IPCop or Smoothwall, etc. That's the safest solution if you intend on using Windows. - Xraven92, on 10/27/2007, -1/+16if you stop downloading porn from limewire, those viruses and spy ware will stop.
- toxicityj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11the greatest tool against viruses, hackers, etc. is common sense. get some and you'll be fine. and it wouldn't hurt to have adaware in case you do something stupid.
- aapala, on 10/20/2007, -1/+12WTF? Ad-Aware is not on this list.
- SystmBetatester, on 10/27/2007, -2/+12human stupidity has no patch
- Sp4nk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Or you can stop going to stupid Web sites and installing stupid ***** on your stupid computer.
- serenity2012, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8POTENTIAL WARNING!!!
Er.... I just went to check out:
Ossec-Hids : Intrusion Detection System (www.http://www.ossec.net/) - Which is listed under the securing PC Section in Techdune
When I tried to download the software at:
http://www.ossec.net/files/ossec-agent-win32-1.3.e ... - BitDefender has advised me it contains "Generic.Qhost.28754B13" virus. Is this a false positive or is it time to say WTF?
Thought it best to say rather than just moving on..... - TheCasablancan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7"You can't hax me...I got Norton"
- schwit, on 11/03/2007, -3/+10Last time I checked reformatting the windows partition does just that.
- schwit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Symantec anything for the desktop is crap.
- l0k0, on 10/16/2007, -1/+7Hmm...
I didn't see Adaware 2007, Sophos Anti Rootkit, AVG, Avast, NOD 32, or Comodo. I think they forgot the best ones (at least a-squared was there). - Godlike, on 10/27/2007, -0/+6"arm your pc from hackers"
Don't you mean, arm your PC against hackers? - inactive, on 10/27/2007, -0/+5Anyone got a bittorrent link for common sense?
- najdorf, on 10/27/2007, -1/+6No it's "Amazing XP Tools (from hackers) to harm your PC"
- rq60, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6it's a good thing this was dugg the hell out of so the submitter can make money off of all his ads.
- tetfsu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5here, let me help... /sarcasm
or at least I surely hope you left it off by mistake. - cyrix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Nor is spybot or AVG. Both free, both great products. Nothing can make up for some good old fashioned common sense though. I can't even begin to count the number of PC's I've had to repair because someone got a "funny pic" or "sexy pic" from some random person in their email.
- jcaino, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5well, he IS a doctor...
- Ouze, on 10/27/2007, -4/+8it's AMAZING how quickly this site went down. Truly MIND-BLOWING.
-1 point for standard unneccesary hypebole in headline
-1 for tons of banner ads with minimal content
-1 for using a ***** host
-10 for not even having accurate (let alone AMAZING) content (no ad-aware, really?)
= you fail at digg and possibly the internet - inf0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3lol @ resorting to switching platforms instead of learning to use a computer properly...
- AICkieran, on 10/19/2007, -1/+4For all you idiots saying 'LULZ USE MAX OR LEENUCKS' piss off.
Regardless of platform security is an issue, and the biggest part of it is common sense, of which you guys have none, couple that with the ignorance that you think somehow using a *nix based OS makes you immune to any kind of security issues you will be the people that get hit hardest when there is actually widespread vulnerabilities, the fact that you're probably running 5 million different daemons that you have no clue what they do only makes it worse. Do us all a favor `shutdown -h now` and leave it at that.
This article is also bolloks. - Alfdog, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3I never imagined three stupids could make a smart.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The site has been suspended.
The trouble with Windows users is that 99.99% of the problems are caused by the user. If you want to harden Windows try these sites:
The Elder Geek:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/index.htm
CTUpdate:
http://www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk/ctupdate. ...
Geekgirl’s:
http://www.geekgirls.com/index.htm
PortForward:
http://www.portforward.com/default.htm
Audit My PC:
http://www.auditmypc.com/
heise Security:
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/
TweakHound:
http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/WindowsXP.htm
AXEL216/MDGx:
http://www.mdgx.com/
Download a copy of X-Setup Pro and tweak your registry settings.
Learn to use the Administrative Tools in the Windows XP Control Panel.
Linux users are no different. Linux out of the box is just as insecure. If you want security use CentOS or PC-BSD. - esotericguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"i'll have all your pennies by tonight!"
- freezervv, on 10/27/2007, -1/+4That's a pretty big "if" - I'm not sure I can make the life changes you suggest.
- dvsbastard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3GET HELP!!!
No really, if that wasn't sarcastic I fear for you... - justice7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2you make a lot of good points, but unless you want to be dugg down, you can't make statements like "because unless your running Windows you don't really know what your talking about." , that is trollish and inaccurate, which makes you lose all credibility.
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2If you have the technical knowledge to use those programs, you are probably a "hacker" yourself
- astrotrain, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2If people would stop using Internet Exploder with its "Open Legs" Active X programming, the web would be a bit safer. But with
Active X, anyone can make offers 'pop-up' with a [Yes] or [No] to make the user install them. Such things as 'Cool Web Tools Man!' are common amongst Spyware Writters (btw they need to be caught, bound and thrown in a cell to rot).
Some people just don't get it... and rather deal with a slow machine running spyware and viruses. - cankillar, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7How about, "Don't connect it to the internet"?
- dvsbastard, on 10/13/2007, -3/+5Uninstall windows?! Why stop there?! I recommend removing ALL data too (sensitive or otherwise). Also NEVER ever connect it to the internet... or power for that matter... And consider locking it away in a safe of some sort - somewhere even you can't get to it!
Your computer will be completely useless, but hey at least it is protected from those damned hackers... - andy3109, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2You mean a "Lock Box"?
- emberjohn, on 10/10/2007, -7/+9Some solution...
- Markpdotcom, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Or just get a decent router with built in hardware firewall!
- jonester, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2NO ZONE ALARM ON THE LIST?!?! Thats like the best free firewall ever.
- TKDWILSON, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Hackers? Unencrypted Wifi? LOL. You dont need to be a hacker for that. It is called walking into a zone with the laptop turned on.
- timeshifter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2By the time I tried out half of the tools on an infected machine I could have backed up, reformatted and reinstalled .... TWICE.
- bangmalley, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2guide to use those tools:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/829258 - Brianguy2000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Router, AVG, Firefox.
- justice7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Want a secure system? Don't put it on a network, or .. you can
....
Place it behind a router, don't forward the NAT, it needs a local IP.
Install a local firewall if you're paranoid (not necessary if you do the next step)
Don't install something if you dont know what it is or dont know what it contains, ie spyware.
...
I'm sure its been mentioned, but use common sense. - Markpdotcom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2And add these to your hosts file! http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Disclaimer, this is not my site, I am no way connected to it, I just find its a great way of making my parents computer fairly safe, so they call me less often to fix their computers! :) - mubix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Anyone who makes this determination "Netcat : Finds potential trouble spots in the network." does not have my respect. If you don't know what the tool does, don't pretend you do.
- atdakore, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Thats a huge list of ***** to surf safe.
Surely i'll get dugg down if i say, buy a mac, and go online with that. seriously! - soopafly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Is Counter Strike really worth it?
- shawnz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1no, norton anything for the desktop is crap. the corporate line of symantec products are actually quite nice.
- M4tt3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1For me a NAT SPI Firewall, SpywareBlaster, Spybot Search & Destroy, and Kaspersky has never let me down. (PG2 works too, but sometimes it blocks good websites when HTTP blocking.)
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