Comments on: PC Security: Tips To Make Your PC More Secure

By: Jaysen

Jaysen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:34:26 +0000

How about I just give you a link to five hundred twenty two thousand pages on the topic:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGGL_en___US345&hs=TKT&q=malicious+javascript+examples&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:01:02 +0000

Please give me an example of a website with an harmful js script. I can’t believe ecmascripts in html can possibly be more harmful than hanging the browser or open countless popups. Or maybe it’s the case in an exotic or very old browser that has unfixed flaws.

By: Carl Grint

Carl Grint — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:31:19 +0000

As nearly all virus/trojan’s etc will come from someone you know, I think the ‘only open attachments from a friend’ is slightly debased. After all how did the email arrive with you if your email is not know? So it is more likely a friend will ‘send you’ a virus then someone you have never heard of.

I can not believe the number of people I come across in business who just double click an attachment, not only is this opening only a temp item, but is also opening them to be victim’s of unpleasant attachments.
I can not say it enough, save attachments people, give your AV a second crack at checking that file, and if you are not expecting an attachment/email, delete it, if it is important, they will follow up and resend.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:12:51 +0000

I’m only using Windows which means they do apply to Windows. Most should apply to other operating systems as well, e.g. the firewall or not clicking on links in emails. Some might not have severe consequences but most can be dangerous depending on the setup.

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:32:53 +0000

Are these guidelines OS specific, or do they apply to all operating systems? Do mac users need a firewall, do Ubuntu users need to be careful of attachments?

By: Jaysen

Jaysen — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:38:39 +0000

Setting your router DNS to opendns can help too since they are very security conscious and tend to resolve issue’s sooner than ISP’s.

I’m sure you didn’t mention it intentionally, which is understandable, but adblock plus can help with malicious ads, just be sure to allow trusted ad networks to support web developers.

Never use your real name for PC’s, profiles, or online user names unless you need to.

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:39:43 +0000

‘Hitman Pro’ is also a rather interesting alternative to the mass of anti-virus and anti-malware available nowadays on the market. I’ve just ran Hitman today and it found a virus and a few malwares that ‘Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool” and anti-malwares had missed. All information provided by Hitman’s scan was confirmed when I checked the incriminated files on Virustotal.com . Interesting, especially when surveys show that 80% of IT Pros don’t believe in the efficiency of anti-virus softwares monitoring based on signatures. I think that a heuristic and cloud defense – in real-time or not – is today’s future.

By: szekelya

szekelya — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:50:03 +0000

However earlier I was a die-hard kerio personal firewall fan, nowadays I think that using a home router that uses nat and propagates private addresses via dhcp seems even more secure than a good personal firewall.
You might need to call over your friend to set the wifi part secure if you don’t want to dig into mac address filtering and wpa settings. :)
If I had a bit smarter router, I’d configure it to share half meg free from my 30mbps connection. :)