The best anti virus, spyware and firewall for windows xp

Security June 17th, 2008       107Views

What should be the best anti virus, spyware and firewall for windows xp?

 

Here are my recommendations:
Anti-Virus:
AVG
Spyware/Adware removal:
SUPERAntispyware
Ad-Aware 2007 Free
General cleanup remove cookies and more:
CCleaner
Firewall:
Pc Tools Firewall Plus
Deframenter:
Auslogics Disk Defrag
All free.

All free. All very good.


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Matousec Firewall Challenge

Security May 19th, 2008       189Views

Matousec announced the firewall testing results after they adopted a new testing program on May 17.

Comodo Personal Firewall still achieved the highest results. A total of five products have been recommended, as follows:

ico Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.22.349FREE 95% / 73 10+ Excellent  
 ico ProSecurity 1.43 93% / 62 10 Excellent  
ico Outpost Firewall Pro 2008 6.0.2302.264.0490 91% / 62 10 Excellent    
ico Online Armor Personal Firewall 2.1.0.131 FreeFREE 89% / 73 10 Very good   
 ico Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0.1.325 85% / 62 10 Very good
  


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Linux Security Configuration

Linux, Security May 14th, 2008       73Views

1. Use firewall to close unused ports:

1) At the command prompt, type the following line:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_all

2) Use firewall to prohibit (or discarded) icmp package:

iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j DROP

3) Change the SSH portmost , which is preferably more than 10,000:

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

4) Create common users and disable direct root login

useradd ‘username’

passwd ‘username’

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Insert the following sentence in the end:

PermitRootLogin no

5)Changes following file permissions, so that nobody can change the account privileges:

chattr +i /etc/passwd
chattr +i /etc/shadow
chattr +i /etc/group
chattr +i /etc/gshadow

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