tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726833.post111711929949883089..comments2023-11-11T19:20:51.515+00:00Comments on The Trouble with Tribbles...: Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate CluelessPeter Tribblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09363446984245451854noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9726833.post-1117122777664138382005-05-26T16:52:00.000+01:002005-05-26T16:52:00.000+01:00I use WinXP, and so does the family, guests and gu...I use WinXP, and so does the family, guests and guests kids. They all have music, do plenty of downloads and emails out the wha-zoo. Heck the wife uses email as her PIM/filecab. Who knows how many photos, and from where they came, all are stored on the NAT 250GB drive(with mirror).<BR/><BR/>I have three rules, the virus checker is on, no software download and install, and they must use mozilla suite. The browser is set to dump all info when closed, and passwords are encrypted with a master password.<BR/><BR/>Sensitive files go into an encrypted directory.<BR/><BR/>My ISP does virus scan on email.<BR/><BR/>My home network has a $50 Linksys router, so I don't have to worry about ports being left open and being scanned -- I control that with the router options. We maccess the net broadband at 6Mbps.<BR/><BR/>I run a Linux server from home over DynDNS.org's service. Server has a blog, wiki, ftp, home page, with secure directories for friends and others to use.<BR/><BR/>For the last 5 or so years I have had no issues, other than blue screens of death for who knows what reasons, and system hardware software failures.<BR/><BR/>My take, the naive get caught. mostly with IE and outlook. But they might download and install trojans which I prohit with account permissions on XP -- no one is allowed to run as admin anytime -- but me. The *Nix people have overblown the security issue, if NIXes were used by the naive, the problems would stop the world. Only Apple has a handle on naive users and NIXes.<BR/><BR/>I would take all the above precautions regardless the OS.<BR/><BR/>BTW my friends get so balled up with viruses, inspite of what I tried to do to help, that every few years they just buy a new computer and give the old one to goodwill. Virus, what's that they ask.<BR/><BR/>OpenSolaris lacks too many features to be useful for home use or even small business. Start with software install, and go from there. I just don't have time for all the jargon when the Centos RH clone has all those dialogs for easy intuitive setup and maintanence.tarponhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392699212710237596noreply@blogger.com