[TOOLS] Motherboard and CPU

[Jay Maechtlen]

Chris Borokowski wrote:
> For windows users:
> 1) Turn off all networking except TCP/IP
> 2) A good third party firewall, Kerio, can still be
> found on download sites
>   
on XP, the included firewall may be good enough.
> 3) Use a safe mail program like Pegasus
>   
you don't like Thunderbird?
> 4) Stick yourself behind a router
> 5) Don't use HTML mail
> 6) Use a safer browser like Opera or (slow) Firefox
FF is free- don't know about Opera

> AVG's anti-virus is pretty good, but will be obsolete
> soon, as the mutating virus is too common these days.
>   
?? Is AVG not being developed? They have regular updates.
How about ClamWin - that one is open source and free.
> If you become repeatedly infected, use Virtual PC to
> install a second copy of Windows within Windows, and
> do all your browsing there
>   
That works. For another approach, download VMware's VMware Player, and 
the "browser Appliance".
That gives you a Linux sandbox to browse from that can't be easily hurt.
(nothing running inside Player can alter the file what was launched to 
create the VM, so next time you run it, it is intact)
All Free.

cheers
Jay